Anyone home school or know of someone who home schools? (Year 1 update)

[Mr.Bojangles]

Libs have ruined schooling

Agreed trying everything we can to send our kids through private school for the remainder and do major research for college because they have poisoned those too.

 

[DrumMonkeyRobot]

Also, I respect the hell out of OP, but I find it a little funny.

He is upset that certain kids are being coddled and have “safe spaces”

So his response is to coddle his children and turn their entire life into a “safe space” by home schooling.

Certainly I am not the only one seeing the irony here?

I, too, found this ironic.

 

[DuckSker]

Apples and oranges, nerd.

Go get a booster shot bitch

 

[That SOB Van Owen]

Everyone I know who was homeschooled is socially awkward AF. Also people who home school their kids are awkward AF and the kids end up that way also.

Finally, People who were homeschooled usually homeschool their kids, so it’s a never ending cycle.

Good luck.

Ok just to follow up on this. The one home schooled guy I worked for/with is smart AF and probably the sharpest person I’ve worked with in 10+ years doing corporate tax. Is that a product of home schooling or is he just smart and good at what he does? That I don’t know.

I do know he is a bit lacking in the social skills area, even in his late 30s.

 

[DrumMonkeyRobot]

Go get a booster shot bitch

I've got a big ol' booster shot just for you, hot stuff. 😉

 

[mcgradynu]

Home schooling has its pros and cons just like public schools do.

Around where we are there is a very active community of parents that homeschool so they have tons of opportunities for socialization through hikes, field trips, camps, group learning, etc. Some cooler people I know surprised me when they told me they homeschooled which began to turn my opinion a bit.

This is actually a place where social media and online connection is making something better as it is connecting homeschooling families so that they can address the socialization piece that was much more difficult before groups could coordinate online. A lot of us that grew up in the 80s/90s or before are speaking to that world that existed pre-internet where homeschooled kids were more isolated.

I’ve started asking a lot more questions around it. Our daughter is about to start in a Montessori school (a Maine one which is an outdoors-heavy one), which buys us some more time to figure it out but I’m not nearly as averse to the idea of homeschooling as I was before I learned more about how it works around our community and how active it is. Not saying that’s the direction we’ll go as our public schools are pretty solid, but I’m not closed off to it like I used to be when I thought homeschooling was for JWs, Mormons and weirdos only.

 

[alt f4]

Also, I respect the hell out of OP, but I find it a little funny.

He is upset that certain kids are being coddled and have “safe spaces”

So his response is to coddle his children and turn their entire life into a “safe space” by home schooling.

Certainly I am not the only one seeing the irony here?

I called myself on that irony. Yes, I know I want to expose our kids to diversity, but yet shelter them from certain diversity and ideologies.

My niece is a they/them asexual. My boys (and I) still call her by her bio name and gender, not by her preferred name/pronouns. My wife had a heart to heart with her and we respect her and her choice, but she respects our family and how our boys address her. We meet her at parks, go on walks with her, she watches our boys, nothing has changed in their interactions. When the time is right and they understand, we can teach them and it won't be forced on them by someone else.

 

[Dr.DrakeRamoray]

I’d look into private school before homeschool

 

[RedSeaRising]

Also, I respect the hell out of OP, but I find it a little funny.

He is upset that certain kids are being coddled and have “safe spaces”

So his response is to coddle his children and turn their entire life into a “safe space” by home schooling.

Certainly I am not the only one seeing the irony here?

Ironic on the face maybe. It's not the popular position but I think it's reasonable to want some autonomy over the exposure to certain subject matter rather than put that in the hands of the groupthink mob.

My kids are young so we are still kicking around ideas of how to tackle education, I just don't want them to be in a position where they are ostracized for having a dissenting opinion and risk allowing social pressures to shape their worldview at a very impressionable age.

 

[Cash68847]

Apples and oranges, nerd.

How about an alpha male teacher putting Andrew Tate posters and pics all over the room? Maybe the teacher should just do their job and teach without the extra stupid shit.

 

[Alcaus]

Ok just to follow up on this. The one home schooled guy I worked for/with is smart AF and probably the sharpest person I’ve worked with in 10+ years doing corporate tax. Is that a product of home schooling or is he just smart and good at what he does? That I don’t know.

I do know he is a bit lacking in the social skills area, even in his late 30s.

It sounds like everything he does well is a product of his innate abilities and everything that's off about him is due to his homeschooling.

 

[DrumMonkeyRobot]

How about an alpha male teacher putting Andrew Tate posters and pics all over the room? Maybe the teacher should just do their job and teach without the extra stupid shit.

Well, for starters, they don't know shit about being an "alpha" if Andrew Tate is their example.

Full disclosure, I would prefer pride be kept out of the classroom as well. That said, I have less of a problem celebrating the triumphs of a historically marginalized group of people vs pushing your personal life philosophy (alpha male-ism, religion, etc.). And that's where the difference of opinion lies: some people, erroneously IMO, view sexuality as a lifestyle choice and therefore view pride as that group pushing their choices on other people. I happen to be of the opinion, and most LGBTQ+ people will agree with me, that they were born as they are. So, as previously stated, pride is a celebration of the triumphs they've made in overcoming the lack of acceptance of who they intrinsically are. And by "lack of acceptance" we're literally talking about them being murdered in some cases. So yeah, I think that deserves to be celebrated. But like you, I'd prefer it not to be in the classroom.

I'm curious, what are you afraid is going to happen when your child sees people celebrating pride? What is it you're trying to avoid?

 

[Baron Winnebago]

It sounds like everything he does well is a product of his innate abilities and everything that's off about him is due to his homeschooling.

Parents HATE this.

For most kids the type of school doesn't really matter. Like sure there are programs and instances of a kid being taken out of a really shitty school and being moved into a good one that makes a world of difference, but for most kids it doesn't make much of a difference

 

[iruletheskool]

Parents HATE this.

For most kids the type of school doesn't really matter. Like sure there are programs and instances of a kid being taken out of a really shitty school and being moved into a good one that makes a world of difference, but for most kids it doesn't make much of a difference

Most educational research suggests otherwise

 

[Kaladin]

The socialization bullshit that people throw around in homeschooling conversations always cracks me up

Our society is overflowing with socially retarded weirdos who all went to public and private schools

 

[Jim14510]

Jim wasn't homeschooled and he ended up both socially awkward and dumb as shit, fwiw

To that point weird people are weird. Socially awkward people are socially awkward. I don't think homeschooling vs sending to school is going to change a person significantly. I think it's just more common weird parents homeschool. Weird parents have weird kids.

 

[Baron Winnebago]

Most educational research suggests otherwise

Most educational research doesn't take the estimation of causal effects all that seriously

 

[That SOB Van Owen]

It sounds like everything he does well is a product of his innate abilities and everything that's off about him is due to his homeschooling.

I literally said I don’t know.

 

[Jim14510]

Ok just to follow up on this. The one home schooled guy I worked for/with is smart AF and probably the sharpest person I’ve worked with in 10+ years doing corporate tax. Is that a product of home schooling or is he just smart and good at what he does? That I don’t know.

I do know he is a bit lacking in the social skills area, even in his late 30s.

I think what homeschooling can do is taylor the education to the capabilities of the kid easier than public or even private school.

Just because it can doesn't mean it does.

 

[BingoDingo]

Most educational research doesn't take the estimation of causal effects all that seriously