[an0n]

Discuss.

[Taristin]

I know more (about school subjects) than my parents, for the most part. Home schooling would have probably been a waste...

[Kazan]

99% of the time it sucks

i won't say more

[MatthewPapa]

I have heard home Schooling is for either losers or geniuses. My evidence prompts me to support that but I dont know.....

[redmenace]

It can give children advantages in some areas, but in others it leaves the children lacking such as socially. Maybe that is why I am here alone on a friday night watching spider man 2.

[Rictor]

Home-schooling would totally pay off if your cute nieghbor was also home-schooled and your mutual rejection by/of society brought you close together.

Thats about the depth of my thought on the subject.

[an0n]

Originally posted by redmenace
It can give children advantages in some areas, but in others it leaves the children lacking such as socially. Maybe that is why I am here alone on a friday night watching spider man 2.

Nah. If it was that bad, you'd be watching Gigli or Love Actually.

*shudders*

[an0n]

Anyway, having been school-schooled and being pretty much the smartest person here by a country mile, I think I can safely say that my way is best - despite being tedious, unfair and run by complete bastards who will all get what's coming to them.

[Knight Templar]

I wouldn't want to be homeschooled.

[an0n]

I've learned more from Wiki than I ever did from text books.

But that being said, I wouldn't know anything about sex, public speaking or how to efficiently piss people off if not for a good, solid school education.

[Knight Templar]

"Schooling" yourself is not the same as home-school.  

[redmenace]

Originally posted by an0n

Nah. If it was that bad, you'd be watching Gigli or Love Actually.

*shudders*

lol, you would never catch me watching that ****. I have been known to watch a sappy movie occasionally, like Shadowlands.

[an0n]

Watch Lost In Translation - on DVD preferably.

[Goober5000]

I'm very much in favor of homeschooling.  There are so many things wrong with public schooling nowadays - dividing classes by age instead of ability; the playground subculture that gives rise to bullying; the caste system of nerds, jocks, popular kids and unpopular kids; I hardly know where to start.

[Roanoke]

Playground mentality ecists everywhere to some degree or another.
I have to put up with office mentality and some of the ignorant fag-heads I work with

[vyper]

Humanity sucks. The sooner children learn this the quicker they will learn how to deal with the world.

[mitac]

Could somebody please explain the concept of Home Schooling? I have no real clue what it's about, since I'm from a country with compulsory school attendance.

[Corsair]

Basically, you stay at home and your parents teach you in the comfort of your own home. Just you and the "teacher", one on one. No class or anything.

It can work pretty well if you have competent "teachers" because you move at your own pace and can concentrate more on whatever you damn well please. Let's say you don't like history. Maybe you'll only spend an hour a day on history but if you really like science, you can spend three hours on it and really delve into the aspects of science that you enjoy.

Homeschooling also helps if you don't like putting up with ****ty school bureaucracies and stupid school politics where the ass-kissing rich parents who are on the school board get everything for their kids, while everyone else gets screwed. Then again, that's life and it's not such a bad thing to learn to deal with it early on.

[Grug]

It's basically something along the lines of recieving the school criteria in the mail, but your tought at home by folks, tutor, or hot chick next door.

I think learning how to deal with the social concepts of school is part of the learning process. But sometimes some people need a helping hand...

[mitac]

Interesting. Reminds me of that discussion that went up and down the media here a few months ago, when a bunch of parents belonging to some religious group insisted on teaching their children at home. I believe they were even temporarily arrested, to force them into sending them to a "regular" school. On top of that, they were fined for their actions.
That's how it works here - either a private or a public school, but it has to be a state-approved school. This home-schooling isn't allowed. And from what you told me, I have to say that I'm rather sceptical on the idea of it.