Do you support home schooling? (121)
Iuchi_Zien: No, you are deliberately misinterpreting me. At no point have I mentioned Adam Stansa, because mental illness is not, as far as I am aware, a result of home schooling. Being taught that one group of people are inferior to others CAN be the result of home schooling. By damaged I mean that their life chances, their chances of entering further education or getting a career can be seriously reduced if they come out of home schooling illiterate or with views that go against the norm. ANY education that leaves children in that position is a failed education. One could quite obviously question the choices made by the mother in allowing a mentally ill person access to firearms? or in believing that his mental illness meant she was the 'best' person to teach him.
I have been in agreement with you on this home school issue, maybe you didn't realize that.
I am not deliberately misinterpreting you, however, you need to re-read my post #62 and you will see that I was the one who referred to Adam Lanza, not you. I NEVER said that you said anything about him.
montemonte: Are you saying that a teacher who graduated from college to become a teacher goes to the house to teach your children?
Are you saying that you, the parent, didn't home school your children?
If the parent doesn't teach the child at home, what's the purpose of a teacher coming to your house to teach the child?
I thought home schooling meant that the parent wanted to teach their child at home.
Are you saying that you, the parent, didn't home school your children?
If the parent doesn't teach the child at home, what's the purpose of a teacher coming to your house to teach the child?
I thought home schooling meant that the parent wanted to teach their child at home.
I did not have a teacher come to the house. They were taught by me one on one in a traditional way until about second grade when they could read well and follow written directions. At that time it shifted to a more self directed method but I was always available if they had questions.
Just for the record, I only finished three years of college and did not get a degree. However, I had the kids take achievement tests every year to see how they were doing and they always did well.
montemonte: I have been in agreement with you on this home school issue, maybe you didn't realize that.
I am not deliberately misinterpreting you, however, you need to re-read my post #62 and you will see that I was the one who referred to Adam Lanza, not you. I NEVER said that you said anything about him.
I am not deliberately misinterpreting you, however, you need to re-read my post #62 and you will see that I was the one who referred to Adam Lanza, not you. I NEVER said that you said anything about him.
Oops! Sorry, I read the previous post to yours, then yours and didn't realise they were by different authors. My apologies, blame the fact that it is twenty past four and I should have been in bed three hours ago. I still stand that home schooling cannot be blamed for his behavior, but his mother choosing to home school certainly made a bad situation worse. And buying him GUNS!
montemonte: Case in point, Adam Lanza was home schooled by his mother.
She bought the guns for her son that killed 20 children and 6 educators at Sandy Hook Elementary School.
Adam was suffering with mental illness and his mother knew it yet she chose to home school him and pacify him with guns.
She bought the guns for her son that killed 20 children and 6 educators at Sandy Hook Elementary School.
Adam was suffering with mental illness and his mother knew it yet she chose to home school him and pacify him with guns.
monte it does not matter how he was schooled, the system failed there had been opportunities that the system ignored - and really that is another debate.
The fact is that there are many many examples of home schooling working well. I say this as a professional educator with a graduate degree in education as my professional opinion as well as as a mother as my personal opinion having witnessed some of the kindest and most intelligent women I have known do a wonderful job of home schooling.
..........with support of the educational system. honestly umless one has raised children and had expereinces and decisions to make in the matter, I cannot see a valid argument to hold an valid opinion.
Adam Lanza is a sensationalist tactic that I figured to be beneath you as an attempt to distract from the validity of home schooling for many others where there has been a positive experience and it is not fair to compare people like my daughter's best friend to him
that is a great disappointment to me to read these words of yours, monte
AustralianGirlAU: Its one of the top ten accusations...home schooled = no socialisation
yes it is also ridiculous nonsense. often the quality of the socialization provided in the home schooling experience is far superior to what goes on as far as bullying etc in the public schools.
I would far prefer my kids socialize in church and scout meetings, in classes at the art museum & YMCA and at the homes of trusted friends on play dates than be exposed to some of the random nonsense in the school playgrounds.
As a stay at home mom I saw all sides of this and speak from ample experience. My kids did go to school but I did almost pull them out.
AustralianGirlAU: to really confuse all...one of my degrees is in education.
Now pedagogy is shifting from behind bricks and mortar to open and on line.
And most uni courses we audit ...many students even full time watch the pod casts on line and dont go. So unis really have a problem with what to do with empty physical assets now.
