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- Chalks777, on 04/26/2008, -4/+21That's just plain not true. I was homeschooled all the way through highschool and don't think I've been slighted in that way at all. In fact, I'd say I have a richer set of friends, in that I got to choose who I hung out with, not being forced to stay with the same classmates every year.
- Bicep, on 04/26/2008, -1/+17Right on. We use it at home.
- DigitalPioneer, on 04/26/2008, -2/+18Why's everyone bashing homeschoolers? There's nothing wrong with homeschoolers or homeschooling. In contrast, public schooled kids tend to be stupid, rebellious, and profane. Not all, by any means. I know plenty of perfectly decent public schooled kids, but I know plenty of perfectly indecent ones too.
- Beastmasta, on 04/26/2008, -3/+16Learning disguised as fun, holy *****!
- oldbox, on 04/26/2008, -7/+19I totaly digg the learn with Linux part, I't the homeschooling kids part i don't dig at all....
- Carlix, on 04/26/2008, -11/+22Homeschooling just makes those kids have less friends.
- Borgcube, on 04/26/2008, -1/+11@Chalks777
But in that you lost an ability to handle all sorts of people, not just the ones you like, which is important since you can rarely choose who to work with and you should always try to befriend your coworkers so that the day at work isn't as boring. - treyd1, on 04/26/2008, -0/+9I love Edubuntu. I am upgrading to 8.04 from 7.04 now (got a version behind).
- Chalks777, on 04/26/2008, -1/+9Do you honestly think that I've never come across people I don't get along with? Learning to deal with those people is a skill that is vital for everyone. I would have been fired from all of my jobs if I hadn't been able to get along with that one guy who was completely annoying.
- cquinnd, on 04/26/2008, -0/+8Kids should be exposed to some level of socializing influence from their peers and the outside world, or they risk being adequately educated but emotionally stunted as they reach their teenage and early adult years.
Public school is not absolutely necessary in that regard, but it is an important consideration for parents to provide a good alternative for those social engagments (church, public clubs and organizations, volunteerism) if and while they choose to home school. - aaabatteries, on 04/26/2008, -1/+8That's a valid point.
However, I (also homeschooled through highschool) have had a job of some sorts since I was 13. Granted, I only worked 4-8 hours a week, but it helped me learn how to associate with people as well as make decent money. At least, better than what my public school friends were making while working on the weekends at Price Chopper or Walmart's...
tl;dr
as long as you're plugged into the community and don't disassociate yourself with people--you will come out okay. - inactive, on 04/26/2008, -3/+9Kids need the social environment that school provides them.
- inactive, on 04/26/2008, -1/+7Better than going to a ***** classroom full of degraded minds and dumb women, bullies, jerks and ***** teachers that could not care less about anything you think or feel.
- thewayne, on 04/26/2008, -0/+6It also makes sure they are taught correctly and not the new way of teaching going on in American schools today.
- jasutton, on 04/26/2008, -2/+6You do realize that the people that digg linux are the ones that created digg. It's all the crappy "articles" that link to youtube videos and try to paint Barak as the savior of humanity that I'd like to see disappear.
- Chalks777, on 04/26/2008, -4/+8Priegog, the point I'm trying to make is that homeschooling (usually) has no negative effect on a student's social life, and is (often) a good thing instead. The only thing I'm saying about public school is that it creates an artifical environment that you don't find anywhere else in life. I don't know if that's a good thing or not, it's just an observation.
- copperhead, on 04/26/2008, -0/+4And we all know that it's the friendships we make when we're 8 that last a lifetime.
- Shadowgamers, on 04/26/2008, -1/+5Am I too old to use it? V:
- srg13, on 04/27/2008, -0/+4Wow - the US public school system sounds really messed up...
- ryansimbalist, on 04/26/2008, -1/+5This is an ad. That's all this guy F'n does. Please Bury.
- Adys, on 04/26/2008, -1/+5Looks like you haven't been homeschooled - great example, ain't you.
- Chalks777, on 04/26/2008, -3/+7exactly. Which means I could hang out with people who's company I actually enjoyed as opposed to a random set of kids that just happen to be the same age as me. I mean really, most of your life you interact with people who are another age anyways... public school artificially makes you interact with your same age group.
- Chalks777, on 04/26/2008, -0/+3that's true, but the reason you see that is partly because the number of public schoolers far outweighs the number of home schoolers. I'm positive there are planty of stupid, rebellious and profane homeschoolers. In fact, I know several families who began homeschooling simply because their kids were so rebellious.
- aliguana, on 04/26/2008, -0/+3Hello, I'm a young PC. I play all the latest games. I can beat the boss on level 200 of Plasma-blast. Just don't ask me to actually COUNT to 200. Or write my own name. But damn, the AirForce will sign me up in a flash when I'm older.
- inactive, on 04/26/2008, -1/+3This is surprisingly interesting.
- KibibyteBrain, on 04/26/2008, -0/+2I believe in more practical and entertaining learning, but:
"As I write this, my oldest is sitting next to me with one of the laptops trying to beat his personal best in a game of KHangMan."
I mean, I don't disagree. Its right, but is a very inefficient use of learning time. I mean, I could argue that playing RPGs or puzzle games on the SNES did the same for me, and would have been right to a degree. However I think the following applications of computers are far more profound:
-Wikipedia/Online Research Tools
-Computer Algebra Systems and other mathematical tools
-ebooks and services like Safari Books Online
-Online academic tools like cnx.
