People are so split on whether homeschooling is a good thing or a bad thing for a reason. Homeschoolers either grow up to be the biggest slackers who have very little common knowledge, or hardworking, professional, and incredibly smart. I’ve never met a former homeschooler who was totally middle of the road in every way: …
Seguir leyendo 23-year-old niece tries to help homeschooled 13-year-old cousin who can’t do his times tables, enrages aunt who thinks her teaching is just fine: ‘Charlie needs to learn to be accountable to someone besides his mommy’
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‘Do not homeschool your kids. You are NOT up to it.’: Former homeschoolers share why they think parents should not homeschool their kids
Homeschooling is one of those things that everyone has a strong opinion about. As a public schooler for life, I can’t speak to the experience of kids who were never in a traditional school environment, but I know for certain that I would’ve hated it. I love being around people, and I get kind of …
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Dad asks ex-wife to unenroll their 10-year-old son from private school because he can’t afford to send his 8 and 10-year-old stepchildren to private school: ‘I won’t deny my kids good things because they can’t afford for her children.’
Life isn’t fair, and there’s no better time to learn that than during childhood. As much as we like to believe children are blind to the inequalities of the world when they’re young and innocent, they notice when someone else has more than they do almost instantaneously. If you cut a cupcake in half and …
Seguir leyendo Dad asks ex-wife to unenroll their 10-year-old son from private school because he can’t afford to send his 8 and 10-year-old stepchildren to private school: ‘I won’t deny my kids good things because they can’t afford for her children.’
‘My 19-year-old can’t spell or write’: Unschooling mom with illiterate 12-year-old and adult kids calls herself a failure, the internet agrees
I have always been a little suspicious of alternative methods of schooling. I know that there are some parents out there who are completely competent at teaching their kids from Kindergarten to 12th grade, but I highly doubt that’s the majority of homeschoolers. Most of the time, kids who do their schooling at home would …
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Parents don’t congratulate 15-year-old daughter on making the national debate team finals, praises her older brother for doing his PE assignment instead: ‘He did a compulsory assignment and he gets all the praise in the world’
Every kid is different, and parents should know this better than anybody. That’s why it gets tricky when praising one child for something you wouldn’t praise the other for. If one kid is a diligent, high-achieving student, you wouldn’t praise them for getting a C in Biology. But if your kid struggled immensely with passing …
Seguir leyendo Parents don’t congratulate 15-year-old daughter on making the national debate team finals, praises her older brother for doing his PE assignment instead: ‘He did a compulsory assignment and he gets all the praise in the world’
Daycare teacher refuses to feed 2-year-old applesauce because it’s ‘too messy,’ doesn’t tell mom until she confronts them about it: ‘A part of me understands. Another part of me feels like this is kind of lazy?’
Little kids are the messiest monsters that ever lived, and there’s nothing you or I can do to stop that. I do not expect a two or three-year-old to be able to fully cut their chicken parmesan and eat it without transferring at least 40% of the bird onto their shirt, and neither should you! …
Seguir leyendo Daycare teacher refuses to feed 2-year-old applesauce because it’s ‘too messy,’ doesn’t tell mom until she confronts them about it: ‘A part of me understands. Another part of me feels like this is kind of lazy?’
25 Teacher Memes For Exhausted Educators Counting Down Until Spring Break
There’s something so wrong about how the spring semester is structured for nearly all K-12 schools. In college, the fall and spring semesters are the exact same length: 4 months. In K-12, the second semester is so much longer that by the last 4 weeks, everyone in the school is going nuts. After Thanksgiving break, …
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Landlord provokes discourse by spending 7 years secretly setting aside rent money to put towards the education of her tenants’ daughters: ‘Why do you assume you know how to manage their money better than they do?’
Pretty much everyone who has ever rented has a horror story about a landlord, and far fewer have good things to say about the people whose properties they have paid to live in. Many would argue that a good landlord is an oxymoron, but that doesn’t stop some trying to do right by their tenants …
Seguir leyendo Landlord provokes discourse by spending 7 years secretly setting aside rent money to put towards the education of her tenants’ daughters: ‘Why do you assume you know how to manage their money better than they do?’
8-year-old student with anger issues destroys his 3rd grade classroom, teacher takes rest of the class into the hallway and lets him reek havoc without consequences: ‘Are schools not allowed to punish bad students anymore?’
The rulebook for disciplining kids in the classroom has been thrown out the window. Nobody wants to return to the days of Paddlin’ Peggy Hill for good reasons, but there has to be a compromise between spanking students for misbehavior and just letting it happen without consequence. Even the concept of an afterschool or lunchtime …
Seguir leyendo 8-year-old student with anger issues destroys his 3rd grade classroom, teacher takes rest of the class into the hallway and lets him reek havoc without consequences: ‘Are schools not allowed to punish bad students anymore?’
22 Teacher Memes For Educators Counting Down Until Thanksgiving Break
I do not envy the workload that teachers deal with. They have to teach kids all day, grade papers all night, attend administrative meetings, make new lesson plans, and deal with needy parents. I felt overwhelmed just typing all of that! Not to mention, they must manage and optimize productivity for the most distracted generation …
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