Things that make you go.......WTF?

[Mugwump]

We home schooled our youngest child during primary school after total disillusionment from Catholic and government school education. Our system wasn't structured but our child learnt a helluva lot of stuff that is not taught in mainstream.

She completed secondary school at a state secondary college, attained a Diploma and today she was handed the keys to her first property at the age of 22. Quite proud of her in fact.

Good for you. Not everyone can do it, and there are risks in it when the parents are screwy, but sounds like you did a great job.

[stui magpie]

I'll have a stab at Mugwups question and let David see if I'm close.

David had a fair number of siblings. Double figure IIRC.

With the first few and little outside influence, the parents held sway and had the kids attention.

Add more kids it's like an overcrowded classroom. Parents attention is divided more and more and the younger kids have other older people to pay attention to. With no one of their own age, the younger kids look to the older kids for whom the messages have started to wear thin, so the impact dilutes accordingly.

1 or 2 kids home schooled you'd get away with it, a tribe not so much.

[Mugwump]

[David]

[luvdids]

So, will Ingmar be home schooled? Or attend a mainstream school?

[David]

^ Certainly not homeschooled (for the reasons I described above; in any case, we lack the resources)! The question is whether we send him to the local public school or something a bit more left-field like a Montessori or co-operative school. I suspect he'll probably just end up going to the mainstream public one.

[Pies4shaw]

[K]

Scotch??

[sixpoints]

[Pi]

meanwhile at Oxford university .....

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/education/20 ... ass-exams/

[Mugwump]

[sixpoints]

meanwhile at Oxford university .....

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/education/20 ... ass-exams/

If any academic tries that stunt at Melbourne, Monash, RMIT or Latrobe etc then they should be immediately shipped off to the U.K.

[think positive]

^ Certainly not homeschooled (for the reasons I described above; in any case, we lack the resources)! The question is whether we send him to the local public school or something a bit more left-field like a Montessori or co-operative school. I suspect he'll probably just end up going to the mainstream public one.

Nothing wrong with public schools, your on the right side of town for it, and with 2 switched on (to what im not sure!!!) parents He will do just fine. Just do your research, have a chat at the park, youll get recommendations to give you an idea what school to pick. The only reason my kids went Catholic is because there are no decent high schools with in cooee of here, and the only way to get them into St Joes was through the catholic primary, and we just happened to live across the road from it! The best Primary school around here by far is a public school, and if i had my time again, they would go there, and id worry about getting them into st joes later.

Truth is, if kids want to learn they will do it anywhere, plenty of kids have pretty much chucked away expensive educations.

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[K]