I had heard some teachers talking about home school
children with the topic being, friendships. They were
simply talking about how those children they had in
public school seems to always congregate with children
of their own ages, while the home school kids seemed
to simply find other kids that they had more in common
with without to much regard to the various ages of the
other kids much more readily. All of this being true at
least by their observations.
This seemed sort of natural to me once I started to think
about it since all day they are in a class room with kids
they are the same age with, going through the same things
together. While at the same time home school kids are
not bunched up that way daily, though they too look for
kids their own ages to be friends with they are not molded
due to the structure of the public school setting to be that
way.
I wonder how our public school system has effected how
we interact with one another. It seems that simply forcing
children to leave the family and congregate would do some
very subtle things to the development of the individuals in
how and who they become friends with. The seeking out
those younger or older almost seems taboo or at least not
desirable. Seems we lose a lot of natural mentoring because
of this desire to only flock with like aged people.
Thoughts on this?
Kelly
Originally posted by Bosse de NageYea I recall those barriers while going through school too, I wasn’t
There was a formidable barrier between juniors and seniors at my school, for sure.
I've heard good and bad things about home schooling. Do you home school your kids?
thinking about them when writing this though, good point.
Yes we do home school, my wife does more teaching than I do. It
is a choice that affects everything, because it keeps her home instead
of in the work place. When looking at jobs in other states once we
made the choice to home school, we automatically look at how
favorable the laws in each state are to home schools as a prime factor
if we want to pursue those jobs opportunities. Since state public
school systems do not get home school kids to add to their head
count and various other views about home schooling, some are not
as friendly as others are.
Kelly
cub scouts do the same thing ... the cubs are assigned to dens by age and grade ... cubs that are held back a grade in school can join the den in that grade or the den matching their age, as they choose ...
this is not necessarily a bad thing, there may not be enough kids to make multiple dens per grade.
by-grade social gradients in high school are much more exaggerated ... college is much less ...
my kid's school has a program where he has a buddy (mentor) a few grades higher than him, and a buddy (that he mentors) a few grades lower.
Originally posted by zeeblebotMentors are great, it is almost a shame we have to have programs
cub scouts do the same thing ... the cubs are assigned to dens by age and grade ... cubs that are held back a grade in school can join the den in that grade or the den matching their age, as they choose ...
this is not necessarily a bad thing, there may not be enough kids to make multiple dens per grade.
by-grade social gradients in high school are ...[text shortened]... a buddy (mentor) a few grades higher than him, and a buddy (that he mentors) a few grades lower.
to get them.
Kelly