Comedian on Home Schooling

[b33p3rz]

Shoot up the kitchen, lol that's awesome. Very good point though, keep up the good work :D

[immunej]

You Suck A** you are not funny!

[RileyBBQ]

lulz

[streamybed]

I get it. However, my kids were homeschooled all their lives until last year, the oldest entering 7th grade... and they were totally out of sinc with and ignorant of american culture in its entirety. They knew how to talk to adults, but could not relate to kids their own age at all. Yes, a lot of peer interactions are not pleasant, but even still they are useful. One must learn to hold one's own amongst one's peers as everyone jostles for status and identity. They need to belong.

[klfly]

Don't you think there are other, better places for a child to learn peer interaction than at school where the child to adult ration is so out of control? Isn't there a balance between the extremes of little to no interaction and the largely unsupervised mob interaction?

[iluvspikyhair]

My school wasn't that bad. At teaching me that teachers won't help you when you're outnumbered by bullies.

[2007regis]

Yeah, I pretty much hated most of my schoolmates - they ranged from retards to violent retards. I never even imagined shooting them, though.

I went to public schools - went in confused, came out confused.

[TheTollundWoman]

Homeschooling is in no way perfect but it is radically preferable to the alternative. In the public schools everything is geared toward test scores and becoming a 'productive member of the work force'; education is not a means of empowerment, but a means of restriction and control in the worst sense. The teacher is primarily an *authority* and only rarely an educator. The entire system resembles a prison. I'm not exagerating, if you don't believe me read "Savage Inequalities" by Jonathan Kozol.

[natmanprime]

yes yes yes

i agree

ignore the thumbs down

[TomMSTie]

I totally saw that coming. XD

[theJamesWilliams]

Righteous joke

[ihavenospaces]

great joke.

[mtanti87]

good one :)

[klfly]

Elementary and Jr. High in Corona, CA. High School and continuation high school in Roseville, CA (a suburb of Sacramento.)

[UraniumMan]

That was funny as hell, dude. On a serious note, there are other ways to get social interaction with other kids. Most parents just think of school as a babysitter anyway. :oP

[klfly]

Absolutely. I don't know if we'll home-school, mostly because we may not have enough money, but if we do there will also be karate, dance, gymnastics, art classes, etc. And there are home-schooling groups that get together. I'd found a non-religious one, not that it would be just for non-religious people, just that it wouldn't be religious.

[InternetArgument]

Haha nice.

[MikeWtf]

Damit now I want to buy this album

[jimdidr]

love this joke [Check]

[Mathenaut]

LOL, oh the irony.

I like this though. Definitely buying your CD to support.

[Nilopollis]

I loved highschool....maybe its because I lived in an upper-class Connecticut suburb. Dedicated teachers, friends, girls. I don't think I saw one fight, pregnancy, bullying or clique atmosphere the whole time. Now middleschool on the other hand was a living hell.

[ProfetaParanoia]

you're best so far. congrats!!!!

[nsewx]

highschool was like middle school on crack...

pregnant chicks,school fights,teachers doing drugs and the way everyone mocked the retarded kids because of how they looked. the whole time I was in school I hated it, from 1st grade to college it's all been a pain in the neck.

[natmanprime]

YES

[guildpactminish]

God, high school was a living hell.

[natmanprime]

close enough man

[TLSlayer]

dont forget the chocolate swirlies

[wolfwing1]

I'm not against homeschooling my problems with it is WHY it is often chosen, if your taking your kids out of school because your afraid they arn't getting a good science and such education then great. If your taking them out because your afraid tehy WILL get a good science education like evolution and such then there is a problem.

[klfly]

VERY well put! I give your comment five stars.

[wolfwing1]

My sister is going to homeschool her kids, and both her and my mom are Christians and don't accept evolution and such....heck my mom really doesn't like church now, since to her it's becoming too new agey so homeschooling hits a bit home. Mind you I for my last two years was at a school for kids with AD/HD so I can appreciate specialized teaching and such.

[Knowlin]

Don't home-schooled kids need to be tested yearly?

And I think evolution would be part of the testing (Except KANSAS!)

[wolfwing1]

it may be fine, I just know that there are alot of fundementalist that do it, but I'm Canadian so don't know if it's different, still just worried they will leave out anything that conflicts with their religious views.

[UraniumMan]

They probably just teach it to them like you would teach a student about ancient Greek mythology.

[mambuduomally]

seriously don't let them do that, its basically condemning them to a life of stupitidy.

they need a proper education and you seem like the only one who has the sense to see that so push it

[UraniumMan]

That depends on who is doing the home schooling. Do you have any idea how much the public school system sucks in the U.S.? My grandpa had it right when he called it a "Blockhead factory"... lol

[rarrmonkey]

100 *'s

[InvaderZooych]

lol genius keith :D

[OwenGTA]

Lol funny stuff Keith.

[mikedamat]

You made my day, thanks

[killingthemslowly]

Yeah, this was great. I started online schooling a month ago, after about a week, they had a school shooting, although no one was killed, its probably best that i avoided that lol

[saken]

Haha, good one. :)

[DeflocculatedDentist]

I was worried that you were going to be all against home schooling like a lot of people in the "new atheism" are. I'm homeschooled, and it's really great not be spoon-fed everything and to be able to study what I want to.

[lastrites84]

Most people who oppose home-school do so, because in a lot of cases (not all) the education is worse than it wold have been in a public school, then when the kids try to get into colleges they fail the entrance exams. Public school never stopped me from studying what I wanted. I either found a way to work it into an assignment or did it when I got home.

[klfly]

Yeah, It think there should be standards but here in CA it would be hard to present a worse education than I had at school and the violence, harassment and intimidation that were part of every day life was unacceptable. I had a knife pulled on me, I was forced into several fights, I had a car full of thugs come to my house at night and I actually did better than a-lot of people I knew. It was like being in prison for 8 hours a day.

[DeflocculatedDentist]

Home school students generally do better on tests than average public school students. What I was saying is that it's time better spent, being that I study what I want IN SCHOOL. Instead of a half-ass biology teacher saying "I just have to teach this, but you don't need to believe it," I got a thorough understanding of evolution, and now this year I'm studying American Indian history and basic cosmology in detail when I otherwise wouldn't be able to use my time this way.

[CousinoMacul]

Cute.

[ExilePrime]

I'm glad you agree with Home Schooling . Alot of comedians insult it and I've actually lost some respect for Dave Attell because of his comments , he calls H.S. students stupid and racist .

Then again , Dave Attell is a prick.

[AirsoftHanoverPA]

So true haha. That's what my peer interaction amounted to.

[RodHullIOnceWasHim]

From the UK, went to Amazon, can't buy it man... Annoying!!

[orgixvi3]

Great material! XD

[klfly]

Thanks. :D

[orgixvi3]

I'm just glad I never when through the shooting up thing! But the "faggot" and beat ups did though! o_O

lol, I went to a catholic school. I went in kinda unsure of God, came out atheist! XD

[klfly]

So I guess Catholic school serves a purpose then. :D

[orgixvi3]

Our 8th grade class trip was to Niagra falls, probably because there was running water there (unlike the school)