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Yes, but as President downtown says, it appears to be a non-mandatory subject.
You don't? So, you can pass without knowing any history?
Yes, but as President downtown says, it appears to be a non-mandatory subject.
You don't? So, you can pass without knowing any history?
Sort of! The state will require completion of X number of social science credits, so you still need to pass those classes, but thats determined by the local school, not a statewide standardized test.
So yeah, you could get a HS diploma without knowing a lot of history
Why? Non american posters are always raking us over the coals for using too much testing, now it isn't enough?
Well, kids ARE tested, multiple times a year. It's just that individual teacher makes the test, instead of a state entity. Standardized testing every day for EVERY subject would be a massive time sink. It would take away almost two weeks of instructional time.
NickyJ
Retired Narrator
Agreed. On average, each subject I take has roughly ten tests spread out over each grade, with numerous quizzes spread between. (These tests are taken at home, by the way.) That's how I can say that I score my highest marks in history.
Slobadog
King
Well the reason for my homeschooling were:
1.) Kindergarten -- Now my mom says "no particular reason". Well its just kindergarten I guess it doesn't matter.
2.)First half of 3rd grade -- Was living in Guam at the time. Apparently the public schools were particularly bad. Poor little island, anti weird romping Americans, frequent power outages. You can image what it is best.
3.) Middle school and high school -- Was living in the Atlanta suburbs. Extremely high population growth rates. Extremely high economic and building growth rates, but as you know buildiings still take much longer to build than it takes new people to grow to school age or to imigrate to any area. This is assuming that the state even wanted its school building construction to compete with its rising population. I don't know if the state did. Well it is a red state so maybe not. But I dunno. Nevertheless buildings weren't keeping up. Large class sizes, new classrooms made out of rooms chopped up by curtains, school building expansion composed of trailers. You can image the problems this creates. Perhaps a student who was already performing well in public school enviroments would be able to succeed here. I was not previously performing well due to various education related problems. I can't recall them very well anymore. I was not mentally handicapped but I was unable to adapt to the standard public school education strategy. As you can image the teachers didn't have the time or the resources to change their methods to adapt to me when they had many, many others to deal with. Also I must add that in my case the amazing socialization experiance of public school was not working for me. The school peers were like the international arena (Will be my example.) And I could not adapt to it. To most simply describe the social problem I will say that I was slow to mature and very social introverted(Some character traits may have even seemed aspberger related but in the end I eventually slowly grew completley out of those traits so obvoiusly I just had some overlaping symptoms.) Merely being in a difficult social enviroment was was often not stimulating self improvement. Even when it did stimulate, it could not do so without also overwelming me. The socialization was thus failing completely and I needed to leave. Well the teachers agreed I needed to leave and they of course wanted less space consumption. It seemed a new and custom stategy was needed. Hoemschooling is both new and custom and my parents used it. The school system did have one last shot but the middle school I was otherwise about to enter totally made a botch of pre shool year start tour what ever you call those and that was the end.
I stayed homeschooled because just as I finally started to mature and find how to learn and interact properly I apparently upset god by succeding and got struck by a terrible, complex, exotic and unexplainable illness. I thus still needed custom education. Perhaps this thread is about to receive a further theological derail.
1.) Kindergarten -- Now my mom says "no particular reason". Well its just kindergarten I guess it doesn't matter.
2.)First half of 3rd grade -- Was living in Guam at the time. Apparently the public schools were particularly bad. Poor little island, anti weird romping Americans, frequent power outages. You can image what it is best.
3.) Middle school and high school -- Was living in the Atlanta suburbs. Extremely high population growth rates. Extremely high economic and building growth rates, but as you know buildiings still take much longer to build than it takes new people to grow to school age or to imigrate to any area. This is assuming that the state even wanted its school building construction to compete with its rising population. I don't know if the state did. Well it is a red state so maybe not. But I dunno. Nevertheless buildings weren't keeping up. Large class sizes, new classrooms made out of rooms chopped up by curtains, school building expansion composed of trailers. You can image the problems this creates. Perhaps a student who was already performing well in public school enviroments would be able to succeed here. I was not previously performing well due to various education related problems. I can't recall them very well anymore. I was not mentally handicapped but I was unable to adapt to the standard public school education strategy. As you can image the teachers didn't have the time or the resources to change their methods to adapt to me when they had many, many others to deal with. Also I must add that in my case the amazing socialization experiance of public school was not working for me. The school peers were like the international arena (Will be my example.) And I could not adapt to it. To most simply describe the social problem I will say that I was slow to mature and very social introverted(Some character traits may have even seemed aspberger related but in the end I eventually slowly grew completley out of those traits so obvoiusly I just had some overlaping symptoms.) Merely being in a difficult social enviroment was was often not stimulating self improvement. Even when it did stimulate, it could not do so without also overwelming me. The socialization was thus failing completely and I needed to leave. Well the teachers agreed I needed to leave and they of course wanted less space consumption. It seemed a new and custom stategy was needed. Hoemschooling is both new and custom and my parents used it. The school system did have one last shot but the middle school I was otherwise about to enter totally made a botch of pre shool year start tour what ever you call those and that was the end.
