Proud Parent

[Nickname]

valid epi, metaldetectors and the like are no good.

For you Canadians, i assume you've heard of the possible 'shooting' at IRHS (iroqouis Ridge High School) when they found a threat written on the wall. That was my high school, we never had nay problems when i went there...kids are just fucked up.

[genocidal]

How did this turn into a bunch of foreigners' dissertations on home-schooling?

The assumption that people who are home-schooled are sheltered is a complete farce. The kids are allowed to play school sports (for whatever school they are districted for) as well as band and any other extracurricular activities. When I was in school I hung mostly with people in my neighborhood rather than kids from school so it's not like her social life is going to be dead. As long as the parent is doing a good job of home-schooling there's no reason to lambaste him. Do you think that if his kid went to public school that Heaven would not indoctrinate her anyway? Of course not. Some of the biggest tools go to public school - this isn't the huge deal Epi and others would have people believe.

Sure home-schooling makes it easier for Heaven to shelter his kid but so do a lot of things. By itself it's not going to hurt the kid.

It's amazing how everyone turns into child psychologists, theologians, and philosophers over the internet.

[Adman]

schooling isn't there to fully teach you things, it's there to teach you how to learn...

[Arikel]

As some of you may know, we home school our daughter.
We just recently received the results of her 4th grade finals... and my jaw hit the floor.

According to the California Achievement Test (which supposedly has the highest standards in the country... ) her scores were:

Reading:
Vocabulary - Score=40 / grade equivalent: 10.7 / percentile = 99
Comprehension - 40 / 11.5 / 99
Math:
Computation - 62 / 8.8 / 99
Concepts & problems: - 38 /9.6 / 99
Language:
Mechanics: - 62 / 9.2 / 94
Usage & Structure: - 29 / 9.6 /94
Spelling: - 30 / 11 / 99

... As you can see, I'm shocked, amazed & proud. Her reading & language are at a high school level & she's in the top percent of kids her age. :wub:

Well i guess those are some good grades! Congrats on it!
But one thing i think you should consider is the fact that basic school is not just about learning stuff, it's more about getting the tools and the means to aquire the necessary to engage in a later specialization, by studying and helping your child studying you might be "feeding" the knowledge to her instead of making her go get it herself. And don't forget the fact that children will eventually become teenagers... and teenagers must be able to stand for themselfs more and more each passing day!
Anyway just my thoughts.

[Epinephrine]

Well heavensent said education is one of the 4 (or was it 5) pillars of satan on Earth.

But yeah NN, that is the tough question. Personally I went through public school and I don't see why people can't. I mean I turned out okay, and unless you live in the inner city where the schools are scary I can't see why it's a big deal. Then again I'm not from America and my school never had metal detectors or anything which I hear are quite common in the US. I had some SS friends way back who went to magnet school (school for gifted kids) and they had ID badges, security checkpoints and metal detectors in their suburban school.

[Galleleo]

If I remember correctly she is home schooled because of Heavensents crazy religion beliefs and no one in the world teaching that at a school. So they wanted to teach that her at home along with his crazy views of the world.

[Nickname]

i just question it though because it takes you away fromt he good, and the bad.

Think about it, back in elementary school were you ever picked on? I'm sure you were at least a bit, and didn't that toughen you up, and make you stronger / better? I just wonder how overwhelmed htis girl will be when she hits high school, and how much stupid things liek insults might effect her. I'm sure she'll be very well educated, but part of it isn't the education on learning about math or science, it's learning about yourself, and others.

[Epinephrine]

I'd like to ask why she's homeschooled. I ask this because I wasn't homeschooled and I've never met someone who was, so It's something new and has peaked my interest. Why did you and your wife decide to homeschool her? I assume your wife is teaching her then? Was your wife ever a teacher at an actual school? Continuing, she's int he 4th grade, do you plan to homeschool her all the way up until high school?


Congrats on the grades btw.

Apperently homeschooling is quite popular in the USA, even if that idea is completely foreign in Canada Nick. A lot of people in the US believe that public schooling is bad because it gives not only bad teaching, but a bad environment (i.e. your child will come into contact with 'undesirable people' such as poor people, people who don't believe in the same religion as you, people who might be of a different race, people who are 'bad').

By teaching your child at home, you have a chance to completely indoctrinate that child with anything you want, moulding that child exactly how you see fit. By sheltering your children like that, theoretically you can 'teach them good values' and 'keep them away from bad influences'. As well, because there is widespread belief that public school is horrible for learning, you can theoretically teach your child better, because as you know, regular people are much more cut out for teaching their children than professional teachers.

[Ewan]

She's yet to be introduced to human sexuality. -_-

Let me have a night with her and we'll sort this out.

[Nickname]

I'd like to ask why she's homeschooled. I ask this because I wasn't homeschooled and I've never met someone who was, so It's something new and has peaked my interest. Why did you and your wife decide to homeschool her? I assume your wife is teaching her then? Was your wife ever a teacher at an actual school? Continuing, she's int he 4th grade, do you plan to homeschool her all the way up until high school?


Congrats on the grades btw.

[Sleepy Weasel]

I read the lord of the rings trilogy in 2nd grade. That strikes me as being around a 10th grade level. Anyway, if you read a lot at a young age, you could definitely have the comprehension and vocab skills of the average 10th grader. When I was little I used to read books constantly, I'd read like 80 books over the summer (granted they were mostly "Choose your own adventure".. but still). The average 10th grader doesn't read books.

[Hero*]

thats good news. i dont get how she can be at a high school level though. maybe a genius? perhaps. but still even if someone i knew told me their kid was at that level..i wouldnt believe em. maybe she acknowledges these things but she doesnt truly understand em. good for her nonetheless.
afk gettin drunk as fuk after a big win whos in??????

[wavebeamer]

That's believable. I was reading at around a 10th/11th grade level in fourth grade. Did I have the capacity to understand the stories and their literary elements? Yes. Were these things taught to me? No.

I had pretty much 99s across the board, but I struggled a bit in Science (had high 80s/low 90s on that, most of the time), some retarded Study Skills component (always got in the 70s) and Listening (29th percentile.. wow). Science has caught up over the years, but I still lack the ability to study efficiently or listen to a lecture without showing signs of ADD (which I've been told I don't have.. but I'm not convinced) Looks like I might be in for a fun ride through my first semester or so of college, eh?

I'm in a public school system, but on the average, it seems that home-schooled students do better for their first few years. I think home-schooling tends to do more harm than good as the child enters the junior high and high school years, though.

[Voth]

maybe ur the one that's retarded

prolly

[Deck]

sorry man but you're full of shit .. in 10th grade we had to read books and not only understand them, but find all that symbolism/irony/imagery shit in them. then write essays about them. i'm sorry but a 4th grader can't do it, i don't give a shit what kind of child genius she is, she won't recognize imagery when she sees it. also, i don't think i can add/subtract fractions without a calculator anymore.. same with divisions that arent memorized, i can't do them on paper, just forgot how.. too much weed i guess

maybe ur the one that's retarded