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Location: The Chatterdome in La La Land, CaliFUNia
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Originally Posted by ray1945
You say you will whisk you children to the community college when they are in need of instruction that you are unable to provide. I don't believe that young teens belong in the company of older teens/young adults, particularly young teens who are not used to being part of a diverse population or making decisions independent of their parent(s).
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Just wanted to respond to this portion. My high school experience was hell due to the lack of diversity, the immaturity of my classmates and the incompetent teachers. All I wanted badly to do was drop out. I'm grateful that my mother's expectations kept me in school. I really wished that I could have taken some classes at a community college as I did not thrive academically and socially until I got to college. My main issue was that I related more to older folks and found my peers to be way immature. It was like a breath of fresh air to be around a diverse group of adults in college.
Location: The Chatterdome in La La Land, CaliFUNia
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Originally Posted by JetJockey
High School, for the most part, is horrible. Your kids will be exposed to things they've never seen, and the kids who have grown up together will have already formed cliques that are very hard to break into. They WILL get made fun of by their peers, teachers will ignore them and students will harass them for no good reason.
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I experienced all of these and was never homeschooled.
You stated the public schools are just fine. The reality is they stink and it is a scandal. This is not about the kids and I don't think anyone has asaid it was.
Again with blanket generalizations.
Do all public schools stink? No. Do some? Yes.
Are all parents qualified to homeschool? No. Are some? Yes.
Location: The Chatterdome in La La Land, CaliFUNia
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Originally Posted by newtoli
Not everyone has a career where one person can work nights.
If both parents work during the day and cannot afford to live off of one income, then the children will likely be in public or private school. No one is saying that all parents should homeschool as not all parents are suited for homeschooling as it requires a lot of dedication and sacrifices.
Are all parents qualified to homeschool? No. Are some? Yes.
That is like saying our healthcare system is just fine because it has good points and bad points. The reality is overall it is awful compared to the rest of the world.
My feeling is the homeschool crowd overall is better qualified to teach than the educational system. I base that in the fact that those who homeschool are probably better educated because the can afford to have one parent stay home. They are clearly motivated and their motivation is love of their children there is no teacher that can match that.
Are all parents qualified to homeschool? No. Are some? Yes.
See my last response. You seem to think because there are some good schools in the country everything is just fine. We are behind the rest of the world. In fact we are further behind in education than healthcare and all of Washington is acting as if the world will come to an end if we don't fix healthcare today.
See my last response. You seem to think because there are some good schools in the country everything is just fine. We are behind the rest of the world. In fact we are further behind in education than healthcare and all of Washington is acting as if the world will come to an end if we don't fix healthcare today.
See my last response - I never said everything is just fine. I said there are positives and negatives to both aspects of schooling, and have said that since the beginning of this thread.
I graduated in the late 80s. I believe the teen preg rates where higher then.
My point was that my PARENTS raised me so that I would not participate in certain behaviors. If you don't want your kids to have sex or do drugs, you need to raise them that way. You don't need to shelter then from public schools. Just raise them with morals and values.
thats the key factor, your parents raised you and gave you values and in that way also taught you morals and values from home.
too many parents expect public schools to teach their children all those values and moral, and public schools fail at it badly.
parents that homeschool dont have to shelter their kids from public life, just from the ongoings of the public indoctrination camps that public schools are today.
See that post up there? That's what I'm talking about.
"Public indoctrination camps"
Give me a break.
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