Comments on: Thoughts on “Get Schooled” http://homeedmag.com/editorial/resources/videos/thoughts-on-get-schooled/ From the editors and publishers of Home Education Magazine Thu, 01 Mar 2012 17:55:55 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Lori T. http://homeedmag.com/editorial/resources/videos/thoughts-on-get-schooled/#comment-200 Lori T. Sun, 13 Jun 2010 20:14:17 +0000 http://www.homeedmag.com/editorial/?p=706#comment-200 Wouldn't 3 in 10 be 1 in 3.34? Just asking... ...In any event, it looks like a Guv'mint scam, similar to those "Be A Dad" commercials that assume all men are not fathering the correct way. http://www.fatherhood.gov/ Oh yes, we need the Guv'mint to tell us how do everything... Wouldn’t 3 in 10 be 1 in 3.34? Just asking…

…In any event, it looks like a Guv’mint scam, similar to those “Be A Dad” commercials that assume all men are not fathering the correct way. http://www.fatherhood.gov/ Oh yes, we need the Guv’mint to tell us how do everything…

]]> By: Sherry http://homeedmag.com/editorial/resources/videos/thoughts-on-get-schooled/#comment-199 Sherry Fri, 11 Jun 2010 12:41:16 +0000 http://www.homeedmag.com/editorial/?p=706#comment-199 > My second thought was, “Nearly thirty percent of all kids? Sorry, that sounds like I can't do math. The number I caught on the commercial was something like 'nearly 3 in 10'. One in three, as stated above, would be *over* thirty percent of kids. Either way, I want to see where and how they got their data before I buy into it. > My second thought was, “Nearly thirty percent of all kids?

Sorry, that sounds like I can’t do math. The number I caught on the commercial was something like ‘nearly 3 in 10′. One in three, as stated above, would be *over* thirty percent of kids.

Either way, I want to see where and how they got their data before I buy into it.

]]> By: Sherry http://homeedmag.com/editorial/resources/videos/thoughts-on-get-schooled/#comment-198 Sherry Fri, 11 Jun 2010 12:35:39 +0000 http://www.homeedmag.com/editorial/?p=706#comment-198 I caught one of their commercials in passing last night. My first thought was that if 1/3 of kids were not graduating from school, it had to be the system that is failing, not the kids. My second thought was, "Nearly thirty percent of all kids? Really?" I was cooking dinner, but my husband's curiosity was piqued as well, and he did some poking around online. The stats he found seemed to indicate that the number of kids who do not graduate with diplomas might be closer to 16%, partly depending on whether the numbers included private schools, seniors who attend an extra semester, and so forth. (I have sent him an email asking for the websites with the cites he found.) If this group is manipulating the data to get to their premise, I am extremely dubious about their conclusions. > I didn’t find the political will existed to make kids more important than the status quo back when my sons began their educational journies.... > We’re not looking for our kids to “get schooled;” we’re looking for them to become educated. That. Exactly. I caught one of their commercials in passing last night. My first thought was that if 1/3 of kids were not graduating from school, it had to be the system that is failing, not the kids.

My second thought was, “Nearly thirty percent of all kids? Really?” I was cooking dinner, but my husband’s curiosity was piqued as well, and he did some poking around online. The stats he found seemed to indicate that the number of kids who do not graduate with diplomas might be closer to 16%, partly depending on whether the numbers included private schools, seniors who attend an extra semester, and so forth. (I have sent him an email asking for the websites with the cites he found.)

If this group is manipulating the data to get to their premise, I am extremely dubious about their conclusions.

> I didn’t find the political will existed to make kids more important than the status quo back when my sons began their educational journies….

> We’re not looking for our kids to “get schooled;” we’re looking for them to become educated.

That. Exactly.

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]]> By: Jenny http://homeedmag.com/editorial/resources/videos/thoughts-on-get-schooled/#comment-196 Jenny Sat, 12 Sep 2009 11:47:58 +0000 http://www.homeedmag.com/editorial/?p=706#comment-196 Maybe my perception is distorted by the funny little homeschooling bubble in which I live, but I think some of the wisdom of homeschooling *is* starting to leak out into the larger culture. I certainly didn't expect to hear anyone other than homeschoolers talking about the possibilities of using community colleges and the GED to skip over high school and gain early entrance to college, but I see at least two new books out there that do just that. Maybe my perception is distorted by the funny little homeschooling bubble in which I live, but I think some of the wisdom of homeschooling *is* starting to leak out into the larger culture. I certainly didn’t expect to hear anyone other than homeschoolers talking about the possibilities of using community colleges and the GED to skip over high school and gain early entrance to college, but I see at least two new books out there that do just that.

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