Madge Voice: Absolutely for Academic Reasons. The schools today are so amazingly useless that it is an absolute shame that they exist. You can not believe how horrible the education system has become. I want to make this very clear. It is not the teachers. It is the system. The system prevents teachers from controlling their classrooms, maintaining order, making requirements of the students, and or establishing a clear level of understanding and comprehension of the subject matter which the students must demonstrate before being allowed to move on to the next grade. Everyone is passed and no one is learning. Education has been so dummied up as to be actually harmful to our children....Show more
Arlen Hamper: I don't know how most go about it, as far as bringing in tutors/teachers & such or if it's the parents doing the teaching. If it's the latter then I think it's a retarded decision simply from observing how stupid your average person is.But then agai! n the public education system isn't so hot anyway. My mom's taking classes for her Master's in teaching and I get to see how "smart" some of her classmates are. And it makes think, "Wow, these people are teaching??"...Show more
Nedra Oltz: It is selfish and anti-social. Excluding your kids from society in case they hear things or see things you don't wish them to see or hear
Judie Kise: I say that it doesn't give them the social skills to deal with the real world.
Coleman Ocegueda: Home schooling possible but improbable to be done correctlyhome indoctrination -NEVERToo often all home schooling is is home indoctrination.My experience with home schooling is nothing but indoctrination. Religious indoctrination. I am black and I live in a mixed neighborhood. There is this one black lady who is about 65 who lives in my neighborhood. She home schools her grand children. Her house is the most tore up and f'ked up thing in the beighborhood. No grass and the pa! int job is the result of my next door neighborhood giving her ! the paint and me loaning them two ladders. They painted 90% if the front and sides of the house badly. That ws two years ago. She is in one of those religions where you have to wear long dresses and head rags all the time and teaches her kids that mess. They dress just like her. I am the only adult the children have a relationship with in this neighborhood because I am their bicycle mechanic.I have 7 and a 11 year children. One is gifted and the other lives on the honor roll. She will not let her children play with them in our yard. They have never been on our trampoline and every other child in this neighborhood has. The children are extremely well behaved except for the oldest one.He goes to public school. I came to me for advice about some advice he had gotten suggesting he drop out of the 11th grade. I had a tantrum on him while advising him how ridiculous this advice was until he told me the advice came from his grand mother. None of the grand mother's own children ar! e in stable relationships, have good educations or jobs.CAN THIS LADY HOMESCHOOL ANYBODY??????...Show more
Devon Kalberer: TDs don't come from me..Just you know-:)
Sammie Bocanegra: For some it is a moral issue too. They feel that their kids aren't being taught how to behave in society within their system. And if you are sending your kids to a public school, you don't see them near as much as you do when you homeschool. Now pardon me if I misunderstood, but it seems you assume it's about sheltering your kids and lack of socialization. Let me point out that kids sent to a public school are often not allowed to speak to one another during the day, so much for socialization. Both of my daughters used to be in public school. Almost every day they would tell me their class had been so bad they had to have silent lunch. Most days recess was taken away as well for just a couple kids being bad. Not all public schools are horrible, but I pulled my girls out because they ! weren't getting any academic learning in. All they were taught was to d! o bare minimum so their teachers could spend time "disciplining" the bad eggs. And the bad eggs were equally as frustrated because they were struggling academically. Schools aren't set up by what level kids are at, they are set up to put kids at a level they want them at. Let me also point out that most (not all, just most) homeschooling families do socialize with others. I am in a homeschooling co-op, meaning my kids get together with other kids and learn about subjects together. We have a weekly park day where they can just run around and be kids with other kids. We have a weekly soccer day with the local homeschool group, so they can have fun learning a sport together. Most homeschooling families are not holed up in their house 24/7, most have daily activities that they are going to with other families. And the friends that my girls had in school? Well they see them on the weekends and talk to them on the phone most evenings. My girls get more socialization now then the! y did in a public system. Bullies are still around to deal with, there are always at least one bully in a group of kids. So it's not like homeschooling kids don't deal with all the same issues a public school kid deals with.Add:Homeschool kids are delusional? I am taking it you are assuming that all homeschool kids are done so for a religious reason then. There are alot of us who do it for secular reasons. My kids studies are heavy in math and science. Religion is only studied if they choose to do so and it's done from an educational stand point. One of the reasons I pulled my kids out of school was because the religious right has taken almost every single holiday joy away from the public system here in my town. They can't have halloween parties because it's "devil worship". Now they are talking about taking away a Holiday Program in December because the school "had the audacity" to include Kwanzaa, Hannukah, and Yule in the program. My kids still deal with religious people! on a daily basis, but they can enjoy life more without having outsider! s meddle in their lives....Show more
Stevie Kizziar: It's a horrible decision, kids need to enjoy that part of their life.
