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Home schooling anybody?

Johnny Brant

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Does anybody here home-school their kids, or are you happy to entrust them to complete strangers (teachers) for years of their impressionable young lives?
 
Johnny Brant said:
Does anybody here home-school their kids, or are you happy to entrust them to complete strangers (teachers) for years of their impressionable young lives?
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No home-schooling for my 2 kids. I prefer to have them educated by people that are more qualified than I am. (Besides, home-schooling is not an option here)
 
Looking back at the teachers I had, most were rotten to the core, filling our heads with false values, I wouldn't entrust them with a goldfish let alone a precious child.
Home schooling is allowed in GB and the US at least.
 
Johnny Brant said:
Looking back at the teachers I had, most were rotten to the core, filling our heads with false values, I wouldn't entrust them with a goldfish let alone a precious child.
Home schooling is allowed in GB and the US at least.
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What do you mean by "false values"? Quite a few home schooled kids wind up with nothing but religion, and false notions of the natural world. It is a little ambiguous from what you are saying.
 
No, Unless you are a qualified teacher you will do a bad job of it.
 
Nice opening with a false dichotomy.

Disclosure: Both my parents are teachers. I was not home schooled.

I am more than happy to entrust the formal education of my children to people who have the skills and qualifications to do so.

I am also neither narcissistic nor unintelligent enough to believe that:
a. I know everything or am competent at everything - including child education; nor
b. that having a child go to school somehow removes the ability or the responsibility of the parent to help the child prepare for life in those formative years.
 
Johnny Brant said:
Looking back at the teachers I had, most were rotten to the core, filling our heads with false values, I wouldn't entrust them with a goldfish let alone a precious child.
Home schooling is allowed in GB and the US at least.
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Nice anecdote, bro.
 
Johnny Brant said:
Looking back at the teachers I had, most were rotten to the core, filling our heads with false values, I wouldn't entrust them with a goldfish let alone a precious child.
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Yet here you are.

Home schooling is allowed in GB and the US at least.
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So? I'm not living in the US or the UK.
 
Johnny Brant said:
Does anybody here home-school their kids, or are you happy to entrust them to complete strangers (teachers) for years of their impressionable young lives?
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Very loaded question pointing at an obvious desired answer. Not a good way to make questions up. And you've done it at least twice. Much better to straight out ask a question and wait for answers before you pull the trick out.
 
I am one of those complete strangers you're mentioning, by the way. If among the things you consider false values that teachers promote are fairness, honesty, and curiosity, then I'm guilty as charged. My daughter just started kindergarten this year, and while I don't particularly like her teacher, I can't find any fault in the values that she has encouraged.

Which values do you consider false that your rotten teachers tried to cram into your head?

In retrospect, I only had two really bad teachers in K-12. One was a psycho who threw things at the kids, the other was a wretched English teacher in high school.
 
Johnny Brant said:
Does anybody here home-school their kids, or are you happy to entrust them to complete strangers (teachers) for years of their impressionable young lives?
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And while we are at it, do you do home orthodontics or trust your kid's mouth to complete strangers?

I do some car repairs myself. I sometimes break my car because of it.
 
Johnny Brant said:
Does anybody here home-school their kids, or are you happy to entrust them to complete strangers (teachers) for years of their impressionable young lives?
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Yeah, a teacher remains a complete stranger for a full school year.
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Olowkow said:
What do you mean by "false values"? Quite a few home schooled kids wind up with nothing but religion, and false notions of the natural world. It is a little ambiguous from what you are saying.
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Home schooling is easy, just teach 'em to read and write and they're set up for life!
Oh and don't forget to buy a thick, colourful home encyclopaedia for them to browse through..:)
Am I the only one who had lousy teachers?
 
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Johnny Brant said:
Does anybody here home-school their kids, or are you happy to entrust them to complete strangers (teachers) for years of their impressionable young lives?
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I made it a point to not have the teachers be complete strangers for very long at all.
 
Johnny Brant said:
Home schooling is easy, just teach 'em to read and write and they're set up for life!
Oh and don't forget to buy a thick, colourful home encyclopaedia for them to browse through..:)
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Since I don't know anyone who wrote encyclopedias, I'd still be letting them learn from strangers.
 
Johnny Brant said:
Home schooling is easy, just teach 'em to read and write and they're set up for life!
Oh and don't forget to buy a thick, colourful home encyclopaedia for them to browse through..:)
Am I the only one who had lousy teachers?
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Based on your recent posts in other areas of the forum, I sincerely hope you're not trying to home-school your own kids.
 
I tend to think that the socialization skills of public school are damn near as important as the education itself. My mom teaches special ed and I asked her opinion of this and she said "well, some home schooled kids who come back to school are ahead or at the proper level, some come back and it seems they were't taught anything at all"

I reckon, like most other things in life, you tend to get out of it how much you put into it. If a parent is dedicated and does the work (and makes their kid do the work) then the education part can be just fine.

I have a friend who has 2 kids under 3 and he is all about some home schooling, he dismissed my idea that the socialization skills of public school are important and he thinks that they will get that in other ways... I'm not 100% sure about that. Often times the only black folks people will encounter on a social level down here (as a kid anyway) are school and sports/activites. I don't see that kind of multi-racial/multi-cultural interacton taking place otherwise... not as an elementary school kid anyway.
 
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