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March 2014 Moms
UO
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Re: UO
you realize you're calling a majority of people bad...because your son saw "porn" on an iPhone. How does he know what porn is? And how old are these sensitive children with iPhones?
Ps- trimming that quote and adding the image was very hard on the iPad. But I'm dedicated.
Me: 28 DH: 27
MIL has great difficulty using the proper names and it drives me nuts even though DH and I have explained to her that we don't want the kids being taught the wrong words.
Thankfully the kids are with me more, so they will just think she is weird. Lol.
Also, when DD was a preschooler and asked why I was bleeding in the shower, I explained my period to her. She was okay with it.
She still knows more than most of her class about anatomy.
I guess overall, my UO:
I think parents should teach kids young, especially when asked, about their bodies.
* I had never heard the word penis until I was 10 and vagina around age 11. Clitoris? 16?
IMO that was late, too late, but my mom never talked about anything like that.
With that said, you need much more than knowledge to be a good teacher.
@mommyKT310 your comment implies that all you need to be a good teacher is content knowledge. So not true! I have seen teachers who hold doctorates struggle to be good high school teachers, because they lack the skill to teach. Teaching is a combination of many skills, knowledge is just one of them!
I will always send my kids to public school. I think meeting new people, making new friends, dealing with disappointment, learning to juggle different classes, turning in work on time, etc. are invaluable life lessons.
Lastly, saying that there are more bad public schools than good is just not true. A majority of teachers really care about their students, and their education. They are not in it for the pay!
I think for one we are talking about infants who have no choice but be subjected to whomever you chose to be around vs school age children who can learn how to communicated and discuss things they feel or that you have taught them are innapropriate.
DH and his siblings had SO many opportunities while being home-schooled. They had home-school groups where they went to different houses every week and had a different style of teaching, they went on field trips to museums, the zoo, NASA, etc. As a family, they could go on vacations whenever they wanted. They were apart of church groups, little league, boy scouts, etc.
Married : ** 09/09/2011 ** BFP : 07-18-13 ** Baby #1 is a GIRL , Born 03/12/14 **
** BFP 2 : 01- 05-15 ** EDD 09-11-15 **
Married : ** 09/09/2011 ** BFP : 07-18-13 ** Baby #1 is a GIRL , Born 03/12/14 **
** BFP 2 : 01- 05-15 ** EDD 09-11-15 **
Education is super important to me . We've already been saving for Harper to go to the VERY best private school in our county. That's our choice . And my child wont be to stupid she cant go to college ! what I meant by my statement was that who cares where your kids go to school. As long as the get an education it doesn't matter if its private , public, home school. Parents are going to choose what best suites their family.
Married : ** 09/09/2011 ** BFP : 07-18-13 ** Baby #1 is a GIRL , Born 03/12/14 **
** BFP 2 : 01- 05-15 ** EDD 09-11-15 **
@FarmBoysWife
Married : ** 09/09/2011 ** BFP : 07-18-13 ** Baby #1 is a GIRL , Born 03/12/14 **
** BFP 2 : 01- 05-15 ** EDD 09-11-15 **
If I misunderstood what are you saying, I apologize.
Married : ** 09/09/2011 ** BFP : 07-18-13 ** Baby #1 is a GIRL , Born 03/12/14 **
** BFP 2 : 01- 05-15 ** EDD 09-11-15 **
Where I grew up, I had never heard of anyone homeschooling.
I now know several families that do it.
I think if they have the ability, patience and smarts to do it, great.
Honestly, sometimes I think my DD would do better homeschooled than at public school, but I don't have the patience to try it myself. Maybe I can find a private full time tutor. :-?
These are some main issues I have...
1) Public education must (and should) educate all students regardless of who they are and how they act. Charter schools can simply return students back to their public school if they don't behave.
2) Charter schools get money from the public education budget for each child that enrolls but this hurts public ed funding substantially.
3) The achievement gap has not improved since the advent of Charter schools.
4) Because of reason #1, I would argue that they could possibly be a significant reason why reason #3 is still a problem.
This is not to say ALL charter schools are evil but the foundation of their existence is wrong and the few charter schools that are "doing it right" doesn't quite make up for it.
I would even argue that if a charter school is "doing it right" it would not be with practices that are sustainable on a national level... And isn't the point to improve education for all? Why not just invest in public education so that everyone can benefit?