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Chit-Chat: In the midnight hour, she cries because she's sad and alone and just a little pathetic.

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Oh my goodness it's really cold right now. I'm hanging out at my college library because I have the day off. I would be at home but my mom is home and I'd rather just not be home right now for reasons I won't state. But it's cold in here. >_< I've been on the computer for like, five hours now xD bum is numb

It looks like it's gunna rain actually. I might as well start heading back so I don't get caught up in the rain.
 
Magic said:
Ours used powerpoint presentations they've hadfor years and we had access to! :D Basically, might as well stay home and read to yourself in half the amount of time.
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That's the self-reasoning I give myself whenever I start feeling guilty about skipping classes XD Teachers have already posted everything in advance beforehand, which tempts me into staying home, and reading the material myself instead of going to class D: It's like, what am I even paying for? :c
 
I know that if I stay home, I'd never read the material. So I'd prefer to listen to the teacher ^^
 
Haha, yeah, not the best idea when you have a bunch of distractions around your house :P But I do somehow manage when it comes down to the crunch.
 
I never knew anyone to be homeschooled, but parents always raveabout how much better it is for their kids...probably because they're always right there with their kid, watching them like a hawk
 
A few courses in my college are hybrid classes, where half or more than half is you teaching yourself on the internet. The amount of self discipline those would take o_o
 
Ambellina said:
I never knew anyone to be homeschooled, but parents always raveabout how much better it is for their kids...probably because they're always right there with their kid, watching them like a hawk
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Haha, homeschooling. ;-; My parents considered for it when I was a kid, but thank god that they did not go through with the plan. I'm a pretty shy person, and not being able to interact with other people would have caused me to become even more shy.
 
Being shy isn't necessarily all bad. At the very least, it allows one to analyze things (or give them the time to, anyway). Wish I could do that on a regular basis haha
 
Heartouch said:
I think home-schooling is different because the only one to interact with are parents and teachers, meanwhile we interact with friends as well if we're in the school, so I think we'll become more sociable if coming to school... in most of the case.
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Nope, common misconception #1.

I was homeschooled all my life, and I don't regret a single year of it.

Plus the kids get to interact with the people who really matter to them the most -- their parents, their families, their loved ones.

Catholic Nun said:
I have to wonder what benefits home schooling has - it kind of seems like a recipe for disaster in later life. What's it preparing people for?
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Everything that actually matters in life. You're not forced to learn calculus or chemistry or anything you won't need in real life. Instead, you learn how to grow healthy relationships, how to find what you're really happy at doing and pursue it, and how to earn money at a young age.

I saw this on Twitter once:

[PokeCommunity.com] In the midnight hour, she cries because she's sad and alone and just a little pathetic.


Makes sense.
 
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I don't think anyone is homeschooled where I live. I don't even understand how that would work. I suppose you could still meet people and friends at other activities though, like horse riding courses, swimming courses, dance class, ju-jutsu and other excercise sports, playing in an orchestra etc, to take some examples from my childhood :3
 
Doctor said:
I don't think anyone is homeschooled where I live. I don't even understand how that would work. I suppose you could still meet people and friends at other activities though, like horse riding courses, swimming courses, dance class, ju-jutsu and other excercise sports, playing in an orchestra etc, to take some examples from my childhood :3
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Exactly. It's like everyday summer.
 
The Void said:
Everything that actually matters in life. You're not forced to learn calculus or chemistry or anything you won't need in real life. Instead, you learn how to grow healthy relationships, how to find what you're really happy at doing and pursue it, and how to earn money at a young age.

I saw this on Twitter once:

[PokeCommunity.com] In the midnight hour, she cries because she's sad and alone and just a little pathetic.


Makes sense.
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This attitude has always kind of bugged me, like because you might not use it in the future makes it not worth learning. If we were taught only things that we were guaranteed to use in later life, then the world would be filled with a whole lot of people who know how to survive but little else. If we aren't all given the opportunity to learn things above and beyond the basic survival skills, then how will anybody be able to learn what they're gifted at? I'll never use a polynomial or visual arts or science in my life, but if I hadn't gone to the classes and figured that out, I never would have known.

That just adds to why I think home schooling is such a bad idea. Not only are you not taught these extra things, you're not taught how to foster healthy relationships. How can you be when your only relationships are with your parents and teachers?
 
Catholic Nun said:
This attitude has always kind of bugged me, like because you might not use it in the future makes it not worth learning.
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I never said that. I learned theoretical physics and microeconomics by homeschooling. All I was saying was that homeschooling helps kids focus on what they are really happy at and not some maths choked down their throats that they most probably won't end up using for the rest of their lives anyway.

Catholic Nun said:
If we were taught only things that we were guaranteed to use in later life, then the world would be filled with a whole lot of people who know how to survive but little else. If we aren't all given the opportunity to learn things above and beyond the basic survival skills, then how will anybody be able to learn what they're gifted at? I'll never use a polynomial or visual arts or science in my life, but if I hadn't gone to the classes and figured that out, I never would have known.
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It's great to learn such things but most of the time the case is that the child is either too disinterested or too bored to learn the wonders of these subjects. What homeschooling does is it follows the pace of the student's learning, not the other way around.

Catholic Nun said:
That just adds to why I think home schooling is such a bad idea. Not only are you not taught these extra things, you're not taught how to foster healthy relationships. How can you be when your only relationships are with your parents and teachers?
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Most modern homeschool systems nowadays apply socialization programs, so their students can not only socialize but they can also get the best out of homeschool as well.

Look, I'm not saying homeschooling is for everyone or that it's in any way superior to regular schooling. If a paranoid mom forces her kid to homeschool for entirely wrong reasons ("I don't want my child to get bullied!"), then the decision to homeschool is wrong. Homeschooling should be the choice of both the parent and the child.

I gave my full consent to be homeschooled, so everything went pretty well. Since there was no need for stuff like uniforms and attendance, I had both the time and resources to buy books and learn anything I wanted, save even more money, attend seminars, and travel the world to meet new people. So yeah, if homeschooling was pretty great for me, then I see no reason why it couldn't be great for others too. :)
 
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The Void said:
I never said that. I learned theoretical physics and microeconomics by homeschooling. All I was saying was that homeschooling helps kids focus on what they are really happy at and not some maths choked down their throat that they most probably won't end up using for the rest of their lives anyway.
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I think this really hits on something that shows why homeschooling can work, but only in certain circumstances - the child has to be motivated. You can't have an average kid that doesn't want to go to school, doesn't want to do homework, and has no interest in any academic subjects and try to homeschool them, because they will do everything in their power to twist the "education matches your pace of learning" part of homeschooling into as little learning as possible. But if you have a child that you trust to be honest and tell you that they hate math and never intend to do anything math-related, then you can believe they're not just trying to get out of as much of school as possible.

Although I have to note that my university and a lot of the top universities in the US require some math no matter what your major is - even a Fine Arts major would have to take at least up to Calculus 2. I do find that calculus gave me a deeper understanding of the world around me; when you realize that things like throwing a ball adhere incredibly strictly to the rules of derivatives it's really an eye-opener. That was the first time I really saw the beauty of math.
 
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