Home Schooling Mika Fans

[mikalovernj]

hehe i got a 1650 on the SATs this year. i took it just for fun though

[Ana1202]

hehe i got a 1650 on the SATs this year. i took it just for fun though

 

Sorry but, what are the SATs ??

[Mika4Life13]

Cady Was home schooled

[I <3 MIKA!!!]

hehe i got a 1650 on the SATs this year. i took it just for fun though

 

is that good lol??? i dont know the whole scoring system really

[I <3 MIKA!!!]

Sorry but, what are the SATs ??

 

the SATs are these huge tests that u have to take when ur in 11th grade in america and u need them to get into college they are like THE most important thing in school! i dont what they have in argentina but i think in england they have the a levels

[mandilambi]

i am not homeschooled but i have always wondered what it would be like to be homeschooled and i have a few questions actually lol

 

is it the length of a regular school day (8 am to 3 pm)

do u have homework

i am guessing u dont have snowdays but do u follow school holidays?

do u follow a schedual (like math from a certain time' date=' english)

do u get homeschooled by ur parents or by a tutor

 

this maybe mean but do u guys have friends and i am not joking i mean i have always have wondered this cuz ur not really with people ur own age so do go to like socials and stuff like that?[/quote']

 

I'll try to answer your questions in order of how you asked them:

 

- My typical school day could be as long or as short as I would want it to be. Depending on what time I woke up, I could start school as soon as I awoke and then work on all of my subjects for the day. If I wanted to get all my schoolwork finished with quickly, I would have to work quickly to accomplish that. Oftentimes, I would wake up fairly early 8-9am and would work in my pjs until all my work was finished.

 

- I had specific assignments each day and did not necessarily have "homework." For example, I would have to read a chapter from my history book and following that chapter I would have to answer a set of answer which could be considered my homework. I would also have quizzes and tests.

 

- I never got snow days, because obviously we didn't have to go anywhere. Obviously, that always upset me...so sometimes my mom was lovely enough to let me go out for a period of time to enjoy the snow anyway.

 

- My schedule was basically created by me. I would work on my subjects in whichever order I wanted to, so as long as I got the work done that was the main objective.

 

- I was homeschooled by my mother.

 

- As for your question about having friends, that's actually a frequently asked question, so don't feel bad. At least you are addressing that question in a polite way, which some people do not do all of the time.

 

Growing up, I was still able to participate in softball with some of my friends. Admittedly, as I got older it was more and more difficult to feel connected to those people because, obviously, people change and it can be hard to maintain relationships when you only see them once a year. However, I was also able to attend church and that is where I had the majority of my friends.

 

This is, of course, going to be very different for one person to the next. Some people can become withdrawn when they homeschool and others can completely flourish and make friends/keep them. I've always been an outgoing person, so socializing has never been a huge deal with me.

 

I will say, though, that people often assume too much about us. I have had people refer to me as "Living in a bubble." I have had people tell me that I don't know what the real world is like because I stayed home for the majority of time throughout my childhood. I have also had people endeavor to make me feel inferior based on the education that I received. These things, of course, are not true but you can imagine how frustrating it can be for me to hear these sort of things just because I wasn't educated in the norm.

 

So I am very quick to shed light on the situation. It certainly is different from public education and I believe that it has its own pros/cons the same way that a public education would.

 

I have some questions because home school is not that common in Argentina.

I don't know anybody from Argentina who has been teached at home.

 

How many years does it take?

Do you take an official exam or something like that when you finish your studyies? * I mean an exam to validate your home education.*

Where do you get the information and the subjects you're suppose to learn?

Why do people choose teach their kids at home instead sending them to school?

 

Sorry about the last question but I don't understand why.

 

- The length of time to complete is going to depend on how long the parents/tutors decide to homeschool. For me, it took me as long as finishing high school.

 

- I did not have to take an official test, other than the ACT which is what public educated students also take.

 

- My parents used textbooks that were specifically directed for a homeschool-based environment. We used a lot of Saxon.

 

- People choose to homeschool for a number of reasons. As for my parents reasoning, they did not agree with what the public schools were teaching, so that is why they took out my older siblings and why they decided to teach me at home. One of the biggest reasons for homeschooling us was because of religious reasons and more specifically because they wanted us to be able to be open about it.

[mandilambi]

WONDERFUL!! Always happy to hear good things like this.

Your an inspiration to the young home schoolers.

 

Thank you! It is nice to see some positive feedback about homeschooling.

[Ana1202]

the SATs are these huge tests that u have to take when ur in 11th grade in america and u need them to get into college they are like THE most important thing in school! i dont what they have in argentina but i think in england they have the a levels

We don't have anything like that here.

So' date=' if I were in USA I would have to take them this year....

 

Education is not too hard here. But if you don't finish school (in the school building, because there aren't any more options) you can't do anything.

