Home Schooling

Hello community

For a long time now I have been passionate about education. I feel it is every childs right to get as much education as possible while they can.

I really would love to know what peoples thoughts are about home school vs traditional school.

I am really quite clued up on both (I welcome any questions) although I currently don't have children they are possibility in the next 5 years and I want to get as much input on peoples thoughts and experiences so I can be prepared to do whatever is needed to provide the very best (Sorry I truly am one of thoses annoying people who plans far to far into future. I like to know my aims and what I need todo to achieve them...)
Anywho I know from speaking to friends people have very strong ideas on this. That is fine and I am greatful for them and you for sharing them. I too have strong ideals but I would really like a frank discussion with those who know me less well...

Home schooling vs tradional school vs ????

I guess it would depend a lot on how good the local/national school system is. I had a fantastic primary (private school) education but my secondary (public school) was pretty shoddy - that is despite it being a top school in the country...

Maybe I was just a rubbish student but I found that i wasn't challenging in the slightest (no revision and A's FTW) so I got pretty bored and that made me suffer in 6th form (17/18 year old - the two years before university and is optional in the UK)...

I quite explicitly remember wanting to have homeschooling and stand by this till today. I would try to teach my children because I know what the manufacturing line that is many people's education system can be like...

Many people can't because some families need both parents to work but if you can I probably would... I have visited my old primary school and they are doing robotics in year 4 (9 years old) and programming year 5/6 which you don't even consider until at least year 10/11 (15/16 years old) so it goes to show what you can get your children to achieve when they are in the right environment...

You may also get some personal satisfaction out of it by forming closer bonds with your child but you can teach them the things - such as ethics - which are never really covered but should be...

I was incredibly disappointed by my local education system(central USA), quit High School in the middle of my Senior year, got my GED before the end of that year and went to college to become a teacher so I could fix it. It was there that I learned even our teachers are cranked out of the factory and switched to psychology so I could fix the people making these BS calls. I gave up on that when I realized I should be more concerned with working on myself and figuring out how to stay a moral man in the system I was born to. Any who, my daughter is home schooled because her mom shares my disdain for public schooling and what it (doesn't) prepare you to be. She is eight this year and they are covering the space programs in America and Russia. She is already passing fair at Japanese and Spanish and is growing up with her mothers Russian. I'm extremely proud of her.

Thank you so much Rugadd and Akkarin for sharing.

I too am from the UK.

I went to a ok primary school good grades but had children bringing in knives by year 6 (10/11 years) so pretty average for state school.
Went to good secondary very supportive, good extra curriculum.

I think I have more of a problem with how subjects are taught and the pace.
My example is a friend. Amazing at biology in year 9 (13/14) could have aced GSCE there and them, but instead made to wait till year 11 when ment to take them. Of course A. Then alevel biology just was too difficult jump and dropped out. If he had done GCSE in year 9 he vould have had 4 years instead of 2 todo alevels and therefore going at his pace he may have succeeded.

Or students (very prominent in maths) who get 90% plus for years and the suddenly are failing. Its because the subject built on that 10% which the child did not understand...

I really want to home school. I have the space, prehaps the time as me and my partner and my mother run our businesses from home. Money is the second factor, it can costs lots to home school...

I could go on for hours...

But what about socialisation and isolation.... and people say the experiences and and friendships are invaluable plus what you learn about working with others in a system.... getting used to real world and jot being in a bubble?

Siriash xxx

well, i went to public school and turned out fine. *sniff*

my son went to kindergarten and first grade at the best public elementary in town, but is transferring next year to the local private school where his 13 year old sister already goes. i am kinda indifferent about it. and i dont have the time or patience to full on home school aidan, but it seems interesting.

I had a fantastic primary (private school) education but my secondary (public school) was pretty shoddy - that is despite it being a top school in the country...

Maybe I was just a rubbish student but I found that i wasn't challenging in the slightest (no revision and A's FTW) so I got pretty bored and that made me suffer in 6th form (17/18 year old - the two years before university and is optional in the UK)...

I quite explicitly remember wanting to have homeschooling and stand by this till today. I would try to teach my children because I know what the manufacturing line that is many people's education system can be like...

My story, right there. High school (despite being in a really goo one) pretty much disgusted me from anything related to school work. In college I reached a point where I'd rarely show up. I managed to go through the system without doing any work for 6-7 years... It was a waste of my time.

I think that the school system dies fantastic work and I too am fine. I am not trying to put done tradional school.

Also here in uk you don't get a choice on which school. You can give preference list but they will just do what they want anyway. My sister of 4 has been told she has to go to worst public school in area or pay for privet. There are 10 schools within walking distance... Or for secondary its entrance tests to get in to best schools, which was fine for me I had 5 offers, but some friends did not have any and went to remedial school before a place could be found in normal school usally miles from home. I realise this was 10 yearsish ago so things may have changed for secondary when you don't get in anywhere...

I wonder too how much time is waisted to and from school and between class rooms...

Love more expiences and comments...

I was homeschooled after being kicked out of school roughly halfway through 8th grade (age 13). I was able to graduate at age 17 and begin college, and I feel that I was better prepared than my colleagues. I also homeschool my kid, as the US public school system, as well as the private schools around here, would be hostile to our values. Personally, if the parent and kid have what it takes, homeschooling is the best. It's all the learning, no BS.

Siriash wrote: I wonder too how much time is waisted to and from school and between class rooms...

It isn't really that which is the problem. The bigger problems that arise are students disrupting the class, the teachers not being very good, the teachers teaching to the test and an idiotic curriculum. A great example in my school was that in history you could either learn about Medicine through time or the Wild West... really?! Those are the important historical events you choose to educate your children about?! Not the political reasons behind the two world wars or even just basic English history and the nature behind how civilisation evolved up through colonial times etc... even the rise of Israel would be more useful...

But that is the greatest failing of the education system. It teaches you to know and not to think... Facts I can learn on the internet within 30 seconds, but learning to think and reason and understand and build on that is far more important...

We were once told by a futurologist at Intel (someone who tries to guess what the future will be like) that eventually we will just be connected wirelessly to encyclopedias and fact learning will become a waste of time with social cohesion and understanding a much more valuable pursuit...

It teaches you to know and not to think...

SO TRUE. Even in the damned philosophy classs. tragic. I discussed it with the teacher, and how the class was a waste of time and not philosophy at all, the guy disappeared for three weeks.