Abeka homeschooling

[Taitlynn!]

Just saw this forum and wanted to talk about my experience as a homeschooled kid!
At first I did private school at my church using the Abeka curriculum (I would highly recommend this, it was by far the best out of private, home, and public school). I got to interact with kids and teachers, had rules to follow, and got a wonderful curriculum. Problem was that didn’t last forever, so me and my sister started homeschool. Still an absolutely amazing curriculum, but both of my parents worked full time. Don’t give your kids schoolwork, leave, never grade anything, and expect them to do it. Me and my sister rarely did the work. Am I still smarter than the kids in my public school? Yes. Would I be a lot smarter if I had a teacher? Yes. Did not having kids around me affect my emotional health? Yes.
PLEASE make sure your kid has a teacher and interaction with other kids. Homeschooling with two full time working parents and no guardian doesn’t work, shocker, I know. Also please use Abeka if you are able to, it is absolutely amazing!

 

[Cathode]

The most important thing a school needs to nurture is bullies. A bully is a great educator, but these days is a much maligned and marginalised creature. Today he sits idle, downcast and unemployed, when there is so much work around for him.
Bullies teach all the classes you can’t find on any curriculum, a good bully, is worth his weight in gold, yet today he harried and expelled from the nanny system.

A quality bully really challenges his students, and brings the best out of them, they bloom with resilience under his tutelage, they learn confidence and courage to stand up for themselves in the face of adversity.
A bully’s homework is all the dilemmas and moral quandaries he sets up and concentrates the mind to think strategically, in real world scenarios.
Graduation day is when you finally teach your Bully something. A Bully rounds off a classical education, preparing you for the real world, that’s your unwritten diploma.

I would like bullies contributions to be acknowledged. When bullies can at last get the recognition they deserve, with tears in their eyes, by being proud recipients of Bully of the year awards.
Bullies have a thankless task and I think it’s well past time for them to come out of shadows.

Welcome to the forum.