/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.5961445]

How does /lit/ plan on educating their children?

I'm still coming to terms with the unavoidable need to partially homeschool them if they are ever going to learn any mathematics during K-7...

[Anonymous No.5961486]

Khan Academy is great for K-7. Just have them use that.

[Anonymous No.5961496]

>>5961445
>children

[Anonymous No.5961523]

>>5961496
>Not breeding

[Anonymous No.5961644]

>>5961445
I don't think I'm going to let my kid read YA. Just get them some entry level classics. And I don't know, American public school is absolutely scholarly neglect. >>5961445
Seems like a possible option

[Anonymous No.5961658]

>implying I'll ever lose my virginity

[Anonymous No.5961659]

>educating your children in the US
>not sending them off somewhere to do the IB

[someone else No.5961661]

>>5961523
>Resources aren't finite

We do need to focus on areas that don't understand this or have any infrastructure, though

[Anonymous No.5961670]

>>5961486
>Khan Academy

I'm concerned with them not being taught anything and not being unable to understand what was taught. Khan Academy is too shallow.

[Anonymous No.5961682]

>>5961445

Depends on how wealthy I get. I'm leaning towards a a mixture of prep school and 'unschooling'


I had a qt3.14 gf in college who was pretty cool. Her wealthy parents 'unschooled' her. she turned out okay, but she had barely read any books and couldn't do any math. So I'd probably let them roll around in the mud until 5th grade, homeschool them for 6th and 7th and try and get into prep school/magnet school thereafter. IDK how feasible this is though.

[Anonymous No.5961693]

>having children in these uncertain times

[Anonymous No.5961699]

>>5961644
YA isn't bad, that's how I got into reading. Let them read what they fucking like you dipshit. If it becomes so much of a problem that they read YA that it starts to affect how they act then I think it's ok to try to steer them away from it, otherwise, let them just enjoy themselves and transition over at their own time

[Anonymous No.5961700]

>>5961658
It can be arranged, we could eventually consider adopting.

[Anonymous No.5961707]

>>5961445

i've seen such poor results from homeschooling that i would caution against it.

basically you're options are to either attend a very good public school (usually located in the most wealthy neighborhoods), attend a parochial school, or attend a prep school. the last option unfailingly gives you the best results.

you will notice the$e option$ all have $omething in common

[Anonymous No.5961773]

>>5961707
>very good public school (usually located in the most wealthy neighborhoods), attend a parochial school, or attend a prep school

Most of the improvements are marginal at best. Even kids that go to the best private schools in the state end up being partially home-schooled in order for them to learn math at a decent pace. Most of these kids aren't math geniuses either; they're just allowed to learn without wasting time and end up completing calculus by the 7th grade. The only schools I've ever heard of that go at that pace are in Eastern Europe and India....

[Anonymous No.5961780]

>>5961773

you mean tutoring. they are occasionally tutored by a hired professional. this is a different animal altogether from homeschooling.

[Anonymous No.5961807]

>>5961780
>tutored by a hired professional

I'm getting kids just for this

[Anonymous No.5961830]

i mean if you want to fire a tutor for your kid while they attend a normal public school then by all i means i would highly highly recommend it. it's just that homeschooling can so very easily go completely off the rails.

[Anonymous No.5961832]

>>5961830
>fire
*hire

[Anonymous No.5962129]

>>5961830
>>5961780

Where would you even find good tutors? Hunt down some starving graduate student every few years?

[Anonymous No.5962140]

>>5961445
i won't be a poor fuck and get them into a good school district with an IB program or send em to a Jesuit school.

[Anonymous No.5962153]

>>5961773
I'm an Indian who's family is rich as fuck, there is literally no place in this entire nation that teaches 7th graders Calculus.

Are you shitting me? Calculus requires higher level thought, 12 year olds who aren't prodigies literally don't have the mental capability to do anything being basic trigonometry.

what reason could you possible have for wanting to teach your middle schooler calc? They won't appreciate the singular and profound beauty of mathematics if you just cram them with knowledge without context.

This is why Homeschooling is for plebs

[Anonymous No.5962155]

>>5961445
They'll be going a international boarding school or possibly a catholic school.

I'm a protestant :)

[Anonymous No.5962188]

>>5962153
>I'm an Indian who's family is rich as fuck, there is literally no place in this entire nation that teaches 7th graders Calculus.

Technically the Indian was a 13 year old (8th grader) doing vector calculus in school. I assume she did single variable calculus the year before.

>Calculus requires higher level thought, 12 year olds who aren't prodigies literally don't have the mental capability to do anything being basic trigonometry.

Bullshit. Calculus isn't real analysis that requires very high level thought. Also, there have been others that successfully taught calculus to still younger kids (not that I think it's a good idea):
http://wildaboutmath.com/2008/02/20/calculus-in-4th-grade/
http://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2014/03/5-year-olds-can-learn-calculus/284124/

>what reason could you possible have for wanting to teach your middle schooler calc

Because you need it if you want to learn any science by high school and that is roughly where you should be at if math classes didn't waste so much damn time.

