Home Schooling does NOT work.

VictoryGin

Spinbrett wrote:

Ya, your kid may grow up and win spelling bee's. But he will be a social misfit and probably become a unabomber. Or maybe send anthrax through the mail following some pattern in the phone book. If you don't believe me, check this home schooled kid out. He just won the spelling bee but has no idea how to communicate with another human other than his mom.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=z4hLS01uscY&feature=related

oh i see. sadly i was under the mistaken impression that serial killers come from single moms or the gays.

farfromglorified

Abookamongstthemany wrote:

I don't think either side of this argument can make a strong case on these extreme examples, especially when other factors might have contributed to them, as well.

Excellent point.

Home schooling works wonders for some kids and destroys others. Same goes for institutional schooling of all kinds. Trying to make massive generalizations regarding the verious methods of schooling is a very perilous business.

farfromglorified

VictoryGin wrote:

the gays

Hehe...I always laugh when someone puts "the" in front of a group of people as if they're some kind of singular entity intent on destroying us all.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tZZv5Z2Iz_s

i am a target

um. my mom homeschooled all of her children for a few years (we did go to public school too..)

and here's the horrible outcome:

child one: PhD in math
child two: MA in history
child three (me): soon to be getting my MA in political science then law school
child four: MA in english + teaching credential
child five: BA in art history will be continuing on to get an MA
child six: just entered college. will be getting his BA in a few years.

and we're all "normal" people too.

Cosmo

Some work... some don't. It all depends on the teacher.

farfromglorified

hobbes wrote:

um. my mom homeschooled all of her children for a few years (we did go to public school too..)

and here's the horrible outcome:

child one: PhD in math
child two: MA in history
child three (me): soon to be getting my MA in political science then law school
child four: MA in english + teaching credential
child five: BA in art history will be continuing on to get an MA
child six: just entered college. will be getting his BA in a few years.

and we're all "normal" people too.

LOL...what a travesty. Between the six of you, I can only imagine how many corpses are piled up in your basement.

VictoryGin

farfromglorified wrote:

Hehe...I always laugh when someone puts "the" in front of a group of people as if they're some kind of singular entity intent on destroying us all.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tZZv5Z2Iz_s

oh well i wouldn't be surprised if some actually thought that. and it works well with many groups: the blacks, the ladies, etc.

i am a target

farfromglorified wrote:

LOL...what a travesty. Between the six of you, I can only imagine how many corpses are piled up in your basement.

keep that on the DL. please.

inmytree

justam wrote:

That boy is somewhat Autistic. That's all.

THey call someone like him a "high-functioning" person with Autism. I'd say his parents have done pretty well with him. He is trying to keep his eyes up while he talks and he is using his intelligence to try to understand what she's asking him. Despite the fact that he doesn't have the expected enthusiasm or emotional response, he's not being inappropriate.

If you've seen a lot of these kids, you can recognize them.

This thread makes you seem ignorant.

exactly...!! on both accounts...

I'd be willing to bet this kid has a diagnosis of Aspergers or Pervasive Developmental Disorder...

and yes, the OP is just plain ignorant...

silent t

I have NEVER met someone who was home schooled past the 7th or 8th grade who wasn't socially awkward.

farfromglorified

silent t wrote:

I have NEVER met someone who was home schooled past the 7th or 8th grade who wasn't socially awkward.

I've never met a polar bear.

_Crazy_Mary_

silent t wrote:

I have NEVER met someone who was home schooled past the 7th or 8th grade who wasn't socially awkward.

Hey, silent t! How's it going? Are you still living in the same town as me?



back to the subject. I've thought about homeschooling my girls, but at the same time, I have to agree with silent t that I've never met any longtime home schoolers who weren't socially awkward... That doesn't mean they all are, but in my personal experience, they have been.

inmytree

silent t wrote:

I have NEVER met someone who was home schooled past the 7th or 8th grade who wasn't socially awkward.

I've never met a anyone who was home schooled...and if they were, they never said anything...:rolleyes:

macgyver06

Spinbrett wrote:

I mean, don't you want to interact with other kids? It cant be fun playing kickball with your mom everyday. How do you play heads up seven up with only 2 people?

you know all kids who are home schooled... arent exactly homeschooled by themselves right? there are other kids... almost like a public school except the intention isnt profit. Its to grow their children.

macgyver06

farfromglorified wrote:

LOL...what a travesty. Between the six of you, I can only imagine how many corpses are piled up in your basement.

what you missed is that they are actually named

child one
child two
child three

Wilds

I don't agree with homeschooling for my children only because I want them to experience the social aspects of public schools. I thought this list was interesting though.

FAMOUS HOMESCHOOLERS

Build character and inspire your homeschooler with real-life stories of famous homeschoolers throughout history. To read their biographies, please click on each name and a new window will open with content courtesy of Wikipedia.


