People don't realize that you can home school your kids, giving them a GREAT education in less than 4-hours per day + 4-hours of homework.
By the time the other kids are getting out of their public school day... your kids can have twice the education and have all their homework done.
My oldest son got a wakeup call during Covid. His kids are in early grade school, public school. At one point, the kids had to stay home during the Covid scare... and they were given the materials to teach at home until the kids could return.
My son talked to a few of the teachers, thinking something was wrong. They went through an entire 8-hour school day worth of lessons in about 90-minutes. Next day, same thing. By the end of the week, they were thinking something was missing. Talking to the teachers confirmed the obvious. The kids in school are actually getting about 90-minutes of education during an 8-hour school day.
They didn't believe it until seeing it with their own eyes.
We home schooled my two daughters from late middle school to high school. They both graduated from High School nearly 2-years early.
Home School Day starts from 8:00am to Noon. (4 hours).
Homework and assignments are done from Noon to 4:00pm. (4 hours).
No work at night, no weekend homework. It's all done during the school day.
Also, we planned outings. A four hour school day can be at the local zoo, or visiting a bakery. We scheduled about 2-days per week of outside education, so the kids could learn how things really work. We didn't raise fools. Our daughters couldn't believe how dumb some of their public school friends turned out to be, going through the full program until 12th grade. Many of their friends were educated idiots. They couldn't do simple math, could barely count change, couldn't read a simple road map... and had nearly zero knowledge of world or U.S. history. This is in an upscale area. I shudder to think of how the kids in the worst schools are turning out.
Can someone in the home spend 4-hours per day on education? If not, can you team with a neighbor or relative... and take turns spending 4-hours every other day and work as a team? Home schooling CAN be done. It's just a matter of making it work.
People don't realize what an asset they have in a computer. Hint: it can be used for more than posting crap on Facebook or looking at cat videos.
For example: In geography, we spent 2-months (8 weeks) studying South America and one month (4 weeks) studying Central America. Five hours (hour per day) per week were teaching, then five hours (hour per day) per week devoted to homework about a South American nation; Total 10 hours on each.
Argentina
Brazil
Venezuela
Columbia
Chile
Peru & Bolivia
Paraguay / Uruguay
Ecuador / Guyana and Suriname
During that 1 hour per day (total 5 hours on each country), we would zoom in on Google Earth to look at major cities, rivers, large lakes or deserts, volcanoes and mountains... and then look up different information about the country (foods, resources, cultural info, politics, history).
Believe it or not, by the end of the week they were ready for a quiz on each nation, which we conducted the quizzes using Google Earth.
"Find Santiago, Chile."
"Find the Atacama Desert."
"What are the prevailing wind directions in Argentina and Chile"?
"How do the Andes Mountains and the winds work to create the desert".
"Show me Lake Titicaca".
"Where is the Patagonia Region located... and why is it called that?"
Within a few months, they had a better understanding of South and Central America than 90% of adults do... and they remember it.
If you're visiting the zoo, then have lessons planned. Today, your assignment is to get a photograph of each of the following;
A nocturnal mammal
A marsupial.
A water dwelling mammal.
An amphibian
A two legged mammal
etc... . They will have to know where to go in the zoo to find those things. The assignment afterwards would be to write a short paragraph to go along with each photo, telling me three different facts about each of those 10 creatures in their photos in addition to where it lives in the wild.
Giving your kid a good education isn't hard. It just takes creativity. My kids understand street and highway maps. They understand basic history. It's not hard to find Native Americans who are willing to share their culture and history with a student. There are a LOT of resources.
If you leave your kids in public school... then at least check to see if they are actually learning anything. If not, then you are just warehousing them and the school is a convenient babysitter.
thank you for sharing your experience, it sounds very doable just have to prioritize. public schools are basically communist indoctrination camps at this point and taking charge of your kid's education is of utmost importance imo
The entire school thing will be taken care of after Trump gets back in and the deep state is hanging.
Trump will sign a school choice executive order that will let the money follow the child, and then suddenly public schools will need to get their act together (ASAP) or they will become obsolete.
If you want to know the biggest fight you have dis-enrolling your child from public education? The MONEY. The school systems didn't care one whit about the child... they were seeing $10,000 per child in education funding walking out the door. That was the concern.
For the first 2-3 weeks, the schools were threatening to have child protective services or some state official come by the home to make sure the child was being "home schooled". They never followed through... however you must be prepared for that. Home school means HOME SCHOOL. You start at a certain time each day, and have lesson plans that you follow.
The state can't tell you WHEN you have to teach math, or language arts. They can't tell you how many hours per day have to be spent on each, nor what order things have to be taught. All they can do is make sure that your lessons follow the basic state curriculum for that grade level (that your kids aren't falling behind). That's easy. Print off a copy of the state curriculum guidelines for that grade level... and make sure your kids are at least meeting if not exceeding those. Most of the time, we were months ahead or were even teaching at the next grade level up.