Curtis Bonk has written a lot on this in 'the world is open'
so one really needs to research and shift from such polarist thinking grounded in 19c
Now pedagogy is shifting from behind bricks and mortar to open and on line.
And most uni courses we audit ...many students even full time watch the pod casts on line and dont go. So unis really have a problem with what to do with empty physical assets now.
Curtis Bonk has written a lot on this in 'the world is open'
so one really needs to research and shift from such polarist thinking grounded in 19c
I don;t know that your detractors are particularly interested in facts
duckrew: You must be a product of the public school system, it shows in your post, you use the wrong words in some instances. The children, that I know, that have been home schooled have a much better education. They get interaction with other children by participating in things like Little League, soccer leagues, etc.
well said
Iuchi_Zien: Yes, easier to insult than argue the case isn't it. Were you homeschooled perchance? Never learned to deal with opposing views did you?
in your attacks on others you seem more the one who cannot deal with the facts of those who support home schooling and are witness to its successes - or the opposing view as you like to call it
why should their be "opposing views?" what business would it be of yours as to how I educate my children provided I am with in the law? pray tell?
lalasierra: Do you support home schooling?
I support the idea. My one sister home schooled her three boys, they are quite diverse in their interests and knowledge. Though they live in the sticks and their father a red neck you would really be surprised to meet them. They are still not used to the big city life though they have traveled as well. They all are very much into different aspects of the Arts but still chop wood and are full of a lot of enthusiasm. As a homeowner I pay a lot into the school system either way but I know like all things that are large organizations like the school system that there will be both good and bad things. But if a parent does have the means to undertake home schooling then it is not a bad thing in my eyes or from what I have seen. I doubt that it is for everyone for numerous reasons.
felixis99: monte it does not matter how he was schooled, the system failed there had been opportunities that the system ignored - and really that is another debate.
The fact is that there are many many examples of home schooling working well. I say this as a professional educator with a graduate degree in education as my professional opinion as well as as a mother as my personal opinion having witnessed some of the kindest and most intelligent women I have known do a wonderful job of home schooling.
..........with support of the educational system. honestly umless one has raised children and had expereinces and decisions to make in the matter, I cannot see a valid argument to hold an valid opinion.
Adam Lanza is a sensationalist tactic that I figured to be beneath you as an attempt to distract from the validity of home schooling for many others where there has been a positive experience and it is not fair to compare people like my daughter's best friend to him
that is a great disappointment to me to read these words of yours, monte
The fact is that there are many many examples of home schooling working well. I say this as a professional educator with a graduate degree in education as my professional opinion as well as as a mother as my personal opinion having witnessed some of the kindest and most intelligent women I have known do a wonderful job of home schooling.
..........with support of the educational system. honestly umless one has raised children and had expereinces and decisions to make in the matter, I cannot see a valid argument to hold an valid opinion.
Adam Lanza is a sensationalist tactic that I figured to be beneath you as an attempt to distract from the validity of home schooling for many others where there has been a positive experience and it is not fair to compare people like my daughter's best friend to him
that is a great disappointment to me to read these words of yours, monte
I have no idea what you're referring to "you're daughter's best friend" Referring to Adam Lanza is not a tactic, it is a fact that he was home schooled. It is also a fact that he murdered 26 people. It is also a fact that his mother was getting ready to put him in a mental illness facility. Any chance that this particular situation.... being home schooled, being incapacitated my mental illness and being home schooled all have a connection.
Any mother on here who has home schooled her child is not in the same category as Adam Lanza and his mother.
I can't help it that you or anyone else is disappointed about my posts. I don't agree with people because it is the thing to do. All my posts are my opinion. Your post is your opinion. We don't have to agree.
yes.
most that I know who participate in home schooling are way further ahead than their peers.
most that I know who participate in home schooling are way further ahead than their peers.
felixis99: in your attacks on others you seem more the one who cannot deal with the facts of those who support home schooling and are witness to its successes - or the opposing view as you like to call it
why should their be "opposing views?" what business would it be of yours as to how I educate my children provided I am with in the law? pray tell?
why should their be "opposing views?" what business would it be of yours as to how I educate my children provided I am with in the law? pray tell?
Where are your FACTS about homeschooling I hear a lot of anecdotal evidence, my sisters boyfriends brother was home schooled so it must be better. Let's see some facts, preferably produced by people who aren't massively biased. Here are some facts for you, provided by the National Office of statistics. (UK) in 2010 8,000 Roma and traveller children were taken out of full time education to be home schooled. 14%, yes FOURTEEN PERCENT achieved the average grades expected from a schooled child. 63.1% were considered to be functionally illiterate. So where are the stats from your government showing that home schooling in the US is different?
