HOME SCHOOLING

[username]

My child goes to a private school. There is no way any home schooling can compare to the education she is receiving at that school. Today they had swimming lessons, they have a laptop programme, and they identify gifted children and put enhance their talents, such as art.

YOU couldn't do it. Clearly. But there are people out there that could do as well if not better.

Fucking swimming lessons are the first thing you list? Yeah, it takes a damn genius/private school to teach a kid to swim. Jesus. Maybe next week they'll work on bike riding.

[Duchess]

Do y'all think kids should have some street smarts too?

[Carsman]

Do y'all think kids should have some street smarts too?

Street smarts can be just as, or even more important than book smarts!

Proper education is great, but common sense/street smarts will help kids get along in the "real world". (Book learnlin doesn't teach real world situations)

[SIXFOOTERsez]

Common Sense and Street Smarts are every bit as important as book smarts, but last time I checked they don't teach that in the schools either.
Thats up to the parents to start forming that base layer from day 1 well before the little snowflake toddles off to school.
Bottom line is it is the parents responsibility to get their kids educated on books and common sense whether its in a formal school or home schooled.
I run a business out here and currently employ about 25 people, Maybe ¹⁄₃ of them have an adequate level of what I would call common sense, they rest of them are barely above the drool level. Of that ¹⁄₃ most have a decent education and can carry on a conversation and know what to do if something goes wrong.

[sally]

Do y'all think kids should have some street smarts too?

Yes, and the best way to develop that is to go out in the real world with exposure to different groups of people, not sit home with mom all day.

I imagine there are some parents that are devoted to spending 7 hours a day actually teaching their children (not just sitting them in front of a virtual teacher) and then another 1-2 hours of additional after school work plus several more hours a week exposing them to music, art classes and physical activities with other children. But I don't think that's the majority, and if you're not doing that then you are not qualified to homeschool imo.

[Duchess]

I don't know how others will feel about this, maybe not very good but I think it's important to fail sometimes. No one likes to fail but I think there are things to be learned from doing so. Would you all agree?

[Maggot]

Do y'all think kids should have some street smarts too?

Yes, and the best way to develop that is to go out in the real world with exposure to different groups of people, not sit home with mom all day.

I imagine there are some parents that are devoted to spending 7 hours a day actually teaching their children (not just sitting them in front of a virtual teacher) and then another 1-2 hours of additional after school work plus several more hours a week exposing them to music, art classes and physical activities with other children. But I don't think that's the majority, and if you're not doing that then you are not qualified to homeschool imo.

Actual classtime in school or at home is more like about 5 hrs per day. The rest is lunch, recess changing classes, teachers, smoking dope, making out, sharpening knives, etc.

[aussiefriend]

My child goes to a private school. There is no way any home schooling can compare to the education she is receiving at that school. Today they had swimming lessons, they have a laptop programme, and they identify gifted children and put enhance their talents, such as art.

YOU couldn't do it. Clearly. But there are people out there that could do as well if not better.

Fucking swimming lessons are the first thing you list? Yeah, it takes a damn genius/private school to teach a kid to swim. Jesus. Maybe next week they'll work on bike riding.

My point is all the extracurricular activities they get to do as well as socialising with their friends and other children their own age. They have their little concerts they put on every year too (not my scene but I endure it for the sake of my child). They have identified special gifts and are enhancing and providing special attention to those gifts. Not to mention a standard of behaviour that is expected from the children.

At least I don't turf my kids out the door like you do and shove them away in boarding school. I think the concept of boarding school is horrific.

[Maggot]

If your going to strap your kids to a board and trickle water on their foreheads.


Homeschooled kids do band, drama club all kinds of things that public school kids do. They can even use the library. They are just not in the classroom or should I say "romper room"

[HairOfTheDog]

I don't know how others will feel about this, maybe not very good but I think it's important to fail sometimes. No one likes to fail but I think there are things to be learned from doing so. Would you all agree?

Yeah, I agree.

The only way to avoid failing is to always play it safe and never take any risks. Effin' boring.

Anyway, I think emotionally stable adults and children probably learn as much or more from their failures as they do from their successes.

[Maggot]

If that was the case aussiebitch would be the most stable person here.

[aussiefriend]

If that was the case aussiebitch would be the most stable person here.

and good looking too!

[HairOfTheDog]

If that was the case aussiebitch would be the most stable person here.

and good looking too!

Not to mention personable!

[aussiefriend]

If that was the case aussiebitch would be the most stable person here.

and good looking too!

Not to mention personable!

Stop, you flatter me.

[Cynical Ninja]

I don't have the time or inclination to read any of the fucking drivel since my last post.

I edit and ignore the moronic.

If maggotyboo home schooled one of my kids if they could be a brick in a human wall I'd be impressed.

[Love Child]

Many of you have kids & I know we have at least one teacher in here, what do you all think about home schooling?

Whenever I've given it any thought (rarely) I didn't think it was a good idea because I believe kids should be socialized, now I just don't know because I think about their safety before education, if that makes any sense. I just left the thread where the teacher's aide probably killed a little girl and it's on my mind.

After the last school shooting incident I heard about, the first thing I thought was if I had kids they would be in private/Montessori or home school.

I am not impressed with standardized testing, and with kids being expelled for stupid reasons.

I am sure being social is important, I am sure there are other ways to do that if one chooses to home school.

[QueenBee]

I have a friend who has spent the last year or so looking into what she would need to do to start home schooling her two girls. She does not like the Common Core and the standardized testing. They are both in public school now, and from what I hear are doing well.

I think my friend would do well, and would also make sure her girls were well socialized outside of the home classroom. She is a person of a strong Christian faith, but told me that she is going to keep religious studies away from the schooling, as the girls already go to Sunday School at their church and all. They currently go to a public school.

I do worry a bit that she is trying to over shelter her daughters from the big bad world, just from the ways I have seen both her and her husband interact with them.
But I feel that with the proper motivation on her part she will do fine.

[Duchess]

the first thing I thought was if I had kids they would be in private/Montessori or home school.

That's pretty much my opinion on it too but my reality is I know next to nothing about kids and what would be best for them. I can count on one hand the number of times I've ever even been left alone with a child and I recall feeling intimidated and unsure. Parenting children looks like the toughest job I've ever seen and for no pay!

[Blindgreed1]

Lil greed is doing much better at online home schooling than she was in public school. I'm a believer.