Home Schooling
05-11-2019, 01:48 PM
#51
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The key to successful home schooling is the actual involvement of the parents. You were involved and made sure your kids got the education and socialization they require to learn how to negotiate their lives in the world. Not all parents do what you did.
05-12-2019, 07:08 AM
#52
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We have had 7 kids in our family who were home schooled. All have done well as their parents were heavily invested in the school curriculum. These families are readers, so I (a retired college professor) do not notice any deficiencies.
05-13-2019, 07:47 AM
#53
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We homeschooled all three of our children. We used standardized curriculums and did standardized tests every year. Was it easy? No. We did it so they could get the best education we would provide, so that meant we had to find outside activities so they could have friends, sports, music, etc. in their lives. My oldest son has an MBA from UNC Greensboro and an MA in Music Performance from UW-Madison. He now teaches at University of Michigan. My second son has a BA in business from UNC-Chapel Hill and an MA in German from the University of Kentucky. He now works in Germany at a college teaching English. My daughter has a BA from Chatham University and an MA from UT-Knoxville. She works for a non-profit, after having worked at Kennesaw State University. I guess what I'm saying is that they have all made the transition to working adults very well, and that being homeschooled did not hinder them at college.
A couple of things they got out of being homeschooled: they learned how to read and learn from a textbook; they learned how to set and achieve goals; each one of them at some point in their mid-teens took control of their own education - set the pace and took ownership of what was required to complete their programs. They all got to take some community college classes while still in high school.
Was it work for me and my husband? Yes. It would have been a lot easier to just send them to the public school. It worked out for us because we put the work into it - just about like everything in life.
A couple of things they got out of being homeschooled: they learned how to read and learn from a textbook; they learned how to set and achieve goals; each one of them at some point in their mid-teens took control of their own education - set the pace and took ownership of what was required to complete their programs. They all got to take some community college classes while still in high school.
Was it work for me and my husband? Yes. It would have been a lot easier to just send them to the public school. It worked out for us because we put the work into it - just about like everything in life.
05-13-2019, 10:28 AM
#54
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it's like everything else in life, you get out of it what you put into it. One of my best friends growing up was homeschooled and our town had a huge homeschool population so there were city activities and they even threw a prom for the high schoolers in their group every year. She had a great education and has done well in adulthood. There's a huge homeschool group here in Austin that have tons of great activities and field trips.
on the other hand, I was a freshman in college and another young adult sitting next to me in a class said, "Oh! there are boys! Wow" I was speechless (rare for me.) turned out she was raised at home with her mother and her sisters homeschooled "away from men and their sin" and had never been around males. at all!
she lasted less than a semester before she went home to mommy.
on the other hand, I was a freshman in college and another young adult sitting next to me in a class said, "Oh! there are boys! Wow" I was speechless (rare for me.) turned out she was raised at home with her mother and her sisters homeschooled "away from men and their sin" and had never been around males. at all!
she lasted less than a semester before she went home to mommy.
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05-16-2019, 08:45 AM
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Originally Posted by KalamaQuilts
Preface by saying I don't have kids so I don't have an personal agenda for or against.
Just curious if you home schooled your kids or were home schooled yourself and how you feel about it in retrospect.
And why you took it on to begin with, were you an educator? My friends who did it weren't, they said they studied just ahead of whatever their kids were learning
I practice Spencerian writing script and got my books from a home school supply place and was totally impressed at how many options they carried for learning things outside the reading/writing/arithmetic spectrum. None involving sports...
Just curious if you home schooled your kids or were home schooled yourself and how you feel about it in retrospect.
And why you took it on to begin with, were you an educator? My friends who did it weren't, they said they studied just ahead of whatever their kids were learning
I practice Spencerian writing script and got my books from a home school supply place and was totally impressed at how many options they carried for learning things outside the reading/writing/arithmetic spectrum. None involving sports...
Our oldest son home schools his children. When he first started this it was hard for him and our grandkids when out on field trips. People would come up to him and demand why the kids weren't in school. Apparently he had to get some sort of paperwork saying the kids were home schooled and keep it on his person when out on events with the kids during school hours.
He has done a wonderful job with them, they are right up there with there peers who attend public school.
05-17-2019, 07:07 AM
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Originally Posted by cathyvv
I have two grands who are home schooled. Their parents rarely involve the kids in outside of the home activities. One of them is, and always was, extremely shy, but did ok in school, had a few friends. Since he has been home schooled he has basically become a hermit. He does not know how to be around people he doesn't know. He is literally frozen if someone he doesn't know says hello. He's learning his lessons, but has learned nothing about surviving in the world.
His brother has Aspergers and is very bright, also sociable. He visited me to help me in November and I had to make sure he did school work. (snip)
He's afraid of school because he feels he won't be accepted by the other kids. Might be true, but he's never had the opportunity to find out, or figure out how to get along.
So, while they are doing their schooling, I don't consider it a successful endeavor. What good is knowing stuff if you are frightened of the world? I think home schooling can work well for some families, though.
Some children are just not emotionally benefited from group education.
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