Amada Greising: I think home schooling can be a good thing, if the parents have the time and expertise to do so. There are enough teaching aids out there that even a mediocre parent can give a child a good education, at least in the early years. One-on-one attention with a mediocre teacher who has access to good books is better than a 30-to-1 ratio in a public school with a decent teacher, especially with the limitations that lobbyist groups put on our public schools. The recent Texas school board textbook debacle is a good example of that.However, one of the shortcomings of home schooling is that it shelters kids from other kids. If the parents are doing so to shelter their kids, they are keying on home schooling's worst pitfall. I agree that this will backfire on them later in life.The other shortfall of home schooling is that many pa! rents do so to shelter the child from teachings that they don't like. Today, this usually means teaching that disagrees with the Christian Bible, or their interpretation of it. Because so many home schoolers are Fundamentalist Christians, the home schooling material tends to heavily distort science and history. This can give the child an inferior education and leave them unprepared for real life, even with the one-to-one attention. Garbage in - garbage out.If there was more secular home school instruction material and support, it would be more of a viable option for parents, especially in their early years. However, I would still recommend at least a private school in the later years to allow the child to learn to socialize more before being thrown into the college culture....Show more
Sammy Hatzenbihler: Homeschooling is horrible. It allows the kids to stay deluded.
Clifford Gombos: In some ways it is ideal as the children receive personal attention and c! ustomized lessons, however, "public" education with more teachers to le! ss students would also achieve this. As for morality, it is unlikely that most parents have anything but a working idea of their particular form of morality and thus the student will not be exposed to the wider range of moral systems and will likely be more intolerant of different, but valid morals.It is better to train children to think rationally and objectively and to make good choices based on solid information (not to mention how determine how "solid" information is). This way they have the capability to respond to new situations and moral systems and to continue to learn rather than just believing that what they know is "right"....Show more
Misty Vagle: i think public education and universities are boondoggles. not as big as Nasaand definitely not as Big as Bush's criminal Bail OUT for citibank and othersand SURELY NOT AS BIG As the boondoggle OF Obamas' Health Care. !!!homeschooling would undo the national University systems Control over science and philosop! hy and would make people MORE mentally healthy and community Freindly. it can have adverse conclusions as well, if the parents actually do not teach their children anything. But then again government schools have many teens that graduate and cant even READ....Show more
Myriam Hetjonk: It depends on the family. Some homeschooled kids end up doing great in the real world, and actually aren't as sheltered as one might think. Others... not so much. It really just depends.I know plenty of home schoolers and they are not socially isolated at all-- they have as many friends as a public school kid, if not more.
Merna Fauset: thats like isolation then they'll have no friends.
Johnnie Pummill: I think it's unfair to deny the child a chance to make friends and build social skills
Nikki Sypult: WARNING! The Following is a Rant:I've raised eight children. We home schooled one of them. The public school system was mis-handling our daughter by forcing their prejudi! cial belief system on us.Our daughter has ADHD. The Michigan Education ! Association does not believe in the medical community's assessment of this condition and declared by fiat that we were not doing our job to discipline her enough! They did not know what else to tell us because they do not recognize ADHD or many similar medical disorders.Michigan has one of the lowest score cards in the nation in being able to teach even the basics. Yet, the MEA has the gall to blame parents for not doing their part in backing up their curriculum, as being the reason for the State's inability to teach! I went to Catholic School for eight years and had tons of homework; my parents never had to "do their part"! I got my *** whooped if I did not do "my part"! When I went to the public system in 9th grade I was way ahead, academically, but socially retarded. A few bottles of alcohol and some 'doobies' from all those cute public school minxes corrupting my willing soul, filled that gap in my cloistered education in no time! By 12th gr. I was so buzzed-up and part! ied out that I almost didn't make it out of High School. I certainly would have done better academically had I stayed in Parochial school. (Home schooling was not really an option) Socialization is the missing piece of the Home-Schooling puzzle. Yet, there are many home-schooling groups (mostly religious) that try to fill that need. I think they fall woefully short.Each parent has to weigh the consequences of every action or inaction on their part as parents. No matter what the state says, it is still the parents right and responsibility to educate their children as they see fit!...Show more
Phillip Modafferi: Your theory about holding them loosely speaks in favor of home schooling. Kids that have entered my classrooms from a homeschool environment way outperform the kids from the "cookie-cutter" school system. They are independent workers, socially responsible, confident and well-prepared.
Dick Baumgarten: How is a kid supposed to make any friends at home?The! y need to learn the social skills of the real world.Unless the parents ! are going to give them a career at home I dont suggest giving them an education at home.
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