Guidance Counselor

Project Shop Class spotlight school:- Britannia Secondary School

Mr. Newland's PE class of the 80s

Lassen High School Art Project

Homeschooling today

It's been going on 12 years since I've last did a 8-10 page research paper for English 101 for Community College Public school or private school vs. homeschooling. If you would have told me that homeschooling was the best solution, I would have probably argued why public school or private school might be the best solution for kids going to elementary school, junior high, and high school. However, my views have changed in the past 10 years. First of all, public school have been like a war zone for kids. Bullies are a lot more common, gang violence is happening more in the inner cities, gun violence has been on an all-time high, suicide rates are at an all-time high, and what is being taught in the school curriculum is a whole lot worse nowadays than it was back in the 80's and 90's. Private school, once thought of as a school parents wanted to send their kids to, have become more and more like public schools in their teaching criteria. Parents want the best education for their kids and their kids are getting a watered down version of learning to where he or she can just get their passing C or D to graduate from high school and not learn a thing after they graduate. Parents who have brought up their children in a Christian home where he or she was involved in the church and church activities instill Proverbs 22:6 (KJV) which says "Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it." This is a constant Bible verse that my mom instilled when she was raising me and my 6 older brothers. Some of us went through challenges while others of us didn't go through as much challenges. Out of all of my brothers, I was the only one that did 2 years at a private school.

Now my attention will be focused on homeschooling. At this day and age homeschooling may very well be viewed as the best solution. Here's why, for one school is not held 5 days a week and 6 hours a day like both public school and private school. What children learn in public school or private school for all of those hours, children learn the same thing in 2 hours at home. Parents have an option of what subject or subjects that they want to talk about while homeschooling their kids and SAT's tests or any form of Aptitude tests are not focused on as much like they are in public school. The children are in their element and the parents who are teaching their children are like their children's advisers as well as their teacher. Public school or private school can be challenging for children and making friends can be tough because there are crowds. The popular crowd, the smart crowd, the thug crowd, etc. Not everyone is going to like each other and often arguments, bickering, and fighting may occur when children are in both public school and private school. Parents won't have to worry about things like that going on because they would be homeschooling their children at home. There are some knocks on homeschooling like home-schooled children could become emotionally and socially detached after they graduate from high school and decide that he or she may want to go to a Community college or a University. Also, home-schoolers are viewed as possibly being emotionally and socially detached in the workforce too. I think that may have to do with a lot of exposure that parents have going on for their children when he or she is meeting new people. In church, it's easy to fellowship and meet a lot of new people if a home-schooled child or children was brought up in the church. Another thing, you meet a lot of people traveling and going on different field trips. I think if parents are not satisfied with the education and if they feel that their children are not learning then homeschooling is not a bad idea. I think probably the biggest challenges that kids go through is being ridiculed or being made fun of in private school or public school. If a child have Autism, Down syndrome, Dyslexia, ADHD, etc., he or she is prone to being bullied because of it. Parents who home school their children with special needs or who have children with any kind of disability will feel a lot better than sending him or her to public school or private school. Public school and private school is where they label people and stereotype people. The education have been dumb down to the point that it's not worth parents sending their children to public school or private school.

Say No To Drugs - It's Your Decision / Educational Anti-Drug Documentary

Bully Prevention

The effect of bullying (A bully will target anyone who is defenseless)

A bully usually bully another person because they were bullied themselves when they were a kid. (An act of cowardliness)

It takes everyone in their towns of their respective states in 50 states that help prevent bullying in their community.

I thought I would write about a topic that is constantly occurring such as bullying. Bullying have been going on when I was in elementary school since back in the 80's, when I was in private school back in the early 90's, and when I was in high school back in the mid till late 90's. The definition of bullying is simply those who are bigger and stronger and picking on and harassing (both verbally and physically) those who are smaller and who are weaker than him or her. Bullies tend to be cowards, who prey on those who are intimidated by him or her. For example, a young teenager who is 13 years old in 8th grade might bully a kid who is in elementary school maybe who is 9 in the 4th grade. He or she may threaten to beat that person up if they don't give them their lunch money. When I was growing up people handled bullies differently. They usually stood up to them when he or she got tired of being bullied. Or they went outside and fist fought until the other person lost (9 times out of 10 it was the bully that lost the fight and he or she left that person alone who they were bullying). If you were in the inner city that is how people dealt with bullies or they got a bunch of friends who were small like them and ganged up on the bully and beat him or her up that so he or she would stop bullying little kids who were smaller than them.

You look back how things were back in the 80's and 90's and look how things have changed so much since then. For one thing people is bullying people online as well as in school. This form of bullying is Cyber bullying where a person meet someone online and just threaten to beat him or her up. Chatting online is not always the best way because people can cuss or swear and he or she know that there is nothing that the other person can do because they are anywhere between 20 miles- 10,000 miles away from them (one girl was being bullied online in Seattle, WA so much to where she got tired of it, so she left Washington State and moved to Connecticut to stay with her Aunt). People used to say things face to face and didn't hide behind a computer but people who are on social network websites like Facebook, MySpace, etc., are usually being harassed with hateful comments on their wall or in messages. It's really no use in anyone trying to make their profile private because everyone know who you are if you are an active user of those websites that were mentioned. I heard so many people who were bullied on social network websites who were young teenagers who committed suicide by hanging themselves from listening to the news. Bullying have been more common to where parents who have children carry guns, knives, and other weapons to school because their son or daughter is being constantly bullied and beaten up for their lunch money or their clothes. In a lot of cases the teachers are even bullying the students which is more common now. It's true, I've heard cases where a teacher slapped a student or punched a student in the face. The mom or dad of their son or daughter get a phone call from the principal that their child was beaten up by the teacher in class. How do you prevent bullying? How do you stop kids from committing suicide because he or she was constantly bullied to where they couldn't take it anymore? Well, it takes everyone as a whole that is going to help prevent the bullying that go on in the inner cities, in public schools, and online.