Homeschooling...

I have to disagree. I know several homeschool kids. Some are increadibly smart and others no better than a regular school kid.

The difference is when they mix religion and the schooling. Its kind of sick what these people are teaching the kids.

But to say homeschooling makes kids retarded is just plain false. Its the creepy religious nuts that think they are smarter than science and try to keep their kids under their control.

*sigh*

lol reminds me of the movie "Jesus Camp."

I have mixed feelings about homeschooling. I've met some kids who are really bright and socially adept. On the contrary, I've met an entire family of home school kids and they all seem to be slower. I do have problems when religion is incorporated, but there is nothing I can do, so why rant?

My thoughts on home schooling from personal experiance.

Last school year (06-07), I was most most would consider a stoner. I spent most of my time looking to get high or getting high. Because of this I really didn't care about school much so I got to the point where I just stopped going to class for the most part. I'd go to a class or two and thats about it daily. As a result, My grades went down. It took overdosing and having straight F's to realize I was really **edited**ing up.

So I signed out of my traditional school and enrolled in a state  sponsored virtual school. At this point my GPA was a 1 something. Not very good. If I wanted to bring my GPA up and have any thoughts on a future, I had to re-take most of my classes. So thats what I did. For the last year I have been making all A's with the exception of Algebra which I had a B. Mainly because I'm terrible with numbers. My GPA is now a 3.5 and I am certainly glad I left traditional school when I did.

Socially, doing this is a pain in the ass. Why? You spend most of your day in front of a computer. I work on school from 7am to 4pm (taking 8 classes and one foreign language).

I start my Senior year at my traditional school in August.

As for the video:
I was raised in the typical Christian house. Believe in God, celebrate the major holidays, go to Church a couple times a year, you get the point.

The idea that people lived to be 800-1,000 years old is just plain silly. People suggesting that the T-Rex was a herbivore until Eve ate fruit is also quite silly. I have no problem with people raising their children in a Religious environment. But when it comes to the point of which you see in video's such as this and Jesus Camp, its gone to far.

Blessing a cardboard George W. Bush is damn silly. Its these small groups of radicals that make average Christians look like idiots.

Theres a hot girl at my school who was always home schooled up until this year.

Personally, I don't see any reason to have homeschooling.

I doubt that in the majority of situations, the kids get the same quality of education as as public school.

For those against homeschools teaching religion: how do you feel about private catholic schools?

Also, there certainly was an anti-religion bias in that video.

Edited by carl_the_sniper - 24 March 2008 at 10:47am

Susan Storm wrote: carl_the_sniper wrote: Personally, I don't see any reason to have homeschooling. I doubt that in the majority of situations, the kids get the same quality of education as as public school. For those against homeschools teaching religion: how do you feel about private catholic schools? Also, there certainly was an anti-religion bias in that video. Not so much anti-religion bias as anti-stupidity bias. As to Catholic schools - I am torn.  The religious indoctrination bugs me, but at least I have a sense that everything else there is pretty good quality.  But I would never send my kids to Catholic school. For home ed in general, I can imagine a few legitimate reasons, mostly relating to finances and convenience.  But mostly I think it is a mix of religious nuttiness and personal arrogance.

They took a pretty offensive angle to it.

Will colleges/universities care if someone has been homeschooled?

I did alright...


Aside from the whole, girl thing.

I knew one kid who was home schooled until high school.  he lived right down the block from me, and we were great friends... until high school.


He instantly became a dick and was too good to talk to me. 


home schooling is fine, any religious extreme home schooling is bad news.