Homeschooled kids on a field trip

[underpants]

Why am I reminded of the Farside cartoon of the young genius trying so hard to open the door to the "School for the gifted" by pushing when it clearly says "PULL".





Home schooled students hold up signs wishing President Bush (news - web sites) a happy Presidents Day and love you signs as he arrives at Andrews Air Force Base Monday, Feb. 16, 2004. (AP Photo/Jacqueline Malonson )

[Stuckinthebush]

1. I think of the South Park episode

when the Home School kids meet the South Park kids. It makes me giggle.

[stopthegop]

2. good question...

I honestly don't understand why this pic reminds you of the cartoon..

[underpants]

3. HA!

Very funny. Now go do your homework er a school work...

[Deja Q]

4. Well, this shows how home-schooling DOESN'T work...

Bunch of braindead ignorant idiots.

Why am I so harsh against them? Because they are blindly swallowing the salamander shit that's being shovelled down their throats by their (censored, it's a bit too harsh) parents.

[stopthegop]

5. you mean they disagree with you? n/t

[qanda]

12. Exactly!

eom

[gyopsy]

8. I agree

Having only one teacher (the parent) limits their scope in terms of looking at the world. If their parent/s are republicans who view the world that way, the kid's limited contact with other authority figures slants their world view.

[displacedtexan]

6. What's really sad about home schooled kids...

is that they become teenagers.

I taught H.S. for 25 years, and almost every year a handful of home schoolers enrolled in public school because their schools weren't accredited (Hey, if the home school company doesn't tell them about accreditation, how would parents now?)

These poor kids had zero social skills, and they had major difficulties juggling 5 to 8 daily subjects, plus extra-curriculars and school social activities.

It was very difficult for them to adjust to the brutal reality of public school.

[blondeatlast]

10. You wanna hear moaning about home-schooled and many charter

schooled kids, talk to me, a librarian.

No social skills? Most of the ones I've seen have no SKILLS, period.

"Johnny, darling, the nice library lady will give you the answers..."

The HELL she will.

[Ernesto]

19. Remember the movie "Dream Team"

with Micheal Keaton & Christofer Loyd?..... Home schooled adults.

[stopthegop]

20. nice ...compare people who are home schooled

to mental patients...lovely...

[rock]

7. Where's thre "F" in front of the heart?

and the "on" between it and "You"?

[starroute]

9. Don't knock homeschooling

I homeschooled both my kids at various times.

In the first few weeks of tenth grade, my (extremely bright) younger son was totally fed up, was failing almost everything, and seemed to be on a fast track to nowhere. I pulled him out, homeschooled him for the rest of the year and eleventh grade, then sent him back for twelfth grade. He fit in smoothly, was getting all A's by the second semester, and got into a good college where he's done just fine and is set to graduate this June.

What's more, although I did my best to pour math, science, and history into his head, by far his most productive activity during those two years was playing Everquest online for several hours a day. It taught him writing skills, leadership, a sense of social and historical dynamics, and generally built up his self-confidence (which had fallen to somewhere south of zero as a result of his public school experiences.)

I would not recommend this as a model to anyone else, but for a bright underachiever, it worked out to be exactly what he needed.

[POed_Ex_Repub]

18. You're absolutely right

Homeschooling isn't all bad. Like any other kind of schooling the quality of education is directly related to the commitment of the teacher and student. My wife was home schooled and managed to maintain a 3.97 GPA in college (She has a master's degree now). Somehow I don't think the experience hurt her.

[Richardo]

11. In rehearsal, the kids spelled out "YOU B.S. PUSHER"

Darn!

[stanwyck]

13. Although my personal experience w/H.S. kids

has been on the negative side, (almost autistic on picking up on social cues, weak in the sciences and languages, and immaturity as adults), I do think there are parents who do it right. And their kids are wonderful. However, what makes parents who are barely literate believe they can school their children? I'm speaking of the parents who have have a poor understanding of calculus, physics, world literature, biology...We had a receptionist here at work who could barely answer the phones. We were stricken when she said the was going to home-school her children. (cause the schools teach evolution and are ungodly). These people are dooming their children's chances in life. It's child abuse.

[southerngirlwriter]

14. When I adopt (in a couple of years, when I'm financially secure)

I will do the very unstructured home-schooling thing that some call "unschooling." Public school is so fucking corporate that it makes me sick. The kids are all treated the same, the same standardized tests, the same objectives, the same sit-down-and-shut-up-and-let-us-suck-the-enthusiasm-for-learning-out-of-you, cookie-cutter approach. Fuck that.

Homeschooling, in a formal sense, is basically school at home, nothing more. Unschooling is much more free and passion-driven.

[stopthegop]

15. sounds like a reasonable plan..

does your state have home-school friendly laws?
also...homeschooling doesn't have to be school at home, it all depends on the parents...

[qanda]

16. Way to go!

I hope you have a chance to read books by John Taylor Gatto and John Holt. "How Children Learn" and "How Children Fail" absolutely changed my life.

[stopthegop]

17. Gatto is very good...

I heard him speak...but then..
that's not supporting the NEA..probably not a popular position around DU