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RE: Huzzah for homeschooling!
March 14, 2019 at 6:55 pm
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It's an easy thing to get wrong. Expensive as shit, too, to do right.
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RE: Huzzah for homeschooling!
March 14, 2019 at 7:05 pm
Most of my cousins will never get into a college that doesn't have "Baptist" in the name. But some have the luck to be able to teach themselves. One cousin teaches law today. She was self-schooled by her own description. She's smarter than three of me.
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RE: Huzzah for homeschooling!
March 14, 2019 at 7:31 pm
Most of the kids I have known that were homeschooled then went to the special colleges for homeschoolers...apparently to continue to avoid an education.
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RE: Huzzah for homeschooling!
March 14, 2019 at 7:45 pm
(March 14, 2019 at 7:31 pm)arewethereyet Wrote: Most of the kids I have known that were homeschooled then went to the special colleges for homeschoolers...apparently to continue to avoid an education.
We had one of those colleges here. Closed down last year and is being converted to low rent housing.
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RE: Huzzah for homeschooling!
March 14, 2019 at 7:47 pm
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(March 14, 2019 at 7:45 pm)wyzas Wrote: (March 14, 2019 at 7:31 pm)arewethereyet Wrote: Most of the kids I have known that were homeschooled then went to the special colleges for homeschoolers...apparently to continue to avoid an education.
We had one of those colleges here. Closed down last year and is being converted to low rent housing.
Thanks for the thoughts and prayers. Things are looking up.
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One good thing has come out of their homeschooling. Each of the kids are told to believe absolutely nothing I might say about anything. Waving a red flag in front of a bull for an inquisitive kid. 
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RE: Huzzah for homeschooling!
March 14, 2019 at 8:20 pm
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It's certainly more practical to get you kids into a "homeschool college" than to provide all of the shit an normal™ classroom has to command..even if that classroom doesn't use all that stuff.
It's easy to see how legitimately wishing to mis-educate or under-educate your children on just one thing (but otherwise wishing they had a better education, in practice) turns into a broader issue.
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RE: Huzzah for homeschooling!
March 15, 2019 at 7:01 am
I've known a few homeschoolers who got a good education. In those cases the most common means was extra effort by the kids. (With some help from Uncle GoingToHell if they asked.)
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RE: Huzzah for homeschooling!
March 15, 2019 at 7:50 am
My Catholic nephew and his wife are presently home schooling their kids because they don't want them, "...polluted by science." 
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RE: Huzzah for homeschooling!
March 15, 2019 at 7:55 am
(March 15, 2019 at 7:50 am)Gwaithmir Wrote: My Catholic nephew and his wife are presently home schooling their kids because they don't want them, "...polluted by science."
Bingo. And, of course, some homeschoolers don't want their kids exposed to "those people". (Take your pick of what "those people" are.) One cousin doesn't want his kids around "all those drug dealers". He runs a serious moonshining operation, but "that's different".
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RE: Huzzah for homeschooling!
March 15, 2019 at 9:44 am
Research suggests homeschooled children tend to do better on standardized tests, stick around longer in college, and do better once they're enrolled. A 2009 study showed that the proportion of homeschoolers who graduated from college was about 67%, while among public school students it was 59%.Jan 21, 2018
Why homeschooling is the smartest way to teach kids today ...
https://www.businessinsider.com/reasons-...o-teach-ki...
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