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madowlspeaks
Joined: 07 Dec 2006
Location: Somewhere in time and space
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 Posted: Mon Feb 13, 2012 4:36 am Post subject: Homeschooling your kids while teaching in Korea |
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Maybe this topic has been around, but I am asking for sincere people to give advice or resources or experience about homeschooling.
Just can't fathom putting my children in 'school' here (although I do prefer the math scores here compared to America 
Seriously, please share sincere experience about this topic. Or if this topic has been around then please share the link. |
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ttompatz
Joined: 05 Sep 2005
Location: Kwangju, South Korea
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| Posted: Mon Feb 13, 2012 5:33 am Post subject: Re: Homeschooling your kids while teaching in Korea |
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| madowlspeaks wrote: |
Maybe this topic has been around, but I am asking for sincere people to give advice or resources or experience about homeschooling.
Just can't fathom putting my children in 'school' here (although I do prefer the math scores here compared to America
Seriously, please share sincere experience about this topic. Or if this topic has been around then please share the link. |
For NON-Americans there are lots of decent options for distance learning.
Aus, Can, NZ, et al, all have government backed distance learning / home schooling options for children who cannot make it to a regular school. Prices range about $1000 per academic year for G1-12 and on leaving they receive the same diploma as someone who studied in a brick school in the same state/province.
For Americans your options are much more limited and far more expensive. There are correspondence programs like the Calvert Correspondence School ( http://www.calvertschool.org/ ) or wing it yourself (with help from the internet and message forums from other parents in the same boat).
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madowlspeaks
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| Posted: Mon Feb 13, 2012 5:47 am Post subject: |
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Great information! Thank you. There is the Keystone school too, which starts at middle school. http://keystoneschoolonline.com/
Just wondering how I could teach calculus, never having taken it myself......  |
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T-J
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Location: Seoul EunpyungGu Yeonsinnae
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| Posted: Mon Feb 13, 2012 6:54 am Post subject: |
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By putting school in quotes the OP obviously has some preconceived ideas about the Korean PS system. Yet backhandedly yields to the fact that Korean students outperform their western counterparts in mathematics.
As a parent of a student in the PS system I'd be happy to answer any questions you may have.
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madowlspeaks
Joined: 07 Dec 2006
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| Posted: Mon Feb 13, 2012 12:48 pm Post subject: |
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| T-J wrote: |
By putting school in quotes the OP obviously has some preconceived ideas about the Korean PS system. Yet backhandedly yields to the fact that Korean students outperform their western counterparts in mathematics.
As a parent of a student in the PS system I'd be happy to answer any questions you may have.
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Dude, please don't twist and make an issue out of what I wrote. Please keep on the subject and please try not to cut up and evaluate what I said. I said I am looking for SINCERE advice, not opinions about the logic of my posting.
I put the word school in quotes because right now my kid goes to a playhouse where there is no curriculum. So school in quotes means real school.
Further, I would love to ask you about your situation with your kid in school, but seeing how you poopood on my posting (in third person nonetheless) you have kind of alienated me from anything you might have to say. |
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whiteshoes
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| Posted: Tue Feb 14, 2012 4:26 am Post subject: |
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I know of people who send their kids to the Chinese school and French school. While not homeschooling, it will help your children learn new languages, and you be able to still have them socialize.
Just a thought. |
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madowlspeaks
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| Posted: Tue Feb 14, 2012 4:29 am Post subject: |
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| whiteshoes wrote: |
I know of people who send their kids to the Chinese school and French school. While not homeschooling, it will help your children learn new languages, and you be able to still have them socialize.
Just a thought. |
Excellent contribution. Thanks. Would you happen to know any names or locations of the French schools? |
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T-J
Joined: 10 Oct 2008
Location: Seoul EunpyungGu Yeonsinnae
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| Posted: Tue Feb 14, 2012 5:17 am Post subject: |
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| madowlspeaks wrote: |
| T-J wrote: |
By putting school in quotes the OP obviously has some preconceived ideas about the Korean PS system. Yet backhandedly yields to the fact that Korean students outperform their western counterparts in mathematics.
As a parent of a student in the PS system I'd be happy to answer any questions you may have.
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Dude, please don't twist and make an issue out of what I wrote. Please keep on the subject and please try not to cut up and evaluate what I said. I said I am looking for SINCERE advice, not opinions about the logic of my posting.
I put the word school in quotes because right now my kid goes to a playhouse where there is no curriculum. So school in quotes means real school.
Further, I would love to ask you about your situation with your kid in school, but seeing how you poopood on my posting (in third person nonetheless) you have kind of alienated me from anything you might have to say. |
My son is finishing third grade elementary in a Korean 'school'.
He loves his 'school', his 'teachers', and his 'friends'. He looks forward to 'school' everyday. He also performs at a level comparable to 5th grade students in the U.S. in terms of math and science.
I can completely understand how you "couldn't fathom" that.
Read your OP again and then tell me how off my original response was.
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PatrickGHBusan
Joined: 24 Jun 2008
Location: Busan (1997-2008) Canada 2008 -
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| Posted: Tue Feb 14, 2012 5:32 am Post subject: Re: Homeschooling your kids while teaching in Korea |
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| madowlspeaks wrote: |
Maybe this topic has been around, but I am asking for sincere people to give advice or resources or experience about homeschooling.