Anyway, the education level is good here. Specially the university.[/color']

[Blue Sky]

I have several friends here in Japan who homeschool, and many many friends in the US and elsewhere that homsechool, or unschool.

I know a lot about it from my connections with LLL. I considered it for a while with my kids, but the hardest thing is that my kids never like to do what I say:roftl:

 

That makes them normal I guess.

 

But it also made me doubt that I could successfully homeschool them. However I have taught them all to read and write in English by myself. They are in regular Japanese school, so all their other education is in Japanese. Home is the only place they use English, and even here they speak Japanese amongst themselves mostly.

 

In Japan there is no homeschooling network, so if your kids are not in school, it is really hard for them to socialise and make friends locally. And by about Grade 4, many Japanese kids go to "juku" which is cram school, after regular school finishes. So whereas a kid in the US or Europe or wherever might go and play soccer or swim, or go to band practice or chess club after school, many Japanese kids go to Juku, where they do more study, get heaps more homework, and if they do it all plus school HW then they never get to bed before about midnight, and they are up and off to school first thing in the morning all over again. I am talking kids under 12 here.

 

The aim of juku is to get the kids heads crammed with enough information and facts to pass the entrance exams for secondary school. Juku continues even then to "maintain their competitive edge" or to help them advance University via entrance exam when they are 18. It is just cramming relatively useless information into their poor young heads, when they should be out making friends, being outside, doing something better like music or art or sport.

 

End of rant about Japanese education.

I wish I was homeschooling. So I cannot really be on the list. But I too have always wanted to interview Mrs P!! I wrote questions for her on the Mika Questions page a week or so ago. If you ever put together something let me know, I would be happy to help!

[I <3 MIKA!!!]

I'll try to answer your questions in order of how you asked them:

 

- My typical school day could be as long or as short as I would want it to be. Depending on what time I woke up, I could start school as soon as I awoke and then work on all of my subjects for the day. If I wanted to get all my schoolwork finished with quickly, I would have to work quickly to accomplish that. Oftentimes, I would wake up fairly early 8-9am and would work in my pjs until all my work was finished.

 

- I had specific assignments each day and did not necessarily have "homework." For example, I would have to read a chapter from my history book and following that chapter I would have to answer a set of answer which could be considered my homework. I would also have quizzes and tests.

 

- I never got snow days, because obviously we didn't have to go anywhere. Obviously, that always upset me...so sometimes my mom was lovely enough to let me go out for a period of time to enjoy the snow anyway.

 

- My schedule was basically created by me. I would work on my subjects in whichever order I wanted to, so as long as I got the work done that was the main objective.

 

- I was homeschooled by my mother.

 

- As for your question about having friends, that's actually a frequently asked question, so don't feel bad. At least you are addressing that question in a polite way, which some people do not do all of the time.

 

Growing up, I was still able to participate in softball with some of my friends. Admittedly, as I got older it was more and more difficult to feel connected to those people because, obviously, people change and it can be hard to maintain relationships when you only see them once a year. However, I was also able to attend church and that is where I had the majority of my friends.

 

This is, of course, going to be very different for one person to the next. Some people can become withdrawn when they homeschool and others can completely flourish and make friends/keep them. I've always been an outgoing person, so socializing has never been a huge deal with me.

 

I will say, though, that people often assume too much about us. I have had people refer to me as "Living in a bubble." I have had people tell me that I don't know what the real world is like because I stayed home for the majority of time throughout my childhood. I have also had people endeavor to make me feel inferior based on the education that I received. These things, of course, are not true but you can imagine how frustrating it can be for me to hear these sort of things just because I wasn't educated in the norm.

 

So I am very quick to shed light on the situation. It certainly is different from public education and I believe that it has its own pros/cons the same way that a public education would.

 

 

 

- The length of time to complete is going to depend on how long the parents/tutors decide to homeschool. For me, it took me as long as finishing high school.

 

- I did not have to take an official test, other than the ACT which is what public educated students also take.

 

- My parents used textbooks that were specifically directed for a homeschool-based environment. We used a lot of Saxon.

 

- People choose to homeschool for a number of reasons. As for my parents reasoning, they did not agree with what the public schools were teaching, so that is why they took out my older siblings and why they decided to teach me at home. One of the biggest reasons for homeschooling us was because of religious reasons and more specifically because they wanted us to be able to be open about it.

 

thankyou sooo much! that really helped!

[mandilambi]

No problem, girlie.

[Ana1202]

Thanks !!

I've always wanted to know more about this !!

[I <3 MIKA!!!]

We don't have anything like that here.

So, if I were in USA I would have to take them this year....

 

Education is not too hard here. But if you don't finish school (in the school building, because there aren't any more options) you can't do anything.

Anyway, the education level is good here. Specially the university.