I stayed homeschooled because just as I finally started to mature and find how to learn and interact properly I apparently upset god by succeding and got struck by a terrible, complex, exotic and unexplainable illness. I thus still needed custom education. Perhaps this thread is about to receive a further theological derail.
jtb1127
Deity
So you ensure your parents or instructor is not making stuff up, you have to take a state assessment of the course to prove you learned it?
If the answer is yes, do you take it at home or somewhere else?
This might have been covered already and I just missed it.
If the answer is yes, do you take it at home or somewhere else?
This might have been covered already and I just missed it.
NickyJ
Retired Narrator
Yes. Each year, there are three days of standardized tests that I must take in a classroom with other homeschoolers. (In my case, the classroom is in a Baptist church, but I digress.) About a month after the tests are completed, the results are mailed to us, and in turn, we mail them to government for them to evaluate. If I score well, I may move on to the next grade. If I don't, then I must either repeat the grade or go to public school
phoenix_sprite
King
My grandmother was home-schooled, she was one of the most miserable people that ever lived. She also disliked her mother, who taught her and was a teacher by profession. Her experience made her a very lonely child since she had no other siblings.
NickyJ
Retired Narrator
Is that supposed to be a question of some sort, or is it a blanket statement that one person having a bad experience makes all homeschooling bad?
phoenix_sprite
King
It was merely a statement but I can ask questions if you want. Answer the most relevant one to you.
Q: A) If you were a single child and home-schooled, have you ever felt lonely? Do you think you could have relieved some of that loneliness if you had gone to public school?
or
B) If you had siblings who were getting home-schooled at the same time you were, have you ever wished for more friends outside of home?
Q: Were most of your friends from your neighborhood or through family friends? (Your parents' friends' children).
I know that the point of home-schooling or sending your child to a school is to let them receive an education but I feel the social aspects related to education are an important aspect of growth and development for any child.
NickyJ
Retired Narrator
I do have a sibling who was homeschooled at the same time. Anyway, to answer the question: Not really. To be honest, I find that most other people seem strange. Then again, I guess I could be considered strange.
Actually, my parents don't really have a whole lot of friends either. We live out in the country where houses are spread out more, so we don't typically see people more often than not. That said, it doesn't bother me in the slightest, and I actually like it this way. I very much prefer to spend my time reading books and hiking through the woods that are just a few steps from my backyard.
Maybe, but I also feel that children shouldn't be thrust into anything they don't want if it isn't necessary. For example, when I was roughly six, at one of the churches that my family used to attend, my parents (particularly my mother) decided to put me in Sunday School, and even tried sending me to some sort of meeting with about five other kids. (Nothing big, and all the families of all the kids were there as well. It was some sort of small field trip to some an old cabin.) I didn't particularly enjoy it since I just didn't care to be around other kids. That promptly ended, and things went back to the way they were: A nice, quiet life at home where I could enjoy basically being alone. I've been presented with opportunities to go out on other sorts of expeditions, but I never really wanted to.
tl;dr: Homeschooling doesn't necessarily make you miss out on social development. Kids can be homeschooled and still have the opportunity to spend time with other kids. However, the children are not forced to be with other kids. It's their choice.
Slobadog
King
Best answers, yes. The needed answers no. The board people here were starting to arrive at the conclusion that that homeschooling is the hideout of the intelligently designed super religious people. True yes and he can't help but present who he is but homeschooling is stereotyped enough as it is as such a hideout. On one level Verade was not helping. Not that can I can recommend that Verade type any differently in this thread. Yet his answers are a problem in a way.
Homeschooling on average probably produces some amount of reduced social activity in comparison to public or private schooling. Although how much socialization a homeschooler receives varies even sometimes considerably from homeschool family to homeschool family. Naturally homeschooling is less standardized than public and private schooling and so it is harder to make accurate broad generalizations of it.
Some of the homeschoolers here are highly introverted and thus are much less negativly affected by the reduced socialization they experianced as a homeschooler.
Ajidica
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Do you believe the low amount of independence brought about by homeschooling (ie: not spending at least seven hours a day at school) will impact you negatively if you go to a college that is not specificaly designed to cater to former homeschoolers?
NickyJ
Retired Narrator
That actually sounds like an exact description of me. Verade is the more social one. For this reason, I will refrain from posting in this thread any longer.
Verarde
Pondering Wearing A Hat
Thank you for your honesty. When I have time tomorrow, I will answer some questions.
GhostWriter16
Deity
If you went straight from Homeschooling to College than it could, but if you do what I did and go into High School soon before college (2 years in my case) it probably won't, as you'd be used to it already. That also depends on how adaptable you are (Which I'm not) or how structured your homeschool curriculum is (Which mine was "Not very".) In my personal case, it would not have been good for me to go to college straight from homeschool. For others, maybe not.
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