Can You Fail Home School?
To Dorothy, Rather than you wasting your time telling me what to do, why don't you shut the **** up and let me live my life however the **** I want to live it. I do do my work it's just that my parents want me to finish 3 154 paged books everyday with no breaks and I think that's just a little bit too much, that's all.
Home school vs Public School?
OK. I have 3 little boys... I'm really debating if I want to home school them or send them to public school.I only work part time so I have the time and the resources to home school, I just don't want them to miss out on anything. And I only have my GED - so will that hold them back in their futures, because I wasn't educated enough? Please no rude/mean comments..I'm honestly struggling.. I'd just like to hear some different prospectives on this - to help me make this big decision.
Why do students get home schooled?
I don't actually know anyone who knows of people who have been home schooled. Why would a student choose to be taught at home instead of in a school? What are the pros and cons? A major disadvantage I can think of is the fact that you're not around a lot of people to interact with which is pretty crucial in today's day and age. I'm just wondering out of curiosity.
Will you homeschool your child? Why?
I think one important thing ignored in a school/home school debate is the child's childhood.I homeschooled my kids for one year, and what I realized is, my kids didn't have anything that they would look forward to on a daily basis. What do I mean by that? As a kid I went to public school, and looked forward to going to school every day, to meet my friends, to play sports, and to do other fun stuff. People who argue that homeschoolers have groups, and they go every day - its not the same. Each day its different group, different people. My kids made some friends at baseball, and they get to meet them only once or twice a week. And if the season is over, and they don't meet anymore. My point is, the homeschooling kids don't get to have long time childhood friends. And for the point that the homeschooling kids socialize with all age groups, its a joke. Which kid would like to socialize with a 50 year old? Its just forced.Another issue would be exposure and motivation for higher studies. I've seen so many homeschoolers giving up their studies after 10th or 12th. They don't persue higher studies, nor have any goals, because of limitted exposure (this depends on parents though).I put myself in my kids' shoes, and decided to send them to school. The schools weren't good (in terms of safety) in my neighborhood, so I sold my home, moved to Cupertino, put them in good school. Now they love going to school, so much that we struggle to keep them at home when they're sick. Once in a while I ask them, if they want to be home schooled, their answer is a resounding NO.Sure there are some advantages of homeschooling, like one on one attention, so academically they'll be better if the parent is comitted (and knowledgeable). But in my opinion, its NOT worth ruining my children's childhood. I wanted to have same kind of fun environment that I had while growing up.
Does homeschool make you dumb??!!?
Home schooling only makes you dumb when you don't have the right home schooling teacher, you have no drive or ambition that makes you want to work up to achieving something, or you don't have the determination to do it. YOU make yourself stupid. Most often, people who home school tend to work faster (or slower if they have to) so they learn more and at their own pace. You make yourself dumb and lazy. Only home schooled people are dumb if they don't try. No, your not mentally sick, you just need to work harder. No, home schooling doesn't make you dumb either.
Disadvantages of homeschooling?
My assignment is a persuasive essay against homeschooling being permitted. I, myself, am for homeschooling, especially finding that after my research for this paper, homeschooling is just as good, if not better than regular schooling. I found that all of my main points are proven to be stereotypes and myths, so I'll need to elaborate with half-false statements that sound real enough to through to a class of sophomores. However, I let my partner choose her side in this debate first, so I'm stuck trying to persuade my teacher and class against homeschooling when she has actual stats to prove me wrong. Even if you're for homeschooling, I'd really appreciate some disadvantages that you see. If you're a home school teacher or student yourself, I'd appreciate the setbacks that you experience personally. The ones that I have so far are: - the fact that the teachers don't need a Master's Degree and most states don't even require a Bachelor's Degree so they wouldn't be able to provide the same information that regular teachers went through college courses to understand (results in a less thorough education) - I know social disadvantages are a myth for most, but I used it anyway. I figure people that have no experience being homeschooled would agree. - being prepared with dealing with peer-pressure, waking up early, people you don't like, people that boss you around, getting things done in a certain time period, etc. in the real world I'm trying to fit the things that people like about regular schooling (ex. gossiping at lunch) but I'd rather be homeschooled myself and I don't gossip or have that many friends anyway, so I'm having difficulties there. I'm trying to finish this as soon as possible so any input would be greatly appreciated.
If you're a home schooled teen in high school, do you like it why/why not?
Honestly, no.I’ve been home-schooling for a few years now and for the most part I hate it. It’s lonely and boring and a pain. My whole life I was an A student and I took great pride in that. When I was younger and felt insecure about my looks, or how many friends I had, it was okay because I always had my grades to fall back on. If nothing I had that. I thrive in academic settings. I loved going to classes and having discussions with teachers and I loved being around other people. Being home-schooled took all that away from me. For a really long time I had no idea if I was even still a good student, if I was still an A student, because I had no way of assessing myself and it sucked.In addition to that, the lack of routine has always thrown me off. I liked having a timetable at school, and knowing that at specific times these were the specific things happening. Being at home, no matter how much I’ve tried it’s impossible to adhere to a strict routine. Something or the other will always come up and I’ll need to pause studying to attend to that.And I’m lonely. These past few years have been the darkest of my life, and sometimes I feel like I’m spiraling downwards into an abyss with no way of getting out. I miss being surrounded by people my age. I miss having social interactions on a day to day basis. I miss school clubs.So to answer your question: I don’t like it. However, I know a lot of people have had great experiences home-schooling. I’m speaking only from personal experience.
Why does school depress me?
in short, excuse my language, because school fucking sucks.we wake up freakishly early. as teenagers, our brains are literally not ready to think at 7 am. our circadian rhythms are different than adults and little kids, which is why we stay up late and sleep in. We aren't LAZY, we sleep the same amount, we just do it at a different time. But for school, we are forced to wake up, when our brains are being programmed to sleep more.We sit in our chairs and listen to someone talk at us for 7 hours straight. What ISNT depressing about that? We’ve had the same school system since the industrial revolution, where kids were basically taught to go into factories. Luckily theres more research coming out about hands-on-learning and stuff like that.after suffering through the day, we come home, sit at another desk, and do more work for three more hours. We already spent so much time learning stuff, and now we have to do more. Its exhausting, and its impractical.On top of the physical and academic hardships, we have to deal with the ridiculous amounts of social problems and drama. In high school this improves significantly from middle school, but god if it isn't still there. Our adolescent minds want one thing - acceptance from our peers. even us “weird” kids want that. People stress about who likes who, who’s friends with who, do enough people like them. and that is horrible in its own right.School is a terrible system. Learning is fantastic, and I love it, but our current school system is so fucked that instead it literally gives us all clinical depression.