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Homeschooling


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Do you homeschool your children and do you think you think it's a viable option for other families?

I do not home school any kids but it is not only viable it works better in every measurable way
 
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The issue here, as I see it anyway, is essentially trading one bit of peripheral knowledge for another.

As much as people may hate to hear things phrased this way, evolution, for the average lay person, ultimately is little more than a secular "creation story." While I suppose that it might provide opportunities for a person to expand their imagination in the same way that my knowledge of history does (I will admit to dreaming up bizarre alien creatures and speculating upon their evolutionary histories myself from time to time), it's not like a person is necessarily being "deprived" of anything if they are simply taught a different creation story instead.

Frankly, how many of these families are completely keeping knowledge of evolution away from their children anyway? A lot of the more fundamentalist Protestant families I knew would actually teach their children about evolution explicitly so that they could argue against it. :lol:

That frankly strikes me as being somewhat misguided. However, it's better than nothing, I suppose.



Honestly, judging from what I've seen of most of the rest of my generation, I don't even think I'd want to be "socialized."

Maybe that's a bit myopic, but it is the way I sincerely feel on the matter. :shrug:

When you say socialized what do you mean? I am trying to pin down what that means to people because I suspect it means different things to different people. I just want to understand better where people are coming from in this regard because when I think of socialization it seems it is not what others seem to think it is.
 
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So am I to presume the only real contact with humanity your sister had was with the family no consistent contact with people outside the family?

No, she went to church. But she was just so off that she didn't really make friends. It's sad, really, that she spent her entire youth having no real friends, and she has none now as an adult, as a result. She was raised in a very religious home - Pentacostal, for those who know anything about it. No makeup, no pants, no cutting of the womens' hair, etc. Within that religion, as in many other religions, they wanted the kids to get together, you know? To both be of the same religion, in the home. Well, none of the guys in that religion would date my sister because she was so off. None of them. She ended up marrying outside the religion, to a guy who didn't know her. Shame, too. She's a beautiful girl, blonde hair, blue eyes. She just doesn't know how to make friends or meet people.
 
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All of my sons play team sports, and most of their teams through the years have had at least 1 child who was being homeschooled. You wouldn't look at those kids and think they were any different from the others who were all attending the public schools in town, except that in retrospect, they were more polite and respectful of adults than our kids were.

I would home school my kids if they were getting bullied, were unhappy, or needed extra attention. I have a few friends that do it or have done it, and most of the time it was for the benefit of the kid for any number of reasons, and their kids were always well adjusted and very active in our town sports too. Home school kids have dances, parties and field trips just like my kids do, and got better lunches and actually got more exercise than my kids do during the school day.
 
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When you say socialized what do you mean? I am trying to pin down what that means to people because I suspect it means different things to different people. I just want to understand better where people are coming from in this regard because when I think of socialization it seems it is not what others seem to think it is.

Near as I can figure, for most people, "socialization" can mean either one of two things with regard to children.

A) That they learn to behave like everyone else around them so that they "fit in" with society at large and its prevailing social mores.

or

B) That they learn to easily interact with everyone else, so that they are not social outcasts.

I think position B) has at least some merit, but position A) is nothing less than complete authoritarian nonsense.
 
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All of my sons play team sports, and most of their teams through the years have had at least 1 child who was being homeschooled. You wouldn't look at those kids and think they were any different from the others who were all attending the public schools in town, except that in retrospect, they were more polite and respectful of adults than our kids were.

I would home school my kids if they were getting bullied, were unhappy, or needed extra attention. I have a few friends that do it or have done it, and most of the time it was for the benefit of the kid for any number of reasons, and their kids were always well adjusted and very active in our town sports too. Home school kids have dances, parties and field trips just like my kids do, and got better lunches and actually got more exercise than my kids do during the school day.

Plus you don't have to worry about your kids leaving you every day. With all the school shootings, I'm surprised more people don't home school. I'd love to home school both of my girls, but I am trying to do right by them and I want them to have this time to make friends, meet people and so on. I know that it can happen outside school, with home school functions, but unless something really bad happens, I don't want to take this away from them right now. Right now. ;) Homeschooling is always an option.
 
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Plus you don't have to worry about your kids leaving you every day. With all the school shootings, I'm surprised more people don't home school. I'd love to home school both of my girls, but I am trying to do right by them and I want them to have this time to make friends, meet people and so on. I know that it can happen outside school, with home school functions, but unless something really bad happens, I don't want to take this away from them right now. Right now. ;) Homeschooling is always an option.

It's so funny that you say that Superfly because that exact thought hit me last week when that kid stabbed his schoolmates in PA. I put my kids of their buses these days and hope that nobody is going to hurt them in school. Isn't that sad? I guarantee my parents never worried about that when I was their age.
 
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It's so funny that you say that Superfly because that exact thought hit me last week when that kid stabbed his schoolmates in PA. I put my kids of their buses these days and hope that nobody is going to hurt them in school. Isn't that sad? I guarantee my parents never worried about that when I was their age.

Same, same. I don't forget to say my prayers every morning when my girls go to school. So scary.
 
