[Serious] Huzzah for homeschooling!

[Succubus]

Adoption means, they are his parents and what they do is no one else's business.
Yes it sucks but that's the law.

It may be the business of Child Protective Services. Your idea of absolute domination of a child is very 19th Century.

Please extinguish all open flames!

[Pat Mustard]

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.

Oh My ! You're a clone!!!! Panic

[Gawdzilla Sama]

It may be the business of Child Protective Services. Your idea of absolute domination of a child is very 19th Century.

Please extinguish all open flames!

Sorry, but your absolute is totally Sith.

[Pat Mustard]

Bich, you got sources for that shit? Legit sources, not your usual drek.

You gotta love how Drippy managed to post a link which goes nowhere.

[The Grand Nudger]

My kids are doing well with it so far.  Took us a bit to fall into a rhythm, more than anything it took me awhile to get together all the resources I was going to need.  I'm lucky enough to have educated educators (lol) in the family to help me with that - and I'll definitely be leaning on them more summer through fall.

For now, though, we've gotten the kids out of a crap situation at a chronically underfunded rural school.  Their general state of mind and behavior have improved drastically.  There was nothing quite like watching years of work the wife and I did regarding body shaming..for example, get eradicated by a gaggle of drooling hillbilly spawn.   

They've crushed the state requirements for their grades, so we're poaching stuff from the next.  School is mobile, so they get to go where we go when we go and school comes with.  We'll be on the outer banks in a couple of weeks so we're doing marine biology.  Breakfast and lunch aren't a shitshow of processed corn and potato products.   They have a four kid classroom..and part of what we're doing is having them teach each other.  School is going to be all year round so there won't be any lapses and forgetting over those summer months. We're free to take what has been shown to work in other models and discard all of the institutional shit that public school saddled them with. My kindergarten son can do basic algebra and explain it, the state was clear that a kindergartener never so much as needed to see a math problem written out. Just counting on fingers is what they were after, lol.  

They're getting things out of homeschool they just didn't get at any school we could have afforded, and we weren't going to place one and leave the others behind. All together or not at all. I'll jump on a decent private school at the drop of a dime if I find those dimes to spend, though. More for me than for them, lol.

[Sal]

Homeschooling is illegal here in the Faroes, and private schools are frowned upon, culturally speaking. It's mainly public schooling. PISA examinations have yielded low scores, with a lot of people getting flunking grades. Public schooling isn't a safeguard against illiteracy, but neither is homeschooling IMO. Competence is, and our teachers suck.

[Fireball]

My kids are doing well with it so far.  Took us a bit to fall into a rhythm, more than anything it took me awhile to get together all the resources I was going to need.  I'm lucky enough to have educated educators (lol) in the family to help me with that - and I'll definitely be leaning on them more summer through fall.

For now, though, we've gotten the kids out of a crap situation at a chronically underfunded rural school.  Their general state of mind and behavior have improved drastically.  There was nothing quite like watching years of work the wife and I did regarding body shaming..for example, get eradicated by a gaggle of drooling hillbilly spawn.   

They've crushed the state requirements for their grades, so we're poaching stuff from the next.  School is mobile, so they get to go where we go when we go and school comes with.  We'll be on the outer banks in a couple of weeks so we're doing marine biology.  Breakfast and lunch aren't a shitshow of processed corn and potato products.   They have a four kid classroom..and part of what we're doing is having them teach each other.  School is going to be all year round so there won't be any lapses and forgetting over those summer months.  We're free to take what has been shown to work in other models and discard all of the institutional shit that public school saddled them with.  My kindergarten son can do basic algebra and explain it, the state was clear that a kindergartener never so much as needed to see a math problem written out.  Just counting on fingers is what they were after, lol.  

They're getting things out of homeschool they just didn't get at any school we could have afforded, and we weren't going to place one and leave the others behind.  All together or not at all.  I'll jump on a decent private school at the drop of a dime if I find those dimes to spend, though.  More for me than for them, lol.

Indeed. Teaching isn't easy. My question is, what are your children going to do once they have the "equivalent" of a high school education ( > than that, I'm expecting) and then have to work beside drones? Better to come up with some coping skills sooner rather than later. I know how frustrating it was for me, and I was in the public school system. Working with people who are clueless sucks.

[The Grand Nudger]

They're going to do what I did.  I bounced from private schools to meggsss and cast and magnet programs, all full of drones. I have four kids, I had four siblings, interpersonal skills are a given. If they didn't have them they'd get rolled by the others who would obstinantly pretend to be dummies if that would work. Nothing some mouthbreather does is going to be challenging after -that- education.

They still do 4h and camps and shit, lol.

[Cecelia]

Adoption means, they are his parents and what they do is no one else's business.
Yes it sucks but that's the law.

They only took him in for the check they get every month.  (Which is now coincidentally their only source of income).  They have zero business raising this child.  The kid is 12 years old and is functionally illiterate.  He can't do simple addition or subtraction.  Their whole plan for him is this:  "God will take care of him."

[Pat Mustard]

Homeschooling is illegal here in the Faroes, and private schools are frowned upon, culturally speaking. It's mainly public schooling. PISA examinations have yielded low scores, with a lot of people getting flunking grades. Public schooling isn't a safeguard against illiteracy, but neither is homeschooling IMO. Competence is, and our teachers suck.

I wouldn't worry about PISA scores. Shanghai is measured so highly simply because in order to be placed there the PISA people agreed with the Chinese to show the tests to teachers ahead of time, and by allowing the Shanghai authorities to select who took the tests.. And then they compounded that major fuck up by benchmarking everybody else against Shanghai.