Just can't fathom putting my children in 'school' here (although I do prefer the math scores here compared to America
Seriously, please share sincere experience about this topic. Or if this topic has been around then please share the link. |
TJ has a point OP....
As for your question: you now have what you need: options.
Up to you now to do your homework and get concrete information for yourself from the insititutes you are considering for your kids education.
TJ may have come off harshly but remember he lives in Korea (long timer) and has a child in the education system. You roll in and state you cannot fathomputting your child in a Korean "school" and you can see how it might be interpreted.
For what its worth, there are lots of people on here who have lived in Korea for a long, long time. Many have kids who attend "school" or just school there. My kids attended Korean daycares and our oldest was about to enter 1st grade when we left Korea. My point: you could get a lot of good advice here from experienced people.
Good luck. |
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myenglishisno
Joined: 08 Mar 2011
Location: Geumchon
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| Posted: Tue Feb 14, 2012 6:27 am Post subject: Re: Homeschooling your kids while teaching in Korea |
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| madowlspeaks wrote: |
Maybe this topic has been around, but I am asking for sincere people to give advice or resources or experience about homeschooling.
Just can't fathom putting my children in 'school' here (although I do prefer the math scores here compared to America
Seriously, please share sincere experience about this topic. Or if this topic has been around then please share the link. |
I think Elementary school here is okay, it's in Middle School where they start turning the kids into robots... |
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ontheway
Joined: 24 Aug 2005
Location: Somewhere under the rainbow...
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| Posted: Tue Feb 14, 2012 9:15 am Post subject: Re: Homeschooling your kids while teaching in Korea |
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| PatrickGHBusan wrote: |
| madowlspeaks wrote: |
Maybe this topic has been around, but I am asking for sincere people to give advice or resources or experience about homeschooling.
Just can't fathom putting my children in 'school' here (although I do prefer the math scores here compared to America
Seriously, please share sincere experience about this topic. Or if this topic has been around then please share the link. |
TJ has a point OP....
As for your question: you now have what you need: options.
Up to you now to do your homework and get concrete information for yourself from the insititutes you are considering for your kids education.
TJ may have come off harshly but remember he lives in Korea (long timer) and has a child in the education system. You roll in and state you cannot fathomputting your child in a Korean "school" and you can see how it might be interpreted.
For what its worth, there are lots of people on here who have lived in Korea for a long, long time. Many have kids who attend "school" or just school there. My kids attended Korean daycares and our oldest was about to enter 1st grade when we left Korea. My point: you could get a lot of good advice here from experienced people.
Good luck. |
Interesting the divergent viewpoints of the OP's post regarding the interpretation of the phrase: "I can't fathom ... "
My initial reaction wasn't that it was a slam against Korean education but rather it was expressing his worry about the difficulty his children would encounter studying in Korean schools in the Korean language and perhaps as a parent being less able to help out with books and homework in Korean.
Having known children who were native Engish speakers who studied in Korean schools, it is possible and could be very rewarding, but there will be challenges.
As to the quality of Korean public school education, I have taught math and science to top ranked Korean students here in Korea at every grade level, and while every school is different, just as in the US, they are no better on average than American schools, especially elementary schools. Those Korean children who perform better do so due to better outside assistance in the form of hogwans, home teachers, parental help and/or their own personal efforts and ability. |
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PatrickGHBusan
Joined: 24 Jun 2008
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| I agree with you ontheway. |
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Lolimahro
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I was homeschooled in the U.S. as a teenager. My mother used a religious curriculum; however, most of the materials were not religious (except bible and maybe science). You can buy books individually and just skip the ones that don't strike your fancy, or you can search for the books you want on The Book Depository. http://www.sonlight.com/
My plan is to have my son in Korean public elementary school, but instead of sending him to English hagwon, giving him English assignments at home with textbooks I buy from the bookstore. (that's 3 years down the road, though) Bandi & Luni's has a good selection of elementary-level Language arts, science, and math. The teachers that I work with all are trained to work at PS in the U.S. and they recommend Harcourt curriculum.
As for high school, I think the University of Texas has a distance learning program for high schoolers. http://www.utexas.edu/ce/k16/
All the information I have is from the U.S., though. If you're from somewhere else it looks like you may have better options. 
Best of luck! |
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orosee
Joined: 07 Mar 2008
Location: Hannam-dong, Seoul
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| Posted: Tue Feb 14, 2012 5:34 pm Post subject: |
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Doesn't the use of quote marks imply sarcasm unless used for quotations?
As English ''teachers'' you should have a common understanding of this.
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nathanrutledge
Joined: 01 May 2008
Location: Marakesh
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| Posted: Tue Feb 14, 2012 5:45 pm Post subject: |
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Personally I find it amusing that people who marry Koreans are so quick to slam public schools. I mean, your spouse is a product of that system... right? So... they are mindless morons with no creativity who melted away in hagwons... and you married AND procreated with them...? 
No one can deny that the K schools have their problems, but they also have their high points as well. As with all things related to children, IMO, it comes back to the parents. Absentee parenting + fantastic schools = terrible kids. Fantastic parents + horrific schools = great kids.
Any parent who trusts ANY education system blindly with the education of their children is a fool. |
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