Domination3000, while you mean well I must nevertheless drop in before you ruin the image of homeschooling in these parts.
Note to anyone else: I spent about half or something of my education homeschoolled and I don't believe any of the nonsense he does.
Do your parents teach you?
They both did. Additional adults from a homeschooling eh co op (is perhaps the word), assisted on subjects where they had better expertise. If homeschooling is done purely in a home and parent enviroment then it would surly suck, probably not at lower grades but surly at high school age. A good homeschooling effort would be more like custom schooling is perhaps the word. Not home schooling. What people call Home schooling would only work if the parents are able to create opportunities that public and private schools can not. Unfortunatly public and private sometimes cannot. Homeschooling must not be about the home but rather about the home and groups. It must be trying to reduce the imbalance of excess focus on groups that public and private schools showcase. It must be about finding groups of a wider variety and better quality than what is provided by a public or private school. Home schooling must be about recognizing the fact that there is no reliable standard of quality among any system of education. It must recognize that no education system is effective in every necessary way. It must be about using freedom to find every and any possible way to improve a child's education. It must not be about its system or any system being superior but rather better and worser in different matters. It must be about different systems being better for different people.
Did your home school curriculum ever include the theory of evolution?
Yes, although my parents are insufficiently accepting of the various aspects of evolution. A major problem offset by the fact that except when I was a little kid very little effort was made to promote a christian worldview(Ironically when I was a kid I was mostly in public and private school.) The decision to homeschool me was not based at all on promotion of religion. Most fortunatly in my later grades a combination of providing me opportunities to access great sources of information and and apathy and distraction on their part gave me the chance to choose all the necessary information on evolution.
The thing I like most about being homeschooled is that I can work at my own pace. I can read as much as I want of a certain book, and put it down when I grow bored, and come back to it a few hours later after doing some other subject. I can stop on a math problem for an hour, until I understand how to do it. I usually take about half an hour to 45 minutes for algebra 2, and the whole of my day is usually 9:00 AM till either 2:30 or 3:00, depending if I have any classes with other homeschoolers that day.
Breaks are nice, especially when you can go and grab a snack or a drink without having to ask permission.
Yes public school's excessivly filled up and tight scheduling and highworkloads and high repetition produced a considerable amount of stress for me. Inevitably it gave me a great aversion to learning. Ironically our society is nicer during their pets education.
For those kids whose parents want them homeschooled, but know they will not do an adequate job, there are co-ops, and there are classes for homeschoolers, with other homeschoolers, that are taught by people who do an excellent job.
In my experiance found homeschooler filled communities to contain far more nicer and mature students. Basicaly I found a community when among homeschoolers. I found public schoolers to be the international arena in a cattel pen. Perhaps you know what I mean. Very useful on some levels. Perhaps others experianced better public schools.
How much is critical thinking encouraged?
It was encouraged although much success at critical thinking was due to spending a considerable amount of time to myself thinking, philosophising, something, due to free time creating from less rigorous schedualing and high introversion and avoiding many distracting although uselful activities due to extreme illness. Obviously I can't recomend all these things happening together but it did provide plenty of time to think. Scheduals full of rote work and and social activity hinder critical thinking. Critical thinking needs free time and I find public schooling to provide too little free time.
How often do you hang around with hot chicks?
Homeschoolers generally don't have as much sexual distraction on immature minds.
Don't you think not being around females on a regular and constand basis is harmful?
Why is flirting bad?
Flirting is the way that potential mates identify one another, so that relationships, sexual or otherwise may take root.
Do you ever act upon your desires?
Well if school promotes a mature outlook on relationship matters then the public school is a great opportunity. I have not encountered such. Without such maturity major sexual problems that we complain about all the time will emerge. Eh I at the very least encourntered homeshool females at least once a week. It was related to homeshool cop matters. Oh I don't count since I was too intorverted and ill to have a girlfriend if thats what you mean. Introversion and Chronic Fatgiue/whatnot is very deadly combination shall we say.
Do you feel you've been deprived of a social life?
No but I spent much of my l life as 80% to 50% introverted.
Except, of course, instilling in you the set of beleifs that lead you to interpret your experiance as a Christian one rather then a Muslim one, or as a simple event.
As a little kid I accepted many things my parents said without question. Naturally. I even a accepted things my parents later said were not intended to be propaganda. Naturally. I eventually grew out of that. My parents quite reduced the propaganda effort as I aged. Naturally I developed better due to their later apathy at promoting a christian worldview.
but I'm, well, currently attending a baptist church. However, that really only makes me Baptist as much as being in Mcdonalds makes one a hamburger
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