Things you might miss out on in home school

[MikeWaters]

1) organized jr high and hs sports (yes I said MIGHT MISS)
2) choir, band, orchestra
3) learning a language from someone who speaks it
4) speech/debate/UIL competitions
5) drama/plays/musicals
6) study council/student government
7) learning relatively "arcane" subjects from someone who knows them well, like your more complicated chemistry (and doing chem lab), physics, etc.
8) Getting beat up
9) Having your religion made fun of
10) school lunches
11) talks with the principal
12) In School Suspension (ISS)
13) physical fitness tests where you are compared to other students
14) tether ball
15) 4-square
16) lockers
17) school libraries
18) recess
19) pin dodge ball
20) timed rope climb

It makes me sick to think of all the things that homeschool kids miss.

[UtahDan]

Originally Posted by MikeWaters

1) organized jr high and hs sports (yes I said MIGHT MISS)
2) choir, band, orchestra
3) learning a language from someone who speaks it
4) speech/debate/UIL competitions
5) drama/plays/musicals
6) study council/student government
7) learning relatively "arcane" subjects from someone who knows them well, like your more complicated chemistry (and doing chem lab), physics, etc.
8) Getting beat up
9) Having your religion made fun of
10) school lunches
11) talks with the principal
12) In School Suspension (ISS)
13) physical fitness tests where you are compared to other students
14) tether ball
15) 4-square
16) lockers
17) school libraries
18) recess
19) pin dodge ball
20) timed rope climb

It makes me sick to think of all the things that homeschool kids miss.

I think you have OCD.

[Indy Coug]

If you grow up in SU's home, you can scratch #9 off your list.

[MikeWaters]

21) hot student teachers

[Requiem]

1. Learning how to tolerate those from different races, creeds and cultures.
2. Listening, understanding and critically thinking about contradicting secular and moral positions.
3. Engaging in pro and con debates on topical issues.

Seriously, until we have more empirical data, the jury remains out on the merits of homeschooling. I understand the hs advocates point to higher average ACT scores (22.8 compared to 21.0 in ps). More relevant numbers - including test score comparisons of college bound seniors, admission % to top tier schools and college graduation rates will come out over time.

[MikeWaters]

I admit if I lived in Oklahoma or Mississippi or Utah I might be forced to homeschool.

[Goatnapper'96]

Originally Posted by Requiem

1. Learning how to tolerate those from different races, creeds and cultures.
2. Listening, understanding and critically thinking about contradicting secular and moral positions.
3. Engaging in pro and con debates on topical issues.

Seriously, until we have more empirical data, the jury remains out on the merits of homeschooling. I understand the hs advocates point to higher average ACT scores (22.8 compared to 21.0 in ps). More relevant numbers - including test score comparisons of college bound seniors, admission % to top tier schools and college graduation rates will come out over time.

Because 2 and 3 happen so frequently in elementary and middle school. #1 is gay and should never be ranked ahead of just about anything other than missing out on learning to say "bomb bomb no erasies" at the handball court. Further, it demonstrates that whatever schooling you had before university left you helpless when the brainwashing so prevalent at public universities came at you...you became Borg and were assimilated.

WEEEEEEEEEE!!!! CELEBRATE DIVERSITY!!!!! WEEEEEEE!!!!!!

[Requiem]

Originally Posted by Goatnapper'96

WEEEEEEEEEE!!!! CELEBRATE DIVERSITY!!!!! WEEEEEEE!!!!!!

In all seriousness, I would be very interested in your opinion of how West Point really handles diversity. Lip service or window dressing?

[Goatnapper'96]

Originally Posted by MikeWaters

I admit if I lived in Oklahoma or Mississippi or Utah I might be forced to homeschool.

But think of the cultural diversity exposure you be depriving your little ones of if you lived in the Mississippi delta?

[il Padrino Ute]

22) lice
23) watching Bonnie Sweat crash the black Trans Am into the elevated tennis courts.