I'm at risk of overemphasizing the crazies. Most of the homeschoolers
I've met are just a little weird, and maybe 5-10% are lunatics. There
might be a similar lunatic ratio in public school, but maybe you just
don't meet as many of the other parents in public school.
On 4/7/2021 1:30 PM, Adam Moffett wrote:
They do trend weird. In fact, I'd say homeschoolers range from a
little weird to effin cray-cray.
There are some whose kids have weird health conditions the school
can't accommodate. Like an extreme allergy or an unusual disability.
These are usually fairly sane.
The religious homeschoolers are often trying to protect their children
from the perils of the sinful world around them, and those are some of
the less crazy ones. However, some of the religious ones are
flat-earthers and young earth creationists who don't want their
children brainwashed with secular sciences and/or have a persecution
complex. The school teaches facts like evolution and the earth being
round, so therefore it's persecution.
There are also people with weird lifestyles that the school system
won't accommodate. These could be vegans, nudists, or almost any
other kind of weirdo you can imagine. I'm not judging, I'm just sayin
that they are, by definition, weird. They're generally relatively safe
and normal. I don't worry about them doing or saying anything too
insane, and I get along just fine with the vegans in particular. You
just have to make sure to make something they can eat when they come over.
There are some who have, shall we say, "less mainstream" notions about
how school should work. "Radical un-schooling" for example. If you
read about unschooling I think it's a method that really could work
well for the right type of curious and self-motivated kid & parent.
It also may result in a kid who's 12 and can't friggin read because
his "un-schooling" curriculum is video games and TV.....I exaggerate,
but only a little.
And finally, just to put the fear of God into you, there was one home
school family in the co-op who I suspect are child abusers. You see,
school is full of mandated reporters, but if you're at home then
there's nobody to see the evidence (and I won't elaborate on this).
So if you join a co-op or otherwise link up with other homeschool
families just be sure to practice your poker face, because you'll hear
some weird shit.
-Adam
On 4/7/2021 1:14 PM, Mike Hammett wrote:
Home schooled kids trend weird.
Are they home schooled because they're (and their parents) are weird?
-or-
Are they weird because they were home schooled?
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*From: *"Steve Jones" <[email protected]>
*To: *"AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group" <[email protected]>
*Sent: *Wednesday, April 7, 2021 10:29:16 AM
*Subject: *[AFMUG] OT: online k12 homeschool options
I have an incoming Junior and an incoming 8th grader Id prefer not to
send back to Illinois brick and mortar for at least the upcoming year
with all the covid games and politicking going on. The schools we
deal with have obvious union pressure to have ensured the remote
curriculum failed, dont want to play that game again the coming year.
Have any of you personally dealt with or had customers relay any good
solutions? Im looking for instructor led homeschool as educating
without beatings isnt something im really capable of.
there is a BYU curriculum I looked at but that gets some hefty
pricing and i couldn't ascertain whether its acceptable in Illinois
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