"Home School" Students cheat for Nat. Spelling Bee?

[Kuasimodem]

Home-schooled triumphs: fair or unfair?

Leave it to the "public" school system, their students are getting beat by home school students, so they have to call "foul." They claim that the home schooled kids are emphasizing spelling over all other subjects.

Just another reason to home school your children if you are able.

"Home-schooling works because of the great teacher-student ratio, the personal attention, the flexible schedule - those things can help in any academic area, including spelling," he said, citing triumphs in the geography bee as another example of academic strengths. "It's pretty clear across the board that academically, it works."

Just think, your child could learn pretty much all they need to know, without worrying about being beat up or shot at school, without being indoctrinated into believing that sexual experimentation is OK, without having their "peers" push drugs at them.

Here's one thing that kinda stuck out to me in this story, and it was relegated to being a tiny part of a paragraph...

...most parents of bee participants are very involved in their children's education, whether the child attends home school, private school or public school.

Think this may be the true reason, more parental involvement?

Edit - Script errors

[TonTo]

Ok, Here's my opinion of home schooling... The kids always seemed "off" sorry, they were all REALLY smart, but, they just hadn't developed the social skills that public school kids had. They say "kids are cruel" that is SO true... but, it's a good thing, because i think it prepares you for playing office politics... where,... the people might not be as openly cruel.... but the stakes are MUCH larger... your job and your paycheck.

[Warthog]

Home schooling is great overall, but how do you make friends? I would imagine it'd be kinda lonely. All the homeschool people I have known, don't have too many, if any to hang out with.

[Chooco]

few opinions:
-home schooling is better education because yer not afraid of humilitation for asking how something works or why something is.
-home school makes kids have fewer friends.
-having fewer friends makes kids spend more time working but can emotionaly hurt them.
-home school with flexible hours is a BAD THING because it doesn't prepare the kid for the real world or university. wake up late a few days in a row and you get fired, home schoolin it's no biggy, BAD!!


you should probably keeps your kids in the public school so they don't get socialy isolated.

[CERuppel]

That has always been my own concern with home schooling. The lack of social interaction is going to leave major holes in the home schooled childrens preparation to enter college/workforce.

Perhaps if the parents would just get involved with the public schooling we could have the best of both worlds???

[Chooco]

how do you mean get involved?

[Warthog]

I know for a fact I wouldn't be the same person AT ALL if I went homeschooling. I have sooooooo much more fun at public school anyway

Ejumukashun isn't everything.

[Chooco]

being bullied around at least once in your life makes you not only more psychopathic, but it makes you a bit wiser

[Warthog]

Being bullied around throughout the years, mentally beats you into forever thinking yourself inferior and acting insecure.....I know a kid like this, rather sad...although it was also created by his homelife. I know you said once but I'm just saying...

[CERuppel]

A home schooling parent has 40 or more hours per week to dedicate to the home schooling. Plus (some) training. Add a bit of public spirit and you have the teachers aid voluteer that the local schools have needed for years.

Yes, some home schooling is in the students best interest. From personal experience I have seen it work. But I have also seen people that would have been great teachers waste thier time moaning about the schools and then teaching thier children privately, rather than helping the schools (and all the children).

And no, I am not a school volunteer. If you want to give one of my friends an April Fools E-mail, try telling them I am! They will have a laff (after they are certain I am not near thier kids...)