Posted on 01/26/2018 5:20:14 PM PST by huckfillary
Done right, home schooling is a very low-cost, personalized educational option, conducted in a safe, non-violent environment. Statistics consistently indicate that home-schooled students excel in higher education and go on to lead functional, productive lives.
There are, of course, a number of life’s little inconveniences and impediments that operate against successful home-schooling. First, the parent-child chemistry has to be there. Many parents have told me that it simply would not work for their Matthew or Emily. Home-schooling my own son would have been the ultimate test of my patience. Both parties have to be committed and emotionally in-sync with the program.
Secondly, you all but have to have one fulltime stay-at-home parent. In today’s world, two-income households are pretty much the norm. A work-at-home parent with a flexible schedule or a parent who works in the evenings could also make home schooling a viable option. A private tutor is also an option, but only if you’re Paul McCartney.
Bear in mind, if you home-school your child through the elementary-school years, and decide to send her to a standard high school, be prepared for “culture shock.” It may take a while, if ever, for the child to acclimate to an institutionalized setting. Fixed class schedules, lunches, etc., may not sit well with a child used to the more flexible home setting; not to mention the teasing, the bullying, guns, knives, and drugs, if you opt for public high school. It’s all part of the governmental education package. Students are shocked to learn that pleasing your mother is a lot easier than pleasing your peers.
But if you are looking for a way to get your child out of the toxic, dumbed-down, PC, Common Core learning environment, home schooling may be something to consider. Home schooling isn’t for everybody, but public school isn’t for anybody.
Mother never graduated from grammar school. I doubt my mom had any knowledge of math, history or science. She was an excellent hand writing teacher and made sure my homework looked neat enough to give to the teacher.
Not everyone is qualified to teach their own kids or has the education and ability to home school. We see immigrants excel in even inner city schools so home life is very important.
Teachers unions cause much of the turmoil and chaos in schools along with administrators who enforce political correctness.
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Cyrano’s was a Little Italian place in the basement of a shop. When you went down the stairs there was at least one maybe two big ol reel to reel tape decks playing chamber music as I recall.
The one specialty I recall was the Cleopatra, IIRC it was about 1 pint of very rich French Vanilla ice cream covers in a hard chocolate shell covered in real whipped cream with various nuts and of course a cherry on top! It was delivered in a large silver bowl on a small pedestal.
The cost was real reasonable for a poor high school kid only a buck or two at the most. So of course it made for a cheap but impressive date:-)
I was going to take my wife there shortly after we were married but my dad said it had burned up:-( This was around 1976 or so. A sad day for sure!
Have a great day I is going to have to call it a night
Regards
alfa6 ;>}
Bullying remains a thorn in the side of such schooling arrangements. When vast crowds of students who are going there because of government mandate assemble, ill will and dysfunction is going to abound. The fortunate student learns how to steer clear of it.
There isn’t any perfect arrangement on earth. I wonder though why the modern internet hasn’t made schooling-at-home far more viable than it already is.
Community ethnic solidarity may help some of these inner city schools succeed. If it’s mostly Asians, as an example.
White people are more casual about their acquaintances.
Some things to learn about homeschool:
1. You can learn what you are teaching the child.
2. There are group teaching where a class is taught by another parent.
3. Stats/studies have show that education of the parents is not a must have for success. Effort, is required.
Read this site and about Ann Zeise
She was making $17,000 a month in August 2009 from google adsense! $7 to 9,000 in other months.
Start a website and get rich.
THE A-to-Z of Homeschooling
https://a2zhomeschooling.com/about/ann_zeise_of_a_to_z_homes_cool/
From 2009 article.
http://www.oak.homeunix.org/~marcel/blog/2009/08/15/making-money-online-while-homeschooling
Few parents are prepared to deliver calculus, physics, chemistry, or computer science topics with a high level of competence.
I’m teaching embedded computing in high school. I go right down to the logic gates and assembler language, and then bring them up into C then Internet communications over radio. This is in a public school. Blanket judgements are as useless with schools as with any other topic.
That’s why co-op classes at the high school level are very popular. We have friends whose kids have done great in medical school and engineering who were homeschooled, with the coop classes and then community college dual crediy helping them finish high school.
In re calculus physics chemistry....
Even in my super intellectual public high school in the 70s maybe 5 percent of the student body took those.
Currently in our public school system the handful that qualify leave campus and take them at the community college. Not even offered on the public school high campus any more.
Home school either get an online course or send them to community college if you can’t teach them.
Easy peasy and you get college credits.
One of my kids has a BS in physics another a BS in Comp Sci. Twas not an issue.
I have a few problems with the homeschooling. The result is amazing though. My 3 year old daughter is starting to read and write (and pretty well, too).
But I feel like a wanted man on the run from johnny law because I don’t like vaccines. I’m not even anti-vaccine I just want answers, I want to make smart decisions and I didn’t want to pump a pint of chemicals into my baby.
And I want to choose what she studies. This means there are a handful of states that I can actually live in now.
Just wait, as you gain wisdom with age, you will join the conservatives in writing off public schools.
You can convince me that public schools do a good job if you can get ANY graduate of a public school in our great United States to pass the eighth grade test given to students at local schools over a hundred years ago. It's on the net. Students then, went to one room schoolhouses for all grades, the older students helped teach the younger.
Now we a vast bureaucratic teachers union, that at huge cost to taxpayers, teach the little ones how to put a condom on a banana and the correct wearing of a hajib. And they can't spell, write coherently, or use logic. You defend public schools now, but you you will get over it.
True public schools are not for anybody...
My high school didn't offer anything when I was a student, and I also have physics/computer science under my belt.
It is, on the other hand, a pleasure to bring something like Embedded Computing to the Geeks. Then they have at least once class in school that they look forward to attending each day. Schools take good care of their football enthusiasts, but neglect their Geeks.
Neither high school or college can teach anyone anything unless the student is anxious to learn. A self motivated student will learn quickly, and even well outside of any classroom material.
Not where I teach. Georgia has laws against teacher unions. That allows the administration to hold teachers hostage using their certificate as leverage.
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