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I'm not certain if I mentioned this in the past or not.... I was in home school from 5th grade until my 10th grade year. My last two years of high school were at a Christian school. As I was trying to sleep last night, I found myself thinking about my educational past and how glad I am to have grown up the way I did. Some might point to it as a reason for my people problems but those were around long before I was at home. In fact somewhere around here I have a report card from grade school that has a teachers comment on the back stating "Chava does not play well with the other children." I should find it and scan it in sometime.
No, public school is what made me hate being around people... or at least it certainly didn't help. I was one of the ones the other kids picked on. I don't remember a lot about those years... I didn't have many friends and I was though of as very weird. In an attempt to find somewhere for me to fit in, my mother had me placed in the advanced kids program. This didn't do much for my social issues but it was a ton of fun. The way it was taught was so completely different than in the normal classes. Instead of working from books we got to do very hands on things... build a giant raindrop out of plastic so that we could learn about light refraction from the inside... we were the only kids who got to watch an eclipse with little viewers from the windows instead of on tv from the cafeteria like the rest of the school. It was a wonderful way to learn... and it was the way my mother taught us. Yes, we still had textbooks and tests but we also got to do so much. Mom had a grand love of learning that she tried to impart to us. I hope to do the same for my children. In my mind one of the greater crimes (among many) of the public educational system is that they beat the love of learning out of the average student. There is no room to thrive... especially if you are not one of the average ones. I've known of so many children who have graduated from Georgia's public schools not knowing how to read. Teachers get tired of dealing with them so they pass them up to the next grade so they can be someone else's problem.
Yes, there are many home schools that, for lack of a better word... suck. Some parents shouldn't be parents much less teachers. I do not have a college degree. My mother did not have one either, but I think she did a better job with us than the public school system could have. I've already started to study and learn about how to teach my children so that as they begin to move from babies to little girls I can be there to water their minds and help them grow in the best way I can find. I would hate to see their creativity and joy crushed to fit into a mold.
No, public school is what made me hate being around people... or at least it certainly didn't help. I was one of the ones the other kids picked on. I don't remember a lot about those years... I didn't have many friends and I was though of as very weird. In an attempt to find somewhere for me to fit in, my mother had me placed in the advanced kids program. This didn't do much for my social issues but it was a ton of fun. The way it was taught was so completely different than in the normal classes. Instead of working from books we got to do very hands on things... build a giant raindrop out of plastic so that we could learn about light refraction from the inside... we were the only kids who got to watch an eclipse with little viewers from the windows instead of on tv from the cafeteria like the rest of the school. It was a wonderful way to learn... and it was the way my mother taught us. Yes, we still had textbooks and tests but we also got to do so much. Mom had a grand love of learning that she tried to impart to us. I hope to do the same for my children. In my mind one of the greater crimes (among many) of the public educational system is that they beat the love of learning out of the average student. There is no room to thrive... especially if you are not one of the average ones. I've known of so many children who have graduated from Georgia's public schools not knowing how to read. Teachers get tired of dealing with them so they pass them up to the next grade so they can be someone else's problem.
Yes, there are many home schools that, for lack of a better word... suck. Some parents shouldn't be parents much less teachers. I do not have a college degree. My mother did not have one either, but I think she did a better job with us than the public school system could have. I've already started to study and learn about how to teach my children so that as they begin to move from babies to little girls I can be there to water their minds and help them grow in the best way I can find. I would hate to see their creativity and joy crushed to fit into a mold.
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You have spoken for me....
Thanks Chava. Your reflection sparked my appreciation for what my mother also did, and your post was truly spoken from my own heart.
xoxoxox
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Have you read anything about unschooling? It seems interesting... aspects of it at least. My mother started using something called Konos (?) for my younger siblings after I was in the Christian school. Instead of seperating subjects into like math, english, and science... they were taught together as a unit... They would talk about oh I dunno... um castles and use that to teach history, english (writing about it), math (geometery or something).. you get the idea. It was neat.
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