Ask a Homeschooler

[Darth Caesar]

Do you have plans to go on to college/trade school?


If yues, does your curriculum address administrative requirements for getting in such a school?

Yes I'm going to college and I'm not sure of the administrative properties of the curriculum.

It doesn't call itself that, but it definitely is a YEC curriculum.

How aware are your mom and you about the wrongness of the material?

What do you do if you have questions that go beyond the material?

Edit: Are you receiving any education about sex?

If I have questions that go beyond curriculum I just go to the internet, and for Sex Ed I've learned about reproductive systems but that's it, everything else I learn from my parents.

Have you seen "Jesus Camp" documentary?

I don't think so what is that?

 

[Joecoolyo]

Do you ever teach yourself things that aren't in the curriculum on the side? For example, you might just surf through the evolution page on Wikipedia, even though you don't believe in it, to get their side of the argument? Or do you just go strictly with what the website says?

On second thought, that doesn't really have to do a whole bunch with homeschooling, but I'm still rather curious.

EDIT: Actually, I do have another question. What's the homework load like? Could you give an estimate on how many hours it takes you to do a night's worth of homework? I wanna see if it's any less or more than it is for public school.

 

[Darth Caesar]

Do you ever teach yourself things that aren't in the curriculum on the side? For example, you might just surf through the evolution page on Wikipedia, even though you don't believe in it, to get their side of the argument? Or do you just go strictly with what the website says?

On second thought, that doesn't really have to do a whole bunch with homeschooling, but I'm still rather curious.

EDIT: Actually, I do have another question. What's the homework load like? Could you give an estimate on how many hours it takes you to do a night's worth of homework? I wanna see if it's any less or more than it is for public school.

I don't do much homework but my workload is only a couple of hours as opposed to half a day, and I love to read so i've learned alot about things through books especially history, my mom says that I am the perfect example of homeschooling.

 

[Joecoolyo]

Hmm, okay, so it's not that much more than mine (public school). Mine can range anywhere from 30 minutes to a couple hours.

 

[Zelig]

my mom says

How accurate do you think mothers are when talking about their children?

 

[NedimNapoleon]

How can your parents teach you, I mean what school do they have did they go to collage do they need a permission did they have to do tests....

 

[Aquila SPQR]

I don't think so what is that?

Documentary about taliban-like christian indoctrination of kids in USA.

Next questions:

- do you believe that christians who strongly believe in evrything that Bible says can teach kids properly?

- are you not afraid that "christian education" may not teach about some scientific facts or present them in "false view"?

 

[Perfection]

Nope never, i've been raised as a christian, I believe God created the universe with all my being.

I find this sort of attitude toward as put against science quite distressing. Not simply because it is wrong, but because you'll miss out on science. Science is one of the most wonderful aspects of human culture.

 

[civver_764]

Do you know anything about evolution?

How strict are your parents?

How much math do you know?

How much science do you know?

 

[shadowplay]

Do you ever worry your parents sheltering you could potentially cripple you socially for life?

 

[Ajidica]

Why must an education be God based? Do your parents not trust you to be able to reconcile your religious beliefs with your education?

 

[W|M]

Do you use only one source of information per subject?

 

[Aquila SPQR]

Next one - do they teach you about history of religion and about other religions? You know - things like "Jews were not trully monotheistic from the beginning", "Snake from the Genesis is not Satan because there was no such idea of Satan when it was written" and that Satan was, according to Bible, a servant of God, later was changed into "enemy" when Jews learnt about Persian god Aryman?

Or do they simply say "Bible is truth and modern christian interpretation is the only proper interpretation"?

 

[GamezRule]

Do you feel you miss out on any extra things by not going to a public school.

 

[Samez]

How many school and or scientific books did you read per year? And how much did you spent approximately on school/teaching material?

 

[Ziggy Stardust]

Not simply because it is wrong, but because you'll miss out on science. Science is one of the most wonderful aspects of human culture.

Hear, hear.

I as well hope you'll learn about the scientific angle on subjects even though they might conflict with the biblical one, and set the controversy aside and simply enjoy it. Forget it conflicts with whatever, but just go with it. It's possible for me to appreciate the enormous amount of culture which originates from the stories in biblical verses or the architecture of churches and it's stained glass with depictions of biblical events, without it requiring me to believe what I read and see. Why wouldn't it be possibly for you to enjoy the many aspects of science without needing to accept they're true or false.

I like to watch documentaries about M-theories which have 15 dimensions and talk about membranes which when they ripple and collide could cause big bangs. And while I realise this is far from proven and the existence is only known on paper in extremely complex equations which I couldn't hope to understand, or when scientist talk about events fractions of a pico-second after the big bang or quantum mechanics, it's pure scientific poetry

 

[nonconformist]

You're 15, and you're learning about metric?

 

[Karalysia]

How do you deal with the fact that you will be unable to persue scientific careers and endeavors due to your beliefs putting you at an inherent disadvantage with your peers who are no so similarly constrained? And that you will further lack the necessary social skills and experience in social interaction with peers, as well as teachers, professors, and employers to succeed at college, or the workplace? Which will further culminate in making you a less productive, or altogether unproductive member of society?

 

[Aquila SPQR]

What do you think about fact that only about 7% members of the American National Academy of Sciences and about 3% members of British Royal Society believe in God?

 

[otago]

To me home schooling done because your parents want YOU to be religious, is child abuse.
Now if you believe in creation how can you know the exact length of a metre is 1⁄299,792,458 sec ?
To be blunt you are fifteen and only just getting into Maths measurements ?
Done any trig, geometry etc etc etc ?

I find it utterly sad that you believe there is a so called god because you have been told there is one that often.

Mock you, no lad, I just feel absolute pity.

What do you think about fact that only about 7% members of the American National Academy of Sciences and about 3% members of British Royal Society believe in God?

3% of the Royal Society, I'm surprised it is that high.