[extropy-chat] Re: Public Schools

[Brian Lee]

>From: "Harvey Newstrom" <mail at harveynewstrom.com>
>Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2004 01:56:11 -0500
>
>"Technotranscendence" <neptune at superlink.net> wrote,
> > I have never met a homeschooled individual who wasn't a success,
> > though I admit that I've only met a few.
>
>Ack!  I have.  They had the strongest prejudices and politics of their
>parents drilled into them.  They usually become mental clones of their
>parents with no opposing viewpoints presented.  They were often inept 
>around
>other kids and preferred to be alone.  Most of them were either rude or
>sometimes deliberately mean to other kids.  They were often selfish and 
>used
>to having their own way.  Many home-schooled kids become selfish little
>brats.  Of the religious-based home-schooled kids, they seemed to be
>well-trained in their particular religion, and poorly trained in godless
>science, literature or art.
>
>This is not true of all, because I have met many fine home-schooled kids as
>well.  But in my experience, all the well-adjusted kids were interested in
>getting out into the world, going to regular schools, being with other kids
>their own age, and eventually self-chose to end home-schooling.  I have 
>also
>seen a few examples of "home-schooled" kids who didn't seem to have any 
>real
>schooling at all.  Their parents just called them home-schooled to keep 
>them
>out of the godless public school.
>
>In short, home-schooling is about a variable as any other aspect of a
>child's home-life.  Some are great, some are awful.
>
>--
>Harvey Newstrom
><HarveyNewstrom.com> <Newstaff.com>

My personal experiences with homeschool are very favorable. I only 
homeschooled in elementary school and went to public and private from grades 
7-12. I liked the freedom of being able to complete your work in much 
shorter time periods without waiting for other kids. It was good for me as I 
was bored in public school and got to study more interesting bits in 
homeschool. I had an older brother and sister (by 3 and 5 years 
respectively) so I also got to study whatever they were studying. I also had 
a younger sister who absolutely hated homeschool. She was taught at home for 
elementary school as well but she needed lots of attention and didn't take 
to math, science, reading etc. Because of this she had a hard time and 
probably would have benefited from specialists that a large school could 
provide.

I really enjoyed home school and would love to teach my own children some 
day if I could spare being out of work for so many years.

It makes socializing hard as you only see your family during the days so you 
need some other social outlet for your kids (community center, church, boy 
scouts, something).

BAL

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