Home Schooling - discuss

Its like consumer/home economics, its like the name says, teaches you to cook and how to run a hotel and so on, its a nice subject actually
 
You have an exam in LO? :D...our school would riot/go ballistic if we had to waste time on an LO exam. Maybe the home-schooling syllabus is more exciting than the government one, but from what you've said, it sounds similar.
 
no i did that in normal school, in highschool a different syllabus was followed...

I can't understand how you write a LO exam eh...

The Traditional Home-Schooling syllabus is the normal school syllabus just adapted to kids at home...
 
Dominic Rooney said:
You have an exam in LO? :D...our school would riot/go ballistic if we had to waste time on an LO exam. Maybe the home-schooling syllabus is more exciting than the government one, but from what you've said, it sounds similar.
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They write on HIV, parenting, depression, divorce, eating disorders, life skills etc. Universities (as from 2009) all require LO as a subject and it counts towards the APS.
 
Just_Ice said:
Hotel keeping and catering?
Thats the first time I have heard of that subject...
Not like consumer/home economics?
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It's similar to the old Home economics (except boys and girls do it) and includes cooking, catering for banquets and running of a restaurant (pricing, stock control, safety, cleanliness etc). Quite handy. My kids won't be taking it to matric. At least they have learnt how to make jam, cauliflower au gratin, victoria sponge cake, some pasta dishes etc :)
 
Gazer said:
It's similar to the old Home economics (except boys and girls do it) and includes cooking, catering for banquets and running of a restaurant (pricing, stock control, safety, cleanliness etc). Quite handy. My kids won't be taking it to matric. At least they have learnt how to make jam, cauliflower au gratin, victoria sponge cake, some pasta dishes etc :)
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thats quite a useful subject even if i say so myself. I would take it to matric though if i had a choice...
 
Gazer said:
It's similar to the old Home economics (except boys and girls do it) and includes cooking, catering for banquets and running of a restaurant (pricing, stock control, safety, cleanliness etc). Quite handy. My kids won't be taking it to matric. At least they have learnt how to make jam, cauliflower au gratin, victoria sponge cake, some pasta dishes etc :)
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Hospitality Studies ... or something like it.
 
Peder said:
Do you even know what its like to work for your money?

And BTW waiters jobs are not making toast...
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I do infact. And let me tell you, consumer economics or what ever you call it is not gonna help you at waitering. All you need to do is be friendly, and do what is asked of you. Not know how to make "jam". In fact waitering has nothing to do with making the food.
 
you're pulling it out of context!!

I would take Home economics if i had the choice, but i don't :) see...

And i HAVE waitered i don't waiter anymore, it just took too much of my time before, thats why i stopped...
 
I was just reading an article in The Times newspaper and the murderer Johan Nel who went on the killing spree in Skierlik. The criminologist and psychologist blame his aggression towards people of other cultures to the fact that he was taken out of school in grade 3 and home schooled. This, they believe, caused him to not be able to relate to people from across the racial spectrum...his mom denies this.

He seems to be pretty messed up whatever way you look at it. I can't see every home schooled kid turning to killing people from other races but I can see there being some fear of the unknown if they were not encouraged to develop relationships with the full spectrum of people. Most people are fearful of the unknown.


http://www.thetimes.co.za/News/Article.aspx?id=905387
Although he has been branded a monster and his family admit they will have to live with the shame of his deeds for the rest of their lives, his mother, Corrie Nel, says that as his parents they can never turn their backs on him.

Nel killed four people and injured scores more in a racially motivated attack earlier this year.

In a frank interview with The Times, Corrie said the incident in Skierlik earlier this year not only shattered the lives of the people he killed and their families, but also changed the lives of the Nel family forever.

On January 14 Nel took a rifle and drove to Skierlik informal settlement, five minutes away from his parents’ farm, where he shot dead four people and wounded eight others.

He pleaded guilty to the crimes last month and was given four life sentences for the murders.

His parents, Corrie and Hennie, have since sold their farm in Swartruggens at a massive loss and are trying to start a fresh life elsewhere.

“By the grace of God we have settled in and have made some wonderful friends,” said Corrie.

Evidence led in court pointed to her son’s upbringing as having been seriously flawed, with a criminologist and psychologist remarking on his lack of social skills.

Both blamed the fact that Nel was taken out of school in grade 3 and home schooled as having deprived him of much-needed personal interaction with people from across the racial spectrum.
The court also heard how several attacks on people close to Nel turned him into a paranoid young man, who was fearful that a farm attack on his family was imminent.

But Corrie said they only realised after the incident that their son suffered from depression.

“Johan didn’t socialise with people because he was depressed, it was not as a result of the home schooling.

“Johan has always been someone who kept his emotions to himself ... he suffered from post-traumatic stress and we didn’t realise it,” she said.

Both Corrie and Hennie say they feel terribly sorry for the people of Skierlik, but maintain the attack wasn’t a personal one .

“It wasn’t against the people of Skierlik. He was looking for a place to take out his frustrations and unfortunately Skierlik was the first place [he drove past],” Corrie said.

Despite a failed attempt in the Mmabatho High Court to apply for leave to appeal against the four life sentences, the family will try a final attempt to reduce the sentence.

“We have asked our legal team to petition the Supreme Court of Appeal in Bloemfontein, because we think the court did not take Johan’s personal issues into consideration,” Corrie said.

“That’s also why we are trying to start a new life. If he comes out of jail one day, there has to be a place to come home to,” she said.

“I believe he can be rehabilitated.“
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Home school causes social retardation in kids. I have seen it in just about every kids who has gone through home schooling.
 
w1z4rd said:
Home school causes social retardation in kids. I have seen it in just about every kids who has gone through home schooling.
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I agree that a lot of kids that have been homeschooled may not be able to cope in large social settings but it doesn't make them killers...in fact the home schooled kids I've had dealings with were mostly passive (almost to a fault) and would avoid any kind of debate or argument. I think his family contributed much more towards his state of mind and his aggression towards black people than is being acknowledged.
 
Everyone seems to think that home schooling involves secluding and teaching your own kids at home.

There is a different form of home schooling where a group of parents home school their kids.
The class sizes are kept small (about 10 kids) and each parent teaches different subjects at their home. It's more like a mini private school.
Multiple cultures, no seclusion, one-on one tutoring, lots of field trips (which most schools lake badly), etc.
 
Paul_S said:
Everyone seems to think that home schooling involves secluding and teaching your own kids at home.

There is a different form of home schooling where a group of parents home school their kids.
The class sizes are kept small (about 10 kids) and each parent teaches different subjects at their home. It's more like a mini private school.
Multiple cultures, no seclusion, one-on one tutoring, lots of field trips (which most schools lake badly), etc.
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I wouldn't class a group of kids learning together as a typical home school. A home school (in my opinion) is a single kid or siblings being taught by their mother at the dining room table :)
 
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