Home schooling...
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FYI - the dependency to teach our kids rests in both places. Too many parents today want to hand off all responsibility of school and then blame the teachers for the outcome. It’s a shared responsibility by the parents being engaged in their work and helping to make it a priority at home.
Yes….now all of us lazy can’t compete ****ing fat slob gossiping losers who occasionally get up out of our super duper public raping tax paid for luxury chairs can finally get some more cash to blow on swisher sweets and mickeys malt liquor during our plan and lunch periods!It is starting...since teachers are quitting and they can't fill spots they are starting to pay more and more. Get ready for the property taxes to spike!
Homeschooled kids down the road get a ton of PE. If I take the day off they are riding bike up and down the highway at 10 am. If I leave work early they are riding bike up and down the highway at 2 pm. But I'm sure they are up at 5am working on calculus.
My little hooligans had a discussion about the Revolutionary War the other day on the way home. If only they were home schooled it would have been a discussion on nuclear physics or cell biology.
My little hooligans had a discussion about the Revolutionary War the other day on the way home. If only they were home schooled it would have been a discussion on nuclear physics or cell biology.
Is that to imply we aren't cool? You'll have to spell it out for me, I wasn't homeschooled after all
You will think it’s irrelevant until they decide to go in to medicine or another field in science where a grasp of advanced math and chemistry is essential. I get the frustration with both public and private schools. ONE bad teacher can steer your kid away from a tremendous career in the sciences. Likewise a great teacher can help them see the possibilities.
Unfortunately my daughter had a great History and Government teacher….who also happens to be a socialist. Great guy. Great teacher. We’re just hopeful that living in the socialist utopia of California, paying their taxes, and having her new car being broken in to is bringing her back home to the values her parents preach. She’s got the work ethic thing down.
Public school opened opportunities that NEVER would have been available to her OR her parents if we had been home schooled.
I have to admit that there are some really interesting thoughts in this thread. I do feel (this is just my feeling on it) that there are some posters that are scared of public schooling and some that are scared of home schooling. It is interesting, both sides of it.
I am thinking back to school, I went Private K-8 and public in HS...I could simply not imagine being home schooled. I say that because I just can't imagine my parents (or one parent) teaching me math or science or English or history past the age/grade of like 5th grade.
And I can't imagine being at "home school" from 8am - 3pm and actually doing stuff that entire time. With that said, I have never actually "seen" home schooling in action, as in, I have never actually watched or observed a week of what goes on...mostly because that would probably require me to break and enter into a home.
I am thinking back to school, I went Private K-8 and public in HS...I could simply not imagine being home schooled. I say that because I just can't imagine my parents (or one parent) teaching me math or science or English or history past the age/grade of like 5th grade.
And I can't imagine being at "home school" from 8am - 3pm and actually doing stuff that entire time. With that said, I have never actually "seen" home schooling in action, as in, I have never actually watched or observed a week of what goes on...mostly because that would probably require me to break and enter into a home.
I am a teacher and I could never teach science or math past about 3rd or 4th grade.
I could totally teach PE at an advanced level though! But, one vs one dodgeball sounds lame.
Our area teachers were in favor of in school teaching. They hated kids being able to opt for online classes. It didn’t work. Every one I talked to thought it was a joke.
I could not stand online classes. We did it for like 2 months and then did hybrid the next year, it was horrible.
I wonder if once parents saw what online learning was like, if it made them more or less in favor of homeschooling. I feel like there has bee na big jump in homeschooling over the last few years.
Back to online classes...it was brutal as a teacher. Talking into my laptop over Zoom, clearly seeing that students were not listening or had me on mute or were all of a sudden having "internet issues" so they had to log off. Lame
IMO the problems most people have had with public education have been the progressive agenda pushed by administrators and governments. It has given license to individual teachers to go off the rails.
I think that has been blown out of proportion by a few tick-tock videos.
Most teachers are just "normal" people that show up at 7am and leave at 3:30. Like most people, we don't want extra work and we don't want issues with bosses/parents.
There are obviously a crazies in the field too.
You forgot to mention how you are trying to turn those kids against their parents and get them to switch genders!
I agree but there’s no checks on the crazies anymore.
