Home Schooling

[Denny]

hell no worst thing you can do for your son. he will sit at home get fat play video games and do nothing. send him to regular school where he can learn to socialize not sit at home by himself and learn nothing. do not do this to your son whatever the problem is at regular school fix it

x2 sheltering your kid from the real world will only make it harder fro him to succeed in life.

Ya, if a parent is only going to half-ass it, then send them to public schools so the paid teachers can half-ass it for you.

It requires a parent with intelligence to teach the curriculum, drive to make it work right, imagination to make it interesting for the kid and coordination to put a social balance in their lives.

If you have that, then ignore these posts that people who have never been involved with put up here. If you don't think you can pull it off, jump on their bandwagon and get your kid a "quality" public education.

[bcoop]

get your kid a "quality" public education.

Roflcopter!

[SlowLX]

And Texas even has a homeschool sports league now.

Waaay too many options these days.

But what about getting your dick wet and then having a bitch be a whore? There's no better place to learn that women are scandalous than high-school unless you want your kid falling for the first piece of sloppy drunk tail he gets in college.

[Denny]

But what about getting your dick wet and then having a bitch be a whore? There's no better place to learn that women are scandalous than high-school unless you want your kid falling for the first piece of sloppy drunk tail he gets in college.

I'll monitor the situation. Mine is going to one of the sevice academies anyway.

[SlowLX]

I'll monitor the situation. Mine is going to one of the sevice academies anyway.

Don't let him be a dip shit, make him strive towards Annapolis. Navy/Marine Corps FTW

[Denny]

Don't let him be a dip shit, make him strive towards Annapolis. Navy/Marine Corps FTW

I'm trying to get him launching off a carrier, but my mother's side is all Colorado Springs brats. My cousin flies a freaking Pavelow for AF's CSAR nad kinda makes more of an impression on the subject.

[SlowLX]

I'm trying to get him launching off a carrier, but my mother's side is all Colorado Springs brats. My cousin flies a freaking Pavelow for AF's CSAR nad kinda makes more of an impression on the subject.

Air Force....noone cares about a guy that's like "Oh I joined the AF Academy" It's all about West Point or Annapolis Nigga!

[Denny]

He's out on Army, that's for sure. I need to get him to port and check out what these carriers bring to the table. If he's going to fly, he might as well be able to land anywhere.

[SlowLX]

Also to the OP there's plenty of private secular schools which have the staff that can devote to socially different children and still give them a top notch education. If religion was one of the reasons you weren't thinking private school. There's TVS or Country Day for college prep or the Hill School for tailoring education to kids who need a special approach.

[mustangguy289]

Parents should be required to get a teaching liscense before being allowed to homeschool.

[Denny]

Parents should be required to get a teaching liscense before being allowed to homeschool.

Socialist!

[mustangguy289]

Socialist!

Watch it Ron pussy Paul supporter.

[Denny]

I'll which it, all right.

[DamonH]

wow ... both sides are skewed here. If you want your kid to get the BEST education, send them to public school and still work with them at home like they are home schooled. The truth is in the middle. You can't send them for public education and expect them to get the best education possible without lots of parent involvement, likewise homeschooling leaves some gaping holes too.

That being said, there are kids who will do better in public education, and people who will do better in homeschooling. Hopefully you know your kid well enough to decide correctly what is in their best interest.

[Frank]

At the end of the day, as a father, I believe I am doing the best within our means to give our children the best education they can get. I really don't care what the haters think. Just because "I knew this guy in college who was home schooled and he was weird and didn't have any friends" doesn't necessarily mean its because he was home schooled. There are a lot more weird people in the world that were never home schooled. Some people have a lot more faith in the public school system than I do. I don't slight anyone who's kids go to public or private school, this is just the path we've chosen. I've seen the right and wrong ways of non-standard education. From the overly protective, the arrogant little snots, to the flat out lazy who just "claim" to homeschool. Most of the ones I know aren't being sheltered socially, but I have seen the odd ones too. Most that I know can carry conversations with adults and they have manners. A lot of the kids I know have friends in public school they hang out with too, have weird hair, dress about like any other kid. Some of them take their advanced high school classes at a community college. There are plenty of awkward kids in public schools that never learn the social skills in 13 years, or college, or life after. Everybody is wired different. Besides, people who home school still have to pay their school taxes so public schools are not losing that.