Posted on 11/18/2012 5:16:50 PM PST by SeekAndFind
And none of the founding fathers had indoor plumbing, electricity, or computers. We should dump those as well
I am a GED instructor. In addition to folks who dropped out of school, all homeschooled youth must pass the GED exam to get their diploma.
Not quite all, but MOST, homeschooled youth score much higher on the exam than others.
Well, I’m a public school teacher and I support homeschoolers 100%. The bullying alone, and the mean kids your child will be warehoused with are reason enough. Nothing pains me more than seeing nice, smart kids trapped in a room with wild, hyper, uncouth children who have no fear of consequences and no intention whatsoever of letting anyone learn anything.
get the Federal Government out of school and kids will learn again - without all the $$$ we spend. they are nothing more than indoctrination camps
My number reason children should be homeschooled when possible:
1. If you have an education, congratulations, you will be able to teach your child things and the ability to learn that they will never know in public school. The public school teachers are typically very ignorant liberals with “degrees in Education”. Your child will be measured by your standards of personal excellence versus the unionized dumb-down lowest-common-denominator practices of the federal DOE and the NEA. Your child can interact with children you select with your standards and your rules. Their discipline can be assured. Your child can take real field trips to interesting and historical places. You can coordinate with like-minded parents to cross-pollinate your group’s children with various professional studies of the individual parents and share in expenses and responsibilities. Your child will learn and grow and become that young adult capable of fending for themselves every parent should desire for their child. Along with all that, you also get to temper your discipline with the thoughts and input of the other parents. Children often find firm but fair a result. There is just something respectful about watching a child grow and learn to think and contribute their experiences.
Are the homeschooled students required to take a GED course or do they simply take the exam? No point, just curious.
RE: . If you have an education, congratulations, you will be able to teach your child things and the ability to learn that they will never know in public schoo
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The article states:
Almost all of our Founding Fathers, the most brilliant authors and orators of all time, were home-schooled. George Washingon, Thomas Jefferson, Abraham Lincoln, and Theodore Roosevelt were all educated at home by a parent or a tutor.
George Washington was taught by his older brother for a while before embarking on a self-taught course that led him to become a surveyor by the age of 16 and eventually the greatest general and leader in the nation.
Claude Monet (impressionist), Leonardo da Vinci (inventor and artist), Daniel Boone, Meriwether Lewis, and William Clark (explorers), Robert Frost (poet), Helen Keller, C.S. Lewis, Mark Twain, Laura Ingalls Wilder (authors and lecturers), and Bach and Mozart (composers)… were all home-educated. They are just my favorites from a very exhaustive list of home-educated human beings who not only turned out okay, but changed the world.
The question I have is this -— how much education did the parents of the above famous people have? Did they go to college?
You can dump yours if you'd like. It's still a free country.
That GED requirement does not apply in all states.
Public school taught me to hate inner city kids and certainly destroyed any thought of being a liberal.
I think this qualifies for the Homeschooling list....
College is not required. College was a bit of a joke then in the 1700’s as it is now. A parent with a solid general education can teach a child how to think and study and to research for themselves, and, of course, general knowledge such as English and math. The child can take that basic understanding and apply it to whatever field of study they desire. The parent doesn’t need to have a formal education, just knowledge and the wisdom and desire to teach.
Man, what an ignorant post. Are you a public school teacher?
It’s obvious to me that homeschooled children are generally better off than their public school-educated peers. Are you suggesting otherwise? If so, you don’t know what you’re talking about...probably a public schoolteacher.
“College was a bit of a joke then in the 1700’s as it is now.”
No. Although some new colleges in the colonies might not have had a vaunted reputation, university education was very respected and no one considered in a joke in itself.
In an age, where we now have cheap internet and Khan Academy, learning from home has never been easier.
One need not believe that homeschooling is superior to school-schooling to be ideologically opposed to GOVERNMENT schooling of any kind. We could have a plethora of educational facilities, with the latest technology, the best teachers, and an option to suit every parent, at a fraction of the cost of the government’s child-warehouses/employment centers ... if the system were 100% private-pay or private-charity.
I live in TX and I have no idea what you are talking about. That is why Texas is the best state for homeschooling.
These days, I usually respond to various statist idiots questioning homeschooling by saying that my offspring are:
1. Taught an anglo-saxon obscenity each week and must use it as a verb, noun and adjective in the next weeks essay.
2. Given instruction on abnormal psychology as normal.
3. Practiced in condom fitting on bananas at lunch.
4. Learning about Diversity day = perversion + division + adversity.
5. Given open minded suggestions: Healthy sexuality class always includes a deviant practice.
6. Taught to bow and pray to Karl Marx, Sigmund Freud and Charles Darwin each day.
7. Mugged for some lunch money each day.
8. Beaten up or humiliated once a week.
In short, we believe we are providing a fully rounded educational curriculum that is on par with the best the publik skoolz have to offer.
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