A Sea Of Red

From a Tidewater fishwrap ...

Adjusting from home school to away college
It's time to move on for the first significant generation of those who had very few classmates.

BY ALICIA P.Q. WITTMEYER | 247-4535
August 26, 2007

LYNCHBURG - It's just after 9 a.m. on the first day of classes at Liberty University and professor John Kinchen is reviewing his absence policies for his Worship Studies 103 class: "You guys are all freshmen. ... It's just like high school. You know how it was. The only excused absence was a doctor's note."

The class nods, including Hampton resident Charlie Parker, sitting in the third row.

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I pray that no one underestimates the adjustment that some of the homeschoolers must make in adapting to college life at LU. The social aspect is the one area that requires significant adjustments, for some, based on purely anecdotal observation.

Hey man, don't knock homeschoolers. My friend's daughter is a soph this year at LU and doing great. She's going to graduate in 3 yrs. (that's about 1 1/2 yrs quicker than I did) We also homeschool our own kids and they are very well adjusted socially. (no bias from me or anything!)

P.E. class at the golf coarse with my boy during the day while everyone else is at school rocks man!

I'm not knocking them at all...I was simply pointing out that for some (and certainly not all), the adjustment is tougher than for others (based on my interactions with them as a professor).

The most interesting aspect of homeschooling is the parent/teacher conferences.

FlameNForest wrote:The most interesting aspect of homeschooling is the parent/teacher conferences.

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or watching the homeschool kids in the national spelling bee. especialyl the ones who win it then proceed to act like they ahve no clue whatsoever on how to act in public.

The most interesting aspect of homeschooling...

Is telling parents that we won't accept letters of recommendation written by a relative (namely, them).

Cider Jim wrote:

The most interesting aspect of homeschooling...

Is telling parents that we won't accept letters of recommendation written by a relative (namely, them).

i had never even thought of that, that would make trying to find references quite difficult, especially if the kid doesnt work.

I like this gem:

Small Christian colleges such as Liberty, which sits in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains in Lynchburg...

and then quoting that 10,400 are "on campus."


10K is worth at least the "medium-sized" tag, IMHO.

don't get me started.

we have quite a few threads on looking down noses, pot-shots and yellow journalism.

at least they didn't call it "tiny Liberty Baptist College"

that seems to have finally died off.

or watching the homeschool kids in the national spelling bee. especialyl the ones who win it then proceed to act like they ahve no clue whatsoever on how to act in public.

Ok, so you are watching spelling bees?

scuzdriver wrote:

or watching the homeschool kids in the national spelling bee. especialyl the ones who win it then proceed to act like they ahve no clue whatsoever on how to act in public.

Ok, so you are watching spelling bees?

nope, kind of ahrd to not see footage of it since ESPN throws that stuff at you constantly on sportscenter and every other program they have.

Sly Fox wrote:From a Tidewater fishwrap ...

Adjusting from home school to away college
It's time to move on for the first significant generation of those who had very few classmates.

BY ALICIA P.Q. WITTMEYER | 247-4535
August 26, 2007

LYNCHBURG - It's just after 9 a.m. on the first day of classes at Liberty University and professor John Kinchen is reviewing his absence policies for his Worship Studies 103 class: "You guys are all freshmen. ... It's just like high school. You know how it was. The only excused absence was a doctor's note."

The class nods, including Hampton resident Charlie Parker, sitting in the third row.

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Charlie Parker? WOW! That dude was an incredible jaz guitarist. I know...not the same person...but it is a great name.