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I am curious on what all of your guys' thoughts on this topic. It is kind of an open discussion. You can kind of get a sense of my view on my blog about why should we learn science. It is kind of a more polite version of my opinion. Blog away!
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I always was curious on homeschooling because I always thought how would the parent/teacher show the child how to behave properly. I know of a lot of kids who act like total jerks to their parent and their parents just take it. In school kids have to learn how to treat everyone. Another thought is how are these homeschooled kids supposed to work in groups productively? When are they going to do things like group projecs. I know that some kids in our class have been home schooled before *cough DAVID cough cough* and i was wondering if he, excuse me "they" would answer my questions.
Homeschooling to me is not that interesting. I mean sure it's great that you don't have to do much but still it takes away that element of socialization in school. I think that homeschooling makes it hard to meet people. I also think that it makes it harder to get a job out in the world. I haven't researched this but it's just my view.
I agree with Adam also in that a parent might just take it so when the kid gets out in the real world he's a total jerk. I find homeschooling to be really pretty boring. Anyways almost 100% of my friends are from the school I go to or another one close by. That would suck to not have any friends.
Ok, as most of you know, I was homeschooled from 3rd grade until this year. First off I think i'll answer Adam's questions. over the years, I met a lot of homeschooled kids of a variety of ages through different homeshcooled events, and they treated everyone fairly. Also, I noticed that the great majority of them treated their parents with respect. That is the standard at my house. Of course, there are always going to be the homeschoolers you see on tv who are just crazy and treat their parents terribly and/ or harm their parents, but there are always a few jerky kids no matter where you go. For your second question, there are a lot of different events where homeschoolers get together and work together on projects. For example, 7 of my homeschooled friends and I had our Biology together, and 12 of us did Physical Science labs together at one house and worked on other various assignments together. WE had a creative writing class with 30 of us for 2 years. Also, there are public events for homeschoolers, like a prom, etc. Before I came to school, I used to go to a homeschooling COOP every Wednesday to hang out with my friends and take certain classes. In our COOP there were 84 kids of different ages. Dominique mentioned that you miss out on socialization, but I don't see that. Our co-op had many group projects, field trips, social events weekly. There are a lot of benefits to being homeschooled. One nice thing is that when you are Homeschooled, you can work on your studies at your own pace without someone trying to make you work faster or slow you down. Another nice thing is that when you finish all of your studies, you are done for the day. Some days, I would even work ahead if I knew I was going to be getting together with someone so I wouldn't have to come home and do it the next day or that evening. I'm glad that you asked these questions, because I think sometimes people get a wrong idea about something because they don't know anything about it. I hope I answered all of your questions. Have a good weekend:]
I am going to blunt now, in my opinion homeschooling is just a way for parents to lock their kids away from regular life of a kid, especially the bad parts. you don't learn anything if you don't make mistakes, you can't try new things if it all is being censored by over protective parents. Rebel for once!
I agree with Adam's point that homeschoolers can sometimes be protected too much and kept away from the bad side of life. But that is only because a lot of the bad parts of life aren't needed to help you learn about the difficulties of life. For example, your parents are going to try to keep you from getting diseases such as Polio. Does that mean they are doing you harm by not letting you expierience the bad parts of life? It is not nessesary to expierience all of the bad things of life so that you can learn from your mistakes. Also, even though homeschoolers are not as put into places to learn from our mistakes as much, it doesn't mean that we don't expierience times where we make mistakes and can learn from them. Our parents can't protect us from everything(unless they were going to take us to live in the country, grow our own food, and never come into contact with civilization again, which I doubt my parents would ever do. I hope I was able to explain my thinking to you. See you tomorrow;]
I agree with what Katie said about the different types of people and their way of learning. She said that "Some people obviously wouldn't be good for homeschooling because they are a very peopley type person. However, others work better by themselves and woud rather just get done with their work and not have to discuss it with a class." It is very true that different people prefer to work by themselves than with other, and some people would rather work with others. I thought that was a great point and just thought I should point that out.
someone i know who is homeschooled is 16 and she is nearly done with a year of college, which would be cool. i'm sure there are many other cons though to homeschooling like other people are saying
I completely agree with Amy. There are always going to be the pros and cons of everything. One of the cons of homeschooling is probably not being able to see your friends everyday. Now I am not saying that I never got to see my friends. I just wasn't able to see them everyday. Probably the most beneficial pro of homeschooling is PSEO. Like Amy already said, PSEO is a way for homeschoolers(and I think maybe some public schooled kids) can work on college and highschool credits by taking college courses in their Junior and Senior year. Probably one of the main benefits is not having to pay for the years you completed through PSEO. And hey, it would be pretty nice being able to skip a year of school:]
Well i think home schooling has its pros and cons. I personally think that i would rather go to school than be home schooled unless i was a celebrity. I think school is kinda a place that you can share learning with your friends and make happy memories. you make lots of friends and you learn in a friendly environment. But i think that getiing homeschooled is also a good choice if your having some problems with people or academically but i think i prefer a normal school year.
personally, i dont think i could be homeschooled. i see the benefits there and how it could be nice, but i just dont think i would do well in that situation. as katie pointed out, some people are "peopley persons". i definately am, i enjoy being around people and talking. i also enjoy going to school because you get to see friends, socialize with people everyday and be in an environment with people which is helpful. like when you're doing something or learning, theres always people there to help.
i can think of another con. Say your from a VERY conservative christian family. Ive seen this a few times on tv where they would only teach them things that their religion approved of. NO EVOLUTION!! which brings up another good point. What if all the stuff youre learning was biased towards what your parents wanted you to know?
There is two things wrong amy and david about finishing college at age sixteen. First, has this person everheard of friends, where do you find time to go through college yet keep friends. People think that oh these frieds won't last and school is more important, but hey that might be the case. But it is the knowledge gained from those relantionships, even the unsuccesful ones. You learne how to resolve or how not to resolve conflicts, you learn how to actually make friends, think of how akward it would be to learn how to ride a bike in public at age 30. Second who wants to hire a person who possibly doesn't even have her drivers liscence, and is most likly socially inept. This person's only possible interactions with adults would be their parents, pastor, and a few choice adults, picked out by their parents. CONTROLLING!!!
adam- i was talking about cathy anderson.. i would say she has friends, can drive a car (allegedly), and i think she's probably coordinated enough to ride a bike.
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