With the technology craze, how many people support or oppose homeschooling through the Internet?
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We are part of a charter program that is web based and we love it. We still have standardized testing, and the younger grades print most of their stuff out early on so they learn to write well. \nAs far as socialization…I laugh at all the misconception people have of home schooled children. My kids have activities every evening since we are home during the day and can handle doing more. They are in scouts (through our church), competitive dance, Tae kwon do, soccer, art classes, and piano lessons-all activities with a mixture of different children. They are learning to be compassionate, empathetic people with very high self esteem. \nYou have to look at your goals for your child’s education. For every un-socialized home schooled child, there is a public school child with very low self esteem from being bullied. Who has the harder time adjusting into society?
533822
are you a parent or a kid?  Kids cannot homeschool themselves.
1187201
I was homeschooled through high school, am now in college (I think I'm the youngest in the whole campus!) and I think I'm plenty street smart.  I mean, I can protect myself and have my share of common sense.  Being homeschooled doesn't mean sheltered from the world.\nMy elder brother, a kindergarten drop-out, was pulled from mainstream school when his seatmate on the bus had a gun pointed at his head.  Granted, we grew up in what even the residents referred to as a ghetto, but still, the fact that me and my broher are both still alive and moral says something.\nYou'd be amazed at how many people have asked my mom to a) teach them how to homeschool or b) homeschool their kids.   A friend of mine was being sexually harrassed, reported it to the principal at her school, and was told to "deal with it".  Does that strike you as healthy?\nI believe that homeschooling is more of a protective than an academic measure, seeing as every homeschooling family I've met has chosen that path for moral or protective reasons first and educational reasons second.\n\nSocialization-- the #1 question.  I'm naturally shy in person (not in writing, as you can see!), and I'm quite certain that my shyness is not a by-product of homeschooling.  Neither of my brothers are one bit shy.  In fact, my kid brother doesn't know a stranger.   Extra curricular activities for all of us involve heavily social environments.  We all know how to protect ourselves should we be attacked, we all learn things the hard way, etc.  Though I'll admit to a certain degree of naivete in the past semester of college, by no means does this mean I learned everything out of a book.  \n\nExample:\nDiscussing Native American stereotypes in Poetry/Short Stories this April, I mentioned peyote beadwork, referring to it as "peyote".  My experience with the word "peyote" has always been limited to a group of Native American dancers, all of whom made their own costumes and beadwork.  Peyote, as far as I was concerned, was a style of beadwork, as opposed to applique or loom beading.  I was embarrassed to learn, in that very class, that peyote is a hallucinogen.  The memory still makes me feel naive and wet behind the ears, but I learned a valuable lesson: Open mouth insert foot; Remove foot, insert other foot.  Oh well.\n\nNot all of my education as come from the curricula my mom has pieced together, but I confess a lot of the things I learned comes  from books.  "The Blue Girl" by Charles DeLint, "The Moorchild" by Eloise McGraw, "Dreadnought!" and "Battlestations!" by Diane Carey, (Star Trek novels are my guilty pleasure) and numerous other novels, ranging from science fiction and fantasy to mysteries and romances.  \n\nSo, to conclude, homeschooling doesn't, by definition, mean sheltered from the world.  \nI think Bruce Tinsley said it best, though be worned that the following quote can be described as rude and unkind: "Contary to popular belief, homeschooled kids are not less socialized than other kids. They just have to use smaller words and shorter sentences."\n\nI never said I was a saint.
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I find it very doubtful that half the children in the US are home-schooled.  Home-schooling is fine with me, as long as there are dedicated parents involved, and the children have plenty of socialization opportunities.  A big thing that you learn in school is how to interact with other people.
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Yes, but only if they are taught the correct way to use the computer. Like I have an encyclopedia and a dictionary downloaded on my computer. My third grade daughter gets extra credit on her reports all the time. The school also has a web site for homework help. So yes I think the computer is an awesome way for kids to learn.
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I truly believe that people attend school in order to get an education. Then, I know that they can learn. Only when one has a serious mind about ANYTHING, does it become successful. Home schooling has its place, but it is not for everyone. Then, some home schoolers, attend regular schooling part time, for gym and other activities. This can make a well rounded situation for the educated ones. All of this is a matter of conjecture. God Bless.
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I'm 16 and will be graduating high school this year. I have been homeschooled all my life and I think it's great. It gave me a chance to learn things when I was ready to learn them. Sometimes I wished I could of gone to a traditional school and joined in on all the clubs and sports, but now I'm glad I didn't. Being homeschooled gave me chance to have a very flexible schedule and do way more than most people. I truly admire those who have the discipline and patience to homeschool their kids.
