Posted on 10/24/2017 9:30:37 AM PDT by ForYourChildren
The obama-ing of amerika continues..
Agreed. Why do parents go to the school to complain? It doesn’t do any good. The only thing that would get their attention is for parents to pull their kids out of the schools. Government mis-education should be abolished.
I think that banana was an apple.
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My wife and I are not homeschooling any more but our children are homeschooling theirs. My least daughter was going to send hers to Public school but started looking up her now 5 year old’s obsessions and speech on the internet and determined that she would be squashing him intellectually that way. The now three year old Mac- #2 boy- is a language prodigy and she has been furiously amassing materials and networking with home schoolers for a year for both on them. Mac started speaking at 21 months and and in complete sentences. His vocabulary now at 38 months would be the envy of a bright 12 year old. He uses present and past perfect and conditional tenses quite well. Laz, the 5 y.o. #1 boy has been designing and building bridges and airplanes with popsicle sticks progressively more complicated and accurate for almost three years and I would be totally mortified if she allowed those boys to go to public school.
I didn’t see that they covered colostomy bags.
My son was like that.
By the time he was two, you could carry on an adult conversation with him and him using complete, grammatically correct sentences at that.
He could read at 4 1/2. Like Little House on the Prairie level.
He’s now 28, married, working as an engineer at his second job, and on his second house, having made a profit on his first one.
Homeschooling paid because I am SURE that if he had been in public school, they would have demanded he be on Ritalin at least. Instead, when he needed to burn off energy, I sent him outside to chop wood or dig in the dirt, some such guy thing. Swim team helped tremendously. Burned off LOTS of excess energy.
I taught all 4 of my kids to read at 3 to 5. The smartest one who worked her own way through grad school and was all time (still is) valedectorian at Thomas Moore College was a late reader and talker. The smartest kid I ever knew is the son of an old friend who is a UF prof now. Austen had an IQ that was shown as 160+. The prof determined that his son must go through public school like everybody else, the prof being a progressively more Progressive Professor, and delayed Austen’s college by several years. Austen struggled through middle school and in 9th grade just started doing his own thing and proving to a very perceptive principle (there is at least one out there) that he could do college work and that principle moved the system to give him essentially self directed independent study. A NASA contracting company approached him in his Senior High year and contracted with him to send him to university. He helped design one of the Mars Rover projects. He has had a varied career since but always makes a lot of money doing whatever he wants to do.
The government school system CANNOT be reformed. Christians, conservatives and traditionalists are delusional if they think they can somehow make a meaningful difference. The only solution is to leave the system and either homeschool or private school. We have a generation or less to fix the problem, before the Republic is finished. Anyone who has children in the government school system is part of the problem.
Sex Ed in the 1940ties, LOL and more LOL. We knew exactly how it worked and were pretty happy about it NOT needing any sex ed.
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