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Unless you have a stay-at-home spouse and don't care about their socialization, homeschooling is an impractical fad that sabotages children's academic achievement and throws division of labor and specialization of trade to the wind under the mistaken presumption of ability brought on by Dunning-Kruger effect and a willful lack of comparison to the experiences of good schools.
For the sake of perspective/completeness: No — homeschooling is illegal in my country. (Though I wouldn't do it even if it was legal.) (The thread title is "Do You Homeschool?", as opposed to "How Do You Homeschool?" or "What are your experiences homeschooling?")
For the sake of perspective/completeness: No — homeschooling is illegal in my country. (Though I wouldn't do it even if it was legal.) (The thread title is "Do You Homeschool?", as opposed to "How Do You Homeschool?" or "What are your experiences homeschooling?")
Where is that?
Change schools or move somewhere with better schools. Unless you have a stay-at-home spouse and don't care about their socialization, homeschooling is an impractical fad that sabotages children's academic achievement and throws division of labor and specialization of trade to the wind under the mistaken presumption of ability brought on by Dunning-Kruger effect and a willful lack of comparison to the experiences of g…
Change schools or move somewhere with better schools. Unless you have a stay-at-home spouse and don't care about their socialization, homeschooling is an impractical fad that sabotages children's academic achievement and throws division of labor and specialization of trade to the wind under the mistaken presumption of ability brought on by Dunning-Kruger effect and a willful lack of comparison to the experiences of g…
But, where do you find good schools? Teachers seem to spend 90% of their time with the ESL students and the ones with behavioral problems. My daughter is two grade levels above and is completely bored. What to do?
I can state with conviction that this is not a good thing to do to a kid.
Maybe a few classes ahead of grade, but not all of them.
Change schools or move somewhere with better schools. Unless you have a stay-at-home spouse and don't care about their socialization, homeschooling is an impractical fad that sabotages children's academic achievement and throws division of labor and specialization of trade to the wind under the mistaken presumption of ability brought on by Dunning-Kruger effect and a willful lack of comparison to the experiences of g…
In fact, I'd venture that the homeschooled kids are better at socialization, because they're often out doing things and meeting new people. They're certainly far better at interacting with adults. The public school kids who live right on my block are rarely ever seen outside the house after their bus arrives home.
The socialization thing is one of those things everyone believes because at one time, in one circumstance, it was true, and that became the stereotype. It is very much not automatically the way it always works out though.
Admittedly, my experience is entirely US based. Your mention of "division of labor and specialization of trade" makes me think perhaps you're not from the US, so perhaps schools are much better and different where you are, in which case the situation could indeed be quite different. But please be aware that it's not like that everywhere. :-)
https://www.reddit.com/r/homeschool/
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I don't know why people downvote this. Am I missing something or everyone agrees that there are no gender related or ideology issues in modern schools at all?
I assume the downvotes are because that phrasing is dog whistling for “I am homo/transphobic”. Consider other variations along the same lines: “gender equality ideology” or “race equality ideology”. The inference is “I am opposed to this thing existing”. Generally people who bring up this topic, or bring it up in this way have no problem with the topics at hand if they don’t disagree with their world view. For exampl…
For example i am 100% for gender equality etc, but at the same time I am against if this becomes ideology.
What’s wrong with that? It is an honest question.
Yup. My kids are ahead of their peers academically and socially, and it's been a lot of fun. My advice to start would be to start by compiling as many resources as possible. Look at different schools and school systems and look for their grade-level objectives. Learn about high-achieving students and take a look at the resources they use. Brainstorm about what school can be, and what you can do with the tremendous fl…
>socially
How are they ahead socially? Are they so cool that the other kids don't talk or play with them? What does ahead mean here?
She would go ahead of the class in math on her own and the teacher took her aside and told her to 'limit herself' to only a certain amount of math/week, so she doesn't get that far ahead.