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athelas · 02-14-2002, 08:02 AM

I don't like the idea of homeschooling. I can't stand teachers! ( okay...sometimes) If my mum was a teacher my life would be a living hell.

Where I live few people homeschool. But homeschooling has its advantages too. One does not have to wake up at 5.30am to get to school.(me!!! I have to use 2 alarm clocks!!! I sleep like a log.)
And no stupid school uniforms too. ( Where I live, everyone wears school unis, complete with the crests....I hate it, but I can live with it. I've done so for more than ten years, which is almost my entire life.)

spidersbane · 02-14-2002, 09:57 AM

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Originally posted by fireworks19
No one smack me or any such, but I actually like grammar. I'm one of those annoying people who can't help but correct mistakes...

And really, it is useful. Makes you seem a lot smarter than you are...That's how I do it.

I agree completely! I have to have sometjing to make me look smart because math and all that junk is way hard for me. As for being home schooled, I was for 3 years, and I didn't like it. It is rather hard to have a social life, and I am a very social person. But I have seen some people that really enjoy it.

Griffin · 02-14-2002, 11:27 AM

I was homeschooled for 8 of 13 years of school (counting K as a year) and graduated a year early (thus I only had 12 years

). Let me tell you, when you get to college all the homework will look like more of what you've been doing and you'll be more able to deal with all that work that the public schooled people hate.

So look on the bright side (which I will admit is very small) you'll be used to teachers giving you cr*p...

***Tessar*** · 02-14-2002, 12:21 PM

Thancs fer tha offir Ryan, bot I cen speel juet FINE thenk yeu!

bropous · 02-14-2002, 01:09 PM

Well, I went to public school, and from age 14 I went to school full-time and held a full-time job. In junior and senior years I was on half-day release at school, which let me out at noon so I could go work. I never really enjoyed school til I found drugs, was such a loner and outcast it was a relief to actually get accepted by a group. What a wonderful lesson to teach a kid, huh?

Schools in the US are a total joke. No real teaching is done anymore for the most part, kids are taught to beat the system by studying for the required tests, and the entire "socialization" system has broken down to such a point that kids who are intelligent are dumped on by their peers, and "different" kids are hounded to the point of snapping every day of their school lives. No real safety exists, in most schools, and the concept of academic excellence is only a hollow motto.

Home schooling? I think you get limited by the intellectual capacity of the parent who is teaching, but to really look at it, one is also limited in "schools" by the limits of the teacher in the classroom. Heck, overall, homeschooled kids do better academically than public schooled kids, and the only drawnback anyone cites is the fact "they won't be able to socialize with their peers". Looking back on my own experience with "peers", I'd sacrifice the socialization for a little academic challenge. I was so bored with school, starting with second grade, that by the time I was in third grade I looked at the remainder of my twelve-year education as a prison sentence. I read better than most of the teachers I was supposed to be taught by, time and again was slapped down for being "too smart", and just had a truly horrible time in school. I despised every day. No wonder I was happy to get out of class and go to work.

Normal life is sooooooo much more rewarding!

As for Mum hammering you on what you have planned for school every day, why not try to set a time for school to start and to end, and agree not to discuss school subjects outside of that time.

Wayfarer · 02-14-2002, 04:26 PM

Lol!

Tess, you really have to understand that even if your mom can be annoying, she's prolly better than 90% of full time teachers.

And hey, when you're home schooled, you can set your own schedule, and get stuff done fast. Especially if you work during the summer. I'm planning to do that this year and graduate early (I'm almost done with my 11'th grade stuff).

Imagine the possibilities! I can start working full time, go to college early, sleep until whenever, and best of all I can go to both the junior and senior prom this year!

