The level of education.
Top 5 Reasons Why I'm Thankful To Homeschool My Children
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The level of education.
Sitamun
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Maximee has it right. It's the level of education and the restrictions now placed on teachers. I'm not exactly sure how it stands now, but when I was in school, we (the students and teachers) did talk about god and religion, but in the appropriate classes. Those classes were history, pysch, and sociology. Today, teachers are told to only teach what the "standardized" tests require. Further I was never told "if it feels good do it". I was also subjected to many many anti drug assemblies throughout my public school career.
When I first started homeschooling my kids, I was not a Christian. We borrowed books from our local public school. What a mistake! These books were awful. When we started purchasing our own curriculum, the choices were so much better. We opted for a mixture of secular and religious textbooks. There are some amazing programs available for homeschool families.
eveningsky339
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Top 5 reasons I plan on sending my children to school:
5. 90% of incidents of rape and molestation occur at home or a friend's home, so odds would be in my child's favor in terms of safety.
4. Schedules teach children the importance of being on time and working within a framework used by most of the workforce.
3. Children who are home-schooled have a tendency to be dependent on their parents longer, making it difficult to adjust when time comes for college.
2. Children at a public school do not get exposed to censored information and therefore get to hear every side of an issue.
1. Children at public school can adjust to the rigid schedule used in the real world.
I prefer private schooling ... though it is costly and takes alot of sacrifice.
And that's why we should ALWAYS watch our kids. Do you really feel safe having your child in an environment where there are hundreds of people that you don't know?
Does forcing a 6/7/8/9 etc year old to sit still for hours at a time benefit them?
Source?
Yep. They hear about evolution AND creation, abstinence AND birth control, God and humanism...
Might wanna change that argument......Homeschooling doesn't mean you don't have to have a schedule. I know a lot of families that do have a schedule, especially once the kids get older and have more extra curricular activities. You are free to work with whatever time you have, not bound by one hour periods. If kid1 takes 20 minutes to finish his math assignment, that's great! If kid2 takes 50 minutes, that's great too! You are not bound by the clock.
Perhaps we should call CPS?
My husband has worked graveyard for the last 16 years. Because we homeschooled, they actually got to spend time with him every day.
Not from what I've experienced.
You've got to be kidding! Censorship is more prevalent in public school than just about anywhere.
Public school most resembles life in a prison, not the real world. Peer pressure, gangs, confinement, violence, etc.
Homeschool is more like real life. You have a schedule, but it is flexible when needed. You can come and go freely and you can focus on your interests.
Excerpts from an interesting article
Excerpts from an interesting article
Though the criminal justice system and the public education system are commonly perceived to be in opposition, these institutions actually have very close and extensive ties. Increasingly, the criminal justice system operates within the public education system and with greater degrees of power. Police presence in public schools has broadened with policed zones surrounding schools and on campus security, including armed and uniformed guards; some school campuses even house a satellite police station.
The use of carceral technologies at school has expanded too, and surveillance cameras and metal detectors are becoming regular additions to the educational landscape. Disciplinary policies at school are increasingly modeled after those of the criminal justice system. Zero tolerance measures, which originated in the correctional system as “tough on crime” measures, are common in the education sector. Search and seizure exercises are regularly performed at school, and school officials leading criminal justice officers in these drills face fewer of the constraints that legislate these practices in the private spaces outside of school. This proliferation of the prison model in educational settings has led the educational sociologist Lenora Brown to argue that, “Lockdown is becoming the pervasive reality,” in which schools “resemble prisons or military camps rather than sites for learning and critical thought” (Brown, 2003). In this environment, students “ are being subjected to increasing levels of physical and psychological surveillance, confinement and regimentation.”
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"In short, the school security industry is big business. It encompasses security technology, security personnel, and all the various supporting industries. Many of these industries are closely tied to the criminal justice system and the prison industry, and public school markets are a horizontal integration of their security products. If as Angela Davis argues, this is the era of the prison industrial complex, it is, in part, because the public school system has solidified their market."
http://www.allacademic.com//meta/p_mla_apa_research_citation/1/7/5/0/3/pages175036/p175036-1.php
Excerpts from an interesting article
THE PUBLIC SCHOOL, THE PRISON AND THE BOTTOM LINE: EXPENDITURE AND EXPEDIENCY
LIZBET SIMMONS
SAN FRANCISCO STATE UNIVERSITY
Put simply, this is the era of the prison industrial complex.
A.Y. Davis (2003)
LIZBET SIMMONS
SAN FRANCISCO STATE UNIVERSITY
Put simply, this is the era of the prison industrial complex.
A.Y. Davis (2003)
Though the criminal justice system and the public education system are commonly perceived to be in opposition, these institutions actually have very close and extensive ties. Increasingly, the criminal justice system operates within the public education system and with greater degrees of power. Police presence in public schools has broadened with policed zones surrounding schools and on campus security, including armed and uniformed guards; some school campuses even house a satellite police station.
The use of carceral technologies at school has expanded too, and surveillance cameras and metal detectors are becoming regular additions to the educational landscape. Disciplinary policies at school are increasingly modeled after those of the criminal justice system. Zero tolerance measures, which originated in the correctional system as “tough on crime” measures, are common in the education sector. Search and seizure exercises are regularly performed at school, and school officials leading criminal justice officers in these drills face fewer of the constraints that legislate these practices in the private spaces outside of school. This proliferation of the prison model in educational settings has led the educational sociologist Lenora Brown to argue that, “Lockdown is becoming the pervasive reality,” in which schools “resemble prisons or military camps rather than sites for learning and critical thought” (Brown, 2003). In this environment, students “ are being subjected to increasing levels of physical and psychological surveillance, confinement and regimentation.”