Figured that was assumed when I said I was a public school teacher(hence the "yeah I'm horrible").
I think you are selling yourself short of what you can teach. If you can read a textbook and lesson plan, and put in some time and effort to learn a little bit more yourself about the subject, you have the ability to be a higher level teacher in those subjects. You may not like to do those subjects yourself, which is a different scenario.
And FWIW, people would be amazed at how much any person can learn - without a teacher - just by reading. I have no scientific evidence but I think the failure of public/private schools is very likely correlated to the decline in required reading for class and not teaching logic.
I was always envious of the home school kids. I only attended public school. My kids went to private school until we moved to Lincoln.
I felt like most of the school day was arbitrary. I didn't need the instruction as much as most I suppose.
I got kicked out of PE. I had to sit in the office every day during PE (it was actually a closet with a one way mirror for a window). It was lame as shlt.
It is what made me realize that I should homeschool my kids. But I don't hate my kids the way most parents do.
I felt much of college was a waste of time for this reason. Most of the assignments were for me to go do a bunch of research on my own. Ok, I don't need to pay $20k a semester to go read the internet. I can do that for free.
I am starting to think you were not at school...but at a police office! haha
I wasn't homeschooled either, but I can spot a smart ass when I see one. And no, we're not cool.
In a typical high school of 500 graduating seniors, what percent want to be doctors or dentists? Of that percent, how many actually make the grade and become real doctors and dentists? Not a high percentage. For the vast majority of the student body, that other stuff will play no part in their lives.
I can't speak of your daughter's experience in California, but the state has become a total shit hole. You can live in areas like Pasadena, Sherman Oaks and have a reasonable life, BUT the state politics soon devour daily life. My son LOVED California for about 15 years, yet, the last 5-8 years it has become intolerable in so many ways, taxes among them.
He lives there part time and the other time in Houston. Same thing in Houston, another shit hole. So, because he is able, he is now going to make his home, at least part-time in Boise. He works remote, and my wife and I would just as soon he and his boys return home and back to some midwestern values.
Would love to see your daughter return to her roots and a resemblance of normalcy.
The medical industry has become a money piraha. The new Doctor's hippocratic oath has become,
"First, do no harm, to your bank account."
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That is funny, I have said for like 10 years now that buying property in Idaho is a smart move...it is just a matter of time before it blows up like Colorado, in terms of value.
Me a smart ass? 100% guilty as charged.
I fully admit to enjoy joking with people in a thread where people are painting with disturbingly broad brushes, and the truth lying somewhere in the middle.
I agree, but certainly am not directing this comment towards Pelini. The dude plays horses!!
How bad a person can he actually be?
I have a brother and sister in law that have lived there for 15 years and would attest to what you say here Super.
It's all good man. I've been known to be a smart ass too.
This has actually become a very good thread. We have a couple educators, people who are pro/anti public school, and pro/anti home schooling. Educators and non-educators. But, as adults, we are all tasked with being teachers.
Several areas of concern that are shared by almost everyone here. The more the topic is discussed, the easier it becomes to see what has or will shape the way people respond to the whole home-schooling, non home-schooling thing.
A good variation of opinions.
If public schools would just let teachers teach, and the willing kids to learn, the thing partially corrects itself. Its the intervention of those wackos with the wierd agendas that create a lot of the angst.
Not all teachers are good, not all teachers are bad. Not all students are good students, not all students are bad students. Some due to circumstances, are just unreachable.
Its just the bad, and the really bad, that can overshadow a lot of the good.
So your kid moved from California to Boise to escape Californian's? Good luck with that.
Have you looked at buying a house in the Boise area? It's already insane.
I guess if you don't want to be painted by a broad stroke brush maybe reign in your colleagues a little bit when they get caught doing terrible shitty stuff to students and it gets plastered all over media outlets as well as social media. You know, PROOF.
And maybe when there's proof don't act smug and uppity about it as if your people can do no wrong.
Oh who am I kidding, is so pervasive from the Gov on down its normal in insane world.
And maybe when there's proof don't act smug and uppity about it as if your people can do no wrong.
Oh who am I kidding, is so pervasive from the Gov on down its normal in insane world.
