In Saskatoon we belonged to a church, and ALL the parents home schooled. Now, one set did it straight from birth, another set pulled her kids (after they were diagnose ADD and she was not happy about that) and started hers. You were either part of their "moms who home school click" or you were not and didn't feel very welcomed.
Now, that really has nothing to do with it I guess, but I did note a few things. The mother who had 3 kids all home schooled were very well behaved, and seemed intelligent enough. But they were defiantly lacking the kid aspect. These kids could have survived being born in the 1800's. At 4 years old they were well behaved little working machines. They cleaned everything, did exactly as they were told, and generally very sheltered. Now there were more families in the church, and they all shared material but never socialized their kids outside of church time. They were all like this, behaved like this, it was cult like and very scary. The second you had a child they swarmed on you about home schooling and why you should.
The second woman, well her kids turned out horrible. She was unable to effectively deal with the problems her children were (very accurately and truthfully) diagnosed with. They got worse and worse, and she flower coated what her kids could do, compensated in their stronger areas and let their week areas get weaker and weaker. She was a minority in the group, but there were other parents just like this.
I also recently saw one of those swap children shows on the BBC kids channel. A little girl who was home schooled traded lives with a little girl from a city who went to school. The home school child struggled to keep up with the basics at school because of the shortcoming of what the person teaching her at home was able to do, but she excelled at other areas, this is true in most people who are home schooled. My one friend was kept home for elementary but sent to high school, and he said the same thing that he found some areas he was much weaker at when EVERYONE was able to at least do it, but other areas he excelled at without trying, he was also painfully shy and didn’t really know how to interact and found himself trailing a lot in our group of friends. If it was not for the fact that he was painfully good looking he would have had a terrible time in school I think.
All in all I decided that for a general well rounded knowledge and social interactions I was going to send my kids to school. Now I was ousted from my church because of it, but good riddance to bad rubbish. I would rather my children can keep up academically with everyone else, and maybe have to work a little harder to find what they can flourish in than cater to it right from the get go and let other things slip a little. In the end every kid who wants to go to university or college will have to go to school since that is one thing that can not be home schooled. I will gladly give up the well behaved robot children for the children I now have.
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Date: 2006-08-16 07:55 pm (UTC)Now, that really has nothing to do with it I guess, but I did note a few things. The mother who had 3 kids all home schooled were very well behaved, and seemed intelligent enough. But they were defiantly lacking the kid aspect. These kids could have survived being born in the 1800's. At 4 years old they were well behaved little working machines. They cleaned everything, did exactly as they were told, and generally very sheltered. Now there were more families in the church, and they all shared material but never socialized their kids outside of church time. They were all like this, behaved like this, it was cult like and very scary. The second you had a child they swarmed on you about home schooling and why you should.
The second woman, well her kids turned out horrible. She was unable to effectively deal with the problems her children were (very accurately and truthfully) diagnosed with. They got worse and worse, and she flower coated what her kids could do, compensated in their stronger areas and let their week areas get weaker and weaker. She was a minority in the group, but there were other parents just like this.
I also recently saw one of those swap children shows on the BBC kids channel. A little girl who was home schooled traded lives with a little girl from a city who went to school. The home school child struggled to keep up with the basics at school because of the shortcoming of what the person teaching her at home was able to do, but she excelled at other areas, this is true in most people who are home schooled. My one friend was kept home for elementary but sent to high school, and he said the same thing that he found some areas he was much weaker at when EVERYONE was able to at least do it, but other areas he excelled at without trying, he was also painfully shy and didn’t really know how to interact and found himself trailing a lot in our group of friends. If it was not for the fact that he was painfully good looking he would have had a terrible time in school I think.
All in all I decided that for a general well rounded knowledge and social interactions I was going to send my kids to school. Now I was ousted from my church because of it, but good riddance to bad rubbish. I would rather my children can keep up academically with everyone else, and maybe have to work a little harder to find what they can flourish in than cater to it right from the get go and let other things slip a little. In the end every kid who wants to go to university or college will have to go to school since that is one thing that can not be home schooled. I will gladly give up the well behaved robot children for the children I now have.