http://www.messengerpuppet.com/2005/06/02/dis-be-my-mad-posse-yo/ Grab a brew. Don't cost nothin' Tue, 06 Jan 2009 20:23:02 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7.1-alpha-10188 hourly 1 http://www.messengerpuppet.com/2005/06/02/dis-be-my-mad-posse-yo/comment-page-1/#comment-670 Mr. Wonderful Mon, 12 Mar 2007 20:45:19 +0000 http://www.messengerpuppet.com/2005/06/02/dis-be-my-mad-posse-yo/#comment-670 Sounds like a different scenario. You are socializing your kids. My bitch is with homeschooling to avoid socializing your kid. It sounds like your lifestyle beyond school allows for socializing that your version of home school may not provide. Cloistering your kids 24/7 handicaps them. Homeschooling as a part of that and exacerbates the deficit - that is my principal point. Sounds like a different scenario. You are socializing your kids. My bitch is with homeschooling to avoid socializing your kid. It sounds like your lifestyle beyond school allows for socializing that your version of home school may not provide. Cloistering your kids 24/7 handicaps them. Homeschooling as a part of that and exacerbates the deficit - that is my principal point.

]]> http://www.messengerpuppet.com/2005/06/02/dis-be-my-mad-posse-yo/comment-page-1/#comment-669 Not My Sister Sat, 10 Mar 2007 07:05:11 +0000 http://www.messengerpuppet.com/2005/06/02/dis-be-my-mad-posse-yo/#comment-669 I know that this is a very old blog entry of yours, so I hope that you don't mind my comment. People home-school for lots of reasons, not just to over shelter their kids. Schools today are different. When I was a kid and wiggled too much in my seat, the teacher dealt with it; when my kid wiggled in his seat, they insisted that I dope him up or he would be put in a "special class" in spite of his good grades and intelligence. I gave him the Ritalin against my better judgment from age 5 (yep, kindergarten) to age 8 when it started making him sick and the pediatrician recommended home school as an alternative to the drugs. My local school system pressured many other parents of boys in our large urban community and we all felt like we had two options; lawyer up or start educating in the DIY method of homeschooling. 1 out of every 33 students in our community (Edmond, Oklahoma, a suburb of Oklahoma City)is now home-schooled. So we have all kinds of co-op group classes. Monday-art class, Tuesday-chess club and boy scouts, Wednesday- literature class, Thursday- P.E. and soccer or baseball or basketball (depending on season) practice with YMCA, Friday-Park recess day, and Saturday-YMCA Soccer games or Baseball or Basketball games. The challenge is getting the school work done IN SPITE of everyone's busy social schedule. The local colleges are very accepting of our money of course, and most home-schooled students start taking college courses around age 16 with concurrent enrollment like a lot of the public schooled kids. More parents like us will be homeschooling until the public schools figure it out and remember how to discipline kids without medicating them. And yes, we have our own graduation, prom, football team and cheerleaders (it is Oklahoma, after all) and yes, the cheerleaders are cute and their skirts are short. LOL. I hope that this has opened your mind a little bit about my "alternative lifestyle." I know that this is a very old blog entry of yours, so I hope that you don’t mind my comment. People home-school for lots of reasons, not just to over shelter their kids. Schools today are different. When I was a kid and wiggled too much in my seat, the teacher dealt with it; when my kid wiggled in his seat, they insisted that I dope him up or he would be put in a “special class” in spite of his good grades and intelligence. I gave him the Ritalin against my better judgment from age 5 (yep, kindergarten) to age 8 when it started making him sick and the pediatrician recommended home school as an alternative to the drugs. My local school system pressured many other parents of boys in our large urban community and we all felt like we had two options; lawyer up or start educating in the DIY method of homeschooling. 1 out of every 33 students in our community (Edmond, Oklahoma, a suburb of Oklahoma City)is now home-schooled. So we have all kinds of co-op group classes. Monday-art class, Tuesday-chess club and boy scouts, Wednesday- literature class, Thursday- P.E. and soccer or baseball or basketball (depending on season) practice with YMCA, Friday-Park recess day, and Saturday-YMCA Soccer games or Baseball or Basketball games. The challenge is getting the school work done IN SPITE of everyone’s busy social schedule. The local colleges are very accepting of our money of course, and most home-schooled students start taking college courses around age 16 with concurrent enrollment like a lot of the public schooled kids. More parents like us will be homeschooling until the public schools figure it out and remember how to discipline kids without medicating them. And yes, we have our own graduation, prom, football team and cheerleaders (it is Oklahoma, after all) and yes, the cheerleaders are cute and their skirts are short. LOL. I hope that this has opened your mind a little bit about my “alternative lifestyle.”

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