We practice: Re:Less Is More (School != Day Care)
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Our children 10 and 12 home educate about 1 hour a day and that's all they need. No homework is needed (since we, ummm, home educate) while no excuse will get them off the hook (no fire alarm to pull, no disruptive questions to waste time, etc.).
I personally think 1 hour is too much but I allow my Japanese wife to do so since she's already out of her comfort zone (she is used to the Japanese way so she had to become unschooled at many levels to get to the current state).
When I asked them if they want to go to school, the youngest told me "no, because then the (short) recess is all that we would look forward to" (since they get on the average of 6+ hours of recess every day instead of 1 or 2 at a typical school and with no homeworks, they get even more recess time).
Stop the waste! Re:Education Sucks in the US?
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It isn't the government's job to educate your children. It's yours.
I agree 100%!
So when will public schools get shut down? Dept. of education is not even part of the U.S. Constitution. It is illegal and should not have been approved and we can't get rid of it soon enough! (sames goes for local public schools and their pesky taxes.)
Are you crazy? Re:Limit computers in elementary
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My sons are 10 and 12 and we're home educating them pretty well. They are average and I won't push them to be something I want them to be (i.e., living my unfulfilled youth vicariously through them) but, instead, I plan to continue to guide them to be the best that they can be (keepig in mind their personalities, their gifting, talents, interests, etc.).
They spend at most one hour (60 minutes) of any structured studies per day and they are doing OK by my standards (can read, interact with their peers and adults as well as solve math problems which are good enough for me for their age).
My goal is to get them to self-educated themselves and then go one extra mile of teaching others this skill. Then I'm done as a parent and out the door they go....
Try "Einstein Never Used Flash Cards : How Our Children Really Learn-- And Why They Need to Play More and Memorize Less" by Kathy Hirsh-Pasek, Diane Eyer, Roberta Michnick Golinkoff
Good book which looks at how children learn (based on authors' studies and other papers).
Complacent parents = bored/dumb-downed students
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Let's further accept that most people are not capable of doing this, or at any rate need help reaching that sort of educational self-sufficiency.
This is the problem with public schools: if you assume that parents' cannot help themselves, then they won't bother which means they'll think "let the pros do it" and not be involved! Uninvolved parenting is what produces bored and eventually dumb-downed children. "If my parents don't care about studying, why should I care?"
By eliminating public schools, people will be shocked into caring about their children's education and be a bit more active about it. And their children will realize: "hey my parents are concerned about my education -- who would have thunk it?" And then they'll get busy with their studies again (or maybe even for the first time)....
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I personally think 1 hour is too much but I allow my Japanese wife to do so since she's already out of her comfort zone (she is used to the Japanese way so she had to become unschooled at many levels to get to the current state).
When I asked them if they want to go to school, the youngest told me "no, because then the (short) recess is all that we would look forward to" (since they get on the average of 6+ hours of recess every day instead of 1 or 2 at a typical school and with no homeworks, they get even more recess time).
I agree 100%!
So when will public schools get shut down? Dept. of education is not even part of the U.S. Constitution. It is illegal and should not have been approved and we can't get rid of it soon enough! (sames goes for local public schools and their pesky taxes.)
Actually it was called:
"Association of Television Viewing During Childhood With Poor Educational Achievement"
BTW, I write tongue-in-cheek. See my commentary on these studies....
They spend at most one hour (60 minutes) of any structured studies per day and they are doing OK by my standards (can read, interact with their peers and adults as well as solve math problems which are good enough for me for their age).
My goal is to get them to self-educated themselves and then go one extra mile of teaching others this skill. Then I'm done as a parent and out the door they go....
Good book which looks at how children learn (based on authors' studies and other papers).
This is the problem with public schools: if you assume that parents' cannot help themselves, then they won't bother which means they'll think "let the pros do it" and not be involved! Uninvolved parenting is what produces bored and eventually dumb-downed children. "If my parents don't care about studying, why should I care?"
By eliminating public schools, people will be shocked into caring about their children's education and be a bit more active about it. And their children will realize: "hey my parents are concerned about my education -- who would have thunk it?" And then they'll get busy with their studies again (or maybe even for the first time)....