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To: Pollster1

> I disagree

I understand.

But the government school collective is communist in nature.

See http://www.schoolandstate.org/home.htm for details on why government school collectives are intrinsically evil.

The great fun about homeschooling, and the most powerful aspect of it, is that you get to learn as your children learn, and they reinforce their knowledge by teaching it to the younger ones. We basically have a one-room schoolhouse.

One of our homeschooled daughters is learning Chinese and teaching it to her younger siblings. As with all foreign language, if you have nobody to practice with, you will not learn. Conjugations and dictionary drills are meaningless without context. Virtually everybody in our house speaks or understands at least two languages, because we not only learn them at home but occasionally attend church services and social events where these languages are spoken almost exclusively. We have also hosted foreign students in our home.

As for the sciences, there are tutors, videos, books, so many resources. If you have a computer, and you must in order to be reading this, many experiments can be conducted with software simulations. However, it’s neither hard nor expensive to set up a basic chem lab and biology lab.

For shop, there are always things around the house or apartment that need repairs and remodeling. Woodworking, mechanics, plumbing, electrical, as well as sewing, baking, meals and nutrition, are all part of home and hearth.

Another great resource is http://www.khanacademy.org/

The per-student cost in our school collective is about $20,000. Fully 85% of my exorbitant property tax is used to support this collective. Most of the children “graduate” as functionally illiterate and innumerate.

Our per-student cost is less than $1000, mostly books materials subscriptions and tutors, and I’ll be hanged if my capable children will “graduate” illiterate or innumerate.

Two of our nine children still at home are very special needs children, and we have a program for them that will encourage them to make something of themselves and be self-supporting.

Nobody will love your children like you do.
Nobody can reach your children like you can.
Nobody knows your children better than you.
Nobody can teach your children better than you.

The government school collective is filled with silly junk science and socialistic influences. The Education Colleges are mills of socialistic indoctrination.

The government school collective system is moribund and cannot be salvaged.

Time for a new paradigm.


26 posted on 03/29/2012 6:00:53 AM PDT by Westbrook (Children do not divide your love, they multiply it.)
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To: Westbrook

Bump to #26.

We’ve homeschooled both our kids, and I can’t recommend it highly enough. My oldest is about to graduate, never having set foot in a school.
In our computer age, to say that the existing school model is antiquated is an understatement.

Beyond reading, basic math, and religion, nothing else is essential to formal education. Schooling and education are not synonymous, and are often antithetical.

My sympathy lies with unschooling, but in a compromise with my wife, we settled on a pre-packaged Catholic curriculum.

Neither of my children are interested in science or math, but they jumped through the requisite hoops. IMO, they would have been better off pursuing something of interest to themselves.

But these decisions should be left to parents. And homeschooling gives parents greater freedom than any alternative.

Most importantly, parents and children are free to practice their religion as they see fit.


39 posted on 03/29/2012 6:18:43 AM PDT by St_Thomas_Aquinas (Viva Christo Rey!)
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