Were you home schooled?

Sometimes I have to take refresher accounting courses and I always choose the classroom option over the online option. You learn more with a teacher and fellow students.

My son went to Catholic school here in Ontario - much better than public school. I am glad to be finished with raising kids and school.

i left education out because that isn't an intrinsic deficiency of home-schooling v institutional schooling. whenever education was a privilege open to other than the elite, socialization has been an important aspect of it. its part of how a culture is transmitted.

leaving children entirely in the hands of their parents is a cultural/social hazard.

I could be wrong but i think they have a teacher come to house.I agree isolating your kid isn't a solution but they both work so it's the easiest solution for them.And he seems a lot happier now.

that's something to consider too. it depends very much on the home-school environment. a lot of home-school kids come from economically advantaged backgrounds, so in some cases, its almost like you have your own private school, with all sorts of cool outside activities, opportunities to engage kids outside of class.

for some kids, and in some circumstances, it could be great. it is not, however, scalable, or likely a good prospect for kids of average means. especially if there is a heavy religious indoctrination aspect (imo). the potential to impose upon a young mind is something we should be vigilant about protecting against.

i also have to wonder how kids that grow up in such cloistered environments will come to view their fellow citizens as a whole - will they see them as equals or a lesser, perhaps frightening or despised, class.

I hear what you're saying but would only add that getting into fist fights with other boys, gaining and losing pretty sweethearts and being really nervous about finals every year were important events, at least in my experience...
I don't feel like home-schooling really prepares a person for the daily brawl of life...I'm not trying to be argumentative or judgemental, I'm just happy I got my ass kicked and my heart broken a lot at school
It seems the better way imo...

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I wouldn't think so, but maybe she's good in math?? I have no idea. I've never asked her since it's none of my business. I hated higher math - I made it through algebra, but that was it. And only did one year each of physics and chemistry. That's all that was required and it was enough for me.

Hi, ShogunofYonkers.

India was interesting, and we saw much beauty amid all the extreme poverty, homelessness and whatever. The food was interesting a lot of the time, and rather good, but that could also depend where one went. The food did vary, from being really good to being really awful. We met interesting people--we were there for 6 months. I went to school for a few weeks, and my mom made sure that we did schoolwork in the hotels, etc., where we stayed. We got robbed late one night in Calcutta, the night before we were to leave; our room was broken into by somebody having slid the insecure latch aside, sneaking in, and helping themselves to whatever was in sight. Fortunately, my dad's cameras, which is what the thieves really wanted, were safely locked up, so they stole whatever they could find; 2 of my younger sister's dresses, my dad's watch that glowed green in the dark and was at the night table, by his head, and my mom's pocketbook full of money, after emptying her pocketbook and throwing the purse on the floor.

We were scheduled to leave that next day. Detectives came, and they noticed fingerprints galore. Since my younger sister had written a letter to her best friend back in the states that described this whole grisly event, the detectives kept the letter for evidence. On the downside, since there's so much abject poverty in India, when people are desperate enough, they'll do what they feel they need to do. My sister and I slept in an adjoining room, so we neither saw or heard what was happening. We were fortunate to have emerged from that experience unscathed, except for the robbery, and that the two guys who broke into our room and stole stuff didn't kill us all!