Do you homeschool your kids?

Do your homeschool your children?

  • Yes

    Votes: 25 30.1%

  • No

    Votes: 21 25.3%

  • I plan to

    Votes: 37 44.6%
  • Total voters
    83
  • Poll closed .
I will when I have kids because both of my professions can be done from the computer and will be the stay at home dad if necessary if and when I ever have kids. In my 30s and thinking about it but the world is a little too fracked up to consider having kids now, I might adopt in a few years.
 
Absolutely. I sent my oldest to kind. and didn't want to. I ended up pulling him out halfway through the year. He's 11 now. I also have a 7 yo and a 2 yo. None of my kids will be going to public school. Homeschooling is awesome. My oldest literally invents all kinds of cool things- he has an invention almost every day. The only drawback is I have to keep an eye on him because he keeps taking apart stuff in my house to use for his inventions. The other day I had track down my missing towel rack from the bathroom- he had used it on a homemade cross bow (along w/the belt from my vacuum cleaner). ;)
 
I definitely plan to! I was homeschooled, and I am proud to say my parents were "homeschooling pioneers". :)
 
where is the "i dont plan to homeschool my kids" option? homeschooling kids for the sake of keeping them out of the department of educations hands seems a little extreme. I went through public school and I turned out just fine... or atleast thats what i like to believe.. im currently one year away to graduating from college with a degree in electrical engineering... I cant imagine being deprived of the lessons ive learned and the friends ive had throughout school. If you really are concerned about what your child learns than do what my parents did and get involved in your kids school work. Make sure you know when they ahve tests, projects and homework due. If they do well then they can get into advanced learning programs and will end up taking college level courses while still in high school. Maybe this isnt the same for everybody but im sure i would have missed out on many life lessons if I was never a part of the public school system and i plan on giving my kids the same treatment. And no, i dont believe in the department fo education and do think the system is flawed, but thats still not enoguh to convince me to homeschool my kids.
 
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I was homeschooled from 1st grade through high school but my son really wants to go to public school so that's what he gets to do. He starts kindergarten in August.
 
As much as I hate the sound of this, I am going to use the term "Super-schooling" - I do have my kids in public school but I will not rely solely upon the pss to educate my children. I am extremely dissatisfied with the fact that 2nd graders only got 3 days of science last year because the teachers literally spent ALL YEAR teaching to the bubble test for English and Math.

So I will continue to keep them enrolled but I also will take a very active role in planning learner-centered and child-led educational activities that I can do with them myself.
 
I'm not planning on homeschooling my children if/when I have them. First off and probably most important, they would lose out on the social aspect of school. Probably one of the greatest lessons you learn through public school is the life lesson of meeting people, making friends, and dealing with people you don't like and who don't like you. Second, I consider myself to be a relatively smart person, but I don't think I would be able to adequately teach my child in every subject that a public school would have to offer. There's a reason that people have to major/minor in specific areas in order to teach them.
 
soapmistress said:
As much as I hate the sound of this, I am going to use the term "Super-schooling" - I do have my kids in public school but I will not rely solely upon the pss to educate my children. I am extremely dissatisfied with the fact that 2nd graders only got 3 days of science last year because the teachers literally spent ALL YEAR teaching to the bubble test for English and Math.

So I will continue to keep them enrolled but I also will take a very active role in planning learner-centered and child-led educational activities that I can do with them myself.
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My plans exactly. My son is a major socialite and I don't want to keep him out of school for that reason alone. But I don't expect the school to teach him anything.
 
However, when you grow up and have kids, and you see their teachers handing out xeroxs made from photocopies made from ditto machines of the same purple-tinged worksheets that YOU sat in front of for hours as a kid, it kinda makes you wonder how smart these "teachers" are :) Sometimes you hafta wonder... why don't we still take sticks and draw math problems in the dirt? It would save a lot of paper.
 
I think about that...but kids who are home schooled have fewer friends, and when you are young friends are vital.

I'll probably keep them in school, but also teach them after school as well :)
 
Everyone I know who homeschools has children who do gymnastics, Little League, girl scouts, you name it. They are the moms who have WAY more time - not just to sign their kids up and drop them off at practice, but to actually be the parent leaders in all of these groups.
 
soapmistress said:
However, when you grow up and have kids, and you see their teachers handing out xeroxs made from photocopies made from ditto machines of the same purple-tinged worksheets that YOU sat in front of for hours as a kid, it kinda makes you wonder how smart these "teachers" are :) Sometimes you hafta wonder... why don't we still take sticks and draw math problems in the dirt? It would save a lot of paper.
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Exactly :D There are a few teachers who really put their all into their work but most of them could care less how much your child learns as long as they barely pass the tests. My wife comes from a long line of public school employees and as much as I hate to say it...I'm not impressed with most of them.
 
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I think about that...but kids who are home schooled have fewer friends, and when you are young friends are vital.

I'll probably keep them in school, but also teach them after school as well :)
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I think I turned out fine. I don't like very many people but that's because they are stupid and don't support Ron Paul...not because I was homeschooled and raised to be anti-social :D
 
SamuraisWisdom said:
I'm not planning on homeschooling my children if/when I have them. First off and probably most important, they would lose out on the social aspect of school. Probably one of the greatest lessons you learn through public school is the life lesson of meeting people, making friends, and dealing with people you don't like and who don't like you. Second, I consider myself to be a relatively smart person, but I don't think I would be able to adequately teach my child in every subject that a public school would have to offer. There's a reason that people have to major/minor in specific areas in order to teach them.
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Studies have shown that homeschool kids do better in socialization than public school kids. Think about it, is it better to have normal realtionships within your community or stuck in a room with 30 kids the same age? The answer is obvious.

John Taylor found, using the Piers-Harris Children's Self-Concept Scale, "while half of the conventionally schooled children scored at or below the 50th percentile (in self-concept), only 10.3% of the home-schooling children did so."[47] He further stated that "the self-concept of home-schooling children is significantly higher (and very much so statistically) than that of children attending the conventional school. This has implications in the areas of academic achievement and socialization, to mention only two. These areas have been found to parallel self-concept. Regarding socialization, Taylor's results would mean that very few home-schooling children are socially deprived. He claims that critics who speak out against home schooling on the basis of social deprivation are actually addressing an area which favors home schoolers.[47]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homeschool

47 Self-Concept in home-schooling children, John Wesley Taylor V, Ph.D., Andrews University, Berrien Springs, MI
 
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