ATTN. Parents: Beware what your kids are being taught by Gov't. controlled schools!!

I understand how you feel, Marko. But are you ever concerned that you children might lack from some of the educational and social benefits of a classroom, organized sports, dances, etc?

I had some absolutely terrific experiences in advanced biology classes and teaching some of my math classes. Couldn't have done anything even remotely like that at home, and most private institutions didn't have the budget for the science we did.

Not creating a debate, just curious how you feel about it. In the balance, I'm pretty happy with having put up with some of the injustices of that institution given what I got out of it.
 
But are you ever concerned that you children might lack from some of the educational and social benefits of a classroom, organized sports, dances, etc?
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No.

If my children want to participate in organized sports or dances, they will do so. They will be able to attend any social function conceivable on their own time and their own terms. The classroom has no redeeming values...it fosters peer pressure and conformity, it discourages "standing out" either physically or intellectually, and it forces a dumbed-down "one size fits all" curriculum on everybody.

Do you remember high school? It was a freakin' jungle, even in the 1980s. You toss a thousand young, developing minds in their emotionally and intellectually most vulnerable time into a pen with each other, with no guidance other than "play nice and obey", and any kid that comes out without psychological or cognitive defects does so despite school, and not because of it.
 
Yes, I remember high school. It is where I learned to question authority and stand up for myself.

It is also, as I mentioned, where I got a first class education in certain hands-on subjects that I couldn't have anywhere else.


I flourished (at no ones expense but my own), others did not. Is that the environment, or the person?
 
I don't have children of my own, but I am the legal guardian of my younger brother. Due to problems at my parents house.

He wears hunting camo and openly discusses hunting trips that him and I go on with his friends at school, his teachers havent made a fuss about it. But one of his teachers once asked him if he was planning on shooting the school up in a joking manner. My brother found it funny but I did not!!! He goes to a public school by the way.
 
I flourished (at no ones expense but my own), others did not. Is that the environment, or the person?
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In my case, it was definitely the environment.

Don't get me wrong, I think my parents are great. At being parents, not teachers, that it. In all honesty, they probably would have had a hard time past the 5th or 6th grade. Not to mention they have an incredible bias against computers. Using them at school is where I found that that is what I excelled at. I would have never had that opporunity if I were homeschooled.

I do know a person that is homeschooled. She is great at English and art and history, bcause that is what her parents know. She isn't anywhere near close to understanding math or science, because her parents jut couldn't that.
 
I don't follow, Marko. There was nothing in what I said to determine why some people react well, and some don't. Could be home life, or genes.
 
Public schools are a great place for children to learn survival skills needed in the wilderness of life that follows school. For instance, learning to determine who will stab you in the back - you probably won't learn that from home schooling as well as you will in the primal environment of public schools.
 
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