Just changed their minds..

[hazmatt]

Id honestly like to home school them, and focus on useful knowledge, keeping them out of the cesspool of terrible parenting in public schools.  Not really room in the budget at this time though.

Check out Powerhomeschool, Khan Academy, Dr. Binox, Lotty Learns. There's lots of available resources. We home school 3 kids for less then 1k a year. There's also a tax rebate for up to $1200 per kid for home schooled kids where we live.

Ron Paul also has a home school program that we're looking into for our eldest. It's 550 a year for one student and 1150 for three students.

[AKKuya]

The Earth would need 2 to 3 centuries for planet-wide healing if humans were removed from the equation, specifically technological civilization.  Hunters and gatherers is the future.

[Randy1]

It is so funny to watch young, and old phone users glued to their phones with their brain-dead stares.    Even worse when they are driving.   

[AKIron]

I see people weaving in and even out of their lane and I know they are texting. As bad as drunk driving.

[Lazerr]

Check out Powerhomeschool, Khan Academy, Dr. Binox, Lotty Learns. There's lots of available resources. We home school 3 kids for less then 1k a year. There's also a tax rebate for up to $1200 per kid for home schooled kids where we live.

Ron Paul also has a home school program that we're looking into for our eldest. It's 550 a year for one student and 1150 for three students.

Yeah the issue is having one parent home during the daytime hours to accomplish it.  We could work opposite shifts, but there is a lot of value to being together as a family on a nightly basis.  For now the plan is just to do parenting at 250%, and try to nip bad behavior and the side effects of terrible parenting of other children in the butt.

but really... if you guys don't deal with many young adults, go out of you way to engage in a conversation with them.  Between online gaming, technology, and just piss poor parenting... I am surprised some of them are able to even dress them self.  They sure as hell cant hold a conversation.

If you let your children of any age spend more than 1 hour on a phone or tablet on a daily basis... shame on you.

[Eagler]

It's the best baby sitter..used as reward and abstaining from it as punishment..

Very glad our boys were adults by the time the iPhone appeared..don't envy parents today..

Interesting times ahead 

Eagler

[AKKuya]

Someone probably placed hypnotic signals into the entire smartphone economy.  The Stepford Earth has arrived.

[RUSH1]

It is so funny to watch young, and old phone users glued to their phones with their brain-dead stares.    Even worse when they are driving.

Many will even lose their job because of their phone.  I see it all of the time. 

[hazmatt]

Yeah the issue is having one parent home during the daytime hours to accomplish it.  We could work opposite shifts,

For sure this could be a challenge with both having full time jobs.

We try to sit down for meals as a family as often as possible. What's interesting is the kids will sit and talk at the table even after they are done eating and it gives us a chance to ask them what they learned in school that day.

[Dadtallica]

Please do not home school your children. Most of you will do serious damage with the way you all carry yourself on in here.

The Ron Paul home school program? 

[AKIron]

Would be hard to do worse than the public schools today.

[Captain Virgil Hilts]

Please do not home school your children. Most of you will do serious damage with the way you all carry yourself on in here.

The Ron Paul home school program? 

One would have to work extremely hard, and diligently, to do more harm to a child than the vast majority of government operated public education facilities. High school "graduates" commonly read and perform arithmetic at 3rd to 6th grade levels, and are functionally illiterate in history, civics, and economics. 

[Animl-AW]

Please do not home school your children. Most of you will do serious damage with the way you all carry yourself on in here.

The Ron Paul home school program? 

I think its not a blanket answer but an individual decision based on many things.

But ya, I think we agree on more than not.

Public schools shop classes taught me welding, machine shop, Adult Living (cooking and handling bills), carpentry, and wood-shop that I ended up making a short living building exotic solid wood doors for mansions, some sold for $5k-$8k. Point being I graduated with skills that got me through life.

You’ll never win debating myths, the facts are invented on the fly. Chasing rabbits more than discussion.

However, to each their own. I loathed going to school, but I respect what they taught me

[hazmatt]

One would have to work extremely hard, and diligently, to do more harm to a child than the vast majority of government operated public education facilities. High school "graduates" commonly read and perform arithmetic at 3rd to 6th grade levels, and are functionally illiterate in history, civics, and economics.

The good thing about it is most of the newer home school programs are the same programs that many schools are using.

My son has very bad ADHD and there's no way he would sit still in a school all day and we're not going to put him on medication.I had ADHD as a kid and found that it can be a blessing and a curse. Luck for me ADHD wasn't a "sickness" back when I grew up.

I learned to understand it and deal with it. For anybody who has it or wants to understand it, a good book is: "Driven to Distraction"

[Shuffler]

With college juniors and seniors who have no idea how many minutes are in a quarter hour, I imagine hardly anyone can do worse than public schools or even many college and universities.