Seriously, it's not that hard. Just boring. Can I interest you in some ROM's to pass the time between subjects? ]: )

galadriel88 · 02-16-2002, 10:02 PM

I go to a small private christian school. (No, it's not Catholic.) There's only one class for each grade, it's K-12, and there's about 360 students, to give you an idea about how small it is. We don't have to wear uniforms, but all the girls have to wear skirts or dresses that come @ least to the knee. School lasts from 7:55 to 3:05 for elementary (K - 6) and til 3:14 for high school (7 - 12). But despite all the disadvantages, I wouldn't trade it for the world. I've gone there since Kindergarten and can't imagine myself anywhere else. I like it a lot b/c it's a great atmosphere - it's small enough that you know everybody in the whole school, and we have Bible class and chapel every morning. Plus our school's SAT scores as a whole are way above the state average (I dunno about nat'l). It's just a really great little school.

emplynx · 02-16-2002, 11:32 PM

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Originally posted by galadriel88
I go to a small private christian school.

Galadriel--I used to go to a school that sounds very, very similar to yours. Here is a small times line of my schooling.

K-4: Home Schooled. (K-3 w/ sisters, 4 alone.)
5-6: Small Private Christian School.
7-8: Public Middle School.
9-10: Public High School.
11-12: Probably Public still. (We will see.)

FrodoFriend · 02-17-2002, 03:32 AM

Wow, so many home-schoolers! I wish I were home-schooled . . . but I'd probably drive myself and my family crazy.

Public schools aren't that bad. Most of the trouble comes from the kids, actually. I've gone to public schools all my life, and if you really want to you, you can get a heck of a lot out of it. I'm in all classes above my grade-level, including some extremely good AP classes, a musical group, a musical play orchestra, and a sport . . . and my school is neither rich nor particularly "smart." There's a lot of opportunity there, but a lot of kids don't make use of it.

markedel · 02-17-2002, 06:33 AM

I go to what is purportedly the largest JewishHigh Shool in North America (1200+ kids). It's a great school, but its kind of bubblelike.

ryan · 02-19-2002, 03:51 AM

Number 1 reason to go to a regular school (not homeschool): You know how to spell stupid.

galadriel88 · 02-19-2002, 12:34 PM

Then I'm glad I'm not alone, emplynx.

Wow, markedel! What's it like there? Sounds huge!

***Tessar*** · 02-19-2002, 06:11 PM

*whacks ryan upside the head* harh! sea hew wall yur cen spall ahter THERT!

emplynx · 02-19-2002, 06:42 PM

I learned how to write stupid in French. BETE!

markedel · 02-19-2002, 06:50 PM

If I had cool fonts I could do it in hebrew

02-14-2002, 08:02 AM	#41
athelas Enting Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: The Twilight Meres Posts: 87	I don't like the idea of homeschooling. I can't stand teachers! ( okay...sometimes) If my mum was a teacher my life would be a living hell. Where I live few people homeschool. But homeschooling has its advantages too. One does not have to wake up at 5.30am to get to school.(me!!! I have to use 2 alarm clocks!!! I sleep like a log.) And no stupid school uniforms too. ( Where I live, everyone wears school unis, complete with the crests....I hate it, but I can live with it. I've done so for more than ten years, which is almost my entire life.) __________________ Farewell sweet earth and nortern sky, for ever blest,since here did lie and here with lissom limbs did run beneath the Moon, beneath the Sun, Lùthien Tinùviel more fair than mortal tongue can tell. Though all to ruin fell the world and were dissolved and backward hurled unmade into old abyss, yet were its making good, for this-- the dusk, the dawn, the earth, the sea-- that Lùthien for a time should be. "I am glad you are here with me. Here at the end of all things, Sam."-Frodo FRODO LIVES!!! (erm...Sam does too, right?) Last edited by athelas : 02-14-2002 at 08:04 AM.

02-14-2002, 11:27 AM	#43
Griffin Hobbit Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Illinois Posts: 27	I was HSed too! I was homeschooled for 8 of 13 years of school (counting K as a year) and graduated a year early (thus I only had 12 years ). Let me tell you, when you get to college all the homework will look like more of what you've been doing and you'll be more able to deal with all that work that the public schooled people hate. So look on the bright side (which I will admit is very small) you'll be used to teachers giving you crp... __________________ Griffin RPer Extradordinar! www.slipstreambbs.com ^Go to the RP Forum... Last edited by Griffin : 02-15-2002 at 10:48 AM.*

