Re: [seul-edu] Home schooling question

["Petr R. Vicherek" <petr@ied.com>]

  Thank you for correction, Dave.

  Since I started homeschooling, I gained a great respect for teachers.

  All I would like to have is homeschooling Linux software 
and I would present every reason to support the importance of this idea.

  Best Regards,

    Petr

On Thu, 26 Jun 2003, Dave Prentice wrote:

> Guys,
>     I am a classroom teacher who is all for home schooling. However, I
> think the seul-edu list is supposed to be focused on Linux. This
> thread might be better placed on school-discuss.
> Dave Prentice
> prentice@instruction.com
> http://www.originsresource.org
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Don Christensen <djc@cisco.com>
> To: seul-edu@seul.org <seul-edu@seul.org>
> Cc: Brm0411@aol.com <Brm0411@aol.com>
> Date: Thursday, June 26, 2003 3:44 PM
> Subject: Re: [seul-edu] Home schooling question
> 
> 
> >Petr R. Vicherek wrote:
> >...
> >>   If you look at your arguments, then you'll see that either the
> students
> >> enjoy internet, smaller classes and personal attention because they
> are
> >> homeschooled, or that they are homeschooled because of lower income
> or
> >> attention defficiencies.
> >
> >Please don't make suppositions and then treat them as though they
> were
> >facts.  You are entitled to your opinions, but you should properly
> regard
> >them as such and not use them to back your arguments.  If you have
> >pointers to applicable studies that you have derived your information
> >from, then please share them.
> >
> >>   Also, few parents would load their children with junk subject
> such
> >> as "Social Sciences" or "cultural diversity" classes and would
> spend
> >> the saved time on solid academics.
> >
> >I hope this is intended to be sarcastic, but I don't see how it
> supports
> >your point if it is.
> >
> >>   Most of your factors are thus related to homeschooling situation.
> >>   So, there is some truth in the statistics, afterall.
> >>
> >>   From my experience with homeschooling:
> >>   Not knowing how to teach is the third biggest problem, and takes
> a year
> >> for the parents to learn. Of course, the oldest child suffers the
> most.
> >> The first and second problem is lack of competitivenes among peers
> for
> >> the students that need it and lack of authority equal to that of
> school
> >> teacher.
> >
> >School teacher and authority in the same sentence?  You must not be
> >in the U.S.  (Is the sarcasm in this statement apparent?)
> >
> >>   No one has such an interest in a child as his own parent. Just
> that
> >> might make the parents better teachers, because they have the best
> >> motivation.
> >
> >There are lots of children that are not their parent's number one
> concern,
> >as sad as that is.  I would guess that (just my opinion here, I am
> not
> >aware of any studies to back it up) very few, if any, of those
> children
> >are homeschooled.  Which only supports Mr. Downes' argument (which by
> my
> >interpretation is not that homeschooling is not better, but that the
> >statistics cited earlier cannot be used to draw a conclusion as to
> why
> >homeschooled children do better on standardized tests).
> >
> >-Don
> >
> >--
> >Don Christensen       Senior Software Development Engineer
> >djc@cisco.com         Cisco Systems, Santa Cruz, CA
> >   "It was a new day yesterday, but it's an old day now."
> 

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