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chasfm11 wrote:

Keith B wrote: And the reason they don't turn into introverts is they have the opportunity to get out of that class and see their friends AT SCHOOL. If you take the same student and put them in a home environment where they parent doesn't get involved and get them out for social activities, then they WILL be come introverted. In your case the reason a lot of those students are probably there in the first place is because they spent too much time with their friends instead of studying.

For those parents who are interested in home schooling, there are lots of resources and support groups.

http://www.star-telegram.com/2013/01/31 ... rs-of.html

Several of the parents who home school in our area get together and take their kids on field trips to museums, etc. so that the kids are not taught in isolation. They also enroll their kids in sports, it Boy/Girl Scouts, etc. were social interaction can take place.

Our granddaughter goes to public school but some of her social activity is driven out of the private dance school that she attends.

A percentage of kids who are home schooled get to that point because the public school environment that they were being subjected to was not acceptable to their parents. Whether they were different and the object of bullying or that they had some difference about the way that they learned that wasn't working in the public school. Let me give you a specific example. Our granddaughter was upset last week when when of her friends, who is dyslexic, was subjected to a 4 hour reading test and given a 52% grade as a result. The girl was devastated and our granddaughter was in tears from seeing the result to her friend. Both children were obviously affected - and to what end? All the test did was exacerbate an already diagnosed problem. There was noone there except our granddaughter to comfort the distraught girl. What kind of an environment subjects a child to a test where it is a foregone conclusion that they will fail and then allows the results of that failure to become public? No amount of social interaction is worth this kind of a price. One size does NOT fit all.



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n5wd wrote:

Keith B wrote: Sitting a kid behind a computer screen all day to 'learn' would do nothing to help promote how to work with others and potentially turn many into worse social introverts than we already are getting today from kids who do nothing but play video games and play on the Internet.

I've got "super-seniors" in my classes that are doing that exact thing, all day every day, trying to catch up on courses they should have passed the first time through, and I can tell you that, at least in my class, they don't turn into social introverts (they LIVE for the passing periods when they go and meet with their friends) and don't spend a large amount of time playing games or texting. That is, of course, because I and the teachers that work with me in the lab monitor their activities, both electronically and with Management By Walking Around (MBWO). A classroom where the teacher sits behind the desk, reads a paper, and ignores the activities in the classroom is not one you'll find at our school! That's the key - we want them to get done and get graduated - no sense in waiting till this June, get your classes done NOW! And, if I could put you in touch with one of my super seniors, they' tell you that's my daily mantra!