waiting out the storm (virus)

[Diggin It]

Our daughter sent us a text yesterday regarding their three girls being home. "If you see me talking to myself don't worry, I'm having a Parent/Teacher conference".

:: snickers ::

 

[Diggin It]

In my view, Homeschooling is not the same as Distance Learning. One is the parents doing much of the work, the other is the same paid professional teachers they would see in school, just via a screen instead of in a classroom.

 

[hawkeye08]

We suspect that schools will be closed until fall here. Washington state law ends school year June 19, so if we don't go back by then, school starts again fall. They are already talking about starting later than normal..

Grand daughter is getting a bit of vacation right now as the 3 adults in the house (me, wife, daughter) are not 100%.. We try and get some learning in each day, and try to get some physical exercise outside for a few hours..

I'm a bit overwhelmed by retirement income challenges I will have that I didn't have 3 months ago.. but I will figure it out. We will be fine short term and will get a plan in place that works out.. it may include some employment to close the income gap, but that remains to be seen.

 

[Tomtint]

I have been saying for years that the money put into maintaining the building and buses could be put toward affordable home internet for students, I think home schooling will go from like 10% of the population to 25%+ due to this crisis.

We don't have kids, but obviously have friends who do. Some of them home school and IMO, thy are better mannered as a whole than those in the public, and some private school settings. Many of these group thing type schools, produce monolithic students, all with little to no real world knowledge. Inevitably going through their early post graduation years with few tools they need for success. ..The main downside I see with home schooling is the lack of socialization and possibly the absence of how to work out problems when multiple personalare involved. If we did have kids...I would strongy consider home schooling.

 

[MossRoad]

We don't have kids, but obviously have friends who do. Some of them home school and IMO, thy are better mannered as a whole than those in the public, and some private school settings. Many of these group thing type schools, produce monolithic students, all with little to no real world knowledge. Inevitably going through their early post graduation years with few tools they need for success. ..The main downside I see with home schooling is the lack of socialization and possibly the absence of how to work out problems when multiple personalare involved. If we did have kids...I would strongy consider home schooling.

As with anything else, you only get out of it what you put into it. My future son-in-law was home schooled. He's fine. Normal guy. I've met many others that have been home schooled. Great folks. My wife works with a guy who's wife home schools their 4 kids. Wonderful kids. Super smart, caring, polite, outgoing... the kind of kids most people would want their kids to turn out like. A+!! To note, however, she is a professional teacher. She knows what she's doing. So was my mom. She taught us at home more than most get at school.

With that said, I also had to deal with a large cult-like group of home schooler families (about 50-60 families) that was quite eye opening. Without going into detail due to religion and politics, they were the most self-centered group of parents raising the most awkwardly introverted unsocialized children one could imagine. Borderline feral kids. Pretty creepy.

So, that's that.

 

[k0ua]

As with anything else, you only get out of it what you put into it. My future son-in-law was home schooled. He's fine. Normal guy. I've met many others that have been home schooled. Great folks. My wife works with a guy who's wife home schools their 4 kids. Wonderful kids. Super smart, caring, polite, outgoing... the kind of kids most people would want their kids to turn out like. A+!! To note, however, she is a professional teacher. She knows what she's doing. So was my mom. She taught us at home more than most get at school.

With that said, I also had to deal with a large cult-like group of home schooler families (about 50-60 families) that was quite eye opening. Without going into detail due to religion and politics, they were the most self-centered group of parents raising the most awkwardly introverted unsocialized children one could imagine. Borderline feral kids. Pretty creepy.

So, that's that.

I can back you up on that.

 

[MossRoad]

I can back you up on that.

We'll talk some day. It was awful. :laughing:

 

[HillStreet]

My flying days are on hold right now. My FAA medical ran out at the end of February and the doctor canceled my appointment for renewal. I fly for fun. Hopefully the airlines keep their guys flying with their own doctors. Other than that, my wife and I actually have no worries? no young kids or jobs to worry about. We are on standby for taking the grandkids if necessary but so far everybody is doing OK.

 

[hawkeye08]

Just went over the finances again with wife, I think we have a plan, not just to weather the storm, but for retirement. We will work on it a bit more as we finalize it, but it will work with what we know now. Planned on having plenty for retirement and had we moved things around 3 months ago, we would have..

We have plenty to do around here, just need to be very careful about budget. I may repair roof and make it last another year or 2, but won't be able to go past that. I need to work up a materials list so we can start on decks soon.

