The kids who are forced to spend 12 years with the same age group are the ones who are ISOLATED. They don't learn to communicate with other age groups therefore they don't have a taste of what 'real' life is like. It's no wonder they treat younger siblings like they are inferior and parents/elders like they are clueless.
Homeschooling is a wonderful blessing that I pray the Lord protects.
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Do you know that there are other students at most schools? Students in different grades and of different ages? And that there are teachers and other adults?
Do you know that there aren't hundreds of people in your home? Do you know that your home doesn't prepare them for the big world of strangers out there?
Thought not.
Whoever thinks public schools isolate kids in their own age group has never been in a high school cafeteria, hallway or bus. Or on a team, in a band or on a field trip. Sounds like lisaann is the one who's been living in a closet.
[The kids who are forced to spend 12 years with the same age group are the ones who are ISOLATED.]
It's not like they're in a supermax prison, for crying out loud. They're only there for ~6 hours a day, 9 months a year.
[they don't have a taste of what 'real' life is like...Homeschooling is a wonderful blessing that I pray the Lord protects.]
You're worried that they won't know what "real" life is like, so you're keeping them at home?
How the hell are they supposed to learn how to interact with strangers? Make friends? Deal with bullies? Interact with the opposite sex?
HUH?! I dunno what school you went to, but mine was K-12, until I switched schools. Then it was 10-12...with the 7-9 school practically next door. Either case, I got plenty of experience in dealing with other age. Trust me, no isolation there.
And for the record...siblings will bicker, no matter what you do. And every kid believes their parents are by far the most out of touch, clueless people on the planet. Such has been the case for as far back as anyone can tell. It is a fact of life...children attempting to assert individuality.
I actually agree that it's better for kids not to be shoved with classes full of kids only their own age . . . that's why high school classes can be taken by juniors/seniors or by students of all age groups.
Eh, schools are prisons anyway.
So rather than give them a bit of minimal contact when they at least get to deal with other age groups on the bus, in the cafeteria, in mixed grade glasses, and so forth, you help them by not giving them contact with any age group at all?
Rapture Ready renowned for its stupidity. I'd pass it on if I were you. Got to keep the tradition going.
Eventually, I suppose, they'll become so angry at their own stupidity and ineptitude that they'll want to kill everyone else. They have no sense of responsibility toward their offspring.
Phew! Sometimes I think, it could've been me, I think I was lucky.
Because kids in public school don't have younger brothers and sisters and cousins to spend time with, they don't do activities like karate and dance where there are a variety of age groups, they don't spend summers with grandparents and aunts and uncles. They spend 24 hours a day exclusively with their own grade.
And there sure haven't been a lot of posts on Rapture Ready lately about people with out-of-control teenagers, uh-uh, nope, no way.
Homeschool your brat if you wish, but I am very thankful that I was sent to public school.
Guess who will be flipping burgers and who won't?
"Homeschooling is a wonderful blessing that I pray the Lord protects"
If anything in your post means ISOLATED, it's homeschoolin's
Seeing as this is one of the exact problems that Montessori schooling--which plenty of liberals admire--was supposed to avoid, I don't think it's an illegitimate concern. Grade levels *are* artificial brackets, and there's generally little interaction between grade levels at the younger ages. Montessori schools tend to have a range of ages in the classroom for exactly this reason.
Now, how homeschooling is supposed to help this unless you're the Duggar family, I don't know. But the sentiment itself is hardly fundie. Most public schools have very few mixed-age activities until middle school or later, down to even age-segregated lunch periods, and what kind of sense does that really make? If Montessori schools, scouting troops, community organizations, etc can all manage mixed-age groups, as could all the one-room schoolteachers of prior eras who hadn't even been to college, it doesn't seem unreasonable to question why public schools insist on segregating by age instead of ability.
Um...teachers? Kids in other grades? Family reunions? Neighbors?
I think lisaann's real fear is that the kids are *not* isolated, and are exposed to other ways of thinking and doing things through their classmates.
Actually, in public schools you end up associating with older and younger due to your interests or intelligence level.
You also don't live totalling under one system of continuous religious bullshit
Honestly, as someone who has been homeschooled, it isn't as damaging as you people make it out to be, and unless you have a typical religious fundie as a teacher, it doesn't equate to a lifetime of burger flipping,
especially in today's world where you would most likely have internet access and a ridiculous amount of information at your fingertips, which can help a lot for homeschooling, and as a side note it does not equate to certain lack of social skills, it's not like you can't leave the house and meet people, and even if you DO barely ever go anywhere or live too far from a town to make it reasonable to do it repeatedly, there's at least yet again the internet, which serves as a great communication tool on top of the education possibilities,
Of course I'm sure none of this applies to the fundie and his/her way of doing things, but I felt like at least attempting to dismiss the falsehoods some people posting comments here are bringing forward.
Okay, this is actually something I agree with, and have experienced as true. And I was not raised Christian even remotely.
Montessori follows this philosophy, for those who despise homeschooling.
Homeskuling for a taste of 'real' life?
Don't know about you guys but I always has interaction with the kids in the forms immediately above and below mine and, to a lesser extent, outside that range.
@lisaann from Rapture Ready: The reason people are mocking what you said is not because is is clearly ridiculous: Homeschooled children who spend their lives with the same few people all the time are clearly more isolated than children who get to go to school with hundreds of other children and adults. This can be very damaging.
Add to that the fact that average parents are unlikely to be as good at teaching as trained educators, and it is clear that school is a better place for children to be. If you genuinely cared about children's well-being you would not promote home-schooling.
It's no wonder they treat younger siblings like they are inferior and parents/elders like they are clueless.
That's called "growing up" and it's really, really normal.
Homeschooling, now bringing you people who don't understand what numbers mean.
I'll help.
Lisa Ann, the average family is what 4-5 people. four or five HUNDRED people is a MUCH BIGGER NUMBER of people than FOUR OR FIVE PEOPLE.
This is because a HUNDRED is a whole lot of people, so for each person in your little family a public school student can meet A WHOLE LOT OF PEOPLE.
Hopefully I dumbed this down enough for you to understand.
Confused?
So were we! You can find all of this, and more, on Fundies Say the Darndest Things!
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