What do your schooled children do during the three months of summer vacation.... Does socialization come to a halt? Do they not learn anymore? Do they volunteer? Are they happy? If younger, do they go to daycare? If older, are they alone or with you? If you can't afford day camp, what other ways do you ensure that your children are socialized?
Thanks.
2006-10-01 13:45:16 · 10 answers · asked by FreeThinker 3 in Education & Reference ➔ Home Schooling
Perry...I used anti-homeschooling because YA's homeschool board is slammed pretty much on a regular basis and is very anti-homeschooling. The absolute number 1 objection is "socialization" and so that is why I was asking anti-homeschool community as to what goes on during their 3 months of summer vacation, you should read some of the comments. Some are coming off as if to say that "school" is the only place that socialization takes place, and takes place properly.
Yes, we are free-thinking homeschoolers. I'm an agnostic/atheist, 8yo dd is a deist, 12yo an atheist and my hubby is undecided. Questioning and discussions are regularly encouraged and my children do have a choice on whether or not they are home educated. They choose home education.
2006-10-01 15:39:00 · update #1
Wow, Nab...you mean I need Jesus so that I can be an *** towards people who are not like-minded? Your post smacks of sweet love. :-) Lousy mother? Alrighty, then. You of course do not represent all Christians but that of an ultra-fundy mind set. My mother, father, grandparents, etc. are all Christians as are many of my friends.
BTW... I was a Christian for 34 years out of my 36 years of life, so been there, done that and I don't want to go back.
2006-10-02 05:52:20 · update #2
My children weren't instilled with anything, they came to their own conclusions. They are allowed to decide for themselves whether or not they believe in a God...free-thinking is allowed here. But if I instilled in them that YOUR god is the god, well now, you wouldn't have a problem with that now would you? Hypocrite. :-)
2006-10-02 05:56:23 · update #3
Good Question!
Does Socializing come to a halt during summer vacation? Of course not - that is why the statement that home-schooled children don't learn to socialize is ridiculous.
There are thousands of homeschoolers all socializing with each other, while millions of school children are cooped up like chickens for five days a week, 6 hours a day for up to 13 years of their lives. You've got to feel sorry for them!
Statistically, homeschooling is growing across the USA and Canada at the rate of 15% per year as more and more families are realizing that they want more for their children.
I'm a Homeschooling Mom of one child, 4 of our children went to Public School. All of them graduated, but all of them could have done better.
2006-10-01 14:08:28 · answer #1 · answered by ? 7 · 4⤊ 0⤋
When I first read your question, I thought it seemed to be more of a comment than a question. I also suspected you were a fundie. I was very surprised to find you're a Freethinker.
It's been my experience that most people that use words like "Anti-Homeschooling", are anti-public education because they seem to believe the role of school should be to indoctrinate kids into their favorite cult.
They choose homeschooling because they don't want to take a chance of their children learning to think for themselves.
Now, back to your question.
I'm certainly no expert on this issue but I'd like to offer a few thoughts.
1) It doesn't take much talent to have a child but it takes A LOT of skill to teach. Although I'm multi-degreed, I don't feel qualified to teach children.
2) Not all public schools are bad.
3) I think most kids continue their socialization even when school is not in session. I think I had higher quality socialization during the summer. I was introduced to people outside my little school circle.
2006-10-01 21:18:34 · answer #2 · answered by perryw_stl 2 · 0⤊ 4⤋
What is sociallization? Ask yourself? Does a child learn social interaction through family relations...well of course! Do they model parents in good social skills...that depends on the parents level of social skills...sibling relations are a natural socialization relationship and with parental guidance learn the difference between good and bad behaviors when relating to siblings. Summer or not that all goes on in the family. During summer it depends if you believe in programming your kids in summer camps or use summer for other classes like science and geography, astronomy and ecology, by using summer for field trips, science experiments fishingtrips etc. There is no such thing as not socializing kids....as i said at the start what is your definition of socialization....positive skills of interpersonal communication...bad socialization is not the absence of other kids to play with...but not exposing your kids to bad social behavior(skills) of other kids so that you then have to help them unlearn it....which as we know takes twice as long as it takes to learn something. Which is why most of us homeschool...since school are institutions that are veritable festoons of bad socialization and promotion of every vice known to man...
2006-10-02 17:24:33 · answer #3 · answered by Therapist King 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I don't get the socialization part at all. Are all homeschoolers hermits, living on the top of a mountain in upper Washington?
Has no one heard of neighbors. Parks. Malls. Playgrounds.
