[Sly Fox]

This 13-year-old kid does a great job explaining why there is such a rush toward homeschooling these days ...

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[Humble_Opinion]

Pretty impressive for a kid his age to go on stage and speak the way he did... Think he was using a teleprompter?

[Sly Fox]

No, but I'll bet he had a confidence monitor of his slidedeck. Public speaking is a big part of most classical homeschool curriculum plans. My first grader gives weekly 3-minute presentations. Start 'em young.

[RubberMallet]

my kids are homeschooled and are apart of a homeschool group and then also do classical conversations on mondays.

i'd consider it a "hacked" style of homeschooling. and we love it. at classical conversations every week they give 1-3 minute presentations on some topic. started doing this at the age of 4. alot of these kids at CC look like typical "homeschool" kids until you try and communicate with them. its like having a conversation with a mature adult most of the time.

its all my wife. i take care of alot of the science and math stuff.

[Sly Fox]

We've been in CC for 6 years. Next year, my wife is stepping up to lead Challenge A at our campus. Great curriculum.

[RubberMallet]

my wife is doing her first stint as a tutor. last year there were 18 kids. this year 45. next year they anticipate 60.

[ALUmnus]

We don't homeschool, but our kids go to a Classical Christian school (trivium-based), and rhetoric is a huge emphasis. Much of this is through poetry and scripture recitation in the grammar school stage.

[SumItUp]

My homeschoolers could beat up your homeschoolers!

[Sly Fox]

Homeschool on homeschool violence is not a pretty thing.

[Schfourteenteen]

I'd venture to say nothing described as "homeschool on homeschool" is pretty.

[ALUmnus]

That gif doesn't do it justice. It was epically awkward.

Were they homeschoolers? I thought it was just about virgins who had never kissed.

[ATrain]

We don't homeschool, but our kids go to a Classical Christian school (trivium-based), and rhetoric is a huge emphasis. Much of this is through poetry and scripture recitation in the grammar school stage.

Would that be Appomattox or Cornerstone Christian Academy? The only reason I ask is b/c when they were both starting up they distributed pamphlets and other materials advertising the type of education you described.

[Sly Fox]

Classical education is the hot curriculum believe it or not as most schools push toward a focus on Common Core. That's why CJ's Quiz Bowl team is loaded up with kids from classical background. Mainstream public & parochial schools have begun focusing a great deal on hitting test benchmarks with little instruction outside the basics. While classical education is seeing a surge in popularity in Christian circles, it has been the standard in premium educational outlets for centuries regardless of religious affiliation.

Homeschooling matches up well with classical education's emphasis on the arts and history (and Latin to a certain degree) that have fallen off the traditional school agenda.

Believe it or not, it was a Liberty classmate of mine back in the Late '80s who is now a prof at William & Mary that has been one of the biggest influences on the growth of classical education among the Christian homeschool community. CJ probably had Susan Wise Bauer in classes back in the day.

[Purple Haize]

To be archaic this how the Jewish people kept homogenous during the centuries of one Diaspora after another

[ALUmnus]

We don't homeschool, but our kids go to a Classical Christian school (trivium-based), and rhetoric is a huge emphasis. Much of this is through poetry and scripture recitation in the grammar school stage.

Would that be Appomattox or Cornerstone Christian Academy? The only reason I ask is b/c when they were both starting up they distributed pamphlets and other materials advertising the type of education you described.

New Covenant Schools in Lynchburg.

[justagirl]

We don't homeschool, but our kids go to a Classical Christian school (trivium-based), and rhetoric is a huge emphasis. Much of this is through poetry and scripture recitation in the grammar school stage.

Would that be Appomattox or Cornerstone Christian Academy? The only reason I ask is b/c when they were both starting up they distributed pamphlets and other materials advertising the type of education you described.

New Covenant Schools in Lynchburg.

best school in lynchburg, hands down.

[Purple Haize]

I prefer Old Covenant School.........

[Purple Haize]

And then we have this guy......and people wonder why Homeshoolers get a bad rap

http://strangefigures.wordpress.com/201 ... do-better/

[RubberMallet]

i see your crazy home school guy and raise you our local shop teacher who was getting handsy with 6th grade girls.

my wife would of jumped up and been like "what sources do you have backing up tiny dead babies in uterus's? "

[Purple Haize]

i see your crazy home school guy and raise you our local shop teacher who was getting handsy with 6th grade girls.

my wife would of jumped up and been like "what sources do you have backing up tiny dead babies in uterus's? "

Agree there are crazy's everywhere. But some homeschoolers think its a panacea. If they get taught crazy stuff in school they can get 'counter programming' at home. If they get taught crazy stuff at home they have nowhere 'safe' to go.
I'm in no way against homeschooling. I think the majority of the methodologies used, as demonstrated here, are better in every academic way than a lot of what goes on in Public Education. However, you do get your crazy's

[ALUmnus]

Sorry, I may be hijacking this thread, but it seems to have run its course, and this is relevant.

As mentioned earlier in thread, my kids go to New Covenant Schools, a small, private Classical Christian school here in Lynchburg. For the first time, all current students are being required to "re-enroll". They're doing this to see how many spots will be available for next year.

Why? Because applications to the school are at 10X's what they were at this point last year. 10X's!! And that's across all grades, not just kindergarden. Let me add, it's not an affordable school (it's a HUGE sacrifice for us to send our kids there).

This brings me to the question, why the big surge in applications? I don't have an answer. Think this has anything to do with Common Core? Anyone have a guess?

[Sly Fox]

There is the same huge surge in programs like Classical Conversations and other similar homeschool programs int he past year or so. Personally I think it is general dissatisfaction with the direction of public schools.

[Cider Jim]

Best Quiz Bowl story of last weekend: the statistician for the Big South tournament is an LU alum who now works for NASA. She overheard a conversation by a Coastal Carolina player the night before the tournament about how she couldn't wait to play Liberty because we weren't a "real school" and would certainly be weak in the science questions.

We beat Coastal 445-65, and our captain is home schooled biochemistry major who also had a perfect score on the verbal part of SAT. But I think it was the Coastal girl who got on the wrong end of an LU education.

[RubberMallet]

it spreads. especially in churches. locally here we have had 3 private schools have to expand and purchase trailers to house classrooms while new buildings or add ons are constructed. my wife's cc group is expected to triple and they are adding on on the other side of the river.

i would say 30% of my wifes CC group are not children from religious households.