[Anonymous No.5962261]

>>5961644
Don't do that. My grandpa did that to my mom and she likes YA now.
My mom let me read YA and now I read the classics.

[Anonymous No.5962263]

>having children
embarrassing

[Anonymous No.5962288]

>i desire children

[Anonymous No.5962300]

>>5962263
>>5961693

The behavioral sink of the rat utopia is happening

[Anonymous No.5962302]

>>5961523
none of you fucks should be breeding

[Anonymous No.5962307]

>coming to terms with the unavoidable need to partially homeschool
>implying parents aren't supposed to partially educate their children at home
And that kids is how Walmart can maintain high turnover.

[Anonymous No.5963755]

>>5962307
Kids can't spend all their time learning

[Anonymous No.5963855]

>>5961693
Are you saying there're safe times?

[Anonymous No.5964296]

>>5963855
1st-7th day and then again from the 22nd to the 28th day.

[Anonymous No.5964663]

>>5961670

Khan Academy provides proofs and explains how the math works.

[Anonymous No.5964696]

>>5962307
>And that kids is how Walmart can maintain high turnover.

This doesn't even make sense, unless you don't know what "high turnover" is. No company out there wants high turnover, and they sure as shit don't work to "maintain" it.*

*Except in the odd case that there is a pension to pay to retirees and they want people paying into the pension who won't ever collect on it.

[Anonymous No.5964875]

>>5964663
Math major here. It's only helpful when you're completly lost, but even then it's just a starting point. Later on it's completely useless.

[Anonymous No.5964889]

>>5961445
lol, that pic

because your daughter is stupid, retard

[Anonymous No.5964923]

>>5964875
I don't think it is intended as a tool for degree level maths, is it?

[Anonymous No.5964935]

Send them to a good school, and yes they do exist, you just need to sit entrance exams. They also have stream lined entrance for previous students' foul, so my kids will be sweet. That and home school. I plan on getting my kids introduced to most things before they even reach school. I spent 6 months looking after my neice, and it is amazing how much little children learn, and how fast they learn it. So I believe the trick is to not underrmine them and talk baby shite, but to talk to them using normal words, but acting like a clown. I believve tthatt children accumulate much more ffrom their parents than from school. All the people who I grew up with who werre clearly the smartest - the ones who didn't need tto be spoon fed in class- came from active, interesting families. So I believe that is the trick, be interresting, and active, and the kid will be too.


Fuckin' sweet, mate. Gonna have God like children who will get the fuck beaten out of them daily

[Anonymous No.5965069]

>>5961780
what if i am a professional teacher and intend to homeschool through 7th grade? is there any reason to avoid it? the ability to explore more interests than just those prescribed in the classroom is pretty important for establishing a desire to learn.

note: i was homeschooled myself and understand the drawbacks it has for social interaction. they could mostly be dealt with by intentionally living in a neighbourhood with lots of kids and joining public clubs and sports teams and things.

[Anonymous No.5965080]

>children

Seriously, I don't know why 4chan is so big on the idea. Even though most posters seem comically right wing and into le wrong generation traditionalism, they also seem to have failed severely at some aspect of life or know how shit life is, so why they want to bring kids into the world makes no sense to me.

[Anonymous No.5965092]

>>5964889
No, many high schools seriously believe they shouldn't even bother teaching math past arithmetic

[Anonymous No.5965095]

>>5965080
> those other people on 4chan
I think it is for the best that you avoid breeding,

[Anonymous No.5965108]

>>5961445
I think there is no point in it. Don't want to immerse them into what I see as a corrupt and ultimately doomed civilization. I will teach them to read and to do some math but thats all. After shit goes down, that knowledge won't be as valuable as knowing how to work the fields or build a shelter. My wife and I decided a long time ago we aren't contributing to all of this bullshit, we have been looking into some land over in the mountains, far from all of it. We arent having kids just yet, but thats definitely part of the plan

[Anonymous No.5965159]

>>5961644
>thinking you can control kids like this

forbidden fruit always looks the juiciest

[Anonymous No.5965165]

I'm going to damage their anuses with my feet.

[Anonymous No.5965276]

Math? You should be more concerned with teaching them to have good attitudes towards life, being kind, thinking for themselves, valuing their own work, so they can be creative, disciplined, able to find the answers they need, knowing how to deal with what is strange, new and unknown, knowing history and language, knowing how to treat people with respect, knowing how to transform themselves and let go of yesterday's prejudice, etc.

TV, computer, videogames, school...None of those are babysitters, none of those are there to distract, or indoctrinate or keep your childrens as pre-adults without a subjectivity for the kids himself to explore. The job of good parents is to learn to let go of their kids, because they'll make their own choices and are different people than yourself. Learning to respect this difference and going through the different stages of life with health is the most important thing.

[Anonymous No.5965311]

>>5965095

That's what I'm getting at. I'd never want to bring a new life into the world as it and I see a lot of people here who are way more fucked up than I am, and I don't get their reasoning.