Classic FR Post RE: Homeschooling

[K8-EEE]

"We have some friends that are 'unschoolers' and don't use any curriculum. There kids no how to read, write, and do arithmetic just fine. Both my kids no how to ride a bike. We certainly didn't need any formal curriculum to teach them...."

They're "unteaching" them to be "morans" apparently!

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1744698/posts#comment?q=1


:rofl:

[htuttle]

1. I no, I no...Seriesly.

:eyes:

[seabeyond]

2. oh know..... lol lol lol n/t

[Lance_Boyle]

3. just... wow.

Guess his/her kids will be well prepared to take on one of those lucrative bike-riding jobs at the completion of "there ejikashun."

[twilight_sailing]

12. LOL

"Guess his/her kids will be well prepared to take on one of those lucrative bike-riding jobs..."

Laughed until I choked.

[Sydnie]

18. Thanks ... I needed that laugh

So sad, isn't it? How can they explain that they dropped out of home schooling for a messengers job? :rofl:

[evilgenius602]

21. thats "edumacation"

[Fierce]

4. There was an article about unteaching in the NYT yesterday.

Da-yum.

[Quantess]

5. their kids are young inventors!

They invent their own spelling and grammar!

[MrCoffee]

6. i don't no if the lack of formal curriculum had any noticable effect here.

[warrens]

7. They give home schooling a bad name

Some people do it very, very well, and for some kids, it's the only way they can learn.

These boneheads just do it for ideology and keeping the gummint out of their faces. A lot of home-schooled kids simply collapse in college because they are not taught critical thinking.

[seabeyond]

13. my niece was gven chance after chance. even tried private

and she was not cutting it. was all about the social aspect of school, and not the work. she has been homeschooling since june and kicking tush. she keeps it up, he will let her go back into public junior year. she will probably be graduated by then and be taking college courses. i could see me doing it with oldest son if environment in school became untolerable. i am not opposed to homeschooling per se

[K8-EEE]

38. The problem is learning to deal with your peers etc.

...is very hard to learn when you're with your family every day. I know my daughter used to have absolute fits about presentations etc. in school and we would practice and practice at home and now she's real comfortable with all that. You can practice that in your living room but you kind of need to DO it in public, in the classroom.

[The Straight Story]

8. "Both my kids *no* how to ride a bike" I hope that person is not teaching them :) (nt)

[madinmaryland]

9. Was the moran "freeper-schooled"

:rofl:

[sakabatou]

10. Me noes how tooz!

[depakid]

11. Sometimes one has to wonder

whether this stuff is satire.

Has to be... doesn't it?

[Hippo_Tron]

36. Dan Quayle has made me believe that anything that nothing has to be satire

When it comes out of the mouth of a Republican.

[Ellis Wyatt]

14. not the same homeschoolers

who win the spelling bee competition every year, apparantly.

[alfredo]

22. Those households are well educated households and are doing

it because they can do a better job. Homeschooling became popular when the schools became integrated. Homeschooling and private Christian schools became the refuge for those who didn't like race mixing.

[texastoast]

27. Cite please

I know of one homeschooler who won. Please let me know of additional ones. ApparEntly, I don't know of the other ones.

[Ellis Wyatt]

37. thank you spelling nazi

I was making the same point that everyone else in the thread has been making - that this guy wasn't too bright.

Relax. Every time I see an article on those spelling bees, homeschoolers are everywhere. I'm sorry if I don't follow it like baseball or football and can rattle off past winners and where they went to school.

My point is that homeschoolers comprise a much larger % of the National Spelling Bee finalists than they do in the broader population - about 13% of the finalists. (http://hsblog.org/index.php?title=national_spelling_bee_broadcast_in_prime&more=1&c=1&tb=1&pb=1)

Feel free to cite your own sources that contradict my belief, as pointless as it is, since it wasn't the reason for my post

[texastoast]

49. 'Scuse me

I thought you were just another victim of the Whole Language program. I see more and more of them on this board. Surely we don't have that many trolls. }(

[PassingFair]

41. Apparantly not

:rofl:

[beth9999]

15. Seriously...

... I don't know why we allow *anyone* to be exempt from public school education.

