Are you asking how homeschooling gives your child an edge? I’ll answer that, sorry if that’s not what you meant, please clarify if so.
Homeschooling bypasses all the indoctrination, if you so choose.
Homeschooling saves time and resources. No commute, no waiting around. Time spent on classroom management in schools is a colossal waste of time and teacher resources. In homeschool, you turn classroom management into character lessons
Homeschooling gives your child 100% customized learning. No struggling to keep up, or boredom when the class has to pace with the slowest students.
Homeschooling saves resources on a macro level. The state spends $18,000+ per year, per student. You would be hard pressed to spend more than $5,000 per year, per family on homeschooling. Unless you add in travel or private coaching in sports or music, which can escalate your budget. I realize this is an apples to oranges comparison, but one day (keep praying for Betsy DeVos and President Trump!🙏) I hope to see full freedom in school choice; ie, your tax dollars are fully returned to you should you bypass public “education”.
Minorities and the poor can't afford to be home schooled. They are either working, don't know the language, don't know the curriculum (you know Common Core), and/or many other reasons. Trump pushing for schools to be opened helps the minorities and the poor the most.
I'm Chinese and I know if I got homeschooled, I would have been as dumb as brick. So no, it's not racist, it's a fact that minorities and the poor needs access to schools and not online classes, which bastardized the schools. Minorities tended to be immigrants who can not speak English or have a limited understanding of it.
So the guy (you) advocating for home schooling called me an idiot for asking for a source for you to prove your claims. If that is how you want to represent homeschooling then you're doing the entire system a disservice.
I’m the source. I’ve homeschooled my children for 8 years, not good enough for you? That was hardly a lazy reply, and your comment shows your projection.
We are too smart here for your games, thanks to the homeschooling!
You're the source. Glad to hear. So tell us, what college did you graduate from, what percentage of your class, what's you're annual income. Seriously, if you want to convince the masses than tell us. If it's good we will listen brother.
And btw, I know several brilliant homeschooled colleagues, but you certainly don't sound like them you're actually one of the few that's made me doubt homeschooling.
How is your two word comment “how so?” clear that you were only asking for sources and not an opinion? And speaking of laziness, maybe you could have made a more detailed request in the first place instead of blaming the person who spent the time to at least try to answer you.
The one thing often overlooked is the cost for 1 parent to remain at home and provide the schooling. Today in America they have made that infeasible for most families.
Yes, that is a significant hurdle. I would love to see a hybrid where kids could join public or private schools for music, theater, sports, labs and such in a group, and homeschool the academics. That would allow mom at least a part time job. Many mothers have blogs or other work from home type jobs to provide extra income, but it is tough, I imagine (I’ve been sahm since marriage)
I haven’t done this before. But my first thoughts would be there are advantages tailoring lessons to your specific kid, no wasting time on the kids who don’t listen, including physical activity into learning for younger children, and creating a desire to learn in your children.
I was homeschooled until high school. It turns out that when I didn’t spend all my time watching TV and learning to fit into all the latest fads, I ended up being “weird” too. I wasn’t just going through the motions of education. I found I questioned things naturally unlike the majority of those I met, who treated the objective of classes as just getting the answer. I had to learn to trust the things I learned outside of the school system instead of thinking I was inadequate for the things I missed. There was a small percentage of people who questioned things and created things, most of them went through public school, so it’s not just homeschooling that is the answer. But it certainly helps to not have all that pressure to conform. All those people were classified as “weird”. Looking at my life’s trajectory I’d say being “weird” has really paid off.
No doubt there are introverted homeschooling families that can be a bit strange. I'm not sure that kids like that do any better in public school though, because they implement damaging social coping mechanisms and tend to get bullied badly.
The majority of homeschoolers I interact with are more socially capable than other kids. They are used to being in the actual real community with typical adults. They speak up for themselves, can navigate playing with a mix of ages and have better foundational emotional attachments so their overall levels of anxiety, depression etc. are far lower.
