Schools are a reflection of the community they are in. The students are as good as the families they come from.

Home schoolers are a reflection of their parents. Good parents raise good kids. Shitty parents home schooling create shitty human beings.

I’ve seen both good home school kids, and I have known more than one shitty kids destined to turn out like their parents. I have literally watched a young lady from 13-18 turn into her abusive drunk mother. She is now pregnant god help that child.

It depends on the parents. All the homeschooled kids except for one family have well-rounded curriculum. If they’re a part of a home school group, the group arranges for field trips and group activities.

The one exception I know, the parents are gaming the system. They’re not teaching the two kids; the kids can’t read. The parents are just too fucking lazy to prepare the kids to go to school.

I've not full-on homeschooled, but our kids went 7-8th grade to a school that had a hybrid model. The school provided the assignments and "grids" that laid out what was supposed to be done and what homework was required and the kids went to school two days a week, either M,W or T,Th. The other three days the parents were to make sure that they were doing what they needed to be doing and help/teach as needed. It was a bit of a time commitment. I'd expect that full homeschooling would be even more of a time commitment.

The same school had a high school program that was different. The kids have to have a planner, they had classes M,W,&F and were responsible for figuring out and keeping track of what they needed to do and when. After 7th & 8th, it was a little nerve wracking to have no role, but it appears to have worked out well as both kids found college to be easy and have done well.

I believe that SW_Sig was correct when he said, "Homeschooling is all what you as parents put into it with your children. Public schools are the same." I'd phrase it a little differently and say that when parents make education a priority it shows, wherever the kids go to school.

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Originally posted by slosig:
I've not full-on homeschooled, but our kids went 7-8th grade to a school that had a hybrid model. The school provided the assignments and "grids" that laid out what was supposed to be done and what homework was required and the kids went to school two days a week, either M,W or T,Th. The other three days the parents were to make sure that they were doing what they needed to be doing and help/teach as needed. It was a bit of a time commitment. I'd expect that full homeschooling would be even more of a time commitment.

The same school had a high school program that was different. The kids have to have a planner, they had classes M,W,&F and were responsible for figuring out and keeping track of what they needed to do and when. After 7th & 8th, it was a little nerve wracking to have no role, but it appears to have worked out well as both kids found college to be easy and have done well.

I believe that SW_Sig was correct when he said, "Homeschooling is all what you as parents put into it with your children. Public schools are the same." I'd phrase it a little differently and say that when parents make education a priority it shows, wherever the kids go to school.

I actually like the sound of this model. It gives the kids and parents a guideline and lets the parents lead while providing interaction with outside influences and viewpoints from other “teachers”. I have several around me that homeschool, and so far as I can tell, the kids are good kids, but I put my foot down when my husband wanted me to homeschool our son. I feel that it’s important to have a variety of viewpoints to help shape young minds, and my scope alone is too narrow. Yup, by measured standards both my husband and I are “bright”, but I still didn’t feel very confident educating our kid.
I recognize that homeschools have groups and various folks that teach a subject, but it’s not the same (imho) as having your feet held to the fire for an entire semester by a teacher that’s expecting more than you think you’re capable of.
That breakthrough, when it happens, is phenomenal. A complete stranger believing in your capabilities more than you do yourself.
Also think learning to deal with ahole adults is important… but we couldn’t bring ourselves to do public school at this juncture, so we went middle ground to a private religious school.
It was our best option at this point in time (again, mho).

We use a hybrid model. Kids go to state virtual school, they have their own teacher, do assignments on line, have virtual classes and one on one discussions with the teacher to ensure they know the material. We do all AP courses this way, my daughter will complete I think 15 AP classes by the time she graduates.

This makes her take the same AP classes as the high school kids without the high school kids disrupting and destroying the class. The learning happens and is tracked and measured.

Each community is different, but in my location I do not want the masses educating my kids. I also do not want the local kids having 10 hours a day to influence my kids to drink, do drugs, abuse their peers and be general assholes.

If you are afraid that you will be the sole teacher, then don't be. There are plenty of online formats that will replace you for any subject you want.

Also, you're afraid of teaching math or another subject, who cares, go online and find the best math teachers in the world, they will teach your kids generally far better than your local teacher. Yes, there will be exceptions, there are amazing local teachers, but imagine if you could have the best teacher in the world for every subject, every class. Not one here or there, the best always.

That's worth looking into. See the Smithsonian link I posted in the resource thread. If you can teach art history better than the Smithsonian more too you, but it's not the norm.

I started a resource thread, I hope it grows over time and we can support each other.

My three children ages 11, 8 and 5 and being homeschooled by my wife and they are thriving.

We refuse to put our children into the public school system here, they were one of the first in the nation to get into all this woke/trannies in girls bathrooms BULLSHIT. NOPE NOPE NOPE.

My kids are going to learn the real history of this country and learn to love and appreciate it and not be brainwashed into thinking we are the "oppressors" of the world and not know any real history.

You also won't have active shooters shooting kids who aren't in those sitting duck public school environments

I'd say my oldest son now reads at a grade level 2-3 years above his own and they are all doing really well with it.

Each Wednesday they go to a Homeschool Co-Op located at a nearby church where they have classes, gym, playtime and lunch with about 75 other kids and they love it. This part is really important so that they still have interaction with other kids and develop social skills and get to do things like science fairs, music/singing presentations and a yearly Christmas Bazaar. They even make a big deal for the graduating 12th grade seniors with a big graduation ceremony and presentation and party afterward.

Not only will that kid have the opportunity to take over Dad's business - he will save $150K on a 4-year degree. Getting home schooled is great but learning a trade at that age is invaluable.

I don't think anyone has mention this yet, but for anyone concerned about the actual "teaching" part of home schooling, the explosion of AI is going to revolutionize education. Setting aside the eventual personal humanoid robot teacher, just the implementation of an online AI instructor is going to be amazing. The AI will have access to all knowledge in all subjects and will allow the student to go as far and as fast in a subject as they desire. And it will be with interactive, audio, video, virtual reality, all custom tailored to the students personality, learning style and interests and IQ level. Physical disability won't matter lessons available anywhere, you are a day person or night person won't matter lessons available 24/7/365, get sick or want to vacation with the family won't matter skip a week and catch up later with no lost lessons.


Studying history and you see a virtual reenactment of the event. Chemistry class and you do the experiment in a virtual lab in the middle of the family room. The impact of AI on the education process cannot be over estimated.

My kids use actual school books for 80-90% of their learning, there is a curriculum and the state of PA makes it a requirement to give a school year ending report of what subjects they learned and how many hours.

My 11 year old now does his math lessons on a laptop and it's a fun interactive program and I see him doing it and wonder had that been a thing when I was 11, maybe I wouldn't have hated math and struggled with it so much. I was straight-A-student except for math where I struggled to get C's or even D's. I tell people that I had math dyslexia, I'm sure it's not even a real thing but that's what it felt like to me.

I had some home school kids decades ago as a camp counselor. They were great kids, with great morals and and I am sure great students.

They were behind socially, although I am sure they could catch up. They would run into situations where they would completely short circuit and did not know how to deal with a kid who didn't "play fair" or deal with a kid who was not honest. They certainly had not run into a bully and didn't have any tools to deal with it. It was good for those kids to spend a few weeks in the summer away from their parents that had been with them all day every day.