[USA Today] Brangelina Thinks the Best Education is...No School?

Not so. I agree that most adults are not equipped to teach higher level stuff, but homeschooling parents often operate in networks. One parent who can handle the science will teach kids from several families while someone else picks up the slack on history or whatever. I knew a homeschooling family that had a room in their house outfitted as a classroom and they'd have a half-dozen kids over every week for biology classes. It can get a good deal more sophisticated than a couple of overworked parents with a library card and a bookmark for wikipedia. It's more like an educational co-op.

I'm not a big fan. I won't do it with my kids. And I can allow that they probably don't have the resources to do the more capital-intensive stuff (like lab work), but I don't think there's a lack of brain-power there. Or at least there doesn't have to be.

 

The kids are already boycotting the system by refusing to go to class. It's a joke.

 

The thread title is ridiculously misleading. Homeschool is not at all "No School" nor is it undermining anything. My wife homeschool's our son and he is getting a much better education than if he went to public school. I don't have the time to get into it but the majority of you have zero idea what you are even talking about when it comes to homeschooling.

 

....Steal my internet material will you..........that I found.....I will report you to the cyber police.....ya b*stard.

 

Hot and popular multi-millionaires, in a well-paying, enjoyable, relationship-driven career that requires no formal education. You wanna know the difference between mid '90s Drew Barrymore and Lindsey Lohan, besides complete and utter wretchedness in the latter, look at the bloodline. Stuff like this just annoys me, but at the end of the day I have a hard time hating either one of these two.

 

how much more well rounded can you get than traveling the world and engaging and immersing yourself in different cultures? and do you not remember what it was like to be in public schooling? to me anyways, it was the worst times of my life and probably mainly due to being different. the kids aren't going to be immuned from being picked on for being adopted even if their parents are celebrities. it's a miracle more kids don't commit suicide during their high school days. frankly, i don't think they're missing much.

 

Schools are only as good as their teachers and that goes for home schools as well. They can obviously afford the best teachers so I have no issues with that.

 

Haha...well I did give you rep for it.

 

Yeah Jolie and Barrymore were born into Hollywood life of traveling and privilege. And the high schools they probably did go to are bourgeois Beverly Hills 90120 establishments where its just a teen star academy. The kids are just passing through and their parents can pay for their college education anyway even if they fail hard in school.

I'm more focused on Jolie's comment in the article :

"I do think we live in a different age where the education system hasn’t caught up with our children and our way of life."

I'm sure family of 5 in Nacogdoches has a way of life that "outpaces" the school system.

 

I DO think there has always been WAY too much sense of importance put into "school culture". The pageantry, the traditions, the cliques, the competitions, the pressures, the who's-who.

Then its its own economically viable marketed culture. Movies and songs and fashion promoting high school lifestyle as something so riveting. In fact I think the concept of being "cool" in itself has been a detriment. Lot more energy and focus absorbed into matters of acceptance then in actual LEARNING.