There are plenty of public school kids who are weird too though. The problem is, they have to spend the whole day surrounded by bullies who like to target them. They don't learn to interact with people when they spend their days in fear, when they're anxious of every movement or word lest they make a "mistake" and get targeted again. Even trying to fit in and do what the cool people are doing will earn them special contempt. For 12 years, if they tried to speak to the wrong person, or sat too near someone, they were verbally abused and humiliated. You never know what the trigger is going to be, and what will set the entire class against you again. That fear and anxiety doesn't just go away when they're finally released from school. How can they know how to talk to people?
As a rep for homeschooling, how do you think being considered weird affected your socialization later in life. For example, do you work in a solitary field such as coding where social interaction doesn't matter or in a marketing or corporate capacity where social skills are necessary.
I went mainly to ps as well, and turned out ok. But I graduated from hs in 1986. Howard Zinn was not in my rural school then, but I assure you the indoctrination is everywhere now, thanks to Øbama and his common core crap.
There are many homeschooling communities that offer all sorts of social interaction opportunities for kids. Plus, parents should think critically about what a properly socialized student means. Look at history. It’s only in the last 100 or so years of humanity that children have been segmented off by age group. Socializing with 35 4th graders is not as optimal as socializing with a mixed age group, with littles to mentor, and older kids modeling the growing up process.
"Whoa guys I love homeschooling, but don't you think homeschooling would be worse than these government ran schools that teach children how evil america is and how glorious communism is? Also my kid would have never learned they are a tranny without public school I can't believe you think anything is wrong with it."
How so?
Are you asking how homeschooling gives your child an edge? I’ll answer that, sorry if that’s not what you meant, please clarify if so.
Homeschooling bypasses all the indoctrination, if you so choose.
Homeschooling saves time and resources. No commute, no waiting around. Time spent on classroom management in schools is a colossal waste of time and teacher resources. In homeschool, you turn classroom management into character lessons
Homeschooling gives your child 100% customized learning. No struggling to keep up, or boredom when the class has to pace with the slowest students.
Homeschooling saves resources on a macro level. The state spends $18,000+ per year, per student. You would be hard pressed to spend more than $5,000 per year, per family on homeschooling. Unless you add in travel or private coaching in sports or music, which can escalate your budget. I realize this is an apples to oranges comparison, but one day (keep praying for Betsy DeVos and President Trump!🙏) I hope to see full freedom in school choice; ie, your tax dollars are fully returned to you should you bypass public “education”.
Minorities and the poor can't afford to be home schooled. They are either working, don't know the language, don't know the curriculum (you know Common Core), and/or many other reasons. Trump pushing for schools to be opened helps the minorities and the poor the most.
Kinda racist to just assume that visible minorities don't make money, especially when asian americans make the most
I'm Chinese and I know if I got homeschooled, I would have been as dumb as brick. So no, it's not racist, it's a fact that minorities and the poor needs access to schools and not online classes, which bastardized the schools. Minorities tended to be immigrants who can not speak English or have a limited understanding of it.
Cite your source bro. Didn't ask for an opinion. All these late joining redditors are lazy as fuck and it's getting old.
Idiot. You didn’t ask for a data based answer with sources easier. Your question was, and I quite, “how so?”
Not exactly a clear and specific question.
So the guy (you) advocating for home schooling called me an idiot for asking for a source for you to prove your claims. If that is how you want to represent homeschooling then you're doing the entire system a disservice.
Good representation of homeschool parenting bro.
I’m the source. I’ve homeschooled my children for 8 years, not good enough for you? That was hardly a lazy reply, and your comment shows your projection.
We are too smart here for your games, thanks to the homeschooling!
You're the source. Glad to hear. So tell us, what college did you graduate from, what percentage of your class, what's you're annual income. Seriously, if you want to convince the masses than tell us. If it's good we will listen brother.
And btw, I know several brilliant homeschooled colleagues, but you certainly don't sound like them you're actually one of the few that's made me doubt homeschooling.
How is your two word comment “how so?” clear that you were only asking for sources and not an opinion? And speaking of laziness, maybe you could have made a more detailed request in the first place instead of blaming the person who spent the time to at least try to answer you.
The one thing often overlooked is the cost for 1 parent to remain at home and provide the schooling. Today in America they have made that infeasible for most families.
