3 ms·

fwiw, I homeschooled my two boys. One graduated summa cum laude from a well known university. The other graduated in the top 10% of another well known school. A

fwiw, I homeschooled my two boys. One graduated summa cum laude from a well known university. The other graduated in the top 10% of another well known school. And I think I did a lousy job of it. If enough people show an interest, I'll go into it more tomorrow but, for now, I'm going to bed.

Rainymood 12y ago
Please do. I am very intrigued.
- walljm 12y ago
  I'll let zaphar tell his side of it (he's my brother), but the way I remember mom telling it, the school was disinterested in dealing with certain issues he was having in class. The problem was, zaphar knew everything he needed to know in 1st grade before he showed up the first day. He got excessively bored in class as a result and developed a daydreaming habit his teachers didn't want to take the time address. By the time he was in 2nd grade, he was learning nothing and fell behind. The teachers met with my mom as they usually do and told her that they were just going to pass him to the next class instead of keeping him back. Mom thought that was "unacceptable" and that was part of what prompted my parents to pull him out and homeschool us. It took her a couple years to break him of the habit (and a lot of one on one interaction). There are probably other things zaphar might know, but that's how I remember it. As a result, I never went to public schools at all (with the exception of drivers ed in highschool). Kindergarten was 30 mins a day for a summer. I would run up to mom and say "let have school!" and then when i got bored we would stop. For the record, I was socially awkward. I'm naturally shy and that didn't help. I eventually overcame that (though it does come out when i'm more fatigued) and would like to think I can hold my own socially. But I doubt public school would have been good for me. If it was anything like college was, I would have done far worse academically. I hate lectures, they make me sleepy and bored and I retain very little. I need to read and work the problems to understand them. Mostly, I marvel at the waste of time. I could typically do all my homework in ~4 hours (or less if i was being diligent) and be done with school by lunch. Sitting for nearly 8 hours a day (given my aggressively active nature as a child) would have been torture.
zaphar 12y ago
You may think you did a lousy job of it but I wonder if your kids think differently. My mom taught herself the multiplication tables along side me. She missed a lot of school when she was younger due to hospital stays because she had contracted Polio. She took that weakness and turned it into a strength even though she may not have felt qualified to home school me at the time. I think it helped that the School System had thoroughly angered her though :-). There's a story there that I won't go into now.

Rainymood 12y ago

Please do. I am very intrigued.

walljm 12y ago
I'll let zaphar tell his side of it (he's my brother), but the way I remember mom telling it, the school was disinterested in dealing with certain issues he was having in class. The problem was, zaphar knew everything he needed to know in 1st grade before he showed up the first day. He got excessively bored in class as a result and developed a daydreaming habit his teachers didn't want to take the time address. By the time he was in 2nd grade, he was learning nothing and fell behind. The teachers met with my mom as they usually do and told her that they were just going to pass him to the next class instead of keeping him back. Mom thought that was "unacceptable" and that was part of what prompted my parents to pull him out and homeschool us. It took her a couple years to break him of the habit (and a lot of one on one interaction). There are probably other things zaphar might know, but that's how I remember it. As a result, I never went to public schools at all (with the exception of drivers ed in highschool). Kindergarten was 30 mins a day for a summer. I would run up to mom and say "let have school!" and then when i got bored we would stop. For the record, I was socially awkward. I'm naturally shy and that didn't help. I eventually overcame that (though it does come out when i'm more fatigued) and would like to think I can hold my own socially. But I doubt public school would have been good for me. If it was anything like college was, I would have done far worse academically. I hate lectures, they make me sleepy and bored and I retain very little. I need to read and work the problems to understand them. Mostly, I marvel at the waste of time. I could typically do all my homework in ~4 hours (or less if i was being diligent) and be done with school by lunch. Sitting for nearly 8 hours a day (given my aggressively active nature as a child) would have been torture.

zaphar 12y ago

You may think you did a lousy job of it but I wonder if your kids think differently. My mom taught herself the multiplication tables along side me. She missed a lot of school when she was younger due to hospital stays because she had contracted Polio. She took that weakness and turned it into a strength even though she may not have felt qualified to home school me at the time. I think it helped that the School System had thoroughly angered her though :-). There's a story there that I won't go into now.