ARTISTS:

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Leonardo da Vinci | Books About Leonardo Da Vinci
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Claude Monet | Books About Claude Monet
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John Singleton Copley | Books About John Singleton Copley
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Andrew Wyeth | Books About Andrew Wyeth
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Jamie Wyeth | Books About Jamie Wyeth

COMPOSERS:

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Irving Berlin | Books About Irving Berlin
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Anton Bruckner | Books About Anton Bruckner
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Felix Mendelssohn | Books About Felix Mendelssohn
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart | Books About Wolfgang Amadeuz Mozart
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Francis Poulenc | Books About Francis Poulenc

EDUCATORS:

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Frederick Terman (Stanford University President) | Books About Frederick Terman
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William Samuel Johnson (Columbia University President) | Books About William Samuel Johnson
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Frank Vandiver (Texas A&M University President) | Books About Frank Vandiver
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John Witherspoon (Princeton University President) | Books About John Witherspoon

GENERALS:

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Stonewall Jackson | Books About Stonewall Jackson
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Robert E. Lee | Books About Robert E. Lee
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Douglas MacArthur | Books About Douglas MacArthur
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George Patton | Books About George Patton

INVENTORS:

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Alexander Graham Bell | Books About Alexander Graham Bell
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Thomas Edison | Books About Thomas Edison
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Cyrus McCormick | Books About Cyrus McCormick
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Wright Brothers: Orville and Wilbur Wright | Books About Wright Brothers

PRESIDENTS:

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John Quincy Adams
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William Henry Harrison
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Thomas Jefferson
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Abraham Lincoln
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James Madison
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Franklin Delano Roosevelt
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Theodore Roosevelt
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John Tyler
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George Washington
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Woodrow Wilson

PREACHERS & RELIGIOUS LEADERS:

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Moses
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Joan of Arc
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John the Baptist
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William Cary
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Jonathan Edwards
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Phillip Melanchthon
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Dwight L. Moody
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John Newton
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John Owen
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Charles Wesley
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John Wesley
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Brigham Young

SCIENTISTS:

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George Washington Carver
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Pierre Curie
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Albert Einstein
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Blaise Pascal
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Booker T. Washington

STATESMEN:

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Konrad Adenauer
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Winston Churchill
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Benjamin Franklin
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Patrick Henry
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William Penn
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Henry Clay

U.S SUPPREME COURT JUDGES:

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John Jay
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John Marshall
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John Rutledge

WRITERS:

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Hans Christian Andersen
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Pearl S. Buck
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Agatha Christie
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Charles Dickens
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Bret Harte
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C.S. Lewis
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Sean O'Casey
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George Bernard Shaw
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Mark Twain
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Mercy Warren
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Daniel Webster
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Phillis Wheatley

CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION DELEGATES:

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Richard Basset (Governor of Delaware)
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William Blount (U.S. Senator)
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George Clymer (U.S. Representative)
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William Few (U.S. Senator)
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Benjamin Franklin (Inventor and Statesman)
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William Houston (Lawyer)
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William S. Johnson (President of Columbia C.)
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William Livingston (Governor of New Jersey)
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James Madison - 4th President of the U.S.
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George Mason
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John Francis Mercer (U.S. Representative)
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Charles Pickney III (Governor of S. Carolina)
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John Rutledge (Chief Justice U.S. Supreme Court)
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Richard D. Spaight (Governor of N. Carolina)
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George Washington - 1st President of the U.S.
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John Witherspoon (President of Princeton U.)
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George Wythe (Justice of Virginia High Court)

OTHERS:

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Abigail Adams (Wife of John Adams)
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Ansel Adams (Photographer)
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Clara Barton (Started the Red Cross)
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John Burroughs (Naturalist)
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Andrew Carnegie (Industrialist)
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Charles Chaplin (Actor)
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George Rogers Clark - Explorer
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Noel Coward (Playwright)
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John Paul Jones (Father of the American Navy)
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Sandra Day O'Connor
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Tamara McKinney (World Cup Skier)
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John Stuart Mill (Economist)
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Charles Louis Montesquieu (Philosopher)
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Florence Nightingale (Nurse)
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Sally Ride (Astronaut)
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Bill Ridell (Newspaperman)
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George Rogers Clark (Explorer)
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Will Rogers (Humorist)
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Jim Ryan (World Runner)
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Albert Schweitzer (Physician)
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Leo Tolstoy
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Martha Washington (Wife of George Washington)

Spinbrett

sounds like a long list of some weird/crazy people to me.

Kel Varnsen

Wilds wrote:

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PREACHERS & RELIGIOUS LEADERS:

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Moses
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I am not sure where your list came from, but I am pretty sure Moses lived long before the idea of a formal schools were developed so it was not like he was homeschooled as a choice based on multiple options.

ForestBrain

This is so funny. I would like to know, first off, who sets the standards for what is socially...what, perfect? I love it when people are different. Who wants a world full of the same person? I was home schooled and I'm not the least bit socially awkward. I get a long fine with people, and in fact, I tend to hold more intelligent conversations than the people I talk to, who were all schooled in public schools. I'm 23 and I have my own business, I play piano and I wrote a book, and I'm really good with people. So, home schooling does not mess a person up. There were two reasons I was home schooled. One: my mom did not like the idea of her children being around a bunch of kids she didn't even know (and by the way, my mom had seven kids, so I had PLENTY of social activities). Two: she wanted to know what we were learning and that it was important.
I believe it should be up to the parents. It isn't up to anybody else, especially ignorant jerks who like to stick their noses in other peoples' business.
If I ever have any kids, they are going to be home schooled. Between the drugs they feed kids for being energetic and the punks in schools, there is no way I would subject them to such a culture. Not to mention the sex-ed, the fact that they teach evolution (and if they are going to do that, they should at LEAST teach all of the other religions in the world). Does this mean I would leave my kid in the dark? No. I would teach them what evolution is. Everybody should be fully educated and able to make their own choices.

JaneNY

I think the original post was probably somewhat trolling, because it is not reasonable to make a blanket statement such as homeschooling does not work. My friend's homes-schooled daughter got: full scholarship of tuition, books and board to college, was the valedictorian at her college, and is now doing her PhD with full scholarship for tuition and I think, living stipend. No one system works for everyone, because people learn differently. This is where conventional schools can get it wrong, because not everyone fits the same mold.