Yes. You can't send your child away for ten hours a day where they are molded by other people's beliefs, and expect them to grow into the person you want them to be.

Originally posted by jasonl1983
Yes. You can't send your child away for ten hours a day where they are molded by other people's beliefs, and expect them to grow into the person you want them to be.

Exactly. But that doesn't stop anyone from expecting it and then being disappointed beyond all measure in their later years. If we have to pay for mistakes, at least let them be our own.

homeschooling is great if you have the time, money and ability to do so... so for most people who work 1-2 jobs and both parents work how do you homeschool ur kids? at night while you are sleeping to wakt up at 4am for your first job?

I have a feeling that homeschooling will soon be outlawed.

Originally posted by AnnKoontz
I have a feeling that homeschooling will soon be outlawed.

All of the states support it. The law reads kids must attend school, not where. Of course that doesn't mean much anymore.

Public schools are a good place to expose your kids to any of the following: coarse language, physical violence, sexual harassment/abuse, lying and social intrigues, and drug abuse. I went to public schools myself and feel like it prepared me better than if I had gone through my education believing that people were fundamentally good. I still don't like what kids have to go through at public schools, however. If I ever had children I'd want something better for them.

Cyberschooling is great.

It's 10x better than home schooling. Not sure what state you're in, but some states give your child the computer.

All the lessons are online. Classes are self-paced.

Plus the classes keep getting better and better. They keep adding new classes.

And you get to spend time with your kids instead of having them be programmed all day.

I greet You!

We had home-schooled our sons, and we thought that it was the best for them, then as they got older and asked to go to a public school, to learn to inter-react to other children their age, they found out how it really is, not saying all kids are dis-respectful.
Our sons found out that to be respectful was not "Kool" or to be attendative in class was frowned upon by the other kids in class, it was a learning experience for them.
The learned to adapt, to be able to determine that they live in many facets of life and many ways all around them. Its kind of like, when do you shelter them kids too much, and then be unable to deal with others around them.
Now, they want to be home-schooled, again due to recent events in other schools.

Originally posted by sconner755
Cyberschooling is great.

It's 10x better than home schooling. Not sure what state you're in, but some states give your child the computer.

All the lessons are online. Classes are self-paced.

Plus the classes keep getting better and better. They keep adding new classes.

And you get to spend time with your kids instead of having them be programmed all day.

Absolutely true. I know kids who have gone this route and they're all working and happy. Most homeschoolers depend on computer courses to some degree, some to a large degree.

Nice thing about this web schooling and virtual classroom is that you could gain exposure to really good teachers without having to physically move your family across the country. Also love the co-op homeschooling, as you could gain/lose a good or bad teacher quickly and without having to deal with a teacher's union.

My feelings on this are very basic, very simple and brutally honest.

- Some parents can make this work far better than any public or even private school is capable of.

- Many parents can do a decent job and be equivilent to a public school (excluding the worse performing of course).

- MOST parents, I believe, would go beyond simply doing a disservice to their kids by this and actively harm their development and advancement to develop into well reasoned adults ...even to the widely varying degree public schools can define that for an outcome.

Over the years with my Son and his autism, I've run into both extremes. All I'd say is please please, to those considering doing this .... Think it through in a REAL way and not a 'what you wish it would be' way. Similar time in effort, work and study to the real classrooms........can the prospective parent handle that? Equally important in MY opinion, can the prospective parent pass the same grade requirement testing across the Elementary/Middle levels AT LEAST that the kid would/will? If not...how can a student teach what they don't know themselves?

If all of the above comes out to be positive? Then by all means... The homes where it works produce some of the BEST kids these generations today have, IMO. .....but fail means the kid never gets a second chance and you've doomed them. Just something to think about.

Ive homeschooled our kids for several yrs. It's expensive and its work.. and it's great. I spend maybe 2K on their materials and lab equipment a year. For social interaction and the rest of their schooling I pay for tae-kwon-do, gymnastics and private violin lessons. They are co-ops for field trips.. bunch of kids together. We do leanring dates as well as play dates. There is homeschooling ( reading classic comics and learning basket weaving) and homeschooling ( giving the kids a TRUE superior education). My oldest in her high school yrs went half at home and advanced classes at the local community college. Now she is in college.

I first decided to homeschool due to the fact that the school in the area we transferred to was almost 2 yrs behind the previous school, violence ridden, and sub par. The private schools were simply a place where the kids who were expelled went to with vouchers. Then when the middle daughter had her liver transplant, it was the only way to keep her education continuous.

Good luck! Oh, and not all programs cost what ours did. I knew the kids could do it and we did all advanced classes so naturally the curriculum and materials were more expensive.