02-14-2002, 01:09 PM	#45
bropous EIDRIORCQWSDAKLMED DCWWTIWOATTOPWFIO Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: Littleton, CO Posts: 1,176	Well, I went to public school, and from age 14 I went to school full-time and held a full-time job. In junior and senior years I was on half-day release at school, which let me out at noon so I could go work. I never really enjoyed school til I found drugs, was such a loner and outcast it was a relief to actually get accepted by a group. What a wonderful lesson to teach a kid, huh? Schools in the US are a total joke. No real teaching is done anymore for the most part, kids are taught to beat the system by studying for the required tests, and the entire "socialization" system has broken down to such a point that kids who are intelligent are dumped on by their peers, and "different" kids are hounded to the point of snapping every day of their school lives. No real safety exists, in most schools, and the concept of academic excellence is only a hollow motto. Home schooling? I think you get limited by the intellectual capacity of the parent who is teaching, but to really look at it, one is also limited in "schools" by the limits of the teacher in the classroom. Heck, overall, homeschooled kids do better academically than public schooled kids, and the only drawnback anyone cites is the fact "they won't be able to socialize with their peers". Looking back on my own experience with "peers", I'd sacrifice the socialization for a little academic challenge. I was so bored with school, starting with second grade, that by the time I was in third grade I looked at the remainder of my twelve-year education as a prison sentence. I read better than most of the teachers I was supposed to be taught by, time and again was slapped down for being "too smart", and just had a truly horrible time in school. I despised every day. No wonder I was happy to get out of class and go to work. Normal life is sooooooo much more rewarding! As for Mum hammering you on what you have planned for school every day, why not try to set a time for school to start and to end, and agree not to discuss school subjects outside of that time. __________________ "...[The Lord of the Rings] is to exemplify most clearly a recurrent theme: the place in 'world politics' of the unforeseen and unforeseeable acts of will, and deeds of virtue of the apparently small, ungreat, fogotten in the places of the Wise and Great (good as well as evil). A moral of the whole (after the primary symbolism of the Ring, as the will to mere power, seeking to make itself objective by physical force and mechanism, and so also inevitably by lies) is the obvious one that without the high and noble the simple and vulgar is utterly mean; and without the simple and ordinary the noble and heroic is meaningless." Letters of JRR Tolkien, page 160.

02-14-2002, 04:26 PM	#46
Wayfarer The Insufferable Join Date: Aug 2001 Posts: 3,333	Lol! Tess, you really have to understand that even if your mom can be annoying, she's prolly better than 90% of full time teachers. And hey, when you're home schooled, you can set your own schedule, and get stuff done fast. Especially if you work during the summer. I'm planning to do that this year and graduate early (I'm almost done with my 11'th grade stuff). Imagine the possibilities! I can start working full time, go to college early, sleep until whenever, and best of all I can go to both the junior and senior prom this year! Seriously, it's not that hard. Just boring. Can I interest you in some ROM's to pass the time between subjects? ]: ) __________________ Disgraced he may be, yet is not dethroned, and keeps the rags of lordship once he owned Last edited by Wayfarer : 02-14-2002 at 04:41 PM.

02-16-2002, 10:02 PM	#47
galadriel88 Halfwitted Queen of Lothlorien Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: Far off in a dream Posts: 1,166	I go to a small private christian school. (No, it's not Catholic.) There's only one class for each grade, it's K-12, and there's about 360 students, to give you an idea about how small it is. We don't have to wear uniforms, but all the girls have to wear skirts or dresses that come @ least to the knee. School lasts from 7:55 to 3:05 for elementary (K - 6) and til 3:14 for high school (7 - 12). But despite all the disadvantages, I wouldn't trade it for the world. I've gone there since Kindergarten and can't imagine myself anywhere else. I like it a lot b/c it's a great atmosphere - it's small enough that you know everybody in the whole school, and we have Bible class and chapel every morning. Plus our school's SAT scores as a whole are way above the state average (I dunno about nat'l). It's just a really great little school. __________________ The beuatiful mind/The beautiful heart/Doesn't deserve the pain/How can I stop the rain? -How Can I Stop the Rain? by Kessid, my new favorite band +Every good thing that comes into my life is only a reflection of the greatest gift of all; the offering of yourself, dear Son of God+ Always remember, you're uniqe, just like everybody else! "The one constant through all the years has been the Trombone. America has rolled by like an army of steamrollers. Its been erased like a blackboard, rebuilt and erased again, but the Trombone has marked the time. This field, this section, this band is a part of our past. It reminds us of all that once was good, and could be again. Oh, people will come . . . people will most definitely come."

