Home Schooling

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  1. yinyinwang Registered Senior Member

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    Are Schools better in studying or educating?
     
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  3. SoLiDUS OMGWTFBBQ Registered Senior Member

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    They're better at indoctrinating.

    Edit: This was in response to "Are PUBLIC schools better for studying or educating?". Just thought I'd clear that up. kthx gg
     
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  5. cosmictraveler Be kind to yourself always. Valued Senior Member

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    It depends on how the parents educate their offspring. If the parents are good teachers and know what the hell they are doing then I'd say it is perfectly fine to have children 'home schooled". They must take state tests from time to time in order to see if they are learning anything though.
     
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  7. ElectricFetus Sanity going, going, gone Valued Senior Member

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    I worry about how well these children will interact with society as adults without having to deal with it in public schools.
     
  8. sargentlard Save the whales motherfucker Valued Senior Member

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    I agree. The social experience is just as neccessary as the schooling the child recieves.
     
  9. James R Just this guy, you know? Staff Member

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    Home schooling includes social education.
     
  10. hotsexyangelprincess WMD Registered Senior Member

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    I was home schooled for 3 years while living in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. The main reason for this was because the school system there was probably one of the worst in the country. The high school science courses stopped at biology. Imagine that. However, all the neighborhoods had a high population of children, so i was never lacking in a social life. In America though, I can understand how kids could have problems. Many universities will not accept students who have been homeschooled, even if they have participated in sports or such. When homeschooled, much of your social education depends on your neighbors or church, because that it where most of contact with other people occurs. And colleges want social experience becuase they are preparing you for the 'real' world, and most careers involve amounts of social interaction. So there. :m:
     
  11. ElectricFetus Sanity going, going, gone Valued Senior Member

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    really? you mean you deal with bullies, peer pressure, liars and jerks in the confort of your own home?

    Dam, I would feel sorry when these kids meet a wallet inspector.
     
  12. hotsexyangelprincess WMD Registered Senior Member

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    yeah, my though is that these home-school kids don't get an ounce of real life. thats why when you make fun of them they break so easily. Its essentially Toynbee's Theory of Adversity: you can't progress without adversity, and adversity is the one of the many things homeschool kids are lacking. :m:
     
  13. ElectricFetus Sanity going, going, gone Valued Senior Member

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    And being a "Brain" I have deal with more then my fair share of adversity in school, Junior high is almost block out of memory from trauma.
     
  14. Xerxes asdfghjkl Valued Senior Member

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    Yeah -- Juniour high was awful (brain or not). But it was great life experience.
     
  15. yinyinwang Registered Senior Member

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    Private better?
     
  16. cthulhus slave evil servant Registered Senior Member

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    Hey! Im homeschooled, just look at how well I interact in sociaty!

    ok.. yah, your points proven.
     
  17. yinyinwang Registered Senior Member

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    So the social experience is the major concerns, you can do that in a real social occasions or the school should renamed as social skills training camp.
     
  18. Ozymandias Unregistered User Registered Senior Member

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    Fetus has got a point when he says the social experience at school is vital...dealing with society must be so much harder for home-schooled children? Well, I wouldn't know...
     
  19. shadowpuppet Registered Senior Member

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    most of the homeschooled kids i know tend to be more outgoing and social than anyone else. IMO, their lack of cantact in the school environment makes them have to take their own initiative in fining friends and such, which might not be bad for them when they grow up.

    maybe its just the homeschool kids that i know
     
  20. phlogistician Banned Banned

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    Often parents with strong religious or political beliefs homeschool, to try and bring their kids up like them.

    This is the danger of homeschooling, parents trying to indoctrinate their kids whilst impressionable and young, and fearing the opinions of the rest of society.

    Homeschooling then, in this instance, is performed by paranoid parents. Great sole influence to have, eh?
     
  21. kazakhan Registered Abuser Registered Senior Member

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    Don't most parents try to indoctrinate their kids whilst impressionable and young to be like them? In my experience that's usually the case regardless of their schooling beliefs etc. Usually when parents want their children to be different is when they say things like, "Don't be idiot like me & smoke", "Don't play with fireworks, u know y I only have 3 fingers!", "Get an education, unlike me" blah blah blah...
    Most homeschooled children I've heard of don't have the parents as their "sole" influence. Or have I missed something, do homeschooled children get chained up indoors 24/7?
     
  22. phlogistician Banned Banned

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    Most homeschooled kids I know of had fervently religious parents, and wanted to teach the kids 'the truth' about creation to counter any scientific explanations later in life.

    Then there was a documentary I saw recently where a Nazi mother homeschooled her kids, and taught them racist songs, nice.

    So yes, homeschooling is about restriction of exposure to external influences, and that sounds like an attempt at indoctrination.

    I doubt you get many liberal parents homeschooling, I wonder if we can dig up some figures somehow?
     
  23. kazakhan Registered Abuser Registered Senior Member

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    So NO, not in ALL cases is my point. I would like to homeschool my children because I don't believe the primary/secondary education system is good enough. It has nothing to do with my religious or political beliefs. If I do homeschool my children they'll still be required to play a team sport & join a social club of some sort. Or ideally go to school 1-3 days a week & spend the rest with me. All across western society (AFAIK) more and more school leavers are illiterate, why is that? I don't recall anyone being unable to read or write within my "peer" group when I left school. How is it some are passing high school when they can't even read and write?
     

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