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Post subject: Re: Want to truly fix education in the U.S.?  Posted: Tue Dec 18, 2012 5:28 am |
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Pretty hard to homeschool your child when both of the parents work full time to provide for the family.
"The average public school student taking these standardized tests scored at the 50th percentile in each subject area."
Lol.
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Post subject: Re: Want to truly fix education in the U.S.? Posted: Tue Dec 18, 2012 7:56 am |
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SonicHawk wrote: Pretty hard to homeschool your child when both of the parents work full time to provide for the family.
I agree with this. But if one member of the family is at home and willing to put in the time and effort, it can be great to have better control over your kids' education. _________________ GO HAWKS!!! Visit my Seahawks blog at 17power.blogspot.com!Follow me on Twitter at @17power
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Post subject: Re: Want to truly fix education in the U.S.? Posted: Tue Dec 18, 2012 8:01 am |
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MontanaHawk05 wrote: SonicHawk wrote: Pretty hard to homeschool your child when both of the parents work full time to provide for the family.
I agree with this. But if one member of the family is at home and willing to put in the time and effort, it can be great to have better control over your kids' education. I certainly think that parents should be involved in their children's education. But homeschool? Maybe if you're an educator by trade.
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Post subject: Re: Want to truly fix education in the U.S.? Posted: Thu Dec 20, 2012 8:48 pm |
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SonicHawk wrote: MontanaHawk05 wrote: SonicHawk wrote: Pretty hard to homeschool your child when both of the parents work full time to provide for the family.
I agree with this. But if one member of the family is at home and willing to put in the time and effort, it can be great to have better control over your kids' education. I certainly think that parents should be involved in their children's education. But homeschool? Maybe if you're an educator by trade. There's that compartmentalization again. Caring parents make the best teachers, regardless of trade. And a lot of professionals can be better teachers than a lot of teachers. (I have met some awful teachers.)
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Post subject: Re: Want to truly fix education in the U.S.? Posted: Thu Dec 20, 2012 9:25 pm |
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The few people I've ever known that were home-schooled had...social issues. Definitely not a fan of that.
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Post subject: Re: Want to truly fix education in the U.S.? Posted: Thu Dec 20, 2012 10:19 pm |
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My experience as well, Roland. Of the few children I've known personally that were home schooled every case was due to hardcore conservative/religious values that made them homeschool out of a fear of their children being exposed to liberal sex, evolution, drugs and all that in public schools.
Parents may INTEND the best when home-schooling children but it almost always consists of home-schooling for religious reasons and to ensure that their kids learn what they want them to learn. As opposed to knowing more about Math, English, Physics, etc. that their peers in public school when they graduate. Parents that have the same personal beliefs, who are themselves educated and making enough money, send their children to private religious schools.
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Post subject: Re: Want to truly fix education in the U.S.? Posted: Fri Dec 21, 2012 1:05 am |
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BlueTalon wrote: SonicHawk wrote: I certainly think that parents should be involved in their children's education. But homeschool? Maybe if you're an educator by trade. There's that compartmentalization again. Caring parents make the best teachers, regardless of trade. And a lot of professionals can be better teachers than a lot of teachers. (I have met some awful teachers.) You're kidding me right? Caring parents make the best teachers? No, educators + caring parents that push their children to learn and succeed are the best teachers. You're probably right in a very small sense that some teachers are horrible and some parents are very capable of teaching their kids. Many of these parents have weird things called jobs.
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