This is so what I’m talking about!!!! I can not believe I found this on a homeschooling parent’s website as a good “day in the life of”. I’m so not ok with this….maybe to others this looks like more than a child (teen) sitting around the house watching TV and reading all day but not to me. How does this show the “5.6” average activities outside of the house homeschoolers do (or so is the claim)?
This movie is a bit long but you can watch just the first few minutes and see pretty much all there really is to see.
Yes, I’m a homeschooling parent but this is NUTS!!! This is why I started homeschool against my better judgment; granted this video is not even close to what a day in my house is like but from what I have heard it seems to be a standard day in the homeschool community. I hope I’m seriously mistaken! Granted a lot of homeschooling families would condemn me for “schooling at home” and using a virtual public school but I’m in this for what is best for my child not the joy of homeschooling.
Sorry this just kills me. It is just like the “unschooled” article I read about a year ago where the family thought it was a great success story that their now 20yr old couldn’t hold a job for more than a month and didn’t learn to read till he was 16 (so, not ok with me). At least he is happy and free, I believe is how they ended that whole thing. I find it sad that he will continue to jump from job to job getting upset at the world for his lack of progress and in the end be an unhappy adult. Why do I say this???? I have seen it play out too many times.
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Didn't watch the vid (dialup!!)but I am totally, 110% with you. It drives me NUTS like you can't belive-yes, I love the freedom of homeschooling but the kind of freedom some people advocate is unrealistic.
I'm totally with you.
For those like gorjirama that can't view the movie here is a recap for you:
*gets up at 10am
*chooses not to get dressed (puts on house coat
*has pancake breakfast
*11am - watches "I love Lucy" and "Little House on the Praire" as Social Studies
*noon - puts on makeup and does nails as art (still not dressed)
*1pm - does dance video or something like that as gym (is dressed in gym clothes)
*2pm - playing very easy online word game and boggle for english (where she only makes 3 letter words)
*3pm - plays yahtzee with someone (first time we see another person) and it says that homeschoolers get 24/7 attention; this is math
*4pm - makes root beer float and calls it science
*for fun she reads stats, the dictionary, Thesaruas, world history books, physiology book, and the interliner bible.
During this last "fun" part there is a stat that they throw up that says "Homeschool students participate in 5.2 activities outside the house" yet in the full day we don't even get to see this girl go out of her house at all!
Gahhhh! Around here we call that sick days! I hate knowing people think all homeschoolers operate like this.
So not what our homeschool day is like. Of course, we are not of the unschooled approach either more the Charlotte Mason type.
Stupid waste of time. This is not what I know as homeschooling for any of the 100's of homeschoolers I know on both coasts. This is a pathetic generalization the same as thinking all high schoolers are mean girls or bullies or sex crazed or on verge of school bombing/shooting....
Thank God we live in a country where we have the right and privilege to decide on our child's education in schooling and elsewhere. It's a shame some parents let the kids down but it isn't specific to homeschool. This kind of thing is just another attempt to attach a negative reaction to the few on the fringe families.
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