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My brother and I went to private schools, and I was scared of black people for a long time. I saw black people every day, but they either worked for my mom - and I knew them, or they were her patients. My mom insisted that I went to an HBCU and I refused to get out of the car on the first day. That fear didn't come from my parents. I think fitting in and functioning socially or different. There are some real weirdos who have been in school since day one. I don't want him to LEARN to conform. That could limit his creativity.
I don't want my kid to always be worried about what people think of him. I'd rather him not care. So if you are saying that the people you encountered were weird, but didn't care, to me, that is a good thing.
As far as race goes, I don't think he'll get an appreciation of the race in public or private school. African or African American history isn't priority in traditional American education systems. I think he'll learn more to appreciate his race at home with me, than he would in a classroom. That is where I got my appreciation from. My black history books were at my house. We don't watch TV
(just public) for that very reason. I don't want him to think that all white people are lawyers and all blacks are criminals, or that we just sing, dance, and jirate in videos (also known as Black Entertainment Television).
My thinking for home schooling came from thinking of the things that I taught my son daily that I know he wouldn't get at school. One day we were leaving the daycare and he was struggling to hold the door for his classmates mom. She grabbed the door and said, I got it. He said, "men hold the door for ladies." His favorite quote is, "If a man doesn't work, he doesn't eat." He says "please" and "thank you," and excuse me when he passes gas or burps. He eats with a fork, and uses his napkin. He knows that some people can't hear and that they speak with sign language, so he doesn't stare and point. To me that is what it means to know how to interact socially. He functions well in society without offending anyone.
There's a difference between being socially inept, and not being "cool" or "in". I wasn't even close to being "cool" or "in" until I was an adult, and i didn't care, which made my younger years a lot less stressful and painful than others that I knew.
I just want to know if anyone knows what the educational drawbacks were. Is it possible to know too much? There was a guy I knew who was in school, but his mom taught him a lot at home and it was just weird. He was always saying, "amazing, isn't it?" Like a complete freak. So far, without me formally homeschooling yet, he knows his alphabet in sign, and some vocabulary, some spanish, and a lot of the states, some of his bible books, and that is on top of the regular stuff like his alphabet, shapes, colors, some words by sight, animals, and stuff like that. He wants to know more, like a little sponge, but I wonder if a kid can know too much and THAT makes him seem strange.
Did anyone's parents use standardized testing?
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