Yes, that is a significant hurdle. I would love to see a hybrid where kids could join public or private schools for music, theater, sports, labs and such in a group, and homeschool the academics. That would allow mom at least a part time job. Many mothers have blogs or other work from home type jobs to provide extra income, but it is tough, I imagine (I’ve been sahm since marriage)
Look at this faggot treating online comments like they're fucking term papers. Comments don't need foot notes. Learn to use Duck Duck Go.
Again with personal attacks and then you come up with calling people "faggot". Apparently homeschool has done wonders for your intellect and class.
I haven’t done this before. But my first thoughts would be there are advantages tailoring lessons to your specific kid, no wasting time on the kids who don’t listen, including physical activity into learning for younger children, and creating a desire to learn in your children.
I was homeschooled until high school. It turns out that when I didn’t spend all my time watching TV and learning to fit into all the latest fads, I ended up being “weird” too. I wasn’t just going through the motions of education. I found I questioned things naturally unlike the majority of those I met, who treated the objective of classes as just getting the answer. I had to learn to trust the things I learned outside of the school system instead of thinking I was inadequate for the things I missed. There was a small percentage of people who questioned things and created things, most of them went through public school, so it’s not just homeschooling that is the answer. But it certainly helps to not have all that pressure to conform. All those people were classified as “weird”. Looking at my life’s trajectory I’d say being “weird” has really paid off.
Excellent, insider response! Just because society views drooling over a screen and dopamine addiction as normal, does not mean it’s best!
Top comment! ^
Some of my friends home school their kids and I've found the complete opposite to be true.
They're definitely not normal, but that's because they are encouraged to focus on their passions and the things that make them unique individuals.
They are able to communicate very effectively and participate in athletics (gymnastics, soccer, swimming) so they're not completely isolated.
No doubt there are introverted homeschooling families that can be a bit strange. I'm not sure that kids like that do any better in public school though, because they implement damaging social coping mechanisms and tend to get bullied badly.
The majority of homeschoolers I interact with are more socially capable than other kids. They are used to being in the actual real community with typical adults. They speak up for themselves, can navigate playing with a mix of ages and have better foundational emotional attachments so their overall levels of anxiety, depression etc. are far lower.
https://responsiblehomeschooling.org/research/summaries/homeschooling-socialization/
There are plenty of public school kids who are weird too though. The problem is, they have to spend the whole day surrounded by bullies who like to target them. They don't learn to interact with people when they spend their days in fear, when they're anxious of every movement or word lest they make a "mistake" and get targeted again. Even trying to fit in and do what the cool people are doing will earn them special contempt. For 12 years, if they tried to speak to the wrong person, or sat too near someone, they were verbally abused and humiliated. You never know what the trigger is going to be, and what will set the entire class against you again. That fear and anxiety doesn't just go away when they're finally released from school. How can they know how to talk to people?
As a rep for homeschooling, how do you think being considered weird affected your socialization later in life. For example, do you work in a solitary field such as coding where social interaction doesn't matter or in a marketing or corporate capacity where social skills are necessary.
spez: upvote for you're anticipated answer.
I went mainly to ps as well, and turned out ok. But I graduated from hs in 1986. Howard Zinn was not in my rural school then, but I assure you the indoctrination is everywhere now, thanks to Øbama and his common core crap.
There are many homeschooling communities that offer all sorts of social interaction opportunities for kids. Plus, parents should think critically about what a properly socialized student means. Look at history. It’s only in the last 100 or so years of humanity that children have been segmented off by age group. Socializing with 35 4th graders is not as optimal as socializing with a mixed age group, with littles to mentor, and older kids modeling the growing up process.
"I met this one homeschooled kid and he was weird so all homeschooled children must be retarded"
Yeah school shootings never happen faggot.
"Whoa guys I love homeschooling, but don't you think homeschooling would be worse than these government ran schools that teach children how evil america is and how glorious communism is? Also my kid would have never learned they are a tranny without public school I can't believe you think anything is wrong with it."
"It's what happens the other sixteen hours of the day that really matter."
And eight of those hours were sleeping...