Yeah, I know. I literally just listed them to show that you need to cover the main classes AND have choices of electives to learn right.
You can't just not do math because you're homeschooled, you need to get all of the CORE classes in.
Yes, the right way to learn covers the CORE classes of science, social studies, math, English, reading, and health/physical education. If you aren't getting those (and extra classes of your choosing, such as religion, drama, a foreign language, typography, business) you aren't learning correctly. Every homeschooling parent is responsible for teaching their kid what they would learn at a public or private school, just from home.
For example, I'm taking Algebra, Biology, World History, Honors English, Spanish 2, Creative Writing, and Gothic Lit from my own home using an online program. I could learn all of those at a physical school, but I choose to take them online.
I’ve learned all those things to an extent. (Except I still don’t know what social studies mean. What is it?) But why learn something that isn’t necessary for later life? (Language, science, etc.)
Social Studies is another word for history and econ.
Language and Science are necessary later in life though!
Knowing another language will help in a variety of different ways including obtaining a job/career.
Knowing basic science can help bring about a healthier life.
Science and languages are necessary for later life??
(Social Studies is a catch-all term for geography, world history, American history, etc.)
You're essentially learning how to learn at a more advanced level than elementary school or middle school, which I would argue has information you need. Obviously, I am not going to use any of the knowledge I'm learning in my AP history class, except on the test, or in my physics class last year. Unless I become a historian or a scientist, but I'm not going to do either of those things. For college, you need to know how to study a subject, how to actually do the process of learning. Learning stuff that you're not going to use still gives you a good baseline for how to learn the stuff you're actually interested in later in life.
Of course, this is useless if you're not planning on attending college, but if you are, it is.
You very much need to learn a language, and most schools don't allow you to graduate without at least 2 courses of it, not counting the intro course. So for me to graduate, I need to get up to Spanish 3, German 3, French 3, or Chinese 3. Also a ton of colleges need you to have foreign language credits to be let in.
And science is super important, especially earth science and biology.
If anything, math is the one you won't use, and even then it's only the very specific types of math that are only used in very specific job fields.
Science and languages are necessary for later life??
(Social Studies is a catch-all term for geography, world history, American history, etc.)
(Ah. Then I did that.)
So for college or that it teaches you to learn.
The school system is said to teach how to memorize, not learn. And college is not necessary. (Coming from a guy in college lol.)
I just want it to be clear that one of my brothers has made it almost completely through college, only being taught a class by a certified teacher for school once that I can remember. He doesn't, (to the best of my knowledge) know any foreign language, he just did well in other areas of school.
I think that there is value in learning. But school should teach students things that they'll use later in life. School is supposed to prepare you for "real life" but learning things like the quadratic formula isn't something that everyone is going to be using in real life. I'm not saying that it won't be used, but there's only certain jobs that will use it. Instead, I think there is more value in learning economic things. Forgive me, I don't know much about economy
Just curious real quick, do your schools count sociology and psychology as a part of social studies? Because my school does but it's also really weird, so idk if it's just us.
Nah those were elective sciences at my high school. Same with college.
I just think that 'How To Cook And Survive On My Own' and 'How To Do My Damn Taxes 101' should be necessary classes in high school.
Because once you get to college………….. it's kind of embarrassing how many people don't know how to do things in life.
(thinks about the dormmate that didn't know how to use a hot plate.)
Here is a debatable topic that you've either never heard of or you have a very strong opinion about: Anime is actually art, and if you otherwise you could just be racist.
Not really. I mean I guess it’s art. But thinking it isn’t is far from racism.
Agreed. I may not be as impressed now with anime or its art style as I was a few years back, but it’s still art.
I've had art teachers who would accept American cartoons but not anime. I mean, racist much?!
Why is that racist? (What is your race/nationality if I may ask?)
And what do you mean by accept them?
Why is that racist? (What is your race/nationality if I may ask?)
It is due to the fact that anime is the Japanese equivalent of American cartoons, and by accepting one and not the other you are technically being racist.
And what do you mean by accept them?
What I mean is that the teacher would allow students to turn in work done in this art style. Art teachers can also not accept something, which is usually only done with anime.
And I am an American descended from German Jews and the Irish.
Anime is art. Just a more fun, extroverted, insane art rather than something that is studied for it's depth, impression and style like Van Gogh/Picasso/Michaelangelo/etc.
Anime is art. Just a more fun, extroverted, insane art rather than something that is studied for it's depth, impression and style like Van Gogh/Picasso/Michaelangelo/etc.
I love this, so much.
Why is that racist? (What is your race/nationality if I may ask?)
It is due to the fact that anime is the Japanese equivalent of American cartoons, and by accepting one and not the other you are technically being racist.
but anime and cartoons are not the same.