To be honest, I didn't understand how homeschooling can be better if we take into account social aspects.
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I get it, really I do. I remember field trips as a kid with other home schoolers. I remember riding in the van to where ever we were going thinking, I don't belong with these people. But it wasn't the home schooling that made them weird, it was the parents. Are you a weirdo ? If that answer is no your kids will do just fine.
I was gonna say I’ve seen similar, but the common denominator in the weird ones is their parents.
Nope. there is no social interaction on a daily basis. Most ( and I didn't say all) home schooled kids have no social skills. they didn't have to deal with the rich clique or the bullies. They have no emotional quotient. Super smart, but really never know how to actually deal with other people. My GF was home schooled and said entering public school around 6th grade was the best thing that ever happened for her socially.
Those poor kids. My dad is a ME and I'll never forget him explaining math to me when I was in 3rd grade. 3rd grade question college answer. Learned to just figure it out myself unless I couldn't, then after every stone turned I would endure.
so you have two kids who socialized all through school and two kids who socialized through part of their schooling, never being kept from the others? But you don't think kids kept at home away from others could be harmful to their socialization skills cause you've never seen it with yours?
Thanks for posting that! This podcast was very helpful. It helped in the process of me getting my eyes opened.Be careful - there are some bad ones out there.
We home school after putting two older kids all the way through public school and the two younger ones started in public school. They shot light years ahead on the same standardized testing (which we have decided we will do every year just to see how they are stacking up).
We are only in our second year of doing it, and my wife has switched some of the curriculum. I will post what we use now later.
As an example, though, my little girl tested beginning of third grade on reading comprehension at the end of third grade. We started homeschooling for 4th grade, and she shot up to 6.8 (three quarters of the way through sixth grade) in less than one year. Beginning of third grade to almost seventh grade. It has been a night and day difference.,
Then, after the first year, I listened to this podcast and suddenly everything made sense.
Sold a Story: How Teaching Kids to Read Went So Wrong
There's an idea about how children learn to read that's held sway in schools for more than a generation — even though it was proven wrong by cognitive scientists decades ago. Teaching methods based on this idea can make it harder for children to learn how to read. In this new podcast, host Emily...
It is ten episodes. You should listen to it.
Did you know that two thirds of fourth graders in America cannot read at grade level? <-- Read that sentence again.
I thought, that has to be BS. But it is true. This podcast is years long in the making and tells you why it happened among a bunch of well meaning educators who thought they were doing the right thing.
Download that podcast and listen when you are driving. It is well worth your time if you have younger kids to educate or grandkids or you just care about the future of America.