02-14-2002, 12:21 PM	#44
*Tessar* Master and Wielder of the Cardboard Harp of Gondor Join Date: Sep 2001 Location: IM IN UR POSTZ, EDITIN' UR WURDZ Posts: 6,433	Thancs fer tha offir Ryan, bot I cen speel juet FINE thenk yeu!

02-17-2002, 03:32 AM	#49
FrodoFriend Halfwitted Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: Eryn Vorn Posts: 1,659	Wow, so many home-schoolers! I wish I were home-schooled . . . but I'd probably drive myself and my family crazy. Public schools aren't that bad. Most of the trouble comes from the kids, actually. I've gone to public schools all my life, and if you really want to you, you can get a heck of a lot out of it. I'm in all classes above my grade-level, including some extremely good AP classes, a musical group, a musical play orchestra, and a sport . . . and my school is neither rich nor particularly "smart." There's a lot of opportunity there, but a lot of kids don't make use of it. __________________ Fingolfin lives! ... in my finger! The Crossroads of Arda - Warning. Halfwit content. Not appropriate for people with IQ of over 18. The Fellowship of the Message Board Nyáréonié - The Tale of Tears

02-17-2002, 06:33 AM	#50
markedel 'Sober' Mullet Frosh Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Queen's Posts: 1,245	I go to what is purportedly the largest JewishHigh Shool in North America (1200+ kids). It's a great school, but its kind of bubblelike. __________________ "Earnur was a man like his father in valour, but not in wisdom"

02-19-2002, 03:51 AM	#51
ryan t2t relic Join Date: Sep 1999 Location: Bay Area, California Posts: 531	Number 1 reason to go to a regular school (not homeschool): You know how to spell stupid. __________________ "And the Lord spoke, "Send me your money, Empty thine wallets into my pockets my pockets, the pockets of Ryan, Ryan, he who will deliver the money unto me. Then you will truley be happy." And the people followed, and all was well." --Ryan 62:33

02-19-2002, 12:34 PM	#52
galadriel88 Halfwitted Queen of Lothlorien Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: Far off in a dream Posts: 1,166	Then I'm glad I'm not alone, emplynx. Wow, markedel! What's it like there? Sounds huge! __________________ The beuatiful mind/The beautiful heart/Doesn't deserve the pain/How can I stop the rain? -How Can I Stop the Rain? by Kessid, my new favorite band +Every good thing that comes into my life is only a reflection of the greatest gift of all; the offering of yourself, dear Son of God+ Always remember, you're uniqe, just like everybody else! "The one constant through all the years has been the Trombone. America has rolled by like an army of steamrollers. Its been erased like a blackboard, rebuilt and erased again, but the Trombone has marked the time. This field, this section, this band is a part of our past. It reminds us of all that once was good, and could be again. Oh, people will come . . . people will most definitely come."

02-19-2002, 06:11 PM	#53
*Tessar* Master and Wielder of the Cardboard Harp of Gondor Join Date: Sep 2001 Location: IM IN UR POSTZ, EDITIN' UR WURDZ Posts: 6,433	whacks ryan upside the head harh! sea hew wall yur cen spall ahter THERT!

02-19-2002, 06:42 PM	#54
emplynx Self-Appointed Lord of the Free Peoples of the General Messages Join Date: Nov 2001 Posts: 1,214	I learned how to write stupid in French. BETE!

02-19-2002, 06:50 PM	#55
markedel 'Sober' Mullet Frosh Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Queen's Posts: 1,245	If I had cool fonts I could do it in hebrew __________________ "Earnur was a man like his father in valour, but not in wisdom"