Home-Schooling and "Open Source" Materials?

Posted by Cliff on Saturday August 17, 2002 @02:33AM from the books-pens-papers-and-things dept.

Deagol asks: "After we registered our daughter for second grade yesterday at public school, I began to ponder (yet again) the question of homeschooling. There's certainly not a lack of sites out there about the topic, but I was surprised at the lack of public domain materials out there. I would think there'd more collections of public domain 'courses' since the K-12 core knowledge base is so stable and well understood. Sure, there are tons of places that will sell you kits of course materials, and quite a few home-schoolers who made their own courses (but only offer them for a fee). I assume there's more than a few homeschoolers out there on Slashdot. Are there any good sources of free home-schooling materials (including software) out there?"

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You have a TV don't you. by gwjc · 2002-08-17 15:00 · Score: 0, Flamebait

I don't understand why you think you would need anything more. A TV is the only teacher your kids will need and it will leave you plenty of free time. As for those whining about the lack of social interaction when students are homeschooled; puhlease.. they will learn everything they need to know from the masters on the TV. The only problem might the be lack of physical activity but this is easily remedied with a gaming console.