My daughters passed the 10th, 11th &12th grade state spelling exams by 9th grade. Public education is so slow and dumbed down... that it's not hard for home schooled kids to be months or even years ahead of their peers.
The important thing is to KEEP RECORDS OF EVERYTHING. Keep every homework assignment. Keep every quiz. Keep every test. Occasionally, print off a State home school test and have the child pass that. Most states have those online. If the child reads a novel (which we required several, at least 2 per school year), then record that and have them write a novel report.
If ANY state agency ever tries to intervene (and it's always possible), you need to have the information readily available showing that your children are receiving an education equal to or better than public. Another thing is take photos (and keep a digital file) as well as making a copy of everything to be kept elsewhere (not at the home). Anticipate that you might have problems with officials. We never did... but you never know what a vindictive school system might pull... or some crooked local politician might try. Always be prepared.
If you go this route, write down (and have handy) contact information for your state or city's home school organizations and any legal agencies that represent home schoolers in your state. It never hurts to have those phone #'s or names available just in case.
My homeschooled daughter did very well at college. One of her professors gushed how great homeschooling is when it is done right. I well remember being astounded when I pulled her out of public in the 2nd grade how we went through all her subjects in an hour and a half, including practicing the piano for 15 minutes.
I switched to more of an unschooling mindset after she was acing everything in sixth grade. I watch my kids follow their interests and then facilitate them in exploring that interest and building skills for it.
Anybody can learn virtually anything online today. I can't count the number of subjects I've self-educated myself on, mostly for free.
Once your kid knows how to adequately read/write and perform basic maths (say 10-12 y/o), they're ready to explore what interests them and will have a great career if they can learn to follow their bliss. High school and beyond is entirely unnecessary unless the child has high intellectual aspirations (which few do if given other options and/or not trying to please their parents).
Good riddance to the government-sponsored indoctrination systems!
Not to mention if you're trying to keep your children away from the television, they don't have to go to school and hear all about the stupid shows their friends watched and then learn about the stupid shit that they learned watching them. I love when people come to me and say oh did you see that show about such and such and I say I never watch television the look on their face is priceless
The clearest figures I could find referred to the amount of kids enrolled in public schools k-12. That’s 50 million-ish minus the 2 million who have left, pretty significant blow to the system in just a year or two.
People don't realize that you can home school your kids, giving them a GREAT education in less than 4-hours per day + 4-hours of homework.
By the time the other kids are getting out of their public school day... your kids can have twice the education and have all their homework done.
My oldest son got a wakeup call during Covid. His kids are in early grade school, public school. At one point, the kids had to stay home during the Covid scare... and they were given the materials to teach at home until the kids could return.
My son talked to a few of the teachers, thinking something was wrong. They went through an entire 8-hour school day worth of lessons in about 90-minutes. Next day, same thing. By the end of the week, they were thinking something was missing. Talking to the teachers confirmed the obvious. The kids in school are actually getting about 90-minutes of education during an 8-hour school day.
They didn't believe it until seeing it with their own eyes.
We home schooled my two daughters from late middle school to high school. They both graduated from High School nearly 2-years early.
Home School Day starts from 8:00am to Noon. (4 hours). Homework and assignments are done from Noon to 4:00pm. (4 hours).
No work at night, no weekend homework. It's all done during the school day.
Also, we planned outings. A four hour school day can be at the local zoo, or visiting a bakery. We scheduled about 2-days per week of outside education, so the kids could learn how things really work. We didn't raise fools. Our daughters couldn't believe how dumb some of their public school friends turned out to be, going through the full program until 12th grade. Many of their friends were educated idiots. They couldn't do simple math, could barely count change, couldn't read a simple road map... and had nearly zero knowledge of world or U.S. history. This is in an upscale area. I shudder to think of how the kids in the worst schools are turning out.
Can someone in the home spend 4-hours per day on education? If not, can you team with a neighbor or relative... and take turns spending 4-hours every other day and work as a team? Home schooling CAN be done. It's just a matter of making it work.
People don't realize what an asset they have in a computer. Hint: it can be used for more than posting crap on Facebook or looking at cat videos.
For example: In geography, we spent 2-months (8 weeks) studying South America and one month (4 weeks) studying Central America. Five hours (hour per day) per week were teaching, then five hours (hour per day) per week devoted to homework about a South American nation; Total 10 hours on each.
Argentina
Brazil
Venezuela
Columbia
Chile
Peru & Bolivia
Paraguay / Uruguay
Ecuador / Guyana and Suriname
During that 1 hour per day (total 5 hours on each country), we would zoom in on Google Earth to look at major cities, rivers, large lakes or deserts, volcanoes and mountains... and then look up different information about the country (foods, resources, cultural info, politics, history).
