From: Anders Sandberg (asa@nada.kth.se)
Date: Sun Apr 13 2003 - 14:09:18 MDT
On Sun, Apr 13, 2003 at 01:23:21PM -0400, Harvey Newstrom wrote:
>
> My information is from 1970's Florida. My family considered this option for
> my brothers and I when we moved to an area with pathetic schools. Instead,
> we ended up skipping two years of high school and starting college at F.I.T.
> at age 16. That option worked great for the mind, but horrible for our
> social development. Sixteen-year old males on campus were freaks, nerds and
> did not fit in well. I would warn a similar problem with making sure your
> home-schooled children have a lot of external interaction with other
> children and adults.
Coming from a place where homeschooling doesn't exist (and private
schools were reintroduced just a few years ago), I have always wondered
about the practicalities of homeschooling. Is the idea that the parents
act as teachers, and give their children materials to read and explore?
While this sounds wonderful, it also seems to be extremely demanding on
their time and capacity if they are working.
> (Hmmmmm.... The Extropian Academy for Transhuman Youths....)
Led by Dr. maX, of course.
-- ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Anders Sandberg Towards Ascension! asa@nada.kth.se http://www.nada.kth.se/~asa/ GCS/M/S/O d++ -p+ c++++ !l u+ e++ m++ s+/+ n--- h+/* f+ g+ w++ t+ r+ !y
This archive was generated by hypermail 2.1.5 : Sun Apr 13 2003 - 14:13:30 MDT