Which is better Public or homeschool?

[Emily~Anne]

As a matter of fact, adults are better behaved than children...

Ok first off, I have to completely disagree. Yes, there are mean kids, but for the most part, kids are much nicer to each other than adults are to each other. Our son is in first grade this year. Our son nor any of his friends exhibit any of the hatefulness, bigotry, callousness, racism, self-righteousness, or judgmentalness that we adults commonly exhibit. They don't learn those traits from each other, they learn from us.

Exactly what I thought when I read that comment.

Umm... excuse me, folly is bound up in the heart of the child? We are to train them up in the way they should go? Sound familiar? I hope it does anyways.

[Emily~Anne]

Oh and if adults are meaner to each other than kids are, then why didnt any of my husband's coworkers make fun of the fact that he cant walk? Why did only the kids do that? And why is it that the neighborhood kids make fun of me being deaf, but the adults do not?

[Emily~Anne]

........ PUBLIC SCHOOL SOCIALIZATION

"When I mention we are homeschooling our

children, we are without fail asked, '...But what

about socialization?'

Fortunately, we found a way our kids can receive the

SAME socialization that government schools provide:-)

"On Mondays and Wednesdays, I will personally corner

each child in the bathroom, give them each a wedgie

and take their lunch money. On Tuesdays and

Thursdays,I will make sure to tease our children for

not being in the 'in' crowd, taking special care to

poke fun at any physical abnormalities.

... Fridays will be 'Fad and Peer Pressure Day.' we

will all compete to see who has the coolest toys, the

most expensive clothes, and the loudest, fastest, and

most dangerous car.

"Every day, I will adhere to a routine of cursing,

being disrespectful, swearing in the hall, and

mentioning our weekend exploits with alcohol and

immorality.

And we have asked (our kids) to report us to the

authorities in the event we mention faith, religion,

or try to bring up any morals and values."

- adapted from the: Kolbe Little Home Journal, Fall

2005

[Emily~Anne]

Oh, and I have yet had a grown up came up to me, ask me to say a word, and then burst out in hysterics because my speech was so bad. Yeah, that actually only happened in public school. Hey, I was being 'socialized'.

[Scarletprayers]

unbelievable

[irishcowboy]

My dad's opinion is that homeschool is better, because there are alot of bad habbits floating around the public schools. Not only that, they're taking God out of the Public school curiculums and people in homeschool have the teachers whole attention, while public schoolers only get a few minutes to understand something in school. Reply with your own opinions, please.

I do not recall the actual stats, and do not have them readily availible....... however,

TRUE Homeschoolers (on the average) score higher on the exams then Private schoolers

Private schoolers score higher on teh exams then public schoolers....

( the reason i say TRUE home schoolers is there are some that get bend out of shape because of something that happened in the public school system, and they keep their kids out of the school system for unjust reasons, and the children actually suffer because of it.... or the parents are trying to hide benieth the radar of public officials for some reason or other, and again the kids suffer for it....

for the most part, the ones that home school, are doing it because they want the best for their children, and those children are usually more well rounded and have better lives then the ones in public school system.... for P.E. they use the YMCA or get together with a home school coop, and have soccor, football, and such things as this..... here in this area, there is a program that is called Catillion and it teaches kids how to dance, and also proper social ediquit (sp).... there are other programs that are availible also to get the children more social skills..... Bible Quiz tourniments, Fine arts, local little theatre groups ( like the Stain Glass Theatre, in Joplin and Springfield Mo.) there are community bands and orchestras, they can also play in church ( my youngest son, Christian, learned more about Guitar in church then he did in school (base and accustic))...

people that say that home schoolers (in general) do not do good, is because they do not know...

there are programs with differant groups..... Alpha - Omega is one place to get home school material, and through them you can get a high school diploma......

Kansas, requires the parent to register as a private school.... I am still registered with Kansas, even though it has been 6 years since i have done anything..... ( Baxter Springs Christian Accademy ).... I never pulled it, and every once in a while, i get a letter from the state.....

each state has certain requirements, and those requirements need really be met, that is until they actually go against the Word of God......

hopefully that helpped...

mike

[mathqueen]

As a matter of fact, adults are better behaved than children...

Ok first off, I have to completely disagree. Yes, there are mean kids, but for the most part, kids are much nicer to each other than adults are to each other. Our son is in first grade this year. Our son nor any of his friends exhibit any of the hatefulness, bigotry, callousness, racism, self-righteousness, or judgmentalness that we adults commonly exhibit. They don't learn those traits from each other, they learn from us.

Exactly what I thought when I read that comment.

Umm... excuse me, folly is bound up in the heart of the child? We are to train them up in the way they should go? Sound familiar? I hope it does anyways.

It does. I never said kids were WISE. I agreed that they can be much nicer than adults. Why do these threads have to get nasty?

[Guest Biblicist]

As a matter of fact, adults are better behaved than children...

Ok first off, I have to completely disagree. Yes, there are mean kids, but for the most part, kids are much nicer to each other than adults are to each other. Our son is in first grade this year. Our son nor any of his friends exhibit any of the hatefulness, bigotry, callousness, racism, self-righteousness, or judgmentalness that we adults commonly exhibit. They don't learn those traits from each other, they learn from us.

Exactly what I thought when I read that comment.

Umm... excuse me, folly is bound up in the heart of the child? We are to train them up in the way they should go? Sound familiar? I hope it does anyways.

It does. I never said kids were WISE. I agreed that they can be much nicer than adults. Why do these threads have to get so nasty? Point made.

mathqueen...

[kat8585]

I frankly cannot understand why a Christian would send their children to a catholic school. Public school is bad enough with it's religion of secularism, humanism, evolution, promiscuity, language and the like. But catholic school is not an alternative, for you are then sending them to be taught by false religious teachers.

Homeschooling or private Christian school are the only options, especially when children are young. We are told to train them, guard them, and protect them; not allow them to be influenced by the world and it's sin and lusts.

AMEN!!!!!

I'm not understanding all this, either.

[Emily~Anne]

Well ya know, she said it well. That is what I am saying amen to. Are you thinking I am saying amen to the tragedy in public schools? No, I am saying amen in agrement. I agree with ~smiles~. She said it well. I give a hearty 'AMEN' to all of her posts she has made.

No, you said "AMEN" to yet another attack on Catholicism, and it's a pattern I'm seeing here on Worthy that is really starting to BUG me.

She was speaking of wether or not CHRISTIANS should put their kids in Catholic school. We have a poster here, Forrest who says he is not catholic but thinks it's a great idea to put our kids in catholic school. So you agree with Forrest? Read the previous posts to that post and you'll understand.