Things that make you feel old

Astronomer · 04-10-2014, 07:18 AM

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Originally Posted by djchameleon

Dang Paul home schooling isn't that sinister. They for have guidelines and they have to teach world history. If you lived in silly ass states like Texas where the education standards where they oppose the teaching of Higher Order Thinking Skills (HOTS) (values clarification), critical thinking skills and similar programs that are simply a relabeling of Outcome-Based Education (OBE) (mastery learning) which focus on behavior modification and have the purpose of challenging the student’s fixed beliefs and undermining parental authority.

You would home school your kids instead of sending them off to public school.

DJ is right. Homeschooling is not the same as Unschooling. Parents or guardians who decide to "homeschool" have a curriculum, guidelines and assessment pieces that they need to complete and are constantly checked up on re: their children's progress and learnings. "Unschooling" (it has various different names these days, this is one that I can think of) is completely different and is basically where the parents/guardians don't send their children to school but also don't follow a curriculum or set guidelines. They don't really have any pedagogy behind what their kids are learning. Completely different from homeschooling, so don't lump all homeschooling parents into that stereotype!

Paul Smeenus · 04-10-2014, 10:52 AM

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Originally Posted by Astronomer

DJ is right. Homeschooling is not the same as Unschooling. Parents or guardians who decide to "homeschool" have a curriculum, guidelines and assessment pieces that they need to complete and are constantly checked up on re: their children's progress and learnings. "Unschooling" (it has various different names these days, this is one that I can think of) is completely different and is basically where the parents/guardians don't send their children to school but also don't follow a curriculum or set guidelines. They don't really have any pedagogy behind what their kids are learning. Completely different from homeschooling, so don't lump all homeschooling parents into that stereotype!

I didnt.

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Originally Posted by Paul Smeenus

It's not impossible. There's some kids that never see the inside of a public or even private school, they are home schooled and [ba very high percentage[/b] of those families have some kind of crackpot religious fundamentalism, where there would be an increased potential for Holocaust revisionism and/or denial. Some statistics:

https://nces.ed.gov/fastfacts/display.asp?id=91

I do not have statistics as to whether or not or what percentage of the estimated 1.5 million kids in the US are not taught about the Holocaust but the principle reason given for homeschooling is " a desire to provide religious or moral instruction (36 percent of students)".

36 percent is IMO an unacceptably high percentage but certainly not *all* or even a majority. Furthermore I stated that it was an unknown percentage of that group that could be fed the crackpot ideas. It could be half or less, idk but I do know those people are out there.

djchameleon · 04-10-2014, 11:34 AM

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Originally Posted by Paul Smeenus

36 percent is IMO an unacceptably high percentage but certainly not *all* or even a majority. Furthermore I stated that it was an unknown percentage of that group that could be fed the crackpot ideas. It could be half or less, idk but I do know those people are out there.

I haven't been to the link because Chrome stopped me saying it was dangerous but 36% adding religious instruction to the rest of their home school curricular. Isn't crack pot ideas that won't teach world studies.

Paul Smeenus · 04-10-2014, 11:39 AM

^ Oh for crying out loud Deej read what I wrote

djchameleon · 04-10-2014, 11:40 AM

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Originally Posted by Paul Smeenus

^ Oh for crying out loud Deej read what I wrote

You know by now I can't read.

~~James~~ · 04-10-2014, 11:42 AM

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Originally Posted by djchameleon

You know by now I can't read.

Were you homeschooled by any chance?

Paul Smeenus · 04-10-2014, 11:43 AM

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Originally Posted by djchameleon

You know by now I can't read.

It's not so much that you can't read as much as you can't finish the first sentence, let alone move on to the second.

djchameleon · 04-10-2014, 11:52 AM

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Originally Posted by James

Were you homeschooled by any chance?

Good ole Public school education.

bob. · 04-10-2014, 01:22 PM

chaperoning a senior class trip and coming to the realization that you are old enough to be their father

Trollheart · 04-10-2014, 02:38 PM

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Originally Posted by ladyislingering

my blood boils at the thought of the holocaust; it was one of the most vile things that ever happened to humanity, and yet I have a very faint desire for her entire lineage to have been destroyed in the wake of genocide so we wouldn't have to tolerate that level of stupidity in modern times.

I'm not sure what you're saying here... are you saying that it would be better if my friend the carer had not been born? Surely you're not saying that? But I lost the thread of your comment, completely.

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Very true, and quite startling. But for somebody in Trollheart and I's corner of the world I think it's extremely unlikely.

Especially given the amount of history channel dox, movies, even video games for chrissakes! It seems absolutely unbelievable that anyone could be unaware of one of the most heinous crimes ever committed on this planet. I wonder if she knows about a guy called Hitler? I'm not joking. I'm gonna ask her. But of course I don't want to seem like I'm making fun of her. It is worrying though, if this is a trend. I wonder how many of "The Facebook Generation" would know about this?

And now I feel about a hundred and ten years old!

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