The socialization homeschoolers don't get it visitors to the school with assualt rifles shooting up the teachers and kids, which is now become an epidemic in both the US and Canada
School is about keeping up with the class. There is no time to go back and do things over. You learn it or you lose.
Homeschooling is about learning. You stick with a topic until you master it. It doesn't matter if it takes a week to learn what should have taken an hour.
I knew teachers, student teachers, math majors and college gradautes and would ask them to explain logarithm to me. The answer was "it would take to long to explain it"
My, is that how they teach it in schools!
Could it be that maybe they don't know themselves!
I once asked what the significance of SINE was and all I was told was that it was a ratio
Any good surfer knows what SINE is. It's how they manager to surf that wave. The right position (sine) the right angle of the board, the right placement (tangent angle) and they move fowards.
Why is it a high school surfer is more a master of Sine than a college graduate?!
Sine is why you see pictures on TV
Every scan line is made on a given point on a wave or position in radians or SINE
The SINE of the broadcast sync is exactly the same SINE as the playback sync on your TV set.
If they don't match you see wavy lines and hear a buzz.
Now, I just taught you more about SINE then you will learn in 4 years of college.
They'll teach ou the rules, but you won't have the slightest idea what to do with it!
School does not teach you to think or know. School teaches you to memorize concepts teachers memorized because their teachers made them memorzie it.
Use it.
Teachers don't use it. They just repeat it!
I learned more about dealing with logarithms in learning Astrology than I did in school. Astrology deals in proportional logarithms to change the position of a planet from ephermeral time to real birth time. You trace the hours and minutes in idfference, get a fixed proportional logarithm, add that to the logarithm of the ephermeral time and you come out with a distance travelled in the amount of time between today, tomorrow and the time of birth.
In dealing with mortgage and interest rates in writing programs I had to deal with Log e, a natural algorithm used in bilogical work to show the growth of offspring and bacterial colonies starting with one and going forward in time.
The same concept is used in computing periodic interest on your loans and CD accounts.
Now you know more about Log than you probably ever learned in school.
Maybe if schools told you if you master logarithms you can figure out how to stop working at an early age when your savings account reaches the point where it matches your salary in interest.
Maybe then kids might be more interested in learning a concept.
Schools teach people all sorts of concepts, but they never learn how to use them, so that knowledge stays locked up.
When you're in Apollo 13 and you have no radio and you have a BA from college and all you know about SINE is that it's a ratio you can't put 2+2 together.
SINE is a precise location on an arc that gives you a precise trajectory to get home. Miss by 1 degree and you are thousands of miles off course. Know how to use it and you get yourself home with no help from the ground.
Miss it on a surf board and you wipe out, get wet and get whacked by your own surf board.
Surfers don't use a computer to find that point. They know it by looking, timing and feeling it. Experience tells them where the exact point (SINE on the wave) is.
That's a pretty high level of genius. That's called flying by the seat of your pants.
Don't expect to learn that in any school until you reach post graduate studies in Math or Physics.
Or until you take up surfing or computing a mortgage payment over 28 years.
2006-10-02 01:25:06 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Well mine is just turning 3 but goes to preschool 2x a week...
During the summer she goes to church 3 times a week and plays with her friends, has play dates at the park with my cousin's kid or my friend's kid once or twice a week, she's started music class and will probably still be doing that come summer or dance class, our library has story hour-
She plays a lot with her cousins.
There's lots to do.
Why? What does it have to do with homeschooling or anti-homeschooling?
2006-10-01 20:57:23 · answer #5 · answered by Alison 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Number one I suggest you get in touch with a church because you seriously need jesus if you're denying his existence with the mentality of Madaleine Murray O'Hare. I went to a private school from 1st through 12th grade and my summer vacations were spent in summer school that's why I was able to qualify for graduation from high school a year early, but state law didnt allow me to do that. I was well socialized and I got if not more than most homeschooled kids since I traveled in the late summer to different places and didnt spend a summer doing nothing my mom wasnt having that kind of laziness going on. Staying involved with sports or something involving keeping the mind active is what kept me better prepared for school in the fall of each year. BTW I volunteered my time at the county hospital from the age of 16-19.Your children have a lousy mother to instill in their minds that there's no God.
2006-10-02 12:43:08 · answer #6 · answered by nabdullah2001 5 · 0⤊ 5⤋
My children started a dog walking business.
2006-10-01 20:48:18 · answer #7 · answered by T Time 6 · 3⤊ 1⤋
Love this !! I agree 100%.
2006-10-01 21:24:47 · answer #8 · answered by Melissa C 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
my wife teaches years years round school
2006-10-01 21:46:19 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Have fun with friends and pets!!!
2006-10-01 21:47:12 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