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re: “I had a new student in my Algebra II class.”
Posted on 11/12/25 at 8:03 am to LSUBoo
Posted on 11/12/25 at 8:03 am to LSUBoo
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Not all public schools are complete shite.
Not all homeschooled kids are little Einsteins.
And the parents are probably the biggest factor.
This. I have my daughter in a magnet academy for high school that condenses high school into 2 years, then lets them focus on college courses for the final 2 years. They don't frick around at this school. Enrollment is capped at 70 per year, if they get that because kids chicken out when they hear the requirements. It's made up of parents that give a shite and teachers that give a shite. It's night and day from the gifted program. I like that my daughter didn't shy away from the challenge. Kids crave that, even though they think they don't.
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Posted on 11/12/25 at 8:06 am to kywildcatfanone
And baby sitting and social issues. Academics fall far below on the list.
Posted on 11/12/25 at 8:07 am to BabyTac
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Sounds like the smart kid you hire, but has zero clue how to work with, communicate, or get along with others so they’re basically worthless.
Trust me, it’s always easy to spot the public school “extroverts.” They’re usually named Ronnie and work at a Chevy dealership.
Posted on 11/12/25 at 8:22 am to SECCaptain
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Texas has tried to correct for this with gifted and talented programs starting at the kindergarten level,
Man. That seems way too young. We didn’t start GT in Missouri when I grew up until 3rd grade (same for my kids now). Wonder what they see that helps them identify K kids as gifted over others. So much at that age is getting a kid to focus on anything for more than 5 minutes. Hard to assess intellect.
But yeah, homeschooling is cool and all, but what if you have a parent who is a moron trying to teach the kids? Or a parent who is impatient, or violent, or too strict, or easily overwhelmed? What if the kid is creative and all over the place but the parent is Type A and the result is they fight over the education tactics? At least teachers are mildly trained to handle these different methodologies of teaching and learning.
Seems like successful homeschooling takes a special kind of parent or a fortunate combination of factors. Godspeed to those parents who do it. Being around my kids all day trying to drill fractions into their heads sounds like a special kind of torture.
Posted on 11/12/25 at 8:23 am to Sassafrasology
Today in "Stories That Never Happened."
Posted on 11/12/25 at 8:26 am to Major Dutch Schaefer
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She should probably be teaching the class
She couldn't handle sitting in the class for two days. I don't think she is prepared to teach it.
Posted on 11/12/25 at 8:32 am to Sassafrasology
My niece is homeschooled and doing really well - only does classes for 3 or 4 hours a day in comparison to the 8 at school and 3 for homework that public school kids are doing. She takes her first crack at the act in a few weeks, I'm really interested to see how she does in comparison to others.
Posted on 11/12/25 at 8:32 am to Sassafrasology
I hear home schooled girls give the best head
Posted on 11/12/25 at 8:49 am to RustyDaDog
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Well home school kids are a bit “different”
...and kids from gifted & talented programs and magnet schools aren't?
Posted on 11/12/25 at 9:12 am to LoveThatMoney
GT in my ISD (they're called KAP courses) basically means "on level" starting in junior high. The regular classes are for the dumb kids to make them feel better.
Posted on 11/12/25 at 9:15 am to beaverfever
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The culture shock would be wild.
Yes, because homeschooled would never, ever be exposed to it through entertainment.
Posted on 11/12/25 at 9:24 am to LoveThatMoney
Creativity/imagination and pattern recognition were the core criteria iirc
Posted on 11/12/25 at 9:29 am to RustyDaDog
Posted on 11/12/25 at 9:31 am to RanchoLaPuerto
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A home schooled kid would have gotten their arse whipped and probably cut after a day at my junior high.
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RanchoLaPuerto
Probably a good chance most of your fellow classmates push lawnmowers or sell tamales on the side of the road now.
Posted on 11/12/25 at 10:11 am to Sassafrasology
A lot of HS kids are like that.
We HSd before the divorce and our oldest 3 would do that. My oldest played football for Ames High while being HSd and he’d show up for practice just rolling out of bed from his nap. His teammates were more than a little jealous. His typical school day was from around 7:30-8:00 to 11:00 he got everything done and moved on.
My second tried public school for a bit with a similar experience. He got in trouble for doing the entire years worth of Algebra in the first 3 weeks. He ended up being a literal rocket scientist.
He also got really mad when we were leaving for a vacation one June and I asked him where his civics school books were (HSd). He said why it’s summer vacation - my response of school lasts until you get the work done really rained on his parade. He thought he had ran the clock out. Nope.
We HSd before the divorce and our oldest 3 would do that. My oldest played football for Ames High while being HSd and he’d show up for practice just rolling out of bed from his nap. His teammates were more than a little jealous. His typical school day was from around 7:30-8:00 to 11:00 he got everything done and moved on.
My second tried public school for a bit with a similar experience. He got in trouble for doing the entire years worth of Algebra in the first 3 weeks. He ended up being a literal rocket scientist.
He also got really mad when we were leaving for a vacation one June and I asked him where his civics school books were (HSd). He said why it’s summer vacation - my response of school lasts until you get the work done really rained on his parade. He thought he had ran the clock out. Nope.
Posted on 11/12/25 at 10:25 am to LSUBoo
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Not all public schools are complete shite.
Ok, so you're saying like 90% of them?
Fact: The Public School system agenda for the past 30 years (at least) has been to Dumb-Down kids, to de-motivate, un-educate, indoctrinate.
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Not all homeschooled kids are little Einsteins.
No, but at least they have a real shot at developing and advancing their potential -- instead of having to waste away by waiting for the Gomers in public schools to "catch up" at 2 MPH.
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And the parents are probably the biggest factor.
Maybe because they themselves have been brainwashed and indoctrinated as spoiled liberals by the likes of these two education system Marxists?
Posted on 11/12/25 at 10:30 am to Sassafrasology
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I asked her a few questions and she could explain the most difficult concepts verbally.
I can promise you that little twat wouldn't be near the top of the class in the most advanced math classes at Dutchtown High. All them engineers' kids would smoke her arse in math and physics.
Posted on 11/12/25 at 10:32 am to Sassafrasology
Public schools in most major cities are little more than juvenile detention centers at this point.
We haven't really looked much into homeschooling, but I'd go hungry before I put my kids in public school.
We haven't really looked much into homeschooling, but I'd go hungry before I put my kids in public school.
Posted on 11/12/25 at 10:34 am to LSUBoo
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And the parents are probably the biggest factor.
Some parents homeschool their kids because the public schools are shite. Some "homeschool" because they're too lazy to get up early and get their kids to school and are tired of having to meet with school administrators every week over their child's disciplinary issues. I've seen both.
This post was edited on 11/12/25 at 10:43 am
Posted on 11/12/25 at 10:34 am to football101
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She couldn't handle sitting in the class for two days. I don't think she is prepared to teach it.
Not necessarily. Schools are day prisons for kids. Smart kids are pretty much on their own.
Active kids are fricked.
This post was edited on 11/12/25 at 10:36 am
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