Homeschoolers suck and more falsehoods...

[mareserinitatis]

I saw a post on homeschooling today. I responded. I sensed an argument was about to start, so I bailed. I don't need to waste my time with that, right? I've been drawn into too much of that before.

Later, I saw this article had been posted.

Comments

[muralidhar]

"studying for the test". i understand that western culture fosters creative thinking from early on. but i'm still not sure if i can judge the schooling in the east, where we have unit-tests every month and an annual exam at the end of the year from 1st grade. based on the scores, we were either promoted to the next grade or had to repeat the grade.

of course in my case, i did pretty bad when i was at school mostly because of the uninspiring & hard to understand teachers & restrictive atmosphere. i did better in high-school where there was freedom. i scored cents in math. the teachers who taught physical sciences sucked over all. my parents weren't that well educated to be able to tutor us after school. (i can tutor my kids, till they get to graduate school).

even in grad school, out of 30 or so teachers who got paid by univ. grants commission, only 2 / 3 of them could teach physics. indian education system is hyped ridiculous. i guess i would have done better had i been educated in the US. i don't care to be multilingual. i think knowing just one language (English) would have done me a great deal of good.

[mareserinitatis]

My friend (the one who just graduated) told me in explicit detail about the Indian education system.

All I could say was "Thank goodness I didn't grow up there."