As to the 'I am within the law' argument Yes, and Bangladeshi parents are within their legal rights to force their children into work at the age of ten. Doesn't make it right though does it? Muslim parents are 'allowed' to murder children who cause embarrassment to their family so that is OK, according to you isn't it.
Home Schooling some facts 4 u.
home schooling
the practice of teaching children in the home as an alternative to attending public or private elementary or high school. In most cases, one or both of the children's parents serve as the teachers. Like the charter school movement, home schooling usually arises from religious or other disenchantment with conventional public schools.
Although home schooling had been practiced for generations in the United States, it was largely illegal during most of the 20th cent., but since the 1970s it has become one of the most rapidly growing educational trends in the nation. The contemporary movement initially arose mainly among Protestant conservatives who wished to provide their children with religious and moral instruction forbidden in public settings. By the mid-1980s there were roughly 50,000 home-schooled children in the United States, and by 2000 an estimated 1.5 million were being educated at home. The movement has largely been an American phenomenon. In Europe, home schooling is usually illegal or tightly restricted. The largest European home education community is in Great Britain, where by 2000 approximately 10,000 children were being home-schooled. At the beginning of the 21st cent. a majority of the parents engaged in home schooling continued to be motivated by religious beliefs. The home school movement has, however, always had other components, and it encompasses a broad cross-section of Americans, both religious (in a wide variety of faiths) and secular.
During the late 20th cent. the fastest-growing approach to home schooling was generally called "unschooling." In this system, which arose largely from educator John Holt's books How Children Fail (1964) and How Children Learn (1967), teaching responds to an individual child's talents and interests rather than adhering to a conventional curriculum. Whatever their manner of practice, proponents of home schooling cite figures showing that children who learn at home generally score higher on standardized tests than their traditionally schooled contemporaries. Some critics nonetheless question the real quality of such education, and also argue that it isolates children, depriving them of necessary social interactions and inhibiting collaborative and cooperative skills.
In the United States, home schooling has been legal in all 50 states since 1993, with regulatory laws and performance-tracking procedures differing widely from state to state. Some home school opponents feel that many state laws are too lenient, permitting teaching by parents who are inept or inattentive. The Home School Legal Defense Association, founded in 1983, provides information to parents and others on home schooling and its regulations; it also actively opposes the creation of nationalized standards for home schooling. Most states also have a number of local home schooling organizations. Publishers, responding what is now a mainstream movement, are producing a variety of materials geared toward home schoolers, and most colleges and universities now have developed criteria whereby they can admit the home-schooled.
See study by M. L. Stevens (2001).
home schooling
the practice of teaching children in the home as an alternative to attending public or private elementary or high school. In most cases, one or both of the children's parents serve as the teachers. Like the charter school movement, home schooling usually arises from religious or other disenchantment with conventional public schools.
Although home schooling had been practiced for generations in the United States, it was largely illegal during most of the 20th cent., but since the 1970s it has become one of the most rapidly growing educational trends in the nation. The contemporary movement initially arose mainly among Protestant conservatives who wished to provide their children with religious and moral instruction forbidden in public settings. By the mid-1980s there were roughly 50,000 home-schooled children in the United States, and by 2000 an estimated 1.5 million were being educated at home. The movement has largely been an American phenomenon. In Europe, home schooling is usually illegal or tightly restricted. The largest European home education community is in Great Britain, where by 2000 approximately 10,000 children were being home-schooled. At the beginning of the 21st cent. a majority of the parents engaged in home schooling continued to be motivated by religious beliefs. The home school movement has, however, always had other components, and it encompasses a broad cross-section of Americans, both religious (in a wide variety of faiths) and secular.
During the late 20th cent. the fastest-growing approach to home schooling was generally called "unschooling." In this system, which arose largely from educator John Holt's books How Children Fail (1964) and How Children Learn (1967), teaching responds to an individual child's talents and interests rather than adhering to a conventional curriculum. Whatever their manner of practice, proponents of home schooling cite figures showing that children who learn at home generally score higher on standardized tests than their traditionally schooled contemporaries. Some critics nonetheless question the real quality of such education, and also argue that it isolates children, depriving them of necessary social interactions and inhibiting collaborative and cooperative skills.