 

wow i find it really interesting hearing about schooling from all over the world! is anyone 14/15 years old not from america here

[MIKA_OBESSED]

Wow it's great there are all these homeschoolers!(or former homeschoolers or moms who homeschooled lol)

[Mom4Mika]

is it the length of a regular school day (8 am to 3 pm)

do u have homework

i am guessing u dont have snowdays but do u follow school holidays?

do u follow a schedual (like math from a certain time' date=' english)

do u get homeschooled by ur parents or by a tutor

 

this maybe mean but do u guys have friends and i am not joking i mean i have always have wondered this cuz ur not really with people ur own age so do go to like socials and stuff like that?[/quote']

 

 

yeah, My thread is not DOA!!

 

There are different types of homeschooling.

We are eclectic to unschoolers.

I draw on many things to expose my girls to many types of things and people. Lots of field trips and just exploring the world.

We are coming out of a very relaxed approach to homeschooling and so work is getting down 3-4 times a week in a traditional way (workbooks/textbooks)

but it doesn't take 5 hours to to do. Maybe an 1 to 1.5 hours.

 

We don't follow what the schools do. If it snows they go sledding. Homeschooling looks like life in our family. Learning is a natrual thing and it happens when it happens, not Mon-Fri. The Mon-Fri 8-3 didn't work for my daughters and it didn't work for our family.

Our family is a much better family for homeschooling.

 

Socialization. The question most asked by people. I don't think what goes in school passes for true socialization.

We have a been part of a home schooling co-opertive for 3.5 years now. That has a variety of ages, religions, socio-economic classes, a people with varing degrees of manners.

We have change and that group doesn't really meet our needs anymore so I researched other groups and found another one that is fitting our needs and even gives a chance to grow in a couple of ways.

 

Here in the US home education is legal. Every state though has their own laws. New Jersey happens to be one of the top states to homeschool in and have parental rights with very little state oversite.

 

If my girls want to try school again they have that choice. If they would like to take a class at the county college at 14 I'll sign them up.

Our county college is really a vangaurd in serving the homeschooling community.

 

I will be starting both girls on algebra sometime this year. If they should prove to be whiz kids and move into higher math I will find someone who can teach them what they want.

 

There are homeschooling proms, camping trips, ski trips, bowling clubs, cooking clubs, etc. If you want to branch out you can find another group and got to an activity of theirs and meet totally different people.

We meet people who they want to make long term friendships with and they meet people they are happy to meet with once a week or once every two weeks.

 

Zo-Zo gets up when she wants usually between 9 and 10

Aub gets up early only because she wants too.

Kids in puberty need sleep. I don't think sleep should be messed with for anyone.

 

Maybe Aub(Mika_Obessed) or Zo-Zo could give that kid perspective.

 

I should have written this earlier as it seems sort of rambling and disjointed.

 

Thanks for asking.

[Zo-Zo]

i love you thanks homeschooling me,people i'm soooo glad your homeschooled!!!

[Zo-Zo]

yeah, My thread is not DOA!!

 

There are different types of homeschooling.

We are eclectic to unschoolers.

I draw on many things to expose my girls to many types of things and people. Lots of field trips and just exploring the world.

We are coming out of a very relaxed approach to homeschooling and so work is getting down 3-4 times a week in a traditional way (workbooks/textbooks)

but it doesn't take 5 hours to to do. Maybe an 1 to 1.5 hours.

 

We don't follow what the schools do. If it snows they go sledding. Homeschooling looks like life in our family. Learning is a natrual thing and it happens when it happens, not Mon-Fri. The Mon-Fri 8-3 didn't work for my daughters and it didn't work for our family.

Our family is a much better family for homeschooling.

 

Socialization. The question most asked by people. I don't think what goes in school passes for true socialization.

We have a been part of a home schooling co-opertive for 3.5 years now. That has a variety of ages, religions, socio-economic classes, a people with varing degrees of manners.

We have change and that group doesn't really meet our needs anymore so I researched other groups and found another one that is fitting our needs and even gives a chance to grow in a couple of ways.

 

Here in the US home education is legal. Every state though has their own laws. New Jersey happens to be one of the top states to homeschool in and have parental rights with very little state oversite.

 

If my girls want to try school again they have that choice. If they would like to take a class at the county college at 14 I'll sign them up.

Our county college is really a vangaurd in serving the homeschooling community.

 

I will be starting both girls on algebra sometime this year. If they should prove to be whiz kids and move into higher math I will find someone who can teach them what they want.

 

There are homeschooling proms, camping trips, ski trips, bowling clubs, cooking clubs, etc. If you want to branch out you can find another group and got to an activity of theirs and meet totally different people.

We meet people who they want to make long term friendships with and they meet people they are happy to meet with once a week or once every two weeks.

 

Zo-Zo gets up when she wants usually between 9 and 10

Aub gets up early only because she wants too.

Kids in puberty need sleep. I don't think sleep should be messed with for anyone.

 

Maybe Aub(Mika_Obessed) or Zo-Zo could give that kid perspective.

 

I should have written this earlier as it seems sort of rambling and disjointed.

 

Thanks for asking.

 

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