Originally Posted by Frownland

You could say the same for homeschooling though.

Originally Posted by Pet_Sounds

So I'll spill some background on myself:

I've done both. I was home-schooled until elementary, then I went to high school. But I dropped out this year and I'm back at home. Here's why.

The emphasis at my school was not on understanding a subject. It was on rote learning enough to pass tests (with cheating and grade inflation, of course), then forgetting it all until exam time when everyone panics. Some teachers were better than others, but I found it frustrating and boring.

So I got my parents to sign off on going back to home-schooling. I teach myself now, and I can say that, while it's very challenging sometimes, I understand stuff way better, I have more time to pursue what I'm interested in, and and my grades are better, even though I'm taking courses that are above my grade level. Counter-intuitively, I also have a much better social life than I did while in school.

(FYI, religion has absolutely nothing to do with it. I'm agnostic.)

So, obviously I'm a fan.

BUT

I have met people who are getting an absolute crap education, who can't compose basic English or multiply fractions. Hence my "under the right circumstances" vote.

Originally Posted by Trollheart

Mind you, this is the guy who mitched (played hooky/truant/didn't go in to) off school and when the teacher asked him, the next day, where he had been he said "Stephen's Green" (local park) and then asked incredulously what he was doing there replied "Feeding the ducks!"

Originally Posted by J.R.R. Tolkien

There is only one bright spot and that is the growing habit of disgruntled men of dynamiting factories and power-stations; I hope that, encouraged now as ‘patriotism’, may remain a habit! But it won’t do any good, if it is not universal.

Originally Posted by Frownland

You could say the same for homeschooling though.

Originally Posted by LoathsomePete

I'm cool with it on the condition that the parents pay a bully to come round once a week and ply their trade.

Originally Posted by Paul Smeenus

Almost all (prob. 90%) home schooled kids are brainwashed evangelicals ala Jesus Camp. I couldn't be more opposed.

Originally Posted by Chula Vista

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Originally Posted by Chula Vista

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Originally Posted by Mindfulness

2. What was the strangest/best/worst party you ever went to?
Prolly a party I had with some people I know

Originally Posted by Goofle

I think I'd rather my child went to private or public school personally.

Originally Posted by Goofle

You're opposed to the idea of home schooling because the majority of people who do it have a different opinion? Doesn't really make much sense. Argue against its merits, not the people currently doing it.

I think I'd rather my child went to private or public school personally.

Originally Posted by Neward Thelman

"SMOKE CRACK MUDA****KKA"

I'll check that dictionary, but in the meantime I'm impressed - as is everyone else in the world - by your eloquence, obvious accomplishments and success, and the evidence of your blazingly high intelligence.

Originally Posted by Frownland

He just doesn't have a mind so closed that it rivals Blockbuster.

Originally Posted by elphenor

I own the mail

Originally Posted by Goofle

You're opposed to the idea of home schooling because the majority of people who do it have a different opinion? Doesn't really make much sense. Argue against its merits, not the people currently doing it.

I think I'd rather my child went to private or public school personally.