Homeschooling in the Tech Community
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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.
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Today's topic? Mummification and tomb culture of ancient Egypt.
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@scottalanmiller said:
Today's topic? Mummification and tomb culture of ancient Egypt.
Is @Dominica teaching this class or do you subscribe to web based lectures?
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The girls do cool history projects. When studying Mesopotamia last year they made river and ziggurat dioramas, did paper puppets of Sumerians and used clay and sticks to make cuneiform tablets!
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@coliver said:
@scottalanmiller said:
Today's topic? Mummification and tomb culture of ancient Egypt.
Is @Dominica teaching this class or do you subscribe to web based lectures?
@dominica is teaching. Although we now get free web resources as Texas is extremely pro-home school and provides a lot of resources.
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We did a lot of listening to pod casts etc. for multiple subjects.
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@Minion-Queen said:
We did a lot of listening to pod casts etc. for multiple subjects.
Was the enriching? Or did you also have hands-on work to do to reinforce the information for the pod cast?
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I can't wait until we are learning about American rail history. We plan on doing some model railroad projects and riding the rails from Chicago to California to explore the old rail trails.
