[NEWS] Annoying Orange cutting budgets of public school programs by 6 billion, afterschool

[King Tøny]

Yeah, homeschooling tends to be a one-stop-shop for sheltering your precious white, good christian boy/girl from the evils of liberal public education. Then you end up with socially handicapped half-savants who have no idea what grade they're in, and are probably a year or two behind on their mathematical skills.

Sounds like college.

Minus the christian part because everyone is agnostic communistic anarchists that still buy from starbucks.

Minus the boy/girl part because you can't assume.

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[IkeTheGeneric]

You don't know what college is like.

[King Tøny]

You don't know what college is like.

I'm a registered college drop out.

[LeisureSuit912]

You don't know what college is like.

[IkeTheGeneric]

I'm a registered college drop out.

What classes did you take?

[Zloff]

and are probably a year or two behind on their mathematical skills.

real talk for a minute here

as a software dev by trade and drafter by hobby, i rarely use any of the math i've learned throughout high school. maybe several times a year i use some wack geometry equation for a building or algebra equation in a scripted process, but nothing justifying the excessive math credits required of me in order to have graduated. honestly, i have grown to absolutely hate programming but have no idea what else i would do-- had all those math classes not wasted my time and taken up my class slots, i could have enrolled in various exploratory classes where i may have found what i really want to do with my life

but thanks to the government, the goal of public high schools is to prepare kids for college and not for real life. good statistics get you more funding, after all

[IkeTheGeneric]

real talk for a minute here

as a software dev by trade and drafter by hobby, i rarely use any of the math i've learned throughout high school. maybe several times a year i use some wack geometry equation for a building or algebra equation in a scripted process, but nothing justifying the excessive math credits required of me in order to have graduated. honestly, i have grown to absolutely hate programming but have no idea what else i would do-- had all those math classes not wasted my time and taken up my class slots, i could have enrolled in various exploratory classes where i may have found what i really want to do with my life

but thanks to the government, the goal of public high schools is to prepare kids for college and not for real life. good statistics get you more funding, after all

The statement really was meant to be taken at face value. A lot of kids that are homeschooled that I know of are a year or two behind in their maths by the time they're in high-school level education. The most destructive thing that comes of this is the psychological toll it takes on the child, it makes them feel stupid, under-prepared and worthless.

[mod-man]

i would wager to say homeschooling is a proper alternative, just not a proper permanent alternative

i can safely say being homeschooled for a year totally helped me out socially and academically in school. i left public school in 3rd grade because i didnt like people. i went as far as to tell my parents i was being bullied so they'd pull me out as fast as they could because i really didnt like public school. being homeschooled was amazing, but you do eventually miss people. once that happened and i was practically pretending i had other classmates at home, my parents suggested going back to public school and i was totally for it. i did get held back (which the school probably suggested, but that was 100% a choice by my parents. my mom felt like she didnt teach me well enough) but i thrived that year. i started making friends, i was getting great grades, and the rest of public school was pretty much a breeze after that (or at least as much of a breeze as public school can be)

not really sure if its relevant, but i saw a lot of people talking about how awful homeschooling is so thought id share how it benefited me

[Corderlain]

I wonder if you all ever get tired of being the usual suspects in political threads? I miss when there was a hyper political thread maybe a few times a month. Now it's all there is.

[Nonnel]

What classes did you take?

not sociology, I can tell

[ultimamax]

i did get held back (which the school probably suggested, but that was 100% a choice by my parents. my mom felt like she didnt teach me well enough) but i thrived that year. i started making friends, i was getting great grades, and the rest of public school was pretty much a breeze after that (or at least as much of a breeze as public school can be)

just a question: were you on the younger end of your grade before you went into home school?

this seems like it could be a demonstration of this interesting phenomenon where the youngest kids in a grade (i.e kids who barely qualified for the age requirement for their grade) tend to worse socially/in sports/academically because the development gap of a few months between them and the older kids is actually pretty significant since they're so young

the reason it seems that way is because once you were held back you seemed to fare a lot better

[HellHound]

One of the programs that is proposed to be cut is a program that regulates pollution and invasive species in the Great Lakes. The Lakes used to be very dirty and polluted, and with the potential removal of this program, I feel like that is the state that they will return to within a few decades. As a native Michigander, this makes me pretty upset.

[mod-man]

this seems like it could be a demonstration of this interesting phenomenon where the youngest kids in a grade (i.e kids who barely qualified for the age requirement for their grade) tend to worse socially/in sports/academically because the development gap of a few months between them and the older kids is actually pretty significant since they're so young

the reason it seems that way is because once you were held back you seemed to fare a lot better

very well could have been. when i was with my original grade i cant really remember my age compared to everyone elses but i imagine i was  in the middle with everyone else since when i was held back i was one of the oldest among that repeating grade

[patton360]

Just hope you dont get zebra muscles

[Magus]

One of the programs that is proposed to be cut is a program that regulates pollution and invasive species in the Great Lakes. The Lakes used to be very dirty and polluted, and with the potential removal of this program, I feel like that is the state that they will return to within a few decades. As a native Michigander, this makes me pretty upset.

Considering the Cuyahoga River used to catch on fire, why in captain planet's name is that getting cut?