 

[Tomtint]

As with anything else, you only get out of it what you put into it. My future son-in-law was home schooled. He's fine. Normal guy. I've met many others that have been home schooled. Great folks. My wife works with a guy who's wife home schools their 4 kids. Wonderful kids. Super smart, caring, polite, outgoing... the kind of kids most people would want their kids to turn out like. A+!! To note, however, she is a professional teacher. She knows what she's doing. So was my mom. She taught us at home more than most get at school.


With that said, I also had to deal with a large cult-like group of home schooler families (about 50-60 families) that was quite eye opening. Without going into detail due to religion and politics, they were the most self-centered group of parents raising the most awkwardly introverted unsocialized children one could imagine. Borderline feral kids. Pretty creepy.

So, that's that.

I can certainly see where social skills would fall behind in home schooling.

 

[MossRoad]

I can certainly see where social skills would fall behind in home schooling.

It wasn't so much falling behind as it was staying within their closed group. As I said, I've met many home-schooled people that are completely normal. Just like me.

:laughing:

 

[Molalla1]

It wasn't so much falling behind as it was staying within their closed group. As I said, I've met many home-schooled people that are completely normal. Just like me.

:laughing:

Ah h*ll Moss ya missed out on the beatings from the nuns and a few priests . . . :laughing:

 

[RandyT]

As with anything else, you only get out of it what you put into it. My future son-in-law was home schooled. He's fine. Normal guy. I've met many others that have been home schooled. Great folks. My wife works with a guy who's wife home schools their 4 kids. Wonderful kids. Super smart, caring, polite, outgoing... the kind of kids most people would want their kids to turn out like. A+!! To note, however, she is a professional teacher. She knows what she's doing. So was my mom. She taught us at home more than most get at school.

With that said, I also had to deal with a large cult-like group of home schooler families (about 50-60 families) that was quite eye opening. Without going into detail due to religion and politics, they were the most self-centered group of parents raising the most awkwardly introverted unsocialized children one could imagine. Borderline feral kids. Pretty creepy.

So, that's that.

So they had been assimilated into thinking the same closed mind ideals.

 

[ovrszd]

I can agree to that ovrszd. Just also thinking that this crisis may lead to a change in the family dynamic partly due to people realizing they can do more with less, and also if this thing drags out like predicted for 12-18 months parents will either not send their kids back to school due to possible risk, or parents that move to homeschooling may decide to stay with it after it ends.

I believe in 12-18 months we won't remember any of these threads and most certainly won't remember the technical name for this virus.

 

[drssg]

As with anything else, you only get out of it what you put into it. My future son-in-law was home schooled. He's fine. Normal guy. I've met many others that have been home schooled. Great folks. My wife works with a guy who's wife home schools their 4 kids. Wonderful kids. Super smart, caring, polite, outgoing... the kind of kids most people would want their kids to turn out like. A+!! To note, however, she is a professional teacher. She knows what she's doing. So was my mom. She taught us at home more than most get at school.

With that said, I also had to deal with a large cult-like group of home schooler families (about 50-60 families) that was quite eye opening. Without going into detail due to religion and politics, they were the most self-centered group of parents raising the most awkwardly introverted unsocialized children one could imagine. Borderline feral kids. Pretty creepy.

So, that's that.

I only have one data point regarding home schooling. I bought a used truck from a nice older couple that had custody of and was home schooling their granddaughter, who was early grade school age.

This girl was clearly starved for social interaction with ANYBODY that was not her grandparents. She was quite excited to have a visitor, and she insisted on showing me her "laboratory" in the basement, and she wanted to do it in private. The grandparents were understandably reluctant to let their granddaughter be alone with a complete stranger, but the girl was adamant.

The grandmother kept trying to sneak down the basement stairs while the little girl showed me her bug collection, magnifying glass, and assorted scientific wonders. When the girl spotted her grandmother, she'd give her heck, insisting that she wanted to show me this stuff alone.

I have periodically wondered how that little girl turned out.

 

[ultrarunner]

Would be wonderful if that happens but those in Healthcare won’t be so fortunate.

 

[Molalla1]

I believe in 12-18 months we won't remember any of these threads and most certainly won't remember the technical name for this virus.

I'm in this camp Richard.

 

[MossRoad]

Ah h*ll Moss ya missed out on the beatings from the nuns and a few priests . . . :laughing:

Didn't miss nothing.... I'm a 12 year survivor of Catholic school. Had one nun beat me once. My dad told her it better not happen again. It didn't.

 

[MossRoad]

Had to reactivate my Y2K bunker.

 

[Molalla1]

Didn't miss nothing.... I'm a 12 year survivor of Catholic school. Had one nun beat me once. My dad told her it better not happen again. It didn't.

Good for Dad . . . back when I was there they (parents) did not question them.