Home schooling - what's your opinion? Virtual schools (online education) for middle and high school students? Do you think that the child/student misses out on crucial social engineering skills? Or can they pick that up almost anywhere?
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Mojo-JoJo
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I am highly in favor of homeschooling to the extent that the parents are qualified to be teaching their kids. If the parents can't offer the quality of education a teacher could, they should join a homeschooling group, where other, more experienced homeschooling parents can help. As far as social skills, it's not hard to get your children involved in community activities that will helo them develope more matured social skills than you will find in most public schools. (Some of my closest friends, who have the most matured and genteel social skills are home schooled.)If your kids are spending their time with actors in a community theatre, for instance, they will be experiencing a more cultured aspect of society than the convoluted, drama-infested scene of your local high school. To disspell any suspicion that I'm acting on bias - I grew up in the public school system.
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I home schooled my sons and grandsons. They acquired all the social skills they needed in the activities they participated in outside in school. They are all successful adults now. Everyone talks about social skills, but the way I and my brother were treated in school made our school days the most miserable days of our lives. I even tried to commit suicide, I was in so much pain, just out of high school. I recovered nicely a couple of years later, with the birth of my first son. Every time I hear about "social skills" in school, I get mad.
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I think homeschooling shelter a child and I just wouldn't want that. Yes, my high school experience sucked, but I think it's something all kids need to experience to realize that sometimes life is hard and things suck. I honestly think it teaches kids that they are going to have to deal with injustice and bias and all the things that aren't supposed to matter in the real world. But hey, that is just my opinion and I know everyone is different, but I would be a completely different person if I had been homeschooled.
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I don't think home schooling is a good idea. Children can't socialise if they don't go to school, and they don't have people to talk to. I think because school is strit sometimes, the children need it to teach them what right or wrong is. At school, you can have more variety of food for lunch.
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I think it's impossible to make a blanket statement. Some parents do a better job than the public schools do academically and for socialization. However, some parents use home schooling as a way to isolate their child from the world they live in. I know of one parent, who I work with, who homeschools so she doesn't have to have daycare for her 1 and 3 year old. The family is in the upper middle class so it's not because they hurt for money. Her 15 year old has been home schooled since she was 12 so she can watch the little one(s) from 10pm to about 11 am, sometimes longer when my co worker works overtime. I just don't think it's a good situation when a kid is playing mommy half the day (sometimes more). Does she get socialized? No, she rarely leaves the house.
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