In the United States, home schooling has been legal in all 50 states since 1993, with regulatory laws and performance-tracking procedures differing widely from state to state. Some home school opponents feel that many state laws are too lenient, permitting teaching by parents who are inept or inattentive. The Home School Legal Defense Association, founded in 1983, provides information to parents and others on home schooling and its regulations; it also actively opposes the creation of nationalized standards for home schooling. Most states also have a number of local home schooling organizations. Publishers, responding what is now a mainstream movement, are producing a variety of materials geared toward home schoolers, and most colleges and universities now have developed criteria whereby they can admit the home-schooled.
See study by M. L. Stevens (2001).
Iuchi_Zien: Why? because as an adult tutor I see the results of screwed up childhoods? Because I see the results of women (refugees) who are refused an education by their parents because they are girls? Are you going to fix the mess when some warped eff-wit of a parent destroys a childs education through selfishness and arrogance? Home schooling is a bl$$dy stupid idea
'Homeschooled' and 'Been denied an Education' are two totally different Animals!Education
¶
The only purpose of education is to teach a student how to live his life—by developing his mind and equipping him to deal with reality. The training he needs is theoretical, i.e., conceptual. He has to be taught to think, to understand, to integrate, to prove. He has to be taught the essentials of the knowledge discovered in the past—and he has to be equipped to acquire further knowledge by his own effort.
the State doesn't Educate,it Indoctrinates!
I wasted my time and often the time of teachers and Other Kids in school,
I was anti social, a loner, and often slept in school Boring after failing every exam I ever took I was a very depressed and under confident and under achieving young adult. At the age of 24 I decided to educate myself.
Although I reentered the system I Knew I was doing this for myself and learned what I needed and discarded what I did not, I would by no means consider myself a Genius but What I know came from Adult learning and not from Schooling as a child. Every Human has a different way they need to wire the circuits of the brain. Some ways suit some and not others.
I do not Think Home schooling should not be an alternative, Why take away a choice from someone. ?
I was anti social, a loner, and often slept in school Boring after failing every exam I ever took I was a very depressed and under confident and under achieving young adult. At the age of 24 I decided to educate myself.
Although I reentered the system I Knew I was doing this for myself and learned what I needed and discarded what I did not, I would by no means consider myself a Genius but What I know came from Adult learning and not from Schooling as a child. Every Human has a different way they need to wire the circuits of the brain. Some ways suit some and not others.
I do not Think Home schooling should not be an alternative, Why take away a choice from someone. ?
Iuchi_Zien: Out of curiosity could she read and write at the age of fifteen?
Its interesting that you should ask this question given you mentioned no standard of literacy, or ease in accessing information.
Education is not just about reading and writing. Its about literacy skills being commensurate with a student's potential and a failure to achieve this discriminates against that child/person.
You've probably heard of stories where school pupils were beaten, punished, humiliated and/or sent to the back of the class for lack of achievement, only to find that they had sight, or hearing issues which disabled them from accessing the information they needed to participate.
So it is with learning differences. A lack of knowledge, training and awareness on the part of teachers leads them to believe that children are naughty, lazy, or stupid when actually its the teacher who is not accessing the child's potential in some way. We are no further ahead with this really, than back in the days when kids went without spectacles, or hearing aids and were told they were just plain thick. It really does take so very little for some children to start to thrive.
Iuchi_Zien: Not all schools are perfect and you have the right to change her school if you are not happy with the teaching at the school. Why did you not take advantage of that option if you were unhappy with the teachers behavior?
Given that most schools function on the same principles with the teachers educated and trained in the same way, this is not always a convenient solution. The alternative style schools are not always a practical, or cost effective option for ordinary folk.
Eventually, I found a solution and that was withdrawing her and getting her into college a year early.
Iuchi_Zien: Did you approach the school with your concerns?
No, I just sent my daughter into school with a big stick and a large buckled belt with instructions for the teachers on how to get maximum effect from them. I was hoping they could drive her suicide without my help. Sorry mate, but stupid bloody question.
This may come as a surprise to you, but schools will lie and destroy evidence to maintain their power position and their way of doing things, without being subject to investigation, or litigation. Local authorities will support this.
Schools will try to destroy a child's spirit in order to gain conformity. Conformity to the system increases profits - with the advent of education bureaucracy, the attitude very often is not that schools are service providers for their students, but that the students are there to provide good results for the schools. Good results means more students and funding. Its how 'successful' schools are currently measured.
My daughter's old school must have spent thousands upon thousands of pounds in working hours desperately trying to avoid catering for her individual needs which I estimate would have cost in the region of £350. Under no circumstances would I have been allowed to cover the costs for her needs.
