Do not be scared of doing above 4th grade math with him. If you choose a course like Saxon you can learn right along with him. The material is so well laid out that it is really easy to follow. You could do that at least through middle school and then leave the high school math to dh. This sounds like a great opportunity for you to fill up your hole
Maureen
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It was shocking to me. I began to work with him at home long before we took him out.
Statistics: Posted by StellarStory — Tue Jul 22, 2008 11:30 am
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I expect to find more holes in my education simply through homeschooling my son, but this hole was pretty startling. To think I went through some very supposedly advanced level social studies classes only to find out years later that I pretty much know squat about history.
Of course, now I'm terribly curious so I have "to-read" list a mile long and a goal of keeping ahead of my what my son will be studying.
Statistics: Posted by Calla_Dragon — Sat Jul 14, 2007 7:07 pm
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"Do you know of anyone without holes in their education?"
Statistics: Posted by seekingmyLord — Sat Jul 14, 2007 9:12 am
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Public school students, on the other hand, are forced to stay at the grade level of their worst subject, meaning they are unable to move ahead in the subjects they're best at. Saying that that way of doing things is better than homeschooling is like saying that communism is better than capitalism, because it makes everyone equally poor. Equal and mediocre is the name of the game!
I'm all for having a well-rounded education, but that has very little to do with having the same grade level in all subjects.
Statistics: Posted by Theodore — Fri Jul 13, 2007 8:34 pm
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No child...no person, for that matter, can know it all. Everyone is going to have holes and gaps in their knowledge bank. That's why life long learning is such a critical thing, IMO. If you know you don't know something and you'd like to know it, go learn it. The problem is that after 13 years in the public school system and 4-8 years of college, a person's love of learning is pretty much shot (not to mention trying to get a career off the ground and repay sometimes massive student loans) so the last thing the average person wants to do is initiate learning on their own about the subject of their choice - something homeschool kids have grown up doing.
There is a level at which a person is functional and there is a level at which people are deemed "highly educated", "well-read", whatever the current catch phrase is for it these days. Sadly, people most often equate many years in school with "highly educated" and the two are mutually exclusive (as in you couldn't possibly be highly educated or well-read if you haven't spent 13 years in public school and 6-8 years in college). No matter that kids coming out of public school are barely functional and definately cannot be considered "highly educated". This is the notion that homeschhoolers run directly against since our kids technically skip those 13 years in school and may or may not choose to go on to college or grab a post-secondary education unconventionally.
When you buck the status quo, those who have not bothered to check into it for themselves will believe just about anything - most of it is negative, unfortunately and they'll do just about anything to put it away in their brains as nonsense so they can feel justified in continuing doing things the way they're doing things and that they're in the right while we're very much in the wrong - facts are of no consequence in this thought process either. This is the essence of the anti-homeschool contingent, IMO.
Statistics: Posted by Calla_Dragon — Fri Jul 13, 2007 6:01 pm
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The thing about PS that IMO makes it so ineffecient is that the students sit for 12 years passively absorbing a wide range of information geared to appeal to the broadest range of interests. Only until one goes to college does one attempt to 'focus' on one's talents and interests in order to declare a major or specialty. When one homeschools, one can begin this process WAY before the end of high school. Heck, I am there now with my 10 yob and 8 yog, and my firstborn (now 19) knew what he was going to do when he was 12, pursued it, and is doing it right now.
And who really knows or cares about the names of the moons of Saturn, unless you work at NASA? KWIM?
Let your friend rant, and you can probably be glad that she doesn't HS- can you imagine her trying to teach her kids every single factoid in the universe for fear of a 'hole'?
Statistics: Posted by Sunnymom — Fri Jul 13, 2007 3:03 pm
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