http://www.homeschooling.net/blog/education/real-education/ Mon, 20 May 2013 19:13:26 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.3 http://www.homeschooling.net/blog/education/real-education/comment-page-1/#comment-2846 Amy Sun, 26 Dec 2010 15:33:17 +0000 http://www.homeschooling.net/blog/?p=800#comment-2846 My children are early elementary/preschool age. I have just had my commitment to home school strengthened. My oldest excels in school. She is very quick. She was at the top of her class in kindergarten. Yet by the end of kindergarten she had a reading vocabulary of twelve words. The teacher told me she was put in a group of below average children so that she could help bring them up. Over the summer I got her up to a second grade reading level, and I now home school her. My middle child has a very difficult time learning. I spend very focused time helping him to learn to read, write, and do math. I think if he was in school, he would fall very far behind, because he needs the one on one attention to help him learn. One thing I have decided is that for him it is critical for me to teach these basic skills and any other information can come later, once he has mastered the basics. My point is that, yes, children have different intelligence levels, but with one on one attention, they can achieve more and get to a point where they can function on average level. my son can read at a first grade level (we have worked very hard to get to this level) and he is kindergarten age. I know that if he were in school, he would not understand reading at all, because of how he learns, and because of what I know the school teaches. With home school, I am allowed to teach a concept until he understands it. I am allowed to teach year-round. I am allowed to teach to the child. While there are too many kids going to college. I think there are ways to help the children who lag behind, while allowing other children to excel, and that is through the focused one - on - one attention that home schooling allows. My children are early elementary/preschool age. I have just had my commitment to home school strengthened. My oldest excels in school. She is very quick. She was at the top of her class in kindergarten. Yet by the end of kindergarten she had a reading vocabulary of twelve words. The teacher told me she was put in a group of below average children so that she could help bring them up. Over the summer I got her up to a second grade reading level, and I now home school her. My middle child has a very difficult time learning. I spend very focused time helping him to learn to read, write, and do math. I think if he was in school, he would fall very far behind, because he needs the one on one attention to help him learn. One thing I have decided is that for him it is critical for me to teach these basic skills and any other information can come later, once he has mastered the basics. My point is that, yes, children have different intelligence levels, but with one on one attention, they can achieve more and get to a point where they can function on average level. my son can read at a first grade level (we have worked very hard to get to this level) and he is kindergarten age. I know that if he were in school, he would not understand reading at all, because of how he learns, and because of what I know the school teaches. With home school, I am allowed to teach a concept until he understands it. I am allowed to teach year-round. I am allowed to teach to the child. While there are too many kids going to college. I think there are ways to help the children who lag behind, while allowing other children to excel, and that is through the focused one – on – one attention that home schooling allows.

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