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| Fri, 03-14-2008 - 8:22pm |
Wacky Americans
- We yell for the Government to balance the budget, then take the last dime we have to make the down payment on a car.
- We whip the enemy in battle, then give them the shirt off our backs.
- We yell for speed laws that will stop fast driving, then won't buy a car if it can't go over 100 miles an hour.
- Americans get scared to death if we vote a billion dollars for education, then are unconcerned when we find out we are spending three billion dollars a year for cigarettes.
- We know the line-up of every baseball team in the American and National Leagues but don't know half the words in the "Star Spangled Banner".
- We'll spend half a day looking for vitamin pills to make us live longer, then drive 90 miles an hour on slick pavement to make up for lost time.
- We tie up our dog while letting our sixteen year old son run wild.

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I disagree with you, but I'm pretty sure
The system is just not set-up that way. It's all your fault ya know... ;)
They are lashing out at homeschoolers because they cannot manage their own administrative flaws. Don't feel bad, it's my fault too. On another board I'm being *nudged* to just help the poor failing schools in my area to be better. And I guess my kid is supposed to suffer in the meanwhile...all his fault they don't fix that administrative flaw too ya know.
"I honestly couldn't do it.."
That is the attitude of almost all homeschoolers at first. After they condition themselves to drop their current perception of school = learning, and they learn about terms such as deschooling, they start to change their attitudes.
Homeschool learning doesn't usually mimic classroom learning. I know it is hard for people to imagine what *other* kind of learning exists because I was once of those people. :)
"lashing out"??
This is something else that people don't consider...
"It's frustrating sometimes when my oldest comes home not 'getting' something and we have to work on it.. seriously.. wow"
I would think that homework which parents have to help with can sometimes be difficult for the parent because they are so unfamiliar with the curricula and it's been a while since you've seen a problem laid out the way it is in the homework assignment. With homeschooling, we don't have that problem. Parents study the lesson and then have the current lesson on our minds - sometimes for days, lol. But yes, it's much easier to help with homeschool homework than a traditionally schooled homework assignment.
We have more problems trying to explain it so she can truly understand. I don't know how the teacher is explaining it.. so I see what you are saying. Most times my DD is just trying to make it seem more complicated than it really is.
Haven't posted here before, but I have to disagree.
Paying taxes to support schools is not the same thing as buying meals in a restaurant.
Your child is only a baby now...you have time to plan and research. If you have a need for sports then create a team. It took a few years but the parents here have created all sorts of sports and clubs. It would be difficult if your area has few homeschoolers but we were successful because of the numbers and then of course the parents having a combination of money, desire and know-how.
It is possible.
There is nothing wrong with being PC in a large group setting except that I feel it is limiting in some instances.
"Not disagreeing, just want examples of some of the literature you use."
I can't find the post where I talked about Literature but I will share some ideas. With Math, there are many story-books that will teach a math concept through the story. You can go to Amazon or B&N and do a search on "Math". Gregory Tang is one of our favorite authors. For Science, we usually study biographies and autobiographies of famous Scientists that correlate to the lesson. I have a list of few Mathematicians that I would like to study that way too but my son is only in 3rd right now so that is a little more mature than he needs right now. The story books that I spoke of above are great for that age-group.
Now with History, we use the Bible a lot and I have a favorite reference book that I use. It is "All through the Ages" by Christine Miller. Basically, it's a guide that has lists of books we can checkout at the library. The lists are broken down by time-period, famous person and country. The lists of books are organized by age-group so that you can easily find the right books to study for the age of your child. As a guideline, we use the "Story of the World" series and the "Mystery of History" series. We also use History books by "Beautiful Feet Press" which are also written in story format. I feel like this method is superior over the text-books I've seen. That is just my opinion though...coming from a parent who wants her children to retain what they've learned. I just don't think we learn as much through boredom - speaking from my own school experiences of course.
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