Yeah, get tons of different parents with tons of different ideas of how things ought to go. That will make it easier for the educators.

You are far more polite to the people who are ignorantly mocking this topic than I would be. So, thanks for that!

I homeschool. For now my kids are very young (kindergarten and grade 2) and my broad university education (including some teaching courses) is enough to provide them with what they need. When they are older we will add in-class electives and distance education learning with an instructor. Strange to assume a kid won’t…

I think the assumption that homeschooled kids don’t learn these things from people who know them is at best pretty questionable! Of course some homeschooled kids don’t but plenty of kids who went to traditional schools (including very fancy ones) don’t either.

I think any parent that is homeschooling for the right reasons (Miranda hits on most of them) is aware of their own limitations and plans accordingly. When I hit junior high/high school, my mom knew she wasn’t the best person to teach me every high-level subject so we did a combination of outside classes and…

Public school teachers are not the only one’s who “know about that stuff”.

Yes, and that’s when you invest in a Curriculum in the core subjects that is written by professional teachers. Did you read the article? Homeschooled kids regularly test higher than public school kids of the same age and grade. The mom writing this makes it sound easy, but parents doing this are usually very…

Our kids get to learn that stuff from the people who are actually in those fields! My kid has had the opportunity to learn science dissecting a pig with a med-school student at USCF, he’s learned computers from actual programmers who work in IT, he’s learned all about nature (insects, plants, environmental impacts,…

Or, they are not sucking up resources (I guess you) who can be better utilized guiding the troubled students.

Most likely, they were weird and socially awkward to begin with, and they pulled out of school because the bullying was too intense (also the academics are not engaging). Homeschooling doesn’t *make* one socially awkward. You either are or you’re not, and if you’re in school, you’re likely to be bullied for it. That’s…

Pay attention men: Women do not like it when you send your donger to their cell phone. They end up blocking it every time.

Dear Best Fans in Baseball. STOP.

Poor guy. Congratulations to him and his players for doing well. The way he cracks at the end and then gets a handle on it is fascinating to me. People mourn and carry grief in a variety of ways, obviously he’s continued to live a successful professional existence after the tragedy, which suggests he figured a way to…

I can picture Bosh chilling at a cookout with a longneck.

I hope he gets it shipped soon, he's gonna need that yellow banner reattached to his back.

Coach, maybe you wear dark colors from now on. A good black dri-fit type of shirt will hide that moisture. It won’t stop the sweating but at least you won’t look like you just got out of the pool on national tv.

This is a bit off topic but I think hockey coaches should have to wear full pads and helmet on the bench.