One happy story to tell about home schooling.

[Baitball Blogger]

We hadn't heard from a friend from New York, and he finally returned our calls. His father (94) was in a nursing home and caught coronavirus from one of his caregivers, and died. He didn't really know how to process it all because his father, afterall, was 94.

But, he did have a happy story to share. He said his son was doing poorly in school before the outbreak and school closings began. Fortunately, his wife had teaching experience and he said his son has since bounced back and is on track with his studies and his attitude has changed in a positive way.

I realize that this is just a small minority of children who will benefit from blacking-out the difficulties of social distractions, but for them, let's just recognize that this is their chance to thrive.

[jimfields33]

1. That's awesome!

I’m hoping kids who get bullied at school are thriving at home learning. The stress of being bullied everyday is tremendous and effects learning. So many good things happening along with the bad.

[Baitball Blogger]

2. +1

Exactly.

[Nay]

3. My grandson, who is a smart kid, was getting lousy grades because of all the distractions

in school, including the distraction of having to use a Chromebook as the main 'textbook.' Early on in the school year, the Chromebooks were hacked and students could look at whatever they wanted during class. So, as distractable as 11- and 12-yr-olds can be with normal stuff, lots of them were off into the stratosphere with a Chromebook. Thus the crappy grades.

He's doing wonderfully in isolation! Brought his grades up just fine!

[Baitball Blogger]

4. I'm happy for him.

[Nay]

5. I'm hoping that he's getting more mature and will be able to resist the temptations when

school reopens in September. We'll see!

[mopinko]

6. yup. some folks wont go back to the office, and some kids wont be going back to school.

most of those will be the kids that the factory system utterly fails. or that's how they put it. the system crushes these kids. many die. srsly. suicides.

i homeschooled for 8 years, and my kids mostly still hate me for it, but i know we did good work. the thing of it is, they are programmed to educate themselves, but the system puts that in a straight jacket. my philosophy was pretty unschool. i was there to drive them to the library and spend money, mostly. they got to explore what interested them. i bought them toys that were good for their brains. i bought them cool supplies and books, and stood back.

there's a little boy on my block that is missing his buds, but he really reminds me of my kid that took me down that road. i'm kinda rooting for them to do it, tho.
for starters, they live in the middle of my science project of a farm.
one of the reasons i had the nerve to do it is that i live in chi. we took a field trip every friday, and that was such a perfect fit for them that they usually learned more on a friday than the other kids did in a week.

[Baitball Blogger]

7. For the most part, I agree with your style of home schooling.

But I worry about the kids from cultish-like religions. I lived across from Jehovah Witnesses and saw a few things that bothered me. I would overhear the kids set up their own rules for their lawn games and I found it disturbing. "You're the bride! You're supposed to surrender yourself!," one perplexed little sister said to her older sibling.

Because I lived across them, I know how much they resisted interacting with everyone else.

[mopinko]

8. yeah, that's a whole other kettle of fish. the system doesnt destroy enough kids for them.

i never was able to hook up w too many other homeschoolers cuz it was harder to pick out the ends of the horseshoe than i thought it would be.

[lagomorph777]

9. Social distancing can be a good thing. Bullying, etc takes a huge toll in physical schools.