For a second straight year, school enrollment is dropping

Re:For a second straight year, school enrollment is dropping by siquick on Wednesday December 15, 2021 @10:48PM (#29574561)

The social skills kids pickup in daycare and school is fundamentally important in a child's development. Yes, you can have kids hanging about with your friends kids but the ability to interact with strangers, and people outside your bubble is incredibly important.

I'm sorry you went to a bad public school but there are hundreds of millions of us who went to public schools and turned out just fine. If you didn't go to a bad public school and have formed a blanket opinion that poors == bad then you're proving my point.

Any parent who have home schooled during the pandemic will tell you that most teachers are worth their weight in gold. It's not remotely anywhere near as easy as you think it is.

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Re:For a second straight year, school enrollment is dropping by baryphonic on Wednesday December 15, 2021 @11:13PM (#29574747)

> Any parent who have home schooled during the pandemic will tell you that most teachers are worth their weight in gold. It's not remotely anywhere near as easy as you think it is.

I've been homeschooling my oldest this year. I first started teaching him to read last year while he was in Pre-K at a parochial school, and decided to just continue teaching him this year rather than do the public school thing. It's honestly been a joy.

I love his curiosity and his joy learning new things and his excitement when he does it. Yes, there are days where he's just in "a mood" and doesn't want to do school, but those are also times where I can talk with him father-and-son about integrity and hard work and discipline, and empathize with him over the fact that, in fact, some of the things we have to learn are boring. The time I spend teaching him is something I wouldn't trade for the world. I'm just lucky I have the opportunity - I wish all families could.

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Re:For a second straight year, school enrollment is dropping by jtbayly on Wednesday December 15, 2021 @10:55PM (#29574607)

By far the best kids I’ve ever seen in terms of interacting with strangers have all been homeschooled.

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Re:For a second straight year, school enrollment is dropping by DarylZero on Thursday December 16, 2021 @03:11AM (#29576148)

Homeschooled from early age. The other poster was talking about kids taken out of schools. Once they're in that group institution a while they get "institutionalized."

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