[rox63]

16. I know several liberals into home-schooling and unschooling

And some others who send their kids to a free school. And they are all bright kids who can read, write and spell just fine.

[HCE SuiGeneris]

17. So glad that is working out for them. Good grief!

[TahitiNut]

19. "Skool"

[sinkingfeeling]

20. What insight! A formal curriculum isn't needed to teach children to ride bikes!

[MidwestTransplant]

23. You guys are a bunch of no it alls!!

[HCE SuiGeneris]

24. Edited to correct correct spelling?

:rofl: :bounce:

[MidwestTransplant]

26. LOL yeah, I used one "l" in alls initally ;)

[evilgenius602]

25. sitting in a sewer and adding to it.

[truedelphi]

28. Some friends have asked me to tutor their kids

One young woman is fifteen - she did not know how many nickels were in a quarter. Nor does she know about inches in a foot.

The other probably does not either.


One has been home schooled - the other has been in very exclusive private schools.

neither knows the multiplication tables.

There seems to be a whole culture surrounding the notion that we should NOT do anything to disrupt the lives of our kids. Don'tmakethem do "meaningless memory" work...

A whole generation that will not know how to spell, write correctly in terms of grammar, and diddily about even giving or getting proper change.

[Matariki]

33. well, American kids anyway.

lots of well educated kids in other parts of the world - where they'll be able to attend Universities paid for by societies that understand the value of education to society as a whole.

[beth9999]

35. That's why public school education should be compulsory...

Because with home schooling or private schools there is no oversight.

How do you know that your kids are getting a quality education? It's every child's right to get an education - regardless of whether the parents want to provide one or not. Likewise, it's every child's right to have a *quality* education. The only way to do that is by having compulsory public school education with a standard course of study and government oversight.

[Iris]

43. how do you really know they are in public schools?

Plenty of kids come out of public schools not knowing how to make change.

[Kerrytravelers]

46. I work as a teacher for a charter home school.

I advise and consult with parents who would like to home school, but who still want their children to follow the state guidelines. Their curriculum must be one that can be bought with public funds. The children are tested at testing centers. They join field trips and group activities. But, a majority of their learned is done at home, but under my general guidance.

[moc]

39. Scary

:scared:

Just asked my 10yo public school kid. She knows. ::phew::

[Bluebear]

29. "There" kids.

:eyes:

[SidDithers]

30. Those poor freeper children are totally screwn...nt

Sid

[K8-EEE]

42. I know one who homeschools to avoid evolution

and what she calls "so-called" science. She won't let her kids have any text books that have "lies" like the world is millions of years old and dinosaurs were not created the same week as humans.

Just sad. Needless to say none of her kids are biologists!

[leftofthedial]

31. if you don't not no,

you are screwn

[mcar]

32. OK, how is it

that this FReeper can spell curriculum correctly but doesn't know the difference between 'know' and 'no?'

:eyes:

[Matariki]

34. spellchecker?

it won't spot incorrect usage...

[Iris]

40. Actually, "unschooling" is a fairly progressive idea.

http://www.unschooling.com/library/faq/index.shtml

[smalll]

44. Let's let the Freepers take it, can't we? /nt

[Iris]

45. because they aren't "unschooling" - that entails allowing a person to think for himself.

They are just keeping their kids ignorant.

Big difference.

[Ioo]

47. kiriath_jearim Should have her Kids Taken Away, You no..

No really, I am not the greatest in my English, but I know how to use the word know. This crazy gal is teaching her kids. I bet she is a homeschooler because public school does not have the right level of Jesus in it.

Wow, take this gals kids awat and get them into a school ASAP, so they can get some nolage

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

48. Those poor kids are SO screwn.