Inge Leonora-den Ouden wrote:Actually I think parents can teach their children all they need to learn. In a 'perfect world' there's no need for schools. It's because 'modern society' wants adult people to earn money and to work away from home that schools are needed (parents do not have the time for educating their children).
The most important thing children need to learn (in my opinion) is how to interact / communicate with others (humans, animals, the natural world). And then they need to learn to read, so they can read all that's written on everything they need to learn more ...
Math is important too, because whatever you want to make, you need to do calculations.
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Jenny Wright wrote:I saw this today and thought it would be fun to see what you all could add to this list...
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This was my biggest complaint, and why I was a pain in the butt. I would always ask for context (ESPECIALLY WITH ALGEBRA); where, how will I use this in the real world?
I was fortunate, and am truly indebted to many of my teachers. Especially that I was taught to read with PHONICS and learned how to break down a word into its components, so that even a word I had never seen before could be broken down, its root word(s) located, so that it could be pronounced, spelled and comprehended.
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I’d like to gently remind that a great many children do not get the “should learn that at home” experience. School is supposed to prepare children for life. That includes both basics and learning how to study. That was what the teacher run “ study hall” was for. The increasing class size trend (of decades) makes it impossible for teachers to even know what each student needs. That opened the way for the no lee way cram it in one size fits all curriculum. Remember, funding the school gets is based on number of bodies in the seats. Not all children have parent(s) who can expertly teach enough at home. I’d rather not leave those children behind. Just because I had the drive to claw my way up out of ignorance and poverty doesn’t mean that’s in reach for all kids.Misty May wrote:Sorry, but I don't believe any of that belongs in the school curriculum. Those are things that parents and/or community members should be teaching. We pile too much onto the plates of schools and teachers. It seems that we've forgotten that "parent" is also a verb.
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Lorinne Anderson wrote:As Jay Angler wrote: "...teachers teach stuff with no relation to the real world."
This was my biggest complaint, and why I was a pain in the butt. I would always ask for context (ESPECIALLY WITH ALGEBRA); where, how will I use this in the real world?
Misty May wrote: Those are things that parents and/or community members should be teaching.
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Terry Austin wrote:Have you never heard of the FFA or 4H these are agricultural based curriculum offered in public schools
JudyJ Johnston wrote:I wrote a sustainability programme to use in what is called a "behavioural " school...teaching many of these things, and used them to also teach literacy and maths...it worked very well...very practical life skills
Misty May wrote:Sorry, but I don't believe any of that belongs in the school curriculum. Those are things that parents and/or community members should be teaching. We pile too much onto the plates of schools and teachers. It seems that we've forgotten that "parent" is also a verb.
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Misty May wrote:Sorry, but I don't believe any of that belongs in the school curriculum. Those are things that parents and/or community members should be teaching. We pile too much onto the plates of schools and teachers. It seems that we've forgotten that "parent" is also a verb.
Joe Grand wrote:
Misty May wrote:Sorry, but I don't believe any of that belongs in the school curriculum. Those are things that parents and/or community members should be teaching. We pile too much onto the plates of schools and teachers. It seems that we've forgotten that "parent" is also a verb.
I think you are right, But people use school, church, 4H, scouts as a baby sitting club.
The most important thing in life was taught outside the classroom.
My mother made her four sons learn everything in the home, even change baby diapers'.
I did not use a sewing machine, but I could sew on a button.
At eight years old I woke up cooked pancake from scratch, heated a plastic bottle of syrup without a microwave.
Mother & my older sister & mom went twenty miles to the grocery store & was late getting home.
Smaller children told me they were hungry (never miss a meal), so made cathead biscuits & we had peanut butter &
syrup sandwiches. No one fuss about how I could have got hurt or might have burned something.
Father taught me how to make Rabbit boxes, we got one to two rabbits a week.
Make cane fishing pole, hunt & cook squirrels, doves, quail.
I could go on & on, but home schooler can do more than state run day care schools.
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Joe Grand wrote:
However some of the thing people post on Youtube seem to have no common sense, as if they heard part of the truth
but did not get the core.
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Misty May wrote:Sorry, but I don't believe any of that belongs in the school curriculum. Those are things that parents and/or community members should be teaching. We pile too much onto the plates of schools and teachers. It seems that we've forgotten that "parent" is also a verb.
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