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When you say socialized what do you mean? I am trying to pin down what that means to people because I suspect it means different things to different people. I just want to understand better where people are coming from in this regard because when I think of socialization it seems it is not what others seem to think it is.

My daughter, the one home schooled in previous post has always participated in 4h programs for social interaction and learning. If you can learn to nurture and love an animal, it requires the same skills to deal with humanity, plus you do it with other 4Hers that become friends. I cannot emphasize how much I respect and appreciate 4H programs and personnel. It's a real gift.
 
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My daughter, the one home schooled in previous post has always participated in 4h programs for social interaction and learning. If you can learn to nurture and love an animal, it requires the same skills to deal with humanity, plus you do it with other 4Hers that become friends. I cannot emphasize how much I respect and appreciate 4H programs and personnel. It's a real gift.

I'm pretty sure 4H is a CIA front.
 
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When you say socialized what do you mean? I am trying to pin down what that means to people because I suspect it means different things to different people. I just want to understand better where people are coming from in this regard because when I think of socialization it seems it is not what others seem to think it is.

I think that most people just mean that they want their children to get plenty of interaction with other kids in their age groups, and learn to interact in a healthy manner. The home-schooling moms that I know made sure that their children hung out with a good number of other kids on their off-time.
 
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Yeah, I'm tellin ya- we have some bad-ass 9 year-olds around here. :lol:

Before long, we'll have infant agent provocateurs, like Pakistan.
 
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My daughter, the one home schooled in previous post has always participated in 4h programs for social interaction and learning. If you can learn to nurture and love an animal, it requires the same skills to deal with humanity, plus you do it with other 4Hers that become friends. I cannot emphasize how much I respect and appreciate 4H programs and personnel. It's a real gift.

I know all about the 4h programs they had them when I was going to school. I live in a big ag community so that's part of life here. You raise your animal, sheep or pig or the like. Then take it to the county fair show it, then sell it to be slaughtered generally. That last was the hard part for the kids the first time around then after a season or two they became accustomed to it. Its a great way to socialize children as they have to not only interact with their animals but their peers and the adults around them to get be able to take advise to raise good animals that get good price. Your right 4h is a gift. Anyhow when you say socialized what exactly do you mean?
 
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I think that most people just mean that they want their children to get plenty of interaction with other kids in their age groups, and learn to interact in a healthy manner. The home-schooling moms that I know made sure that their children hung out with a good number of other kids on their off-time.

Here's a question that's been bugging me. Why do parents want their children to learn to interact with their PEER group primarily? When my family looks at socialization we look at it from a completely different view, almost polar opposite. We look at it that the children should be getting as much interaction and socialization with ADULTS as they can and their PEER group is strictly for play and recreation any socialization that may come is simply by product of their play. Our view is that we are preparing our children for entry into the ADULT world, hence the need for as much adult interaction as possible. Working for and with and serving and being served by as many and as wide a group of adults as can be possible. So why the emphasis of most parents on this forum at least for children to socialize with their peer group?
 
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Near as I can figure, for most people, "socialization" can mean either one of two things with regard to children.

A) That they learn to behave like everyone else around them so that they "fit in" with society at large and its prevailing social mores.

or

B) That they learn to easily interact with everyone else, so that they are not social outcasts.

I think position B) has at least some merit, but position A) is nothing less than complete authoritarian nonsense.

So why the emphasis on socializing with the peer group?
 
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I know all about the 4h programs they had them when I was going to school. I live in a big ag community so that's part of life here. You raise your animal, sheep or pig or the like. Then take it to the county fair show it, then sell it to be slaughtered generally. That last was the hard part for the kids the first time around then after a season or two they became accustomed to it. Its a great way to socialize children as they have to not only interact with their animals but their peers and the adults around them to get be able to take advise to raise good animals that get good price. Your right 4h is a gift. Anyhow when you say socialized what exactly do you mean?


Face to face interface with single individuals or groups or programs, fun, the ability to compare lifestyles and public school thought processes. The ability to develop the skills required to propose or accept compromise to accomodate varying cultural differences and dogmas. I'm sorry for being so wordy, but I am trying to give you a real answer. Religion is important to some people for the same reasons. My daughter did not raise meat animals, but small animals, certified-registered breeds and learned basic DNA for breeding, as well as for show. Now she sells a few to cover expenses. At every level, it has been a social interaction and a market adventure in useful and positive ways.
 
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Our view is that we are preparing our children for entry into the ADULT world, hence the need for as much adult interaction as possible. Working for and with and serving and being served by as many and as wide a group of adults as can be possible. So why the emphasis of most parents on this forum at least for children to socialize with their peer group?

I would guess primarily so that they feel comfortable in both worlds- the world of adults, and the world of friends. My kids got plenty of adult interaction at home and visiting with adult friends of ours, but had they not been in a regular school setting, they would have not known how to interact with other kids very well, because they were raised out here in the sticks, without other children to play with. They lived where they could learn to hunt, shoot, fish, and explore on this property, but they didn't have friends here. Imo, they need both.
 
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that made me laugh out loud. I think I need to change it to something else.



I love it. It looks like my niece, except that my niece doesn't have that crazy look in her eyes. :lol:
 
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