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Samuelismomma
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Does anyone home school?
Samuelismomma
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My DS is only 2 1/2 and in preschool. I'm thinking about home schooling. Wouldn't know where to start though. Lol
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Re: Does anyone home school?
@Samuelismomma - I meant to add, but got distracted at the time and forgot until I opened the post again today, that starting out with doing tot school now, while your child is still so young, may help you decide if homeschooling is right for you and your family. Teaching your kids at home requires a big commitment on your part. I didn't start tot school wanting to homeschool later, but it did help me realize just how big of a commitment people are making that do it, especially those that do it well.
I think simply joining a group or two and just reading some posts has been the most helpful for me. I belong to quite a few facebook groups devoted to homeschooling, and they have been extremely helpful. There are so many different types of homeschooling too that you should read up on. Some methods work better for different families, or even different children within the same family, so see if you can find something that fits your needs.
Good luck!
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Yes thank you. So ridiculous, and people wonder why I am so anti homeschooling.
I never said she should visit Pinterest for homeschooling a grade school child, but I will admit that I didn't come across correct in my first post. I do feel that starting a tot school like program before grade school is a good idea if you plan on homeschooling and there are a lot of blogs for tot school. I don't think some people realize the commitment, time, money, etc. that homeschooling takes. Starting on a small scale before the child starts school I think would help people realize just how difficult it will be be and that sometimes your child learns better from others. At least if they start now and realize that it is not for them, there is no real harm. I do have to say that it has been nice having you all back, even you AG.
Oh, and in the TOU, I believe not calling someone ridiculous is listed just above calling someone a bigot and beneath "acting like a bitch".
Yeah we were talking about tot learning not elementary school. I would use a accredited program or something for that. We might be moving back to my H's country in future and there schools are more advanced so even if he goes to public school would be behind in their curriculum. Thanks for everyone's opinions.
I think they were talking about ideas for a 2 yr old , to make learning at home fun..not for his high school diploma. That is what I got from their posts.
Telling someone they are "acting like a bitch" or "being a bitch" or "reminds me of a bored, bitchy housewife" is not a "direct attack". It's not an attack at all.
Telling someone "you ARE a bitch" or "what a bitch" or "can't reason with a bitch" is.
ALL of THIS above drives me bonkers, to be honest. I have always wanted TB to be a place where you had to be able to take whatever you could dish however, I don't make the rules and am forced to moderate along the guidelines above.
If you don't agree with me and feel very strongly that someone has attacked someone else, please report it and explain. I'll take a double look and ask other Mods as well as BumpMay.
eclaire 9.10.06 diggy 6.2.11
If I had to TRY and take a stab at your actual question I'd GUESS that:
"You are being a" or "...acting like a bitch/a fool/naive/ignorant/rude" is commentary made about a person's actions/opinions as they are written here, not the person saying them.
"You are a" or "What a bitch/asshole/moron/" is a direct name-calling attack on the person as a whole.
That's the best I've got and I'm hoping TB is closer to finalizing a more clear TOU guideline for us all.
eclaire 9.10.06 diggy 6.2.11
I was going to point her to actual blogs but I didn't have access to my computer at the time, so I just put Pinterest down (error on my part). There are however many homeschooling bloggers who pin on there and the pins will take you to their blogs and she can decide from there the blogs she likes.
She wanted to start teaching her two year old. I didn't suggest going there for grade school homeschooling - that is a whole different thing that is much much more complex.
There are a number of things that children learn best BEFORE age 5. Unless you're a professional with expert knowledge about education, then it's a good bet the things you find on pinterest aren't "best practices" and things will fall through the cracks. Not to mention, early intervention is incredibly important if there is an area of delay -- something a qualified teacher would notice that a parent likely would not. And, finally, remediation of problems is much more expensive and time consuming than prevention.
I'm a teacher. I've been to school for it, I've taught different grades, I take part in professional development, I read about DAPs. Am I qualified to teach DD math? Yes. But I'm also her mother and that means I'm not the best person to be her teacher. It's not about fun activities and reading blogs. Education is complicated, and kids can't have their development assessed by the same person who tucks them in at night. It's too hard to be objective for you *and* for the kid. Kids need to learn to take direction from unrelated adults and form different types of relationships. A mother and a teacher are very different relationships and it's good for the kid to be able to separate them.
Or, you know, we can count how many cotton balls are in the snowman. That's fun, too.
My son is in preschool already and will be to age 5. I appreciate you being a hard working teacher and your point of view but after researching my areas school and half the students aren't passing their state testing I'm slightly worried about my son going. There have been schools threatened being taken over by the state because kids are graduating without the essential learning skills for college. Unfortunately in the USA not all public schools are equal.
Dyslexia is actually one exception to the rule. It does not typically qualify a child for special education therefore often costs schools more to treat than they receive per child. It is often also very difficult to diagnose.
You proved my point--school departments will try to avoid diagnosing with something to save money. I would be fighting my school department and asking for a transfer if my kid wasn't being properly served on an iep. I think a kid who is prone to social and emotional delays with a learning disability like dyslexia is not best served at home. The school system is the best preparation for the real world challenges children will have to face as adults. I don't doubt your child would thrive academically with 1:1 instruction based on his learning challenges but its not worth the cost of the social and emotional growth/preparation for adult life that happens in the classroom that can't be replicated at home.
My kid has epilepsy too. It's pretty common knowledge that neurons misfiring impacts learning. Even if he didn't test poorly enough to trigger a dx if he was struggling in the classroom additional supports would have been appropriate. I don't know why a parent would fight that and pull their kid out of school.
True, but the kind of social growth/real world preparation that occurs when children are separated from their parents and are thrown into a classroom and forced to listen to a variety of adults with different teaching strategies/personalities, when they are paired with classmates of different background/personalities for group work on less desired activities--things like that are just a few examples of the many social experiences that kids get at school that can't be replicated with play dates with other homeschooled kids/extracurricular activities. School is more than just academic learning.
Oh and using one case of 20 year old data to make the biggest decision about a child's education? No words, theyd just be wasted.
There are a million options outside of sending your kid to a subpar learning situation or homeschooling. It doesn't need to be one or the other. Also that's great you met some homeschooled adults who fared fine socially but the plural of anecdote is not data. We know that homeschooling kids fare well academically but there's zero long term studies on how these kids do once they hit the real world.