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Skean Dhu

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Any body else have little ones starting school for the first time this week?

Damn, I like to think I'm tough but watching my little girl get on a school bus for the first time.......well, it wasn't easy.

My kids are my treasures and sending one out into this messed up world ain't fun.

Was just wondering if any one else is in the same boat.
 
You're not alone. Last year I took my son to afternoon preschool for just 2 hours. This year I see him off to all day kindergarten via a school bus. It is hard letting go of our "little treasures". You just have to to be a good parent and teach them the important things in life. :)
 
Don't worry, in a few years all that will pass and when the school bus pulls up for the first time that season you'll think "I have a day to myself! YAAAAYYYYY!!!"

:D
 
My kids are my treasures and sending one out into this messed up world ain't fun.
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Then don't. Send them to a parochial school instead.

We had a wonderful first-day at St. Paul Lutheran Schools. It all went entirely smoothly this year.

288 kids and the teachers got them settled in and learning within just the first few minutes. I'm always amazed at the professionalism and abilities of our staff to pull order out of chaos like that.

The kids are great. It's the parents who are generally the problem. We only had one prima dona mother this year (she wanted her little Einstein four-year-old in Kindergarten instead of pre-school. "She's way ahead of her peers." I'm sure she is, but we don't do that. Sorry.) The little girl, by the way, is loving four-year-old preschool.

I walked around the school about an hour into the morning and saw 14 kindergarteners sitting in a circle gluing glitter to drawings they'd done and I, "wow, glitter and glue within the first hour... that's brave. These women are professionals."

Today was a major event: The handing off of the flag. The third graders are in charge of the flag. They raise it every morning. They lower it every afternoon. But, for the first few days of school, the fourth graders, last year's third graders, handle the flag while teaching the third graders the drills. Today, the fourth graders handed the flag to the third graders. Aside from patriotism, this teaches the fourth graders to pass responsibility and the third graders to respect responsibility and to accept it.
 
I have not seen any evidence that children who are home-schooled even pre-12, have any socialization problems. That is a myth promoted primarily by the NEA.
 
Ren the devils trailboss said:
or you could home school! so later in life your kids can be come introverted social retards who wear jean jumpers and flunk out of life..
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I was never home schooled...but I'm posting on BFC anyway. :p
 
Gollnick said:
I have not seen any evidence that children who are home-schooled even pre-12, have any socialization problems. That is a myth promoted primarily by the NEA.
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Well I am no teacher or member of the NEA but I have seen many kids totally FUBAR by homeschooling..not the kids fault but usually the religious right parents who think that they can do a better job teaching than the public school ( an argueable point in some districts) but most in my community are just to cheap to pay tuition for Parochial school. THus unqualified parents are trying teach thier kids..I was amazed when my cousin who has six kids ranging in age from 15 to a newborn was visiting when his wife (teacher) says to my wife..Science..yuk..we dont do science!..Thats great..they know every word in the Bible but cant do math and Science..they should do great in life...

I also have seen many socialization problems..but in my community..thats no shock..
 
but I have seen many kids totally FUBAR by homeschooling
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You can't look at single cases. The sample of one doth make fools of us all. You can always find single cases.

I could respond that you also find children with socialization problems in public schools. I could suggest two students of public schools, Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold. They had some socialization issues, didn't they? I should say so.

I have yet to see any accepted study showing that students who are home-schooled have any greater concentration of socialization problems than public-schooled children or children at large. It's a myth promoted primarily by the NEA.

On the other hand, I can show you respected studies showing higher scores on college admission tests from home-schooled children as a population than public-schooled.
 
We home schooled our daughters and they turned out great! If you want ot see whacked out maladjusted kids go sit in front of your local high school. As a matter of fact one of the main reasons we taught or girls at home was to avoid the influences of the other students that have no values.
Here in Fairbanks the home school movement is huge. There are almost daily activities such as ice skating and science competition.
Home schoolers are winning almost all the national academic competitions.
We have school district program that provides a computer and about $2000 per student for curriculum classes or any other teaching need.
One of my daughters took a lot of college classes for high school credit.
This is a movement that you will have to get used to as society and the public school system continues to break down.
 
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