Good News for Home-Schooling: Single-Sex Classrooms May Increase Girls' Learning
By Bonnie Erbe, Thomas Jefferson Street blog.
Home-schooling parents of home-schooled daughters take note:
I'm not a huge fan of home-schooling as I believe the socialization kids receive at school is critical to success later on in the real world. And yes, I know that home-schoolers are heartily exposed to other kids in the classes many attend outside of the home, in sports activities and/or at camp (my sister home-schools her daughter). But I still believe I could not have functioned as well as I do in the real world if I spent the majority of my time in the cloister of my parents'/siblings' company. Computers, too, are an isolating influence more often than not. Social networking notwithstanding, of course.
Nonetheless, there's an interesting development in home-schooling I'd like to share herewith. Four private girls' schools have convened to offer home-school classes tailored to the way girls learn, according to the Washington Post:
Backers of girls' schools say there are benefits to having no boys in the classroom: Girls prosper when teaching methods are designed just for them, they can pursue interests free from gender stereotyping and their hands shoot up more often when boys aren't around.
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Schools are huge jungles
and kids are forced to survive by any means, healthy or not. I've had my quasi-home-schooled high school kid in a variety of settings, and he definitely is happier and more accomplished when he's outside the negative-socialization pressure cooker. It would be lots easier for me to just help him with his homework when he comes home, but the time, effort and emotion spent to recalibrate his judgment centers after he ran with the bulls was too great,
both sides are perpetuating stereotypes...
I was a girl that went to public school and I was very poorly socialized. It wasn't until college that I really began learning to socialize.
I was also a virgin all through public school, for all you people who seem to think that public school = loose morals + poor judgment.
And as for indoctrination, children will receive "indoctrination" whether they are publicly schooled, privately schooled, or home schooled. All teachers present the world from their own point of view: the only way to avoid being indoctrinated is to learn information on many points of view, and to learn analytical skills to determine what is meaningful.
Socialization?
Who says home school kids don't socialize? They just socialize with other home schoolers - Not the tattooed class idiot with a stud on his tongue that flashes as he spews out his vile vocabulary.
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