Homeschooling in the Tech Community
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I worked IT and taught a computer class for a middle school. I can tell you first hand that some teachers aren't worth half the salary they are paid and others are worth 4 times the salary they are paid.
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I was a social butterfly but HATED school, the learning part. As a kid that was labeled as learning disabled school was torture. Who know if someone would have taken the time to actually teach, what I could have learned.
I hate to say it, but I think the system and teachers are both at fault. The quality of teaching can be so different from teacher to teacher. We have a state test called the FCAT and that is more important to the school district than teaching the kids a damn thing. As long as they pass the FCAT the school doesn't care about their individual grades or learning
Most all that the schools are allowed to worry about these days is kids passing tests. There is no real teaching happening most of the time. I feel bad for teachers as they aren't allowed to really teach.
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Some teachers were very quick to write off problem children while others actually gravitated towards them and did all they could for them.
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@scottalanmiller said:
@Minion-Queen said:
I was a social butterfly but HATED school, the learning part. As a kid that was labeled as learning disabled school was torture. Who know if someone would have taken the time to actually teach, what I could have learned.
Same here, social butterfly but hated school. I liked seeing people all the time, but did not like anything else.
I was the opposite. I didn't like school because I hated being around people. High school was generally fine but I hated middle school I was one of the kids that actually liked learning and was actively punished for it by my teachers and fellow students.
High school ended up being better, as I ended up tutoring a few upper class-men that were in the same classes as I was. I also ended up having a few teachers who actually encouraged teaching and allowed me to learn at a faster pace, I however didn't really apply myself so while I aced tests I rarely did homework so I was never accepted into any of the AP curriculum based on past performance. Still hated the whole social aspect of school though.
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Almost 100% of my teachers were freaking awesome right from K-12. My only complaint with the system is the challenge program was a joke, I didn't even know how to study when I left grade 12 - college was a big big shock.
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@coliver said:
High school ended up being better, as I ended up tutoring a few upper class-men that were in the same classes as I was.
Both high school and college I was tutoring seniors as a freshman, even not in the same classes
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@MattSpeller said:
Almost 100% of my teachers were freaking awesome right from K-12. My only complaint with the system is the challenge program was a joke, I didn't even know how to study when I left grade 12 - college was a big big shock.
I was lucky, had a very good high school and many of my teachers were quite good. Still the curriculum and needing to wait for the infrastructure of school made it boring even with good teachers who cared.
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@MattSpeller said:
Almost 100% of my teachers were freaking awesome right from K-12. My only complaint with the system is the challenge program was a joke, I didn't even know how to study when I left grade 12 - college was a big big shock.
I can relate, I was warned multiple times by teachers that if I didn't study I was in for a rude awakening in college. Turns out college really wasn't that challenging, now when I got to grad school that was crazy, I spent more time studying then I did on homework and classes combined, I got maybe 3-4 hours of sleep a night. It was awesome.
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@coliver Yup similar experience. That first year of EE with 6 courses every quarter, 4 of them being math... yeah class size dropped dramatically lol
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I had one good teacher from 2nd grade through almost all of highschool. Though to be fair I was in a REALLY small school district up until my senior year, 30 students. I moved to my husbands school senior year which about double the size. The teachers were much better and I finally found a few classes I loved and one teacher that taught them all that I really liked.
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Same here. It just convinced me that my teachers weren't too smart if they found college to be some kind of challenge. College was easier than high school because there was so much less institutional hazing - less attempting to waste all your free time keeping you from actually studying, less busy work, less learning the teacher and more learning the material, more freedom to do whatever it takes to learn and less "just try to learn the same way the teacher would do it", etc.
College was easy and never needed to study there either.
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@Minion-Queen said:
I had one good teacher from 2nd grade through almost all of highschool. Though to be fair I was in a REALLY small school district up until my senior year, 30 students. I moved to my husbands school senior year which about double the size. The teachers were much better and I finally found a few classes I loved and one teacher that taught them all that I really liked.
^^^ That would be the same high school and class as me too
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@scottalanmiller said:
@Minion-Queen said:
I had one good teacher from 2nd grade through almost all of highschool. Though to be fair I was in a REALLY small school district up until my senior year, 30 students. I moved to my husbands school senior year which about double the size. The teachers were much better and I finally found a few classes I loved and one teacher that taught them all that I really liked.
^^^ That would be the same high school and class as me too
Yup that too. York was awesome, so much so that is why we moved here when my son was ready to start school. But alas due to state rules/testing even that didn't last :(. But on the plus side we decided to homeschool and it was awesome.
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I spent my time in Elementary School at a Christian School. I hated it. Everybody was in snooty groups and they got alot of rejects who were expelled from public schools.
On top of that they used to try to scare us by talking about Hell every friday morning. The chapel was supposed to be an hour, but many times it lasted 3 or 4 hours and ate into other classes. I specifically remember one day were I we were told to get rid of our worldly desires. They said that sports, music cds, or anything not of God could be considered a wordly desire. We were asked to give up an item and they burned everything (no joke!)
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Yeah I attended a Private "Christian" school K-2 it was horrible. I know @scottalanmiller has similar stories of when he went to. A case of not enough regulation, but then again you don't want to have tons of regulation on everything.....
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Link to the school
http://scs2440.com/When I googled them, I noticed they had super high ratings and satisfied parents.....lol
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@IRJ said:
I spent my time in Elementary School at a Christian School. I hated it. Everybody was in snooty groups and they got alot of rejects who were expelled from public schools.
We did too, they were called teachers.
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@IRJ said:
Link to the school
http://scs2440.com/When I googled them, I noticed they had super high ratings and satisfied parents.....lol
Mostly just gives you insight into the kinds of parents sending their kids there.
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Thankfully the school that I attended was shut down. I was in the largest class that the school even had, eighteen students in Kindergarten and first grade. The class slowly shrank over the years. It was down to around nine when I left. By senior year only one girl was left. She both graduated valedictorian AND hit the 0th percentile making her both highly coveted and completely ineligible simultaneously for many crappy colleges.
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Sitting in on a history lesson now. The three year old is auditing the six year old's "Egyptian History" class.
