family stuff, home schooling...
Nov. 27th, 2006 10:07 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
tanithryudoSo we went up to Sacramento and visited my aunt & uncles yesterday and had lunch and chatted and all, and it was nice. Well, interesting anyway, especially to hear my aunt rant and rave about the current state of healthcare and medical insurance and bureaucratic red tap (she's a doctor... pathologist I think).
They have twin girls, who are around... not sure, 7-8ish years old, I think. They plan to home school them for at least the rest of elementary, and most likely all of middle school as well. (Their dad stays at home and does the teaching, and they do take an outside class for Chinese school every Friday, and also I think dance class and possibly a swimming thing in the summer.)
Now, if we're talking just about technical knowledge, yeah, I guess they're probably more qualified to teach than most teachers out there. With regards to stuff like math and science, they won't have any problems. She's a Bio Ph.D, he's a Physics Ph.D, they both graduated from Standford/Caltech, so yeah.
But I have to wonder where they will pick up the neccessary English skills (and by this I mean to BS papers, not just how to read) or communication skills. I also have to wonder if their future literary experience will be more on the side of Star Trek than Shakespeare.
I know when I was talking to![[insanejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/ij-userinfo.gif)
cashew last night, she mentioned they won't be picking up any skills of how to interact with other people (be "sane human beings" in her words). Just wondering if I can get some more words out of people on this. =P
They have twin girls, who are around... not sure, 7-8ish years old, I think. They plan to home school them for at least the rest of elementary, and most likely all of middle school as well. (Their dad stays at home and does the teaching, and they do take an outside class for Chinese school every Friday, and also I think dance class and possibly a swimming thing in the summer.)
Now, if we're talking just about technical knowledge, yeah, I guess they're probably more qualified to teach than most teachers out there. With regards to stuff like math and science, they won't have any problems. She's a Bio Ph.D, he's a Physics Ph.D, they both graduated from Standford/Caltech, so yeah.
But I have to wonder where they will pick up the neccessary English skills (and by this I mean to BS papers, not just how to read) or communication skills. I also have to wonder if their future literary experience will be more on the side of Star Trek than Shakespeare.
I know when I was talking to
cashew last night, she mentioned they won't be picking up any skills of how to interact with other people (be "sane human beings" in her words). Just wondering if I can get some more words out of people on this. =P
