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by Ameer
Mon Jan 24, 2011 5:08 pm
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Topic: Teacher on guns "wanted to make them horrified"
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Re: Teacher on guns "wanted to make them horrified"

TexasGal wrote:
psijac wrote:All the home schooled people I know are just a little bit off. They have no sense of how to interact with their peers. Its like watching a live version for Sheldon Cooper from the big bang theory
Respectfully, I would ask you to attend one of the home school conventions where some of the best curriculum in the world is offered for sale. Home Schoolers are not just making it up as they go along. The booths are overwhelmingly run by home school families whose small to teen children will discuss the merits of whatever is available on an intelligent adult level. I have been to several and it never fails to impress me the average public high school student would be a fish out of water. The students who are breaking records at your local college for the youngest to graduate are home schooled.
You haven't said anything that contradicts what psijac said. The fictional character Sheldon Cooper entered UT at 11 and graduated summa cum laude at 14. He earned his first doctorate at 16.

Based on my classmates, and stories about teachers like this, I think maybe the baseline Texas budget has the right idea to cut spending to public schools and universities. Cutbacks in K-12 might force them to focus on the 3R basics, instead of bilingual classes and football and cheering and this teacher's anti American brainwashing. Raising tuition at state universities might cut back on the number of students who are not ready for university level work and shift the financial burden where it belongs.
by Ameer
Mon Jan 24, 2011 4:50 pm
Forum: Off-Topic
Topic: Teacher on guns "wanted to make them horrified"
Replies: 50
Views: 6450

Re: Teacher on guns "wanted to make them horrified"

Purplehood wrote:I think the whole thing that really bothers me about home-schooling (and I don't say this tongue-in-cheek when compared to Public Schooling, but perhaps I should) is the lack of continuity. I can only imagine the broad spectrum of quality when comparing one home-schooled kid to another.
I don't think it can be a bigger spread than the top student in Harris County compared to an illiterate HISD dropout. At least taxpayers aren't forced to pay for lunch and babysitting and stadiums for the home schooled kids.

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