Oh my my! I don’t watch this show all the time, but if there is nothing else on I will sometimes watch. They sure pick complete opposites for this show.
The one I’m watching right now has one family that home schools and pretty much keep their boys away from society. Now I don’t agree with keeping the boys away from everything and everyone, they are way too extreme when it comes to that. The other family is, excuse my language, but pretty much a big clusterfu**! They all do whatever they want, no responsibilities whatsoever. The ignorance coming from that family is astonishing, I can’t believe people act like that! They have no respect for themselves or anyone else. It’s just disgusting the way they live and that they are letting their kids be so immature and irresponsible. I won’t even begin to say what I thought about the mother of that family…lets just say she is the complete opposite of classy.
So anyway, while the home school family is a little extreme with some things at least they are raising very well rounded children with morals…which is so seriously lacking these days. But the mom has this sort of token system that the boys do chores to earn certain things. I have been trying to see if maybe they have a blog or something where I can find out how they do this system. I would love to plan out something like that, though with my own twist. Her boys can use tokens to buy time to listen to a radio show LOL….ummm, I’m thinking TV or video game time is a little more suitable for my family LOL.
I decided to check out the ABC page and see if on their discussion forum there was any mention of it. Well instead I came across complete ignorance!! People on there are commenting that homeschooled kids are so far behind public school kids and that they don’t speak proper English. That kind of ignorance makes my blood boil!! Not only is it obviously not true, in a room full of homeschooled and public schooled kids(heck even throw in some private schooled ones), I guarantee you would not be able to pick out which ones go to which school….with one possible exception….homeschooled kids often are more well mannered because they don’t pick up some of the habits that other kids do from their classmates. Homeschooled kids in fact usually score higher on tests than public schooled kids, and learn a much much broader range of topics. My kids do all the same topics that the public schools do, and much much more!
I am so not for the homeschooling vs. public school debate, every parent has to choose what works for their family and nobody has the right to say the other is wrong with their choice. But it pisses me off when people who are clueless go on spewing some crap that is completely false. The sad thing is that the people commenting on that thread had horrible spelling and grammar, but they were criticizing the education of others?
I hate getting on topics like this, but when I see garbage like that I need to make sure that people are aware of how FALSE the thought that homeschooled kids are less educated is. Homeschooled kids tend to do better in College or University as well because a big thing they learn while homeschooling is self-educating themselves. That is not something public school teaches though.
I am not saying my kids are smarter than a public school kid, in fact I classify my kids as average with potential, but of course all kids have potential. Mine just choose not to live up to their potential at this point LOL…they are typical boys who lose interest fast and whose minds are first and foremost on what THEY want it to be on, not what you want it to be on LOL.
Ok, that rant is over for now LOL….now to search for ideas for this token system thingamajig….
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Home schooling is a very good thing, but you are right there has to be socialization with other kids too. Just has to be.
Have a terrific day. :)
I am a public school teacher, and when children that were home schooled enter public school they are WAY behind academically. I am talking about several grade levels behind their same aged peers. I believe the reason is that many people that home school do not have a degree in education and thus do not know effective pedagogy. I think I could be an effective home school teacher, because I do have a BS in education, so I suppose it depends on the parent as to whether the child will be behind.
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Well "Teacher_Lady", that's unfortunately what most teachers say because they don't want people to truly know how well homeschooling really does work. Unfortunately it is far from the truth. It is fact that homeschooled kids learn a lot more that school kids and are more often than not ahead.
It does not surprise me that a teacher would make a comment like yours though. I love it when I find teachers who embrace homeschooling because they are not afraid to admit that it works, to them it is not a competition. Sadly to most it seems to be a competition and admitting how well homeschooling works is like admitting defeat to them.
All teachers have a BS in Education, but I have seen firsthand that often it means nothing.
Some parents simply cannot homeschool, plain and simple. And likewise, some teachers should not be teachers, plain and simple. But on both sides you have many who are perfectly capable, and their kids excel.
My husband and I both teach our children, and I guarantee you my husband can teach Social Studies and Science better than 90% of the teachers out there....and he has NO post-secondary education at all relating to teaching!
I have no problem with schools, I have no problem with parents who send their kids to school. I do however have a problem when people think they know better when they do not. Majority of homeschooled children cover the same things covered in school....and MORE. And they are offered far more resources in which to learn their curriculum.
So, I guess after typing all that, in short your comment is very false is what I'm saying. Our school we go through rates higher on Provincial testing than most public schools...that right there is enough to prove your comment untrue.
Teachers of long ago did not have a BS in education either, but that didn't make them any less capable of teaching students than teachers of today.
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