It was a fairly honest, straight forward comment, so i'm sure you are.
This is the kind of asinine response -- typical of this board -- that makes me want to throttle someone.
I take a quote, that while it may hold validity, is backed by absolutely no fact, hypothesis, or even an explanation ... and i proceed to walk around how it may not be true.
The response i get back is some one line dick-swinging swill, devoid of any intellectual value.
Thanks.
:rolleyes:
If I was to smile and I held out my hand
If I opened it now would you not understand?
The other crazy thing about home schooling is when I think back to my elementary and high school education. There was maybe a couple of times where I got first year teachers. Most of the time I got teachers with years of experience teaching their grade or their subject who developed their teaching style over many years, figuring out what works and what doesn't. But if you are being home schooled, especially if you are an only child or an eldest child, every year you are getting a first year teacher for your grade. So every year your teacher is figuring out what works and what doesn't on you rather than drawing on their years of experience. That is like going to the hospital and asking to see a first year intern every time you need medical assistance. Personally if I sent my kids to a real school and every year from kindergarten to grade 12 they got a first year teacher I would be pissed.
On the flip side, who better to understand a child's particular learning style, than someone who has already taught them in previous years. While my own kids weren't home schooled, they were sent to a small, independent community school in their formative years. This allowed a much more personal approach, and the flexibility for my children to be taught according to their learning style, rather than the teachers teaching style.
There's no doubt we all have different ways of learning. The concept of left brain/right brain demonstrates this. Some people are visual learners, some are linear learners, and in most mainstream educational institutions, this logistically can't be catered for. So the child must fit a particular educators teaching style, and in most instances, will move on to a different teacher the next year, only to have to adjust to THAT teachers style of teaching. When you consider the difference in people in general, is it any wonder that so many kids have trouble at school?
My own children made the transition to high school quite well. They went from a school with no more than 25 children, to a single classroom of 28, with nothing more than the general anxiety you would expect from a 12 year old starting high school.
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This is the kind of asinine response -- typical of this board -- that makes me want to throttle someone.
I take a quote, that while it may hold validity, is backed by absolutely no fact, hypothesis, or even an explanation ... and i proceed to walk around how it may not be true.
The response i get back is some one line dick-swinging swill, devoid of any intellectual value.
Thanks.
:rolleyes:
If I opened it now would you not understand?
On the flip side, who better to understand a child's particular learning style, than someone who has already taught them in previous years. While my own kids weren't home schooled, they were sent to a small, independent community school in their formative years. This allowed a much more personal approach, and the flexibility for my children to be taught according to their learning style, rather than the teachers teaching style.
There's no doubt we all have different ways of learning. The concept of left brain/right brain demonstrates this. Some people are visual learners, some are linear learners, and in most mainstream educational institutions, this logistically can't be catered for. So the child must fit a particular educators teaching style, and in most instances, will move on to a different teacher the next year, only to have to adjust to THAT teachers style of teaching. When you consider the difference in people in general, is it any wonder that so many kids have trouble at school?
My own children made the transition to high school quite well. They went from a school with no more than 25 children, to a single classroom of 28, with nothing more than the general anxiety you would expect from a 12 year old starting high school.