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Stan Wayne [03/12/2016 8:51 PM]
We have done both interchangeably for 16 years with 7 kids – both are appropriate at different times
Jan Dixon Sykes [03/13/2016 12:49 PM]
Ever hear of vaccination? Those who are injected with a small dose of evil are more immune to it than those who aren’t? That’s the balance we have to find. If we raise our kids in a bubble, they go out and are prey to every ideogology out there. But if they have been exposed, they (with the help of parents) have built up immunities in the form of good answers to the evil ideas. ……… As for social skills, Dr. Phil says homeschooling has little negative effect on elementary kids, but huge negative effects on high school kids. …….. My husband drives a school bus. He has every grade. He has taken it upon himself to socialize his kids. Not with “management by intimidation,” but with “management by wit.” His kids both love him and respect him. As do their parents.
Mary Ellen Nissley
Okay, forgive my verbosity here…
There’s a time for everything. Some kids do better in homeschooling. And some kids need homeschooling some years, but not other years. And then, some parents would love to homeschool, but can’t, for various reasons.
I was never homeschooled, but my ex-hubby was. It would have done him good to have gone to public school. The reason he was homeschooled, was because his dad was a loner, and a strong authoritarian parent. Yes, there was abuse and disrespect in the home… and public school would have helped balance that out…
My own schooling was public for the first 5 years, and then private church school for 6th thru 12th grades.
I was bullied at public school, and learned how to love my enemies, and to win them over, with kindness. (My Mennonite mother taught me how.)
Interestingly, when our Mennonite church began having its own school, I was bullied just as badly by… the pastor’s youngest son! And nothing worked there. He was bad to the bone. And telling his parents didn’t help.
I remember how a foster teen child took the little girls into a bathroom and “educated” them sexually… at our church school. I was a senior that year, and suspected something nefarious was happening, so I hid in a bathroom stall, with my feet pulled up. And just listened. And then, I did the socially unacceptable thing. I tattled. And what a stink there was throughout the church, from that episode!
I homeschooled my own kids for the first few years. Then my husband left and demanded that they be put into public school. They had to ride the bus, which provided an education of its own. My kids came home dropping filthy words they had never heard before. I know they were educated far more than I ever heard about.
Yes, there was evolution teaching… but my 4th grade daughter stood up against the teacher and effectively shot evolution down with crystal-clear logic (squirrels don’t have the same rights as people!) that she had learned at home… and the whole class cheered and shouted agreement with her… The teacher stood blinking, and abruptly abandoned teaching science that day–switched to Math. A safe subject. LOL
Public school is a minefield, but it can also be a blessing.
Homeschooling can be completely wrong, if it is done because of fear. Homeschooling can warp children. I was too sheltered, and forbidden to visit neighbors, because my parents were fearful of “the world.” Even friends from public school were forbidden to come to our home, because they would be a bad influence. To this day, I tend to hole up, instead of reaching out to my neighbors. And that’s wrong.
Carl Murphy
Hide from the world or be a witness in it?
Donald Lynn Guffey Jr.
Honestly Christian children should be trained to be ministers of the gospel. Therefore they should be sent to public school.
Varnel Watson
There are many claims the state owned public ed. system cannot truly prepare clergy. How do you see it training children for the ministry?