I could be wrong, but I think some of you have things backwards re: homeschoolers. I think that percentage-wise, homeschoolers tend to excel compared to public school children. I could be wrong about the percentages, but I do know that many homeschoolers do excel. My daughter excels in many subjects, and is up to par in the rest. She seems less and less content to be chained to the bed all day, the older she gets, but that is fodder for another discussion altogether. Sheesh, kids *shakes head*
Homeschooling?
by mkr32208 43 Replies latest jw friends
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stopthepain
IMO--Any jdub that homeschools thier kid has in the back of thier mind how this will help them avoid" bad association".I always remember the day told my mom"you wanted me to work for free with a bunch of morons-that was your goal ,thanks mom."she proceded to cry.
All the elders kids in my hall home schooled,it was the popular jdub thing to do.homeschool=more spirituality-needless to say they all left the borg
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unique1
Well, I was home-schooled through High School. I had always been an above average student, president's list and 98/99 on the CAT tests every year. I took two years at a time schooling through the summer. At the end of a year I took the CAT (NC STATE LAW) and made an 89. I freaked OUT!!!! Told my mother that I wanted to go back to school because I apparently wasn't doing very good at home. She said it was just because I took two years at once. Most people my age took the 9th grade CAT and I took the 10th. She wouldn't let me go back to public school. I did take the SAT and made AVERAGE, which pissed me off more because I had always been an above average student until then. I regret ever consenting to Home Schooling. I did get an official diploma though the state and could go to college. I did for a while, but I really like being a secretary, so I stopped. Go figure.
The thing I regret the most is the fact that everyone has High School stories except me. My husband can't figure out why I am always hung up on relationships I had in Middle school. The reason is because I never went on to have friends in High School. I had one sister to hang with during those two years because she was the only other kid homeschooling and she sucked.
I think if a kid wants to be homeschooled or if your child isn't learning anything at school, it can be a good thing, but if the child is doing well and wants to go to public school or go back after a year of homeschooling they should be allowed to.
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Balsam
Unique1,
And you had to homeschool yourself, I know your Mom helped you very little if at all. I remember your homeschool graduation party. You did not look especially happy.
I've got a little boy of about 7 next door who can hardly talk. He is being homeschooled by his mother. No siblings and the kid never plays with the neighborhood kids. He does go to speech classes though. His mom is wanting to home school him because she is a Christian and she believes it will give him a solid fountation for the future. I told her about how it hindered my son but she just felt I did something wrong. LOL Yah taking him out of public school. LOL
Ruth
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Wild_Thing
My sister and I were homeschooled. We both had totally different outcomes.
My sister didn't finish. She married some good witness boy when she was 17 and eventually got her GED.
My outcome is the other extreme. I finished as fast as I could. I graduated with a high school diploma from a reputable "home school" course when I was 16. I immediately started going to college, with the intent of getting some kind of vocational training to get a job. (It was '93 ... when the society officially gave the okay to pursue higher education.) Instead, I just kept going and going and now I have my masters degree and am working on a specialist degree.
I don't think it is fair to say that homeschooling is necessarily a failure or success. My sister and I were raised in the same house and homeschooled in the same manner, with two completely different outcomes. My sister and I were not really taught by my mother (or anyone else). It was up to us to study and do the work, etc. Luckily, we were pretty self-disciplined and motivated. I happened to be a little more motivated than my sister. In a homeschooling situation like that, an unmotivated, undisciplined, or learning disabled kid is doomed from the beginning.
By the way, I am not a fan of home schooling now. I do not think it is a good idea because of the anti-social factor. It *is* very isolating, unless the parents make a determined effort to involve the kids in other things. There are many days that I wish I had not been homeschooled for that reason, but on the other hand I am not sure I would have started going to college if I had graduated in the traditional sense.
Karen (a.k.a. Wild_Thing)
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jwbot
My personal experience tells me that parents who are NOT jdubs that homeschool their kids do it for academic reasons...those children tend to excell. But jdub parents who pull their kids out of school because of association...those kids tend to be slow socially and intelectually. Does this make sense? So I guess it depends on the reasons behind homeschooling. If parents are motivated enough to take on the responsibility and smart enough, it can work very well...if they just want their kids to be super controlled and sheltered, its a huge disadvantage.
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Wild_Thing
My personal experience tells me that parents who are NOT jdubs that homeschool their kids do it for academic reasons...those children tend to excell. But jdub parents who pull their kids out of school because of association...those kids tend to be slow socially and intelectually. Does this make sense? So I guess it depends on the reasons behind homeschooling. If parents are motivated enough to take on the responsibility and smart enough, it can work very well...if they just want their kids to be super controlled and sheltered, its a huge disadvantage.
Again, I think that is a generalization and perhaps an unfair one. My parents put my sister and I into homeschooling to get us away from "bad association" and they pretty much left us to fend for our own learning.
I definitely excelled more than her academically, but even though my sister did not finish, she is a very intelligent person. She is well read and can carry on an very intelligent conversation about a variety of subects.
With that being said, here is the disclaimer: My sister is still a JW, so I guess she can't be *that* intelligent! Also, while she can carry on a conversation about a lot of different subjects, she tends to turn into a different person ... a stupid person ... when it comes to religion and the witnesses. Sometimes, I just want to shake her!
Karen (a.k.a. Wild_Thing)
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jwbot
Well...thats why I said "in my personal experience".
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unique1
Wild Thing I feel your pain. As Balsam said, I did all of the learning on my own and although I did a decent job of teaching myself, my testing grades did slip. Unlike you though, I was not allowed to persue a college degree. My parents signed me up for PCDI a home school vocational course so I could be a paralegal, which I did for all of a year before deciding it wasn't for me.
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PinTail
I attended American School located in chicago ILL, I did not have ONE test to prove I was smart enough I had MANY, and passed them all. I finished my two years I needed in eight months, I did it because first of all I paid for it not my parents, second I wanted to prove to myself and to others that I was not a loser. You cannot finish just because mom and dad say so!!!!!!!
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