Posted on 09/29/2010 7:45:54 AM PDT by GonzoII
I’m a public school teacher who plans on homeschooling my son.
Hmmmm...my 15 year old homeschooled child is in her 5th semester at the local university and hates the mall. This mom is a slacker ;)
Stigma?
Hehe. My filter blocked the MSNBC site.
Yeah, right.
I have heard this same comment, over and over, from those who work in the public schools.
That in itself is a big selling point for homeschooling.
what stigma was ever there?
Maybe there was a stigma to the liberals at MSNBC who wrote this artice, but I never thought there was a stigma as such to home schooling.
Insight into the liberal mind.............
Well, *I* think that some teachers would love to do a better job actually teaching, but their hands are tied by the administration and parents who threaten lawsuits.
My wife trained as a teacher, and my SIL is a teacher--both absolutely hate the system, since it actually prevents effective teaching.
How's that?
I never thought about how my children were just that until I saw many of their peers. Nine year olds that acted like they were in their teens. I thought maybe I was stifling my children, but realized they were still being children, rather than rushing to be adults. My daughter is 12 and physically looks 16. But, she is more interested in dolls than boys and her younger friends are amazed that she plays with them. “You do realize I am only 9,” one has said. My daughter’s makes friends with anyone from toddlerhood to adulthood. She never thinks of age.
I never thought about how my children were just that until I saw many of their peers. Nine year olds that acted like they were in their teens. I thought maybe I was stifling my children, but realized they were still being children, rather than rushing to be adults. My daughter is 12 and physically looks 16. But, she is more interested in dolls than boys and her younger friends are amazed that she plays with them. “You do realize I am only 9,” one has said. My daughter makes friends with anyone from toddlerhood to adulthood. She never thinks of age.
I believe in what I’m doing as a school teacher; however, there are many things that anger me about public education. I want my son to have better. I know that there is vast standardized test cheating as well as many other means to shuffle kids through the system. We are harming them by doing this. I uphold standards in my classroom, but I know that some teachers my son will have won’t.
That should speak volumes to anyone who is paying attention.
We are in our 29th year of home schooling and holding home school clinics for parents.
Have you all been keeping up with Obama’s proposals for longer school years, etc.?
In 1983 an attendance officer in Citrus County, Florida tried to trap me by asking me how many days each year our children are “in class.”
My answer? 365!
>>Hmmmm...my 15 year old homeschooled child is in her 5th semester at the local university and hates the mall. This mom is a slacker ;)<<
LOL!
But seriously, the head of our homeschool group, who knows my daughter very well, told me not to push her into college. This lady’s son graduated with an associates at 17. She said that my daughter may not be ready to start at 14. Not all kids are. I’ll try and put her in with simple classes like Keyboarding and Math. But some kids are made to start it at a younger age.
his is from MSNBC???
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