cerebus
Honorary Master
THE WIFE: Wrathex and Noxibox, I appreciate your responses. I just want to make a few things clear about homeschooling, as it feels a bit like some people aren't very clear:
* Home-schooling is not purely sitting at home and learning. In today's age home-schooling, it is VERY organized. For instance, there are co-op groups where the kids get together and do a certain subject together, and often times someone is there to help them who is more specialized. Other than that you have master maths and kumon, and probably other places that helps with math. The kids have field trips, where they learn things hands on. They go out together as a group, and they spend the day together, this is also for all the ages, in the beginning of Feb we are going to Spier for a Eagle Encounters trip. Which kid in school does that? And kids learn much better than sitting in a class looking at a textbook.
*For sports: If you want to do sports, any kind of sports, rugby, swimming, you name it, you either join a club, or you join a school that is open to receiving home-schoolers. In Somerset West for instance it is Beaumont, and also a private school. They join the schooling going kids in their teams.
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For some reason you guys think these kids aren't going to get adequate socialization. My gets are with other kids everyday. Kids of different ages, races, situations etc. Why are they not getting adequate socialization, because I am in the background. I am still not clear why everyone labels home-schooled kids as being inadequately socialized?
Do you really want your kid to be in a situation where they have to smoke, do drugs, wear specific name brand clothing, just so that they can fit in? For what? Does that mean learning to socialize?
For a grade 8-12 pupil one needs about 3-4 hours a day of schooling and that includes homework. No changing of classes, sitting in boring assemblies etc. You are done. It gives them more time to spend time on their hobbies, visiting friends, reading etc. Sitting in a class from 8-3...eish!
I just wanted to bring out a few of these points. The ONLY place where it really changes, is that me as a parent has a choice in what education my child receives. I can do a excellent curriculum with him, and we can add work from the US, UK etc. In grade 9 they will switch over to the British Distance education curriculum, this is the A-levels, GCSE's which you hear from in the UK. So the sky is the limit for them in the further university education. If they want to go to Oxford, they will easily get in. But I think one needs to think twice if the regular standard matric pupil will get in 15 years down the line.
* Home-schooling is not purely sitting at home and learning. In today's age home-schooling, it is VERY organized. For instance, there are co-op groups where the kids get together and do a certain subject together, and often times someone is there to help them who is more specialized. Other than that you have master maths and kumon, and probably other places that helps with math. The kids have field trips, where they learn things hands on. They go out together as a group, and they spend the day together, this is also for all the ages, in the beginning of Feb we are going to Spier for a Eagle Encounters trip. Which kid in school does that? And kids learn much better than sitting in a class looking at a textbook.
*For sports: If you want to do sports, any kind of sports, rugby, swimming, you name it, you either join a club, or you join a school that is open to receiving home-schoolers. In Somerset West for instance it is Beaumont, and also a private school. They join the schooling going kids in their teams.
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- Well, for the curriculum we chose, you get a full subject manual on how to help the child. And again, you get master maths and these places where kids get the help they need. When I attended highschool, I had a math teacher, who did not know how to present maths to a child. I am sure, with a bit of guidance, that I can do a great job. Cerebus is excellent at math, and excellent at explaining!
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" - This is twice a week, the child is not even 2 years old yet. My older boy who is 3 and a half, has a group once a week, and then he joins "playdates" at least twice a week. I dont know how much a child under 2 should socialize.
For some reason you guys think these kids aren't going to get adequate socialization. My gets are with other kids everyday. Kids of different ages, races, situations etc. Why are they not getting adequate socialization, because I am in the background. I am still not clear why everyone labels home-schooled kids as being inadequately socialized?
Do you really want your kid to be in a situation where they have to smoke, do drugs, wear specific name brand clothing, just so that they can fit in? For what? Does that mean learning to socialize?
For a grade 8-12 pupil one needs about 3-4 hours a day of schooling and that includes homework. No changing of classes, sitting in boring assemblies etc. You are done. It gives them more time to spend time on their hobbies, visiting friends, reading etc. Sitting in a class from 8-3...eish!
I just wanted to bring out a few of these points. The ONLY place where it really changes, is that me as a parent has a choice in what education my child receives. I can do a excellent curriculum with him, and we can add work from the US, UK etc. In grade 9 they will switch over to the British Distance education curriculum, this is the A-levels, GCSE's which you hear from in the UK. So the sky is the limit for them in the further university education. If they want to go to Oxford, they will easily get in. But I think one needs to think twice if the regular standard matric pupil will get in 15 years down the line.
, I agree Cbrunsdonza, you have to be actively involved in your child's schooling, if they are homeschooled, public schooled or private schooled. . And the older they get the more you must sit with them, either with homework or extra work. My sil sits from 2pm till after 9pm with her kids, she has 2 school going age. They are grade 7 and grade 11. EISH!!!
