Thoughts on homeschooling

[IroNat]

My wife and I started homeschooling in the early 2000s with our older kids. The internet, relatively speaking, was in its infancy. We had CompuServe; it was dial-up, and you still couldn't use your regular phone line while you were on the web.

Most of our digital homeschool supplies were CD-ROMs.

Now, the internet plays a massive role. Most of that CD-ROM stuff is either free online or on YouTube videos.

And a lot of literature is on PDF files online (such as a book my son had to read for school last year; we didn't have the hard copy).

The only frustrating thing about that was I couldn't use some of the materials my older kids used with my younger kids (especially the SAT prep stuff). The disks are at least 13 years old and none of our computers, not even the oldest laptop I have, can run it them.

CompuServe.

That's a blast from the past.  Forgot all about it.

[MCWAY]

CompuServe.

That's a blast from the past.  Forgot all about it.

Yep! Again, the internet was relatively young. So, we didn't get much (if any) of our curriculum aids online. Usually, the electronic stuff was courtesy of the CD-ROMs that came with the books.

But, I still wish I could use those CDs with the SAT prep stuff on it. Before I know it, my son will be in high school. And I'll have all this stuff on media I can't use.

[ThisisOverload]

You would if you were moving to the country.

I got this reference. 

[Humble Narcissist]

I got this reference. 

Presidents of the United States?

[ThisisOverload]

Presidents of the United States?

Yup!

[Humble Narcissist]

Yup!

I've got that stupid song in my head now.

[GymnJuice]

I didn't like peaches when I briefly lived in Georgia.

Much less, would I be dining on them while homeschooling.

What if you could get millions for free?   

[MCWAY]

What if you could get millions for free?   

You'd have to pay me to take them. I don't like peaches.

[MCWAY]

Homeschooling during covid was a failure here for many reasons but one of the main ones was.....parents still had to work even if at home.

For the lion's share of homeschool families, one parent (Mom, 95% of the time) stays home with the kids.

Again, you're not just staying in the house teaching. You're doing field trips, going to co-ops, educational fairs, sports clubs, extracurricular events (4H, AWANA, Scouts, Pathfinders, etc.), and library meetings.

That's awfully hard to do, if you're also working at the house (unless you do that by day and work at night).

[IRON CROSS]

Have any of you turned to homeschooling because of Clown World?

Nope, expelled from 4 schools & street educated 

Life is supergood since meeting Red Bull prince on Manly beach 

[BBSSchlemiel]

Nope, expelled from 4 schools & street educated 

Life is supergood since meeting Red Bull prince on Manly beach 

Why were you expelled?

[Taffin]

Nope, expelled from 4 schools & street educated 

Life is supergood since meeting Red Bull prince on Manly beach 

You never told us you had a boyfriend before - and Royalty, no less

How sweet - who said romance was dead 🤩🥰

[IRON CROSS]

Why were you expelled?

fighting,rollerblading,etc,................. (great time)

[IRON CROSS]

You never told us you had a boyfriend before - and Royalty, no less

How sweet - who said romance was dead 🤩🥰

Don't be so silly !.

Krating Daeng (Red Bull) was created in Thailand , inform yourself !.

Oh yeah, it's so "bad" to meet the super rich Thai kids while skateboarding around Manly !.