Home Schooling

[Frank]

....Even MIT now is forcing their engineering majors and grad students to take upper-level social courses that essentially tell them how to deal with people, something they should have learned and developed at an early age, not at twenty-four!!

I'm not disagreeing with anything you said, but think about the students who likely attend MIT. Probably not exactly socialites to begin with.

[SlowLX]

hmmmm...take this for what its worth :

While i really admire those who want to actually get a good education for their children, rather than what can be a "crapshoot" out of the public education system, i strongly believe being thrown in a mix of people of various backgrounds (things you cant exactly get at a $40,000/year private high school) and learning in sequence how to cope, deal, and then thrive in such environments are key. I really have strong feelings against monogender schools. Sure, they have common planned social interactions between ABC All Girls School and XYZ All Boys School, but nothing dealing with the day-to-day interaction with the opposite sex.

The people who I see who come from supressed scholastic backgrounds tend to be very stunted in their social skills, and fail to move up to high positions in companies. Even MIT now is forcing their engineering majors and grad students to take upper-level social courses that essentially tell them how to deal with people, something they should have learned and developed at an early age, not at twenty-four!!

The best solution IMHO would be a public school mixed in with a private tutor to help accellerate growth, and at the high school level, take as many college-level courses as possible. On those, they actually bring in University Professors to teach the class. It's not an AP course, its 100% legit college credit. I wish I would have had that shit when i was in school. AP Tests sucked !

Not everyone lives in Southlake. If for some reason I have kids and for some more odd reason on top of that I live in a non-affluent suburb my kids will most definitely goto private school.

[SlowLX]

I'm not disagreeing with anything you said, but think about the students who likely attend MIT. Probably not exactly socialites to begin with.

I think he's making a point that social interaction is key and using MIT as an extreme example of what can happen if you place your kid in a institutionalized format when they're impressionable...

[jw33]

The correct education method will depend between children, but it will always be a combination of teaching at home and public school material.

[bcoop]

Huh??? He flew off the handle over seemingly nothing.

That's what you consider flying off the handle? Do you shit your pants everytime you hear a loud noise?


Pretty comical, though. Someone mentions homeschooling, and the guy I quoted uses it as a personal anti religion platform. As if this thread had anything at all to do with religion.

[Ruffdaddy]

LMAO! Dude, you're like... crying now.

No theres no point in arguing with you. You're too blind to recognize any points, which is what I expect from someone that pushes homeschooling. A close minded simple person.

You meantion both parents being necessary, but don't you leave your family behind every time you go work overseas for weeks or months on end?

[Ruffdaddy]

Yep... you?

planning on it, unless I have to go to Kuwait or work

[Denny]

No theres no point in arguing with you. You're too blind to recognize any points, which is what I expect from someone that pushes homeschooling. A close minded simple person.

You meantion both parents being necessary, but don't you leave your family behind every time you go work overseas for weeks or months on end?

My family is covered just fine, thank you. My wife stays at home and covers what is needed.

I don't see how I'm "blind and closed-minded" since I've tried both sides of the discussion myself and I've posed a solid argument to each of your "concerns." I think you're just too stupid to hold a decent discussion with, but that's not a shocker.

[Ruffdaddy]

My family is covered just fine, thank you. My wife stays at home and covers what is needed.

I don't see how I'm "blind and closed-minded" since I've tried both sides of the discussion myself and I've posed a solid argument to each of your "concerns." I think you're just too stupid to hold a decent discussion with, but that's not a shocker.

oh snap a type-O.

You don't provide solid arguments, you just try and bash people and call them stupid. As if that alone will win an agrument (actually here it will because most of y'all are pretty low on the IQ pole).

Go back to your special olympics, and fathering from a distance, while also hypocritically claiming both parents are essential. Show us how it's really done!

But like I said...this is all expected from someone of the homeschooling type. Y'all are simple people...

[03trubluGT]

There are other social activities that kids can have better interaction than with public schools. My son plays several sports and is involved with Civil Air Partol and church. The only "social interaction" that is taken away is the DISTRACTION in the classroom.

I will agree to some extent with both parties.

One of the things I did not like about home schooling was the socialization.

Sure, you have events where home school kids get together with other home school kids, but it's freaking awkward. Most home school parents have no social skills either. You sit around watching other parents watching your kids who are sitting around watching each other.

It's like watching a group of timid animals afraid to interact.

Thank goodness the boys wanted to go back to school after a couple of years.

[Denny]

oh snap a type-O.

You don't provide solid arguments, you just try and bash people and call them stupid. As if that alone will win an agrument (actually here it will because most of y'all are pretty low on the IQ pole).

Go back to your special olympics, and fathering from a distance, while also hypocritically claiming both parents are essential. Show us how it's really done!

But like I said...this is all expected from someone of the homeschooling type. Y'all are simple people...

Obviously, you don’t need any reading comprehension to get an engineering degree from wherever you pulled it out of. Just because you didn’t address my points, doesn’t mean they weren’t made. I do like, how you’re now trying to divert the issue to me being overseas (which I showed how that is covered as well). I’m sure you’ll figure out how my favorite color will discredit my stance further.

Damn, all that school to still look like a fool on a message board. Congratulations.