I think you need to review your simplistic approach, Iuchi. Just like teachers, you're missing huge amounts of information.
Iuchi_Zien: So next time you see a young adult destroy his life by bombing a crowd just remember what you said, 'MY child, MY choice' Because that includes teaching children to hate.
And I am teaching hate? How? very odd how you perceive things.
Number one: it is none of your business why I home school my daughter.
Number two: I wish she would be home schooled next year because she is not safe at school, but she wants to go back. So if you want you can write a letter to the family of the 14 year old girl at my daughter's school and explain why their daughter was murdered in February...she was taken from the school and murdered in a field right next to it DURING SCHOOL HOURS with an appointed police officer paroling the school. And while you are at this writing, how about explaining why when my daughter was in grammar school a very young girl was taken right at lunch time at that school and duct taped up and left behind a church for three hours while all of our little town hunted for this child. Then go on over to the east coast of America and explain to those parents and families why that person was able to get into a Locked down school and murder 26 innocent children and adults. And there is plenty other reasons we home school. But like I said it's none of your business.
So my child, my choice to keep her safe.
Iuchi_Zien: And when your children finish their 'home schooling education' what are they going to do for work? You honestly believe you can tutor them through their GCSE's? Because without them they have NO chance of finding work. Do you honestly believe that any employer is going to take a youth with no formal education over a youth who can show his education or a EU worker? Or are you just going to leave your child to rot on unemployment benefit until forced into a menial job which you could probably train a monkey to do on minimum wages.
I think it was spelled out earlier by a member that posted earlier on in the first page of the thread when she said that you are simply so extreme that you are not able to discuss or even debate the topic. Instead you just use it as a platform to say rude and demeanial remarks at others. My nephews that have been home schooled have a much better chance at getting work and interacting in this world. (they are already way ahead) They are not sheltered yet they have a certain edge in that they did not have people that are so cynical crush their goals and ideals before they could get old enough to see those people for the insecure weak people they are, those people that have only negativity and the celebration of others failing.
Nikogas: I think it was spelled out earlier by a member that posted earlier on in the first page of the thread when she said that you are simply so extreme that you are not able to discuss or even debate the topic. Instead you just use it as a platform to say rude and demeanial remarks at others. My nephews that have been home schooled have a much better chance at getting work and interacting in this world. (they are already way ahead) They are not sheltered yet they have a certain edge in that they did not have people that are so cynical crush their goals and ideals before they could get old enough to see those people for the insecure weak people they are, those people that have only negativity and the celebration of others failing.
And of course that person is the arbiter of who is or isn't allowed to debate the subject? Then yet more ANECDOTAL evidence of how much better your family/friends/neighbours are at teaching children than trained professionals? Strange, not ONE person has provided statistics of the effects of home schooling other than me isn't it. Not one factually based statistic? Why do you think white supremicists almost certainly home school their children? To give them a better start in life? or to ensure their particular form of hatred continues to the next generation? I have worked with schools in the UK and worked in schools in Russia and I have never seen goals being crushed, what are you basing your comments on heresay? yourself? do you work with disadvantaged children or adults or is it just your OPINION?
Iuchi_Zien: And of course that person is the arbiter of who is or isn't allowed to debate the subject? Then yet more ANECDOTAL evidence of how much better your family/friends/neighbours are at teaching children than trained professionals? Strange, not ONE person has provided statistics of the effects of home schooling other than me isn't it. Not one factually based statistic? Why do you think white supremicists almost certainly home school their children? To give them a better start in life? or to ensure their particular form of hatred continues to the next generation? I have worked with schools in the UK and worked in schools in Russia and I have never seen goals being crushed, what are you basing your comments on heresay? yourself? do you work with disadvantaged children or adults or is it just your OPINION?
You instantly offend. You know that I have family that has been home schooled and yet you make that crack about being "white supremists"??
And now I would simply offer you any answers to all these demands you ask for? You are not worthy or able to have a civil conversation. It only makes me sad when I hear you say you may have "worked" and maybe influenced young people. Very sad indeed.
montemonte: No, children need to learn to interact with other children. Going to school teaches a different kind of discipline then what they learn at home. They learn how to be on time for a class. They also learn what interests them more for the future, if they want to be a scientist or to work with the public. Children learn more in school then math.
I second your comment...
School is not only about writing/reading, doing exams and getting high marks...but also a place to learn about "social skills", how to interact with others, communication, how to cooperate with others etc etc... we are social critters, not individual critters... and finally, all knowledges we learned will be implemented in the society itself...
