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<blockquote data-quote="Poke78" data-source="post: 2404126" data-attributes="member: 4333"><p>Here, I googled it for you: <a href="https://www.google.com/search?q=socializing+a+homeschooled+kid&rls=com.microsoft:en-US:IE-Address&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&sourceid=ie7" target="_blank">https://www.google.com/search?q=socializing+a+homeschooled+kid&rls=com.microsoft:en-US:IE-Address&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&sourceid=ie7</a></p><p></p><p>Many articles on that aspect of homeschooling and the myths surrounding it, your last sentence being among them. I've seen comments on the web from some that if a homeschool parent thinks their child is missing something from the public school experience, they could always go smoke in the bathroom while the kid is in there, "pants" him, steal his lunch money, and give him a "swirly" to ensure he has the full experience.</p><p></p><p>I'm of two minds about homeschool (HS hereafter) since my kids went to a "good" public school system, the same one from K-12, the youngest graduating in 2004. Generally a good experience but could have been better. Now those kids have one child each and I'm more concerned about schools than ever before. I'm less certain there are "good" public school systems and the impacts of the broader society within the schools concerns me, along with this Common Core train-wreck.</p><p></p><p>OTOH, I have been able to personally observe some HS kids in general settings and it's easy to pick them out of a group of peers. One was in my son's Boy Scout troop where I was the Scoutmaster. The HS boy did not easily mix with the others on group activities and had difficulty in leadership roles, especially in communication as he had an uncorrected lisp that would have been addressed in PS (wife was a PS speech pathologist for nearly 30 years.)</p><p></p><p>Another HS boy I've observed is the son of a colleague and has some other challenges that made a regular classroom nearly impossible for all. The choice to HS was to give him the structure and intensive management he needed that PS could not deliver. It's made a significant difference for him and he still gets to socialize through church activities where he's more easily accepted than in a competitive school setting.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Poke78, post: 2404126, member: 4333"] Here, I googled it for you: [url]https://www.google.com/search?q=socializing+a+homeschooled+kid&rls=com.microsoft:en-US:IE-Address&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&sourceid=ie7[/url] Many articles on that aspect of homeschooling and the myths surrounding it, your last sentence being among them. I've seen comments on the web from some that if a homeschool parent thinks their child is missing something from the public school experience, they could always go smoke in the bathroom while the kid is in there, "pants" him, steal his lunch money, and give him a "swirly" to ensure he has the full experience. I'm of two minds about homeschool (HS hereafter) since my kids went to a "good" public school system, the same one from K-12, the youngest graduating in 2004. Generally a good experience but could have been better. Now those kids have one child each and I'm more concerned about schools than ever before. I'm less certain there are "good" public school systems and the impacts of the broader society within the schools concerns me, along with this Common Core train-wreck. OTOH, I have been able to personally observe some HS kids in general settings and it's easy to pick them out of a group of peers. One was in my son's Boy Scout troop where I was the Scoutmaster. The HS boy did not easily mix with the others on group activities and had difficulty in leadership roles, especially in communication as he had an uncorrected lisp that would have been addressed in PS (wife was a PS speech pathologist for nearly 30 years.) Another HS boy I've observed is the son of a colleague and has some other challenges that made a regular classroom nearly impossible for all. The choice to HS was to give him the structure and intensive management he needed that PS could not deliver. It's made a significant difference for him and he still gets to socialize through church activities where he's more easily accepted than in a competitive school setting. [/QUOTE]
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