This blog is the journal of a mom and family in our 9th year of homeschooling. I am passionate about education as a whole and feel that homeschooling can also be used to prevent struggling high school students from being dropouts.
His father is professing that the kids will get "a proper education like they are supposed to". As homeschoolers we know that means public or private school and no more home education. That's interesting though because Joe Jackson did not get his kids a "proper education like kinds are supposed to have" considering he was dragging them all over the country getting rich off of them.
Should all homeschoolers join groups? by Andrea Hermitt 15 Jun 2009 06:37 AM When the socialization question is posed to homeschoolers, the defense most used is that their kid participates in group activities or takes a class here and there. Recently, I have noticed people giving the advice that homeschoolers should HAVE to work in groups.
Scouting and the homeschool portfolio by Andrea Hermitt 11 Jun 2009 06:46 AM Some time back, Julie Gentry wrote about using scouting to fulfill homeschool requirements. She described what she called scout school and how easy it was to integrate it into homeschool academics.
How to use learner.org as a homeschool curriculum by Andrea Hermitt 04 Jun 2009 06:10 AM I recently mentioned learner.org amongst my best free homeschool programs online for 2009. I have been using learner.org extensively since then, and realized that new users to the site might need a bit of a tutorial. Learner.
Commentary on video in question:... Playing with other children, Engaging aspects of childhood was something we were unable to do because of lack of seeing children outside of their families. Homeschooled kids face the same consequences. A child who hasn't effectively learned how to deal with childhood conflicts cannot deal with adult conflicts. A child should become and active member of an organization that offers compromizing skills such as girl scouts, boy scouts or some form of sports in their community. Anything of this nature would improve the outcome. In my school, we spent most of the day praying in church and in class. Who is to say that in Homeshchooling, the children are receiving a full education which I even lacked in a paraochial school?
My response:
So that was a little clip from a vide from Doris Anne 13, and I'll put the link somewhere... over there. Umm, and someone just sent me this link and I was like ... It's late at night, I was like getting my last wind before I went to sleep. I was just flipping through the internet and someone sent me this link, and I had to get out of my bedd and come into the bathroom to make a video response because it just couldn't wait until morning. So anyway, Miss Doris Anne wants to change the face of homeschooling and she gets her theory from her own personal education.
Ya'll, She went to Catholic school in the 1950's. And so basically she says that because she didn't get second things because she was in catholic school in the 1950's, that it equates to what homeschoolers are not getting. Let me tell you what... I want to catholic school too... in the 1970's. I got a very good education. I left Catholic school in the 8th grade and went to public high school and did extremely well. But, getting there alive... was half the problem... Let me tell you what! Those Catholic school kids were brut-al.
So, umm, you can't equate homeschooling school today to parochial school in the 1950's. You can't even equate homeschooling today to parochial school in the 1970's. Um, I lived in New Orleans in the late 1990's early 2000's and I watched catholic school kids get on and off the bus every day. They were completely off the chain! They were completely out of control. You can't even equate homeschooling to day with parochial school in the late 1990's early 2000's.
So let's just say that Miss Doris Anne's view of what homeschooling is is antiquated at the very, very, very, best. With that said, someone with her veiw point and rigid opinion who hasn't even bothered to look into homeschooling any deeper than to say, "well, I didn't enjoy my catholic school education, so homeschoolers are not enjoying their education ... please be quiet.
I mean yeah, I guess that's rude but ...REALLY? That is just so uneducated. It just comes from a place of personal predjudice. I mean, come-on. I got my butt wooped almost everyday in catholic school, but I am not going to tell another parent that they cannot bring their kids to catholic school, should they so please.
I got into a couple of fights in high school ... kids today when they get into the same fight they get cut and shot. As a matter of fc, my younger brother who was behind me 8 years in public school did get cut. Well, yeah, I'm from NY and maybe the area is a little toughter than it is here. I guess what I want to say is that when people upload crap like that, they re not really researching well because she talking about some judge who says kids are getting emotional neglect and education repsect and the whole deal.
All of that stuff has been blown out of the water Ya'll. The socialization myth is a myth and not more than that. M kids socialize so much that I struggle to find time at home to actually do the school work.
I don't know... thank you to the person who sent me the link ... but what a waste of breath! Great Scott! Anyway, I guess that's all I have to say.
