Home Schooling - Kids Going Their Own Way

You will have noticed that home schooled kids are over-represented among the winners of spelling bees, math competitions, chess tournaments, music competitions, and the like. They aren't smarter or more talented. They are better educated. 

That's Better Educated. Period. 

Your children are wasting valuable time in public school. Home schooled kids are running rings around them. 
 
Read this: 
 

Mississippi school says kindergartener injured herself on playground; mom believes she was attacked by student, website reports http://www.nola.com/crime/index.ssf/2014/08/mississippi_school_says_kinder.html

 

Your children are being tortured, mentally and sometimes physically, in public schools. Bring them home. 
 
Home schooling is a popular subject. A web search produced 453-million hits. A YouTube search produced a paltry 38-million. My local library has dozens of books on home schooling. 
 

I totally recommend home schooling if you can possibly manage it. For your son's and daughter's sakes, give them the education the government run schools can't. (Actually, they can. It's just that they won't. It's too much work.) If you think I'm biased against public schools, you're right. Read this: 

The Empire Strikes Back: Calif. Gov. Jerry Brown Files Appeal To Force Crappy Teachers On Poor Kids

http://dailycaller.com/2014/09/01/the-empire-strikes-back-calif-gov-jerry-brown-files-appeal-to-force-crappy-teachers-on-poor-kids/

Public schools are at war with boys.

If you can't manage home schooling, then get your boy hooked up with books from here:

Guys Read http://guysread.com/

"Our mission is to help boys become self-motivated, lifelong readers."

If you're worried about them not developing athletic skills or socializing, then stick them in little league or soccer or something. They will excel - if you home coach them! (My personal choice is to put them in martial arts, like judo. Let's have them learn a life skill as opposed to a game.) 

Get your kids out of the public schools. Let them Go Their Own Way by personally showing them the way. No one cares about your kids like you do.

Write a Book, Go to Jail

The war against boys extends to male teachers. 

Cambridge Mace's Lane Middle School Teacher on Administrative Leave

http://www.wboc.com/story/26367051/cambridge-maces-lane-middle-school-teacher-on-administrative-leave

 

The War Against Boys - A Book Review

The War Against Boys: How misguided feminism is harming our young men, by Christina Hoff Sommers

Simon & Schuster 2001

ISBN: 0684849577 ; 978-0684849577

Amazon link: http://www.amazon.com/WAR-AGAINST-BOYS-Misguided-Feminism/dp/0684849577/

I especially recommend this book to parents of school aged children. I would recommend it to educators and academics, but they have it already, or they are a lost cause in the first place.

The style is readable. It is more dry and academic than aimed at the popular taste for the chatty. It is jammed with facts and figures, which are fully explained in a concise to-the-point text.

The 2001 hardback is very reasonably priced on Amazon. I whistled up a copy, and it's a keeper. There is a 2008 edition (Paw Prints Press) which I haven't seen, but I believe is updated and expanded.

But Wait! There's More! 
 
Here is a YouTube video by the author which covers the major points. (Well, the majors in my mind. The book has far, far more than what's in the video.) I recommend watching this before deciding to buy and read.

War On Boys https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OFpYj0E-yb4

Money quote: "Boys are treated like defective girls." ... And ain't that the truth!

If you have a son in school from K through college, then you need this book to understand what he is going through. 

Dr. Helen Smith has written extensively on this. Here is one article from her blog: http://pjmedia.com/drhelen/2013/10/28/boys-are-treated-like-defective-girls/