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the main benefit of homeschooling is the ability to individualize everything that goes on. any educator will admit that there's nothing better than one-on-one teaching, when it comes to actual learning (it's just that they can't). the parent/teacher can evaluate how well a student is learning, work around blocks and learning disabilities, and utilize natural talents. more attention ALWAYS equals better learning.\n\n plus, what kid wouldn't want a curriculum designed specifically around his/her interests? what kid doesn't want to be able to find out about what he's curious about without having to raise his hand, and wait for teacher, or a computer to open up, or library time? what kid really wants to be in a world where everything is structured down to the minute, full of illogical and sometimes unpredictable reward systems and dumbed down to the lowest common denominator, filtered by someone who's too busy to spend more than a few minutes paying attention to him? \n\nhomeschoolers have been proven to be better socialized that institutionalized kids, more mature, and score better on achievement tests. they are more creative, independent and have a love for learning that is drummed out of most kids by about 3rd grade or so. \n\nmost objections boil down to just a few roots: \n"i had to deal with the hell of regular school, and so should everyone else." and "those kids are weird." well, if weird means getting into the best colleges, winning the National Geographic Geography Bee, dominating national spelling bees, and eventually becoming just like everyone else, with jobs as diverse as entrepreneur or mechanic, then sure, they're weird. \n\nalso, schools are paid by the student. therefore, they are highly motivated to denigrate the move towards homeschooling. (every kid who quits is money down the drain for them.)\n\nlinks to stats and studies:\nhttp://homeschoolinformation.com/homeschooling/homeschool_statistics1.htm\n\nhttp://www.hslda.org/docs/nche/000010/200410250.asp\n\nother links:\nhttp://www.homeedmag.com/INF/strt_index.html\n\nhttp://www.homeschoolzone.com/unschooling/
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You are right. Narrow minded and selfish people always resist new technology. There was massive resistance to computers in the beginning as computers were perieved to replace jobs of people.
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The internet started as a text based means for schools to transfer information. No one owns the web it is just a big net work that everyone connects to and becomes part of.
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I'm for it.  My sister and brother-in-law homeschooled their two boys from kindergarten through high school graduation.  Both boys went on to college, and both have now graduated.\n\nI also have a lot of friends who have been (or are now) homeschoolers.  Those who have gone on to college have done extremely well.
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I'm homeschooled and I've always loved it. My two older sisters graduated from homeschool. I had bragging rights and my public schooling friends were jealous because I went back to school a month after them and I'm graduating this June...I have tons of friends coming to my graduation and while at first I thought it would feel weird to graduate alone I realize now that it'll be all eyes on me!!
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My schools kinda different. I'm homeschooled and I love it. And yeah its cool. It gets harder every year. Only 2 and a half more years of it though... well then theres college.
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We homeschool too!  As you can see most of the negative aspect of HSing is that ignorance is abundant.  For us I feel that the advantages outweigh the disadvantages by far.  I wanted to have children and want them to have the best education!  I don't feel that I need a babysitter in the form of the public school system.\n\nMy dd really wanted to go to preschool and so I found a highly recommended private Montessori school that we were paying almost $400.00 a month for 2 days a week.  Week 2 she was moved to the Kindergarten /1st grade class  (only 4) because she was soo advanced.   I had planned on sending her there for Kindergarten as well.  She began to have behavioral problems and I finally pulled her out of there.   I feel that we had been HSing since birth but had planned on sending her to a private school.  Since that preschool incident have chosen to continue with our homeschool path.  We belong to a couple of HS groups and do some classes and field trips together.  I really have come to not like the word HOMESCHOOL because we are never at home but always out at a class or other outing.  She is with children for hours at a time at least 4 days a week.  For those that only point to the socialization...remember when you were in school...I remember quite a few socially retarded kids and they had been in public school the whole time!
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I'll tell you if you answer a question first - how can so many young kids like you figure out how to use the Internet for communication and games but not to research the simplest of questions?  \n\nDid you Google this or look it up on Wikipedia?
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I choose to homeschool for many reasons, but mostly to fit my children's education, tailor it to their learning style. Some kids don't learn BEST by sitting in a chair and fillout out dittos, or reading pages and pages of material.  When my kids don't 'get' a subject, we go about it a new way.  Videos from the library, brainpop.com, workbooks, manipulatives, visit a museum or similar, talk to someone who works in the field we are following.  It's great.\n\nWhile I think public school has it's serious problems, not all but some, it is good for some.  It's not for everyone.  The crime, the rules, the taking God out, the bullying, the hours themselves...a bummer to say the least.  But I homeschool because I can teach my kids better than local schools can.
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My research tells me, that students in the top five percent of some of our better universities are home schooled students. On-line courses also represent the home schooled, additionally, mentor-ship programs the manner in which society perpetuates itself is also a form of home schooling and I believe, that it is considered the best way to educate a child. What we need- is for the state to step up to the plate and better monitor the programs. Today, the parents of the average  home schoolers are in the $40,000 salary range with at least one parent educated to the bachelor level , by contrast the parents of student falling through the cracks would require a more structure training process( again the State) on how to accomplish te task still the  answer to your  question is yes, because the proof of what you know is revealed in the entrance exams and essay writing skills you exhibit durning the admittance process.