Skip to content
{ 2004 10 20 }

Ladies Home Journal Homeschool Quiz

The Ladies Home Journal (didn’t realize they were even still publishing) has a quiz to help you decide if homeschooling or public schooling right for you. It told me…

A public school might be the most appropriate school for your child and your family. Public schools offer many benefits, including a broad curriculum, exposure to other cultures and lifestyles, and a feeling of community. When parents stay active in their child’s education (helping with homework, attending meetings with teachers), a child can get her personal needs met through a public education system.

And this is after I answered that I fundamentally disagree with public education, my kids are well above or below normal intelligence, they do well in 1 on 1 situations, and that my local schools have serious drug, gang, and alcohol problems.

I did get the quiz to spit out a recommendation to homeschool or private school, but I had to answer in the most negative, anti-social way possible for each question to get that result.

via Relaxed Homeskool

Posted by Chris ODonnell on Wednesday, October 20, 2004, at 6:24 pm. Filed under Education. Follow any responses to this post with its comments RSS feed. Both comments and trackbacks are currently closed.

{ 5 } Comments

  1. stoddart | October 20, 2004 at 8:42 pm | Permalink

    Somebody needs to clue Kim in to why she should use .GIFs instead of .JPEGs…sheesh.

    Reverse the curse!!!

  2. Ogre | October 21, 2004 at 12:54 pm | Permalink

    DID THEY YELL IT TO YOU LIKE YOUR GIANT FONT? Sorry, it’s just really huge on your front page today. :)

    I’m trying to take the quiz, but it’s really, really slow — why put 14 questions on 14 different pages?

    lalalalala…

    Hey, I actually got “You might want to consider private or homeschooling for your child.” Guess I’m just too pessimistic on government schools. :)

  3. Chris | October 21, 2004 at 9:28 pm | Permalink

    Sorry about the large font – thats what I get for posting afer midnight – didn’t close a header tag.

  4. donna | October 21, 2004 at 11:59 pm | Permalink

    Wow, what a lousy test. All my children are grown, and I never considered homeschooling them mainly because I knew I wasn’t suited for it. Would a meaningful test have to take into consideration the parents’ attitudes?

  5. Ogre | October 22, 2004 at 9:17 pm | Permalink

    No, it wouldn’t consider parent’s attitudes — you have to realize that government knows best, no matter what you, as an alleged parent think.