My wife and I are have a conversation on the topic and would like some input.
1 How can one homeschool and be productive working from home( my wife is in management and keeps having these issues
2 in my case,my coworker is a big conspiracy theorist,homesteader wanna be.Who has him family located in the middle of nowhere.After working with him on several occasions,and over hearing his direct orders over the phone to his kids.Im beginning to think this guy has issues.
What say you?
Homeschool can be taught in person or completely online like taking online training class. Or anything in between. Everyone has an opinion on it. You have to decide if it’s right for your family
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How do you teach the kid's how to interact, make friends, be a part of society etc. when Home schooled?
I don't really see many parents being able to pass the classes themselves.
HS Baseball Coach here. We have a handful of Home School kids that play for the local HS. It takes them 2 or 3 years to get acclimated and "fit" in with the rest of the kids.
I think it would be more difficult for a Mom and Dad trying to home school their kids themselves. However, if a few sets of parents banned together to home school their kids in a group, I think it would be more than doable.
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That is a pretty complex question and one that needs to be thought about deeply. Home schoolers have become more popular as our education system becomes more shall we say non-education.
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Or is it because some dipshits want to teach their kids that the earth is flat and Jesus rode dinosaurs?
Having family in the education system, and the nonsense they push into the curriculum, our kids education is not like it was when I was in school.
Some home schoolers are part of home school community. Their kids get together once a week. Parents have others options for social skills as well. Its up to the parents to do these types of things. It's a very important decision for parents to do home school and have to be extremely committed.
In a lot of areas schools just don't have what is necessary for teaching. Government regulations, school boards mainly and many parents are disconnected from their child's education. The later is a big problem. Done properly home school can work great or incorrectly fail. I don't knock anyone that wants a better education and life for their child and can do it this.
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It's very easy... co-ops, play dates with others, family functions, etc etc.
Contrary to popular belief I know many home schooled kids who are more outgoing and extroverts than their public schooled counterparts.
Plus, with all the garbage being taught today and all the negative things kids are exposed to at younger and younger ages (porn, cuss words, etc) homeschooling is definitely the way to go. And I know kids will be exposed to those things eventually in life, but the older they are when they're exposed, generally the better they can handle/process it.
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If you are going to homeschool your child, you cannot expect your wife to teach and work full time at the same time. Your child cannot simply do it on their own. We had to homeschool our daughter 1st -6th grade due to some learning challenges. Yes, you want to find a good co-op to join. Plan events with other homeschoolers and have interaction together. Classical education models are our preference. But you wife needs to have the time to be able to “teach”. A child just cannot go through a text book or online class and understand every concept. An advantage is the ability for real life lessons like a museum trip or visiting a historical site. There are very successful home schooled kids in both education and socialization. There are also unsuccessful ones. Most of that depends upon how the parents executed the strategy. This is your child’s future. Give them everything you can or leave them in school is my personal opinion. By the way, kids in a regular school whose parents are more actively involved in their learning do better as well
well said. The home school kids that I knew growing up were more outgoing, friendlier, happier and oddly enough smarter than public school kids. The ones I know all went to MIT, Cornell, Clarkson, and one went to Cambridge. They were also very involved in volunteer work and charities because anything that got them out of the house to socialize with others they wanted to do.
the last part is spot on too. I think because they’re not exposed to the negativity, bullying, immoral parts of todays world (porn, incest, drinking, drugs, etc) early on, they were more apt to handle it when they were older. My wife works in a very rural school (less than 40 kids per grade most are farmers or low income families) and the stuff these kids are exposed to at home then bring into the school is enough to make adults depressed let alone these kids who are sponges and absorb everything around them.
Ever since Covid there’s a lot more home schooling going on around here. Not so much 1:1, but more Amish style schools where the kids meet at a common house with 10-12 other kids and taught by a teacher and an aid that the parents pay for personally.
and to play devils advocate, some home school kids don’t to be pillars of society. Kind of like the pastors kids tend to be more wild and promiscuous.
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It’s unclear whether this is a hypothetical or are you referring to your own children? Irregardless, how old are the children? What curriculums are used, or being considered? Note that we homeschooled both of our daughters and one of them is now homeschooling our granddaughters…
My experience, based off teaching quite a few HS kids long term is this, it depends upon the parents/program.
Overall I would say it's a definite positive. So far they have ALL matured into highly educated and successful adults. Fewer issues than their public school peers.
Wouldn’t it b nice if some schools would just try to teach the kids instead of indoctrinating them.
Im not certain this question is aimed at my original post.The issue my wife is having or had had to do with bad employee performance.And it was eventually found out that her co-worker was trying to homeschool two children and hold a full time job at the same time.To the homeschoolers demise the company did not allow this for remote workers and she had to find a solution. My second question reguarding the home school situation,was that my coworker comes off as a control freak.And I have listened to him cus out his daughter over the phone in regards to her not doing her at home side job( raking the neighbors two acres of grass)This three a red flag because it was in the afternoon when most kids would be at school.
Are homeschooled children kept track of academic wise by local agencies??
Are homeschooled children kept track of academic wise by local agencies??[/QUOTE]
depends on the state, but typically NO. Or there are exemptions you can claim to not submit records.
we had our daughter take a standardized test each year and submitted it to recorded in her records.
My son and DIl both work from home and pay dearly for a private Montessori school for the grands. It’s impossible to work full time and take care of the younguns.
Nobody has even mentioned all the "Virtual School " Crap that kids are doing in public schools now . This is not 2020 anymore and kids NEED to be back in the classrooms !! You cant tell me that kids doing virtual at home with no supervision are doing school work .
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