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Home-Schooling and "Open Source" Materials?

Posted by Cliff on 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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  1. yee haw! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait
    Home schooling! The sure fire way to guarantee your kids grow up to be the same white trash rednecks you are! Why bother with home schooling, just turn your kids loose in wal-mart all day and let them learn from observation of the other white trash.

    Find a good REAL school. Try to get it in your head that there are other people in this world who just might be smarter than you.

  2. Re:Home Schooling will warp your child. Don't do i by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Excellent comment, thank you.
    As a home-schooled child (k-12, all at home), this is a subject about which I am quite passionate, and it pains me to look at the public schooling system where it is no longer "good" to hold children back if they don't meet requirements, and where peer cruelty destroys anything good and unique in a child in the name of "socialization".

  3. You have a TV don't you. by gwjc · · 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.