-Other people's source code to read
-Online literature sites, both stories/poems and commentary
-Historical Source documents
-Art tutorials on basically anything, even obscure foreign techniques and styles
-Flashcards
-Sites like MAKE
-Educational Podcasts
-IPTV of science/educational content
The list goes on. These beat hangman or potato man or whatever by a longshot. If you study history, children of past times where the general education of the educated classes was far beyond the levels we see now didn't study from "dumbed down" sources. They read the same books everyone else did. And that was all there was really to do for fun. Now its different, but by making challenges fun, you can teach anything. For example, make a program that teaches basic geometry by showing a series of angles and an unknown angle, and have them input the correct angle to properly launch a catapult or missile. Thats edutainment. In fact, thats life. I'm an engineer and I don't usually go out and crack down studying hard math crap for the fun of it. I do it to solve problems that ARE interesting to me. So its pretty much the same thing for kids.
That said, some tools like KTurtle are great for kids. - Knet88, on 04/28/2008, -0/+2Life is what you make of it, homeschooling or not. I happen to have the misfortune of seeing kids I knew in Jr High and High School while I'm out here at college, and they're annoying.
- BassJunkie, on 04/27/2008, -0/+2The nice thing with Linux and Ubuntu is we don't have to hijack digg to make it look popular. A quick look over at distrowatch will show Ubuntu as the most popular linux OS, showing it must be doing some good! As for your "estimates" of the amount of children using Edubuntu I have at least 3 so far in my family and they all love it, the only reason the other 2 aren't using it yet is that they are a bit to young to use the mouse (nearly 2 and 3 weeks!) All of the applications mentioned in the article are great for the kids and help them learn important skills whilst having fun! It is now actually the only OS on their PC and I can safely say they don't miss windows!
- spalVl, on 04/26/2008, -0/+2You are communicating with others right now from your home. If companies allow remote employees what is wrong with remote education?
- theferno, on 04/27/2008, -2/+4why would you ever home school your kids? unless you live in the fkn ghetto you are ruining your kids (potential) lives
- Picer, on 04/26/2008, -0/+2Good article but screen shots would have been nice.
- greevar, on 04/26/2008, -0/+2Great article. It's very encouraging.
- eternicode, on 04/29/2008, -0/+2Re: autistic kids:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/2988647.stm
You were saying?
As for dealing with people, I've never heard a bully story that ended with "and the big bully ran off crying!" - asforme, on 04/27/2008, -1/+2Faced with making the decision for my child soon I think homeschooling is much better than sending him to a government school where he can get expelled if he points his finger and says bang or brings peanuts to school. Through church and sports and other social activities I think my child will be fine.
However I will NOT be making my child learn cursive? I mean WTF, why? - asforme, on 04/27/2008, -0/+1sudo aptitude install edubuntu-desktop
- Jlaw09, on 04/26/2008, -0/+1Our school is thinking about getting edubuntu maybe. So its not just for homeschooling :P
- OneLess, on 04/26/2008, -0/+1Head fake, as Randy Pausch would say :)
- aliguana, on 04/26/2008, -0/+1So do I. Learning doesn't stop at 3 when school stops. Little, often, and subtly is the way to teach them. So they don't realise they are doing "work". So they don't realise they are learning.
- newwatch51, on 04/28/2008, -1/+2something tells me you've never used this software
- Zpanzer, on 04/26/2008, -1/+2When I was in public school, all our computers used Windows 98 and 2000, which isn't a very good learning environment for youngsters because you're pretty much on your own unless you have a friend or someone who knows a bit about dancing around in the Windows OS'(which thankfully many does since it's pretty much the standard). Now the great thing about this OS is that first of all, it is free(which won't set you're school back a lot of money when they need to upgrade their computer's OS, my school had around 120 computers), it comes with many of the Must Have programs like Open-Office(which is a very good alternative to MS Office, in case someone didn't know) and lot's of extra programs that is able to teach people. I could see this be very popular in a matter of years if they keep developing it.
- vincentweber, on 04/26/2008, -1/+2I would love to see you write an article about an OS other than Linux that can accomplish what Edubuntu can.
- Knet88, on 04/28/2008, -0/+1Keep up the work Edubuntu devs, there is a lot of promise in the project.
- cquinnd, on 04/26/2008, -0/+1I have a slow torrent for the latest releases of 8.04 to test out on some older computers I am repurposing, and I completely overlooked this version. I'm making a note to try this out.
- tsinbad, on 04/26/2008, -0/+1Is there a (hopefully easy) way to convert an existing Ubuntu 8.04 installation to Edubuntu?
- eternicode, on 04/29/2008, -0/+1Well, duh
http://youtube.com/watch?v=lj3iNxZ8Dww - eternicode, on 04/29/2008, -0/+1This topic has been nearly beaten to death already. Please read through the comment thread, if you are capable of doing so.
- cquinnd, on 04/26/2008, -0/+1You mean like setting up a dual boot system, one side with Edubuntu, and the other side with Windows running Software for Starving Students or some other educational suite?
- asforme, on 04/27/2008, -0/+1It is.
- eternicode, on 04/29/2008, -1/+2At least we have a worldview that doesn't change whenever mainstream secular scientists carbon-date a new rock :D
But, really, how is a homeschooling couple teaching their kids a Biblical worldview "Ultra Religious"? The public schools teach humanism and such, excluding Biblical Christianity, and that's not "Ultra Religious"?
Sorry, but thinking the earth is 6K years old based on the Bibilical account and evidence is not "Ultra Religious". - flarn2006, on 06/03/2008, -0/+1But they shouldn't be mandatory.
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