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"In short, the school security industry is big business. It encompasses security technology, security personnel, and all the various supporting industries. Many of these industries are closely tied to the criminal justice system and the prison industry, and public school markets are a horizontal integration of their security products. If as Angela Davis argues, this is the era of the prison industrial complex, it is, in part, because the public school system has solidified their market."
http://www.allacademic.com//meta/p_mla_apa_research_citation/1/7/5/0/3/pages175036/p175036-1.php
It works that way with most earthly institutions. You can't put new wine into old wineskins, and all that.
Do you honestly think that sending them to public school is going to lessen that percent?
The only thing that will lessen that is keeping your children with you, unless you are the molester, of course.
School schedules are not the same as workforce schedules.:nono:
Do you know any jobs that keep you in one place for an hour and a half, and then send you to another room for an hour and a half, and on and on and on, throughout the workday?
Can you back that up?
Lie.
A child who is home schooled is better prepared to work for themselves, and amke their own schedule, which will make them more money in the long run, and also allow for them to home school their children.:roses:
Top 5 reason I'm thankful to homeschool my children:
5. I have a very clear sense of what he's "getting" and what he's not. We don't have the pressure to "move on" if he's struggling with a concept.
4. I get to choose what he studies. My youngest may not want to go to a four-year college. I can tailor his education toward success in another area.
3. I'm more aware of his moods - teenagers, especially boys, aren't always willing to tell mom or dad when something's bothering them. Because I'm with him all day my special "mommy sense" is more acute!
2. I'm thankful he has significantly less peer pressure. It still exists in youth group (I wouldn't care if my son gave this up completely...), and to a lesser degree among his friends, most of whom are not homeschooled. Interestingly, he's not drawn to the kids who would be considered the most popular.
1. I have a relationship with my kids. I'm only homeschooling my youngest right now. The oldest is in college. I'm not their friend or buddy, but we have actual conversations, not just me talking with an occasional grunt to appease me that they're listening.
5. I have a very clear sense of what he's "getting" and what he's not. We don't have the pressure to "move on" if he's struggling with a concept.
4. I get to choose what he studies. My youngest may not want to go to a four-year college. I can tailor his education toward success in another area.
3. I'm more aware of his moods - teenagers, especially boys, aren't always willing to tell mom or dad when something's bothering them. Because I'm with him all day my special "mommy sense" is more acute!
2. I'm thankful he has significantly less peer pressure. It still exists in youth group (I wouldn't care if my son gave this up completely...), and to a lesser degree among his friends, most of whom are not homeschooled. Interestingly, he's not drawn to the kids who would be considered the most popular.
1. I have a relationship with my kids. I'm only homeschooling my youngest right now. The oldest is in college. I'm not their friend or buddy, but we have actual conversations, not just me talking with an occasional grunt to appease me that they're listening.
Choleric
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So you admit you are a child molesteor and want your children out of your house for their safety? Someone call the cops.
Homeschoolers have a schedule as well. We just cut out all the wasted time as school, lunch recess, between classes where they are influenced in negative ways.
Quite the opposite, you should actually look at the data. Homeschooled children are better prepared for the real world. They are more mature because they are socialized by adults, rather than children. They are also supervised by people who actually love them and who God has given them to to raise up.
:rotfl: That is just funny, I mean, really funny.
Again, you should actually consult research. There is a reason why homeschooled kids do better at college and in the real world. It is maturity and it is why colleges actively recruit homeschooled kids. You are assuming things that are not true.
My wife and I homeschooled our two boys for a few years. We used the classical method.
http://www.welltrainedmind.com/classed.html
It's a lot of work and we presently have them both in a Classical Christian School. Even though we farmed out the Latin once weekly when we home schooled, my 10yr old can speak and read quite a bit of Latin. He can easily go to a museum and read the Latin phrases around many of the works. Homeschooling was great but a little overwelming at times. As for public schools. No way!!! I'm not going to dumb down my kids. At least that's how the schools are here.
Btw, the best thing my wife and I ever did was no T.V. or video games in our house. My boys read or play outside for entertainment, they don't even miss it. My 10yr old read the Lord of the Ring series this summer. I let him watch the movie after each book! :thumb:
Paul
http://www.welltrainedmind.com/classed.html
It's a lot of work and we presently have them both in a Classical Christian School. Even though we farmed out the Latin once weekly when we home schooled, my 10yr old can speak and read quite a bit of Latin. He can easily go to a museum and read the Latin phrases around many of the works. Homeschooling was great but a little overwelming at times. As for public schools. No way!!! I'm not going to dumb down my kids. At least that's how the schools are here.
Btw, the best thing my wife and I ever did was no T.V. or video games in our house. My boys read or play outside for entertainment, they don't even miss it. My 10yr old read the Lord of the Ring series this summer. I let him watch the movie after each book! :thumb:
Paul
Awesome! I would do at least two things differently if I could have a "do-over" - start homeschooling earlier (from the beginning) and use a classical approach.
My oldest also read the Lord of the Rings when he was almost 10, and if I remember correctly, he read the Hobbit right after. (Of course my younger son was perfectly content to just watch the movies!) The same son is now in college and is very interested in classical education. He would like very much to someday start a classical Christian school and be both an administrator and teacher. I'll definitely point him to the link in your post.
How very blessed you are to have a classical Christian school in your area!