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Working from home today, listening to my wife and daughter.
My daughter is home schooled (grade 4); they are working on the language constructs.
My wife said, "Today, we have to add a 'which' clause..."
I understood what she said, but my mind automatically contrasted the two spellings of the same sounding word.. I smiled and left it at that.
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How do you like homeschooling?
I know many colleagues and friends who have homeschooled their children over the years, some of them have been home schooled themselves. Mostly positive reports.
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Emilio Largo wrote: How do you like homeschooling?
That's when I met most of my life-long friends.
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Really tempted to make a joke about dating the teacher... But I'll refrain-- Oops, too late 
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My wife got me a t-shirt I voluntarily wear that says:
I love my kid's teacher, I married her!
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My wife is the teacher; I normally am at the office. This is their second year.
She opted for homeschooling because our daughter is autistic and struggles with language comprehension. She can read anything in front of her, but has trouble identifying the parts of language, such as the main idea. She excels at math, but, when all math became 'word problems', she started to struggle their, too.
So, my wife, who has a 4 year education degree and a nursing degree, became her teacher. Generally, I'd say they are enjoying it.
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Tim Carmichael wrote: I'd say they are enjoying it.
Awesome! 
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Tim Carmichael wrote: my wife, who has a 4 year education degree and a nursing degree, became her teacher
Sounds like your kid is getting a much better deal than whatever "society" would be able to provide her.
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My sister's two kids were both homeschooled: and they are both pretty much unemployable.
Though the younger one might get a job as a buttress if he ever learns to keep his mouth shut.
I suspect that a lot of it is the lack of interaction or introduction to different ideas and personalities.
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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OriginalGriff wrote: lack of interaction or introduction to different ideas and personalities.
Of the negative reports I have heard over the years, this is one of the common ones.
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In South Carolina (where we live), if you are home schooling, you are required to be part of an accountability group. So, you get as much out of it as you put into it.
One of the young ladies at our church was home schooled from 3rd grade on; she is now in college and taking a semester abroad next winter... to Africa!
We are also part of other groups, such as a music academy, where my daughter is learning to play violin. They have beginner and advanced strings and band. There is a group that organizes field trips; last year, they toured an ice cream shop that makes it on site, a local produce farm, and a historical site about 2 hours away.
Just as we continually learn, so do they.
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As with any form of teaching, the most important thing is the teacher ...
Not criticising your sister (well, ok, I sorta am really) but I reckon home-schooling your own child is bloody hard - harder than teaching a class of kids - partly because discipline is so much harder.
Almost every home-schooled kid I have interacted with is a ferral - though to be fair, there's the question of causality & correlation...
PooperPig - Coming Soon
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_Maxxx_ wrote: Not criticising your sister (well, ok, I sorta am really)
Please! Help yourself.
I told her she was an idiot for home schooling them, but she never listens to me.
Trouble is, she's a god-botherer, and her kids are wimps. So in case they might meet ideas she disagrees with, or get picked on for medieval attitudes to knowledge she "schooled" them herself. As a result, they know what she knows of the modern curriculum (sod all) and pass exams only in irrelevant subjects. 
One of them is a wonderful musician, apparently - but the only time I have heard him play was at Mum's funeral, where he missed more notes than he hit...
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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OriginalGriff wrote: Trouble is, she's a god-botherer
'nuff said.
PooperPig - Coming Soon
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I couldn't remember 'homophone'.... it has been far to many years since I was in school and what I used to call items is no longer used... thank you for the term.
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Witchsmeller: Now, Mrs. Firkettle, can you see that man standing over there?
Firkettle: Which?
Witchsmeller: That's him...
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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Well yeah, but who's on first?
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I made a middle school teacher mad one day when I told him I could speak a sentence out loud that he could not write on the chalkboard. He took me up on the challenge, and I spoke a word and he wrote it, until....
(Background: in English we have to, too, and two, all pronounced the same, each with a different meaning.)
The sentence is: There are three [twos, or toos, or tos] in the English language.
He stopped after writing three on the board, and then got mad saying I hadn't picked a definitive subject.
I said thank you. That was my point. 
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Wait until they add while and for and if clauses. Now that will put a grin on your face!
"It's hard to beat someone who never quits".
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Indeed it will... the example of used with my wife was: Which would you like for breakfast, cereal or pancakes?
My wife's response was, "That's easy in your world!"
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