Comments on: Among the Paleo-Humans: The Rules of Homeschooling

By: diet paleo

diet paleo — Mon, 08 Aug 2011 15:28:19 +0000

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By: Kassil

Kassil — Wed, 30 Dec 2009 06:17:52 +0000

Quite simply, my issue with public education stems from my own experiences; I was, I am told, a natural learner when I was young. However… A bad experience involving an entire school year of a bullying, pushy, vengeful teacher destroyed my enthusiasm, and made school from that point forward a chore, rather than something to be looked forward to.

The biggest thing to try to avoid, for homeschooling or in public education, is either being or allowing this kind of destructive “teacher” near your children. While they are certainly great at teaching the kind of hunch-brained conformity that corporate society thrives upon, the damage they do to children actually interested in learning is horrific.

By: Tammy and Parker

Tammy and Parker — Wed, 30 Dec 2009 04:13:00 +0000

Because I home school Parker I can used open ended, discovery techniques that allow him to build line upon line on a subject rather than just cramming in as much as possible and then have him spit it out on a given command.

I create each unit geared directly to how Parker learns best. And I can go back and review whenever I choose.

Parker’s need for one on one, hands on and repetition could never be met in a public special needs school setting.

And this coming from a former public ed teacher and a current public ed administrator!

Tammy and Parker
http://www.prayingforparker.com
@ParkerMama on Twitter

By: Ria

Ria — Sun, 27 Dec 2009 15:25:35 +0000

The best thing to teach them is how to learn… I couldn’t agree with that more. I, alas, didn’t have a teacher who did such a thing until my second-to-last year in high school. And believe me, that’s a bad time to really awaken the learning bug in a person.

I was always academic. I had to be, since my parents placed a confusing amount of importance on how well I did in school. I was always given the old, “It doesn’t matter what your grades are, it matters what you’ve learned,” spiel. Then as soon as my grades slipped and I got in trouble for it, I’d mention that they said that, and get the retort of, “Your grades tell me how much you’ve learned.” True in a sense, but not always applicable. Just because I’m having a lousy day and make enough mistakes on a test to bring my mark from a B to a C doesn’t mean I didn’t learn enough. It means I had a bad day.

But I always liked to learn. The problem for me was that nobody encouraged learning until I was 16. They enouraged memorization, good grades, and if I learned something, well, that just meant I’d do well on tests.

It wasn’t until I had a teacher who sat and had an hour-long debate with the class about the meaning of knowledge and how reality is subjective that I really started to notice how lackluster my education had been. I wish I’d had that particular teacher at an earlier age, or that my parents had encouraged independent education in me.

But I’m taking advantage of my love for learning even now that I’m older. Just because my formal education period has ended doesn’t mean I have to stop learning. That would be a true failure, I think. Really, I think that teaching your kids to learn, and to like learning, is one of the best lessons a teacher or parent can impart.

By: Leslie

Leslie — Sun, 27 Dec 2009 02:33:25 +0000

Sana,
There are people who have been homeschooled and, like you, blame some of their social awkwardness on homeschooling. However, I went to public school my entire early (schooled) life and I, too, share some of your same social discomforts, as do many other publicly and privately schooled people. In other words, you may be the way you are because of the fact you were homeschooled, but it’s also likely you may have ended up like that no matter how you were schooled. In fact, you will never know. I happen to believe that being forced into social situations in school that I wasn’t ready for and some of the harmful social situations that happen (unavoidably?) in school were part of the reason that social situations were (and are still) difficult for me. School social situations are some of my most painful memories (and some of my best, too, to be fair). I have 3 always-homeschooled children (now young adults, ages 23, 21, and 17) who are all very different socially….as their mother, I believe they were just born that way. Nature vs. nurture….the age-old argument. In this case, I don’t think we should be too quick to dismiss nature and not so quick to blame homeschooling.

By: Sana

Sana — Sat, 26 Dec 2009 21:10:02 +0000

I was homeschooled until the beginning of high school. Although homeschooling made me an avid learner and enabled me to get high excellent marks in high school, the lack of social contact had a bad effect on me. I really have trouble relating to people my own age, I’m hypersensitive to criticism, and I’m clueless in social situations. I realize that this isn’t necessarily true for all homeschooled kids, but it was my experience.

By: shaunta

shaunta — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 15:22:33 +0000

I have homeschooled both of my teenage kids off and on. Both were homeschooled for 8th grade. My son has Asperger’s Syndrome and has had occassions where the public school scene just became too stressful. We’re there right now, in the tenth grade.

In Nevada you don’t have to file plans. I did let them talk me into signing him up for a distance learning program which is supposed to be self-paced and has a state diploma at the end. As well as the possibility of a state scholarship that every kid gets if their grades are high enough.

It’s not working out. They aren’t letting it be self-paced for him. And right now, he wants to spend him time writing. It’s hard to describe what a miracle it is that this kid wants to write at all, so I’m not inclined to pull him away from it and make him do something else. He’s also reading Shakespere (Hamlet.) They want him to do 10 lessons a day in history, English, and biology–we’re putting it off until after the holidays.

I think the best thing about being open to homeschool is that it takes the ‘compulsory’ out of education, and I’ve found that both of my kids could relax and use school as a resource for learning, rather than a life sentence, when they knew they were making the choice to be there.