Yes I do
Cyn_Real: I second your comment...
School is not only about writing/reading, doing exams and getting high marks...but also a place to learn about "social skills", how to interact with others, communication, how to cooperate with others etc etc... we are social critters, not individual critters... and finally, all knowledges we learned will be implemented in the society itself...
School is not only about writing/reading, doing exams and getting high marks...but also a place to learn about "social skills", how to interact with others, communication, how to cooperate with others etc etc... we are social critters, not individual critters... and finally, all knowledges we learned will be implemented in the society itself...
Absolutely, and the home schooled child is robbed of opportunities to have or build life friendships.
And what about learning about being part of a team? Home schooling often produces a selfishness that stays for life.
How can a home taught child learn about sport? Or becoming part of a team be it a sports team or class team, and how, as a team, learn how problems can be solved more efficiently by working together, using each others abilities to the best advantages?
As a teacher I can see very few advantages to home schooling but many disadvantages, most of which are detrimental to the future of that Child.
*poster child for the terrible home schooling system*
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Nikogas: You instantly offend. You know that I have family that has been home schooled and yet you make that crack about being "white supremists"??
Yes, and? Are you saying white supremecists DON't home school? If you find that offensive that is your problem, not mine. If you can't handle people having a different point of view to yourself then what are you doing on a forum?
Nikogas:
And now I would simply offer you any answers to all these demands you ask for? You are not worthy or able to have a civil conversation. It only makes me sad when I hear you say you may have "worked" and maybe influenced young people. Very sad indeed.
And now I would simply offer you any answers to all these demands you ask for? You are not worthy or able to have a civil conversation. It only makes me sad when I hear you say you may have "worked" and maybe influenced young people. Very sad indeed.
Yet again the insults are thrown and the questions aren't answered. Personally I don't care what you call me, the simple fact that you can provide no genuine evidence to show that home schooling is beneficial is enough. Anecdotal evidence is rubbish. How are those people who have been left illiterate going to provide their evidence on the forum? I'm sure I can provide anecdotal evidence that smoking makes you live to 100 years BECAUSE the people who haven't are DEAD. So feel free to keep on evading the questions and throwing insults rather than answers, I expect nothing less.
On principle, no I don't. Going out to school is an integral part of social development.
However, seen as schools are churning out legions of drop-outs and semi-literate sociologists and sports "scientists", I do feel that parents may provide a less rudderless environment for kids to develop meritable skill and worthwhile potential.
However, seen as schools are churning out legions of drop-outs and semi-literate sociologists and sports "scientists", I do feel that parents may provide a less rudderless environment for kids to develop meritable skill and worthwhile potential.
AustralianGirlAU: *poster child for the terrible home schooling system*
Here I am
Madamme Dammaged goods is how it appears I should be
Here I am
Madamme Dammaged goods is how it appears I should be
Really? So because it worked for you it will work for everybody? So your parents, who I assume, provided the home schooling? are Mr and Mrs Average? And does that apply to the white supremacist home schoolers? or the other 'hate' group home schoolers? or the nut jobs who home school to indoctrinate their personal warped view of the world upon their children? or the home schoolers who believe that their children are 'special' or want to hide their children from reality? or are just so STUPID they don't understand what a school is for?
I enjoyed School mostly. I found it a great sandbox for learning how to manipulate people, particularly the Teachers. Making a mockery out of some of them came as a past time. I learned many life skills in school far beyond the curriculum.
I don't support college for anyone except me. Parents who can't afford to be responsible enough pay for their own children shouldn't have children. That only fosters more irresponsibility from the children and they will always want chit handed to them. bunch of electronic-freak burdening slackers. 
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She bought the guns for her son that killed 20 children and 6 educators at Sandy Hook Elementary School.
Adam was suffering with mental illness and his mother knew it yet she chose to home school him and pacify him with guns.
No, you are deliberately misinterpreting me. At no point have I mentioned Adam Stansa, because mental illness is not, as far as I am aware, a result of home schooling. Being taught that one group of people are inferior to others CAN be the result of home schooling. By damaged I mean that their life chances, their chances of entering further education or getting a career can be seriously reduced if they come out of home schooling illiterate or with views that go against the norm. ANY education that leaves children in that position is a failed education. One could quite obviously question the choices made by the mother in allowing a mentally ill person access to firearms? or in believing that his mental illness meant she was the 'best' person to teach him.