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Posted on 08/21/2012 6:08:38 PM PDT by wintertime
It’s hard to identify an area where technology has made more impact than homeschooling. With the growth of digital learning options, many parents who have never before considered taking more control over their children’s education are now withdrawing their kids from traditional schools — at least part-time — and allowing them to take advantage of courses offered by not only for-profit providers on contract to their school districts, but also online high school programs offered by some of the best colleges and universities around the country.
(snip) Most of the studies compiled by groups such as the National Home School Education Research Institute and Home School Legal Defense Association claim that standardized test scores taken by home-educated children are as much as 30 percent higher than scores by public school students.
(Excerpt) Read more at educationnews.org ...
Children who attend our nation's government indoctrination centers risk:
1) They **will** learn to think and reason godlessly. They must just to cooperate in the classroom, read the godless textbooks, and do their godless home assignments.
2) They risk learning to be comfortable with socialism. Hey! Any voting mob that is powerful enough to give them tuition-free schooling is powerful enough to give them **lots** of free stuff.
3) In many ways, government schools treat children, ( whose only crime was to be born) like prisoners. All their First Amendment Rights are trashed. They are marched around like prisoners. Like prisoners they are told when they can eat, rest, exercise, use the restrooms, and their buildings look like prisons. In other words they risk learning to be compliant prisoners of the state.
Another reason why homeschooling is easier than ever.
I will offer this observation. Eventually, people will realize that if a kid is allowed to proceed at his own speed and level....he’s pretty attained the education level you’d expect at 18...but at the age of 16. Then we will all come to the table and ask why continue to make the magic number “12”. Offer the kid an exam in the tenth grade....if he passes, then offer him a chance to graduate and move onto a community college for one year of state-provided tuition. You can figure you will save on teacher cost and it just makes sense to offer the kid a chance to exit.
I’ve believed for twenty years that we’ve got the wrong plan on the board....and this new IT relationship to school and a chance for kids to move at their own speed will eventually prove that point.
um.. that is exactly how the system works and has always worked.
Kids have always had the ability to skip grades if they were ahead of their peers and had mastered the subject matter.
I skipped a grade when I was in school and I know many people who skipped several grades, it’s fairly common.
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“I’ve believed for twenty years that we’ve got the wrong plan on the board....and this new IT relationship to school and a chance for kids to move at their own speed will eventually prove that point.”
It’ll be considered racist because the poor blacks don’t the have computer skills to excel.
Not necessarily.
I have friends and relatives who'd love to have their kids skip a grade or two because they could academically, but the big issue is the social one. The kids would be with (gasp) kids who are not their *peers*.
The schools are very resistant to accelerating kids not only for that reason, but also because they don't want to make the kids who aren't so gifted to feel bad (poor babies).
Maybe it used to be fairly common.....
It is actually reasonable to expect to master grade 12 material by age 14, if home school is properly done.
2) Charles Murray ( author of the “Bell Curve”) suggests certifiable qualifying exams. With Kahn Academy and other online programs there is plenty of free material available. What is lacking are certifiable exams.
3) n my opinion, the qualifying exams should start in first grade and be by subject. If a child proves mastery of addition he should moved immediately to the next level.
4) My children entered college at the ages of 13, 12, and 13, so very young children can be ready for college. There is historical precedence. At one time in our nation's history it was common for young teens to enroll in college.
I researched the GED in our state when my daughter was 14, a year after being in college. The age was 16 and she had to have permission from the school system. I researched again when she turned 16 and the age had been raised to 18. I’ll guess she’ll just have to be happy with a college degree.
HOORAY/BUMP for homeschoolers! DEPOPULATE socialist mind-control laboratories.
freedom
Maybe it used to be fairly common....”
I went to a small country grade school, all 8 grades in one room so the younger kids got to hear the older kids lessons. Ended up skipping two grades and so was only 16 when I graduated versus my friends who were all 18. Embarrassing on occasion when I couldn’t legally do things they could but great now because I’m the youngest at all of my class reunions!
“I’m the youngest at all of my class reunions!”
I graduated a year early, and I too am the youngest at all of my class reunions...60th coming up next year. I rather like it this way! Notice that I did it without all the Rapidly Changing Technology, and my ‘home schooling’ was self imposed (via my attention to homework, and extra attention to detail, plus my extraordinary level of intelligence) :) LOL while I pat myself on the back...
An excerpt from John Walkers essay Enemies:
“Do not entrust your children to the enemy. So-called “public schools” (the correct term is “government schools”, since in recent decades the public—parents—have lost all control over them) have been entirely captured by the enemy and become institutions of indoctrination and moral corruption which fail at teaching even basic skills. It is parental malfeasance verging on child abuse to send one’s offspring to these corrupt, corrupting, and nonperforming schools. If you cannot afford a well-run private or religious school (most have per-pupil costs well below that of government schools, but of course you have to pay that tuition on top of your taxes supporting the failed government schools), consider home-schooling your children, perhaps in conjunction with other like-minded parents. Even if you can afford it, don’t assume a private or religious school supports your values; talk to parents of students enrolled there and teachers: if they show signs of being enemies, don’t send your kids there.
Do not become indebted to the enemy. Higher education is overwhelmingly in the hands of the enemy. One of the greatest scams in recent decades has been the explosion in tuition and fees, which results in graduates of four-year and postgraduate programs burdened with six-figure debt they’re forced to pay off in the key years they should be saving to accumulate capital for starting a family, buying a house, educating their children, and retirement. This is not accidental: by blocking capital formation in people’s key earning years, they are rendered dependent upon the state for their retirement and health care in old age, which is precisely the intent.
What élite universities and professional schools provide for the exorbitant fee is a credential which offers entry into the ranks of the enemy, and the “education” they provide is indoctrination in the enemy’s belief system. If you need a credential, shop around and get what you require at a price that doesn’t sink you into debt throughout your peak earning years. Unless you’ve bought into the enemy’s credential game, where you went to college will be irrelevant after you’ve had a few years of job experience.’
The complete essay is here:
http://www.fourmilab.ch/documents/enemies/
Does anybody have a recommendation for a good preschool curriculum? My granddaughter is three, and it’s been a long time since we were in the market for home school materials. I do recall in the early years we used Abeka. Don’t know what’s the going thing these days.
Tnx,
SR
One of children when she was younger joked that the only thing she had graduated from was Montessori preschool and Space Camp!
I’d like to add to your list:
4) They will never, ever learn critical thinking as it is the antithesis of indoctrination because it encourages the questioning of assumptions. Critical thinking is absolutely necessary for making it in this world. Critical thinking is a foundation of entrepreneurism. Another phrase that describes this is “thinking outside the box.”
The kids don’t learn much about logical thinking either.
Um...no it doesn’t and no it hasn’t. In some places and times, yes, but generally not even close to being common. For one thing, the system doesn’t want revenue units escaping.
It’s not common, because kids smart enough to get that far ahead of their peers with parents that will even allow them to skip isn’t common.
But the option to test out of classes and grades exists nearly everywhere even in college.
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