Believe it or not, by the end of the week they were ready for a quiz on each nation, which we conducted the quizzes using Google Earth.
"Find Santiago, Chile." "Find the Atacama Desert." "What are the prevailing wind directions in Argentina and Chile"? "How do the Andes Mountains and the winds work to create the desert". "Show me Lake Titicaca". "Where is the Patagonia Region located... and why is it called that?"
Within a few months, they had a better understanding of South and Central America than 90% of adults do... and they remember it.
If you're visiting the zoo, then have lessons planned. Today, your assignment is to get a photograph of each of the following;
Giving your kid a good education isn't hard. It just takes creativity. My kids understand street and highway maps. They understand basic history. It's not hard to find Native Americans who are willing to share their culture and history with a student. There are a LOT of resources.
If you leave your kids in public school... then at least check to see if they are actually learning anything. If not, then you are just warehousing them and the school is a convenient babysitter.
thank you for sharing your experience, it sounds very doable just have to prioritize. public schools are basically communist indoctrination camps at this point and taking charge of your kid's education is of utmost importance imo
Excellent review and true!
No lunch? You monster
The entire school thing will be taken care of after Trump gets back in and the deep state is hanging.
Trump will sign a school choice executive order that will let the money follow the child, and then suddenly public schools will need to get their act together (ASAP) or they will become obsolete.
I hope so.
If you want to know the biggest fight you have dis-enrolling your child from public education? The MONEY. The school systems didn't care one whit about the child... they were seeing $10,000 per child in education funding walking out the door. That was the concern.
For the first 2-3 weeks, the schools were threatening to have child protective services or some state official come by the home to make sure the child was being "home schooled". They never followed through... however you must be prepared for that. Home school means HOME SCHOOL. You start at a certain time each day, and have lesson plans that you follow.
The state can't tell you WHEN you have to teach math, or language arts. They can't tell you how many hours per day have to be spent on each, nor what order things have to be taught. All they can do is make sure that your lessons follow the basic state curriculum for that grade level (that your kids aren't falling behind). That's easy. Print off a copy of the state curriculum guidelines for that grade level... and make sure your kids are at least meeting if not exceeding those. Most of the time, we were months ahead or were even teaching at the next grade level up.
My daughters passed the 10th, 11th &12th grade state spelling exams by 9th grade. Public education is so slow and dumbed down... that it's not hard for home schooled kids to be months or even years ahead of their peers.
The important thing is to KEEP RECORDS OF EVERYTHING. Keep every homework assignment. Keep every quiz. Keep every test. Occasionally, print off a State home school test and have the child pass that. Most states have those online. If the child reads a novel (which we required several, at least 2 per school year), then record that and have them write a novel report.
If ANY state agency ever tries to intervene (and it's always possible), you need to have the information readily available showing that your children are receiving an education equal to or better than public. Another thing is take photos (and keep a digital file) as well as making a copy of everything to be kept elsewhere (not at the home). Anticipate that you might have problems with officials. We never did... but you never know what a vindictive school system might pull... or some crooked local politician might try. Always be prepared.
If you go this route, write down (and have handy) contact information for your state or city's home school organizations and any legal agencies that represent home schoolers in your state. It never hurts to have those phone #'s or names available just in case.
And countless more will never go.
JUST 2 million?
Gotta pump those numbers up.
My homeschooled daughter did very well at college. One of her professors gushed how great homeschooling is when it is done right. I well remember being astounded when I pulled her out of public in the 2nd grade how we went through all her subjects in an hour and a half, including practicing the piano for 15 minutes.
I switched to more of an unschooling mindset after she was acing everything in sixth grade. I watch my kids follow their interests and then facilitate them in exploring that interest and building skills for it.
Anybody can learn virtually anything online today. I can't count the number of subjects I've self-educated myself on, mostly for free.
Once your kid knows how to adequately read/write and perform basic maths (say 10-12 y/o), they're ready to explore what interests them and will have a great career if they can learn to follow their bliss. High school and beyond is entirely unnecessary unless the child has high intellectual aspirations (which few do if given other options and/or not trying to please their parents).
Good riddance to the government-sponsored indoctrination systems!
Not to mention if you're trying to keep your children away from the television, they don't have to go to school and hear all about the stupid shows their friends watched and then learn about the stupid shit that they learned watching them. I love when people come to me and say oh did you see that show about such and such and I say I never watch television the look on their face is priceless
They literally made parents learn how easy and effective it is to just do it at home.
They wanted it this way.
The clearest figures I could find referred to the amount of kids enrolled in public schools k-12. That’s 50 million-ish minus the 2 million who have left, pretty significant blow to the system in just a year or two.