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mimitabby

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14. home schooling is not for everyone who WANTS IT

Reply to Amerigo Vespucci (Original post)

Fri Mar 16, 2012, 10:52 AM

Mar 2012

Unfortunately, in my family several members are home schooling. At this point, for some of them the jury is out. But i can already see that people who did not learn math in school (because they didn't go!!) shouldn't be teaching kids math.
People who hate school shouldn't be home schooling.
So it came to the point where the 19 year old son was still somewhere about 10th grade level. so he quit. he actually found a job.
None of the other kids are old enough yet, that's why the jury is still out. But these are the kind of women who tell their little kids to shut up when they say "why is the sky blue mommy? " "what is this what is that?"
they are growing up ignorant and naive. and being taught by a person who HATES to be their teacher.

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Salon: Home-schooled and illiterate - for some kids it means isolation with little education [View all] Amerigo Vespucci Mar 2012 OP

US Christian Madrassas - n/t lapfog_1 Mar 2012 #1

Absolutely get the red out Mar 2012 #6

Consequences of "home schooling". no_hypocrisy Mar 2012 #2

The other side Skelly Mar 2012 #7

When it works well, it works very well spinbaby Mar 2012 #13

My problem is my client is being punished for homeschooling (to the best of her ability). no_hypocrisy Mar 2012 #22

Home Schooling has its good and bad points fasttense Mar 2012 #3

A lot of it depends upon the child Alcibiades Mar 2012 #9

I've seen this a few times. Igel Mar 2012 #23

Isolation is what it is all about when religion is the issue. n/t Bonhomme Richard Mar 2012 #4

Faux Newz and Rush will take up the slack and turn them into good little... freshwest Mar 2012 #5

This isn't so much a home schooling issue as it is a religious fanaticism issue. teewrex Mar 2012 #8

There are good and bad homeschoolers, private schools, public schools, etc. jhasp Mar 2012 #10

quality of the teacher d_r Mar 2012 #11

Still a state issue? Skelly Mar 2012 #16

Oversight is the issue. Igel Mar 2012 #24

I worry more about the social 'isolation' that so many of the religiously sinkingfeeling Mar 2012 #12

Anything that teaches a kid to function in a bubble is a bad thing. Amerigo Vespucci Mar 2012 #19

I'd say anything that ultimately fails to teach kids to function outside their bubble is a bad thing Igel Mar 2012 #25

home schooling is not for everyone who WANTS IT mimitabby Mar 2012 #14

When I was in college Skelly Mar 2012 #21

True. I met illiterate home-schooled kids. shcrane71 Mar 2012 #15

I don't understand how/why Myrina Mar 2012 #17

Because the teams aren't academics. Igel Mar 2012 #26

We were partial home schoolers ProgressiveProfessor Mar 2012 #18

It is NOT just the narrow "Education Spectrum" that is important. bvar22 Mar 2012 #20

"Cannot"? Igel Mar 2012 #27

90% of your list Skelly Mar 2012 #28

I vehemently disagree. laundry_queen Mar 2012 #29

I expected Home Schoolers to disagree. bvar22 Mar 2012 #30

I am an avid homeschool parent and I see potential negatives with homeschooling jhasp Mar 2012 #31

All in all, bvar22 Mar 2012 #33

How many homeschoolers do you know? jhasp Mar 2012 #34

Homeschooling can be a reflection of control freak parents Lydia Leftcoast Mar 2012 #32

Being President of the PTA Skelly Mar 2012 #40

Many homeschool parents have a low level of education in the first place. Kablooie Mar 2012 #35

The magical age jhasp Mar 2012 #36

Do you have any statistics to back this up? jhasp Mar 2012 #37

It varies nxylas Mar 2012 #38

I used to volunteer in the library in my small California town. MineralMan Mar 2012 #39