More commentary from video in question: blah, blah, blah, educational monitoring system, blah blah, state to state. More of my experiences can be found in my book, The torment of the Modern secluded... something.
More from me:
The torment of the modern secluded what? So you see what I mean, I mean, Ms Doris Anne Bellieu is trying to sell a book. I don't know who she is speaking to. I don't know what choir she's preaching to. There are alot of people out there who re threatened by hhomeschoolers... because children aren't being CONTROLLED and they aqren't all thinking alike life eveyrone else. I don't know. Im m going back to bed,,,.s ee ya'll later.
I was blessed to discover this new online curriculum that teaches via video web instruction from some of the brightest minds in the country. For anyone with students looking for AP instruction, you really need to check this out.
This is my third attempt making this video because I tried to do a direct download to video and my mouth and words were out of sync.. and that looks crazy, but that's not the point of this video.
Anyhow, so I had a discussion with my husband this morning and it was about a trip we are planning to California because my daughter was invited to perform on August 16th. The problem is that he homeschool program, Artios Academy which is arts related, starts the following Tuesday, two days later. So that meant we were going to have to hustle to get back in time for that or miss a day, which is technically missing a week since they only go once a week. I have having a hard time with that. I felt that we should go early to enjoy California instead of staying a week after. While staying a week after would probably make it more enjoyable, I felt like we should go a week early, but that would feel like work, because there are also rehearsals scheduled the week before.
So my husband says, "I thought we were homeschoolers", doesn't that mean that our schedule is ours, and if we want to go somewhere we can? Why are you trying to fit into their schedule?
So, that was it. He's right. I find that as homeschoolers, we tend to give our power away and we give our schedules away because we are so used to being told this is where we need to be, when we need to be there. Get up at 7:00 every day, eat your breakfast, go to work, come home, eat your dinner, go to to sleep, get up an hour earlier on Sunday, go to church, give them 10% of your money, shop on Saturday, and repeat. While I am not saying that doing those things are bad, I am saying that tying yourself to them unnaturally, is. It is something that I need to remember, and it is something I want you all to remember.
So we are going to go to California, and my daughter and I are going to go on California early and and then my husband and son are going to come later as his schedule allows, and we are going to spend the week after in California, so we are going to miss a day (or week) or whatever.
The biggest problem for me is that I am paying for the program, so that means that I am not getting something I am paying for for that week, but that's just my little thing that I need to get over. I have to remember that I am paying for it and they are not THE homeschoolers of my kids, they are the program that I use alongside and helps with that (homeschooling my kid).
It's not going to kill them to miss the first week of drama club. It's not going to kill them to miss the first week of piano (etc.) they can start a week later.
And so, I just wanted to put that out there!... Take care! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
This video discusses why some people might not want you to homeschool. You will need to click through to you-tube to see the video I am referencing.
Basically, in my case, my old TaeKwonDo Master demanded I stop homeschooling so I could spend more time at the Dojo... in his service. He failed to understand that when given a choice, I would drop him like a hot potato before putting him before my kids.
I have had similar conversations with other people.
I know its time to stop talking about this and to home that the teacher who started this noise goes away. Still, it's a free country and I really wanted to get in my last word on this subject.
This video gives and analogy on how homeschooling and public education and teachers are different, so there really isn't a reason for such dissention... or is there?
This video explains what I have been doing for the past year (as I had not made a video in that year). It dispels the myth of socialization, and talks a little about our plan for the upcoming year including putting a few college credits under out belt.
What do you get when you combine Facebook type networking and College academics? You get Coursehero.com. Coursehero is a website that was built for students by students as a means to communicate with each other and with professors to increase a students understanding in a subject and to excell.
For example, as a student in a college math course, if you find that you need can't figure out a math homework solution, you can go to the site and pull of answers other students have given instead of waiting for the teacher to review it in the classroom. You can also get a professor to explain it and have other students explain how they came their answer. Coursehero.com is also aligned with severat textbooks so you can work with actual examples and solutions that are taught in your textbook. It is also valuable should you miss a class you can go online and ask fellow students for Math Lecture notes that you didn't get in class.
Homeschoolers can also find this site useful as many homeschooled high school students work at the college level. Even if they are not taking an actual class, the ability to communicate regularly with college students to ask questions, and get answers, and even give answers in an online study group is incredibly valuable. This is definately on my list of websites to introduce to my kids as they get closer to college.
