reconsider homeschooling forum?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I think you should prove the need for a homeschool forum by starting successful threads in General Education, which is where your discussions belong. If you can show interest in your threads, maybe there would be enough interest to sustain a forum. At this point, I don't see it. Most of the homeschool threads are silly or simple requests for resources. That's fine and suits the General Education forum.

+1.

If that doesn't suit you, have you really thought through what having a homeschooling forum on DCUM would be like? Every thread would turn up in Recent Threads, and so every person who thinks you're a bunch of kooks would come out and troll your threads. It would be impossible to have civil conversations about homeschooling. If the other homeschooling forums on the internet don't suit you and you're looking for more of a local resource, perhaps start a Yahoo group where you can verify addresses to make sure people are local, and can have more control over booting out people who just make trouble.

[jsteele]

Anonymous wrote:I think you should prove the need for a homeschool forum by starting successful threads in General Education, which is where your discussions belong. If you can show interest in your threads, maybe there would be enough interest to sustain a forum. At this point, I don't see it. Most of the homeschool threads are silly or simple requests for resources. That's fine and suits the General Education forum.

This has been my position each time this request comes up. I simply don't think we would have the traffic to justify a forum. I also think that I did create a home schooling forum several years ago. Does anyone else remember that? I guess I could be wrong, but I think we had one and it didn't work out. However, I'll give thought to creating such a forum just to see how it goes and, if it fails, but this discussion to rest.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:YES! JEFF, PLEASE! I came into this forum just to ask this exact question. There are so many homeschool questions I want to ask on DCUM, but I don't want the pool of responses to mostly be from people who send their kids to school. Nothing against their choices, but they don't look at questions the way homeschoolers do. I only want to ask homeschoolers questions about homeschooling. The few homeschool questions that do get asked don't get very many answers, not because we're not on DCUM, but because we just stay out of the education forums for these reasons.

Josh Duggar has plenty of free time to participate.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I think you should prove the need for a homeschool forum by starting successful threads in General Education, which is where your discussions belong. If you can show interest in your threads, maybe there would be enough interest to sustain a forum. At this point, I don't see it. Most of the homeschool threads are silly or simple requests for resources. That's fine and suits the General Education forum.

+1.

If that doesn't suit you, have you really thought through what having a homeschooling forum on DCUM would be like? Every thread would turn up in Recent Threads, and so every person who thinks you're a bunch of kooks would come out and troll your threads. It would be impossible to have civil conversations about homeschooling. If the other homeschooling forums on the internet don't suit you and you're looking for more of a local resource, perhaps start a Yahoo group where you can verify addresses to make sure people are local, and can have more control over booting out people who just make trouble.

Again, i think people have explained why the DCUM forum would be of interest and why they can work around trolls. Do you concern troll the relationships forum as well?

[Anonymous]

Can a designation be encouraged for homeschool topics like is done on the real estate board ?

[Anonymous]

I have noticed two threads have been started on homeschooling. (I think its two, it could be three) and they all have only 1 response. Its not exactly breaking the barn doors down folks!!!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Did you ever consider that the kooky homeschool demographic may not be something that Jeff wants an influx of here? We already have enough insane out-of-town conservatives in the Political forum.

This. These people shouldnt be on the internet anyway, lest it prove to be a portal for the Devil.

Don't stereotype. We had some close friends who homeschooled their kids because they were dyed-in-the-wool communists who didn't want their kids indoctrinated into the Capitalist Machine.

OK, still kooky, but a different kind of kooky.

[Anonymous]

How about a SAHM forum? Same dif.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:How about a SAHM forum? Same dif.

You could argue that the whole site is a SAHM site, with room for those working mothers who are time wasting at their desks.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Did you ever consider that the kooky homeschool demographic may not be something that Jeff wants an influx of here? We already have enough insane out-of-town conservatives in the Political forum.

Ahhh, here we have the epitome of a highly educated, liberal person?! Not a chance. A person with a truly liberal mind wouldn't toss around words like "insane" to describe voters of a different political persuasion.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:How about a SAHM forum? Same dif.

You could argue that the whole site is a SAHM site, with room for those working mothers who are time wasting at their desks.

Funny how perceptions are. As a SAHM most times I feel like this entire site is used by WOHMs.

[Anonymous]

I think homeschoolers just want a forum on DCUM because they see that as some sort of validation of their decision.

I think there's a lot of channels already on the Internet for homeschoolers. It doesn't make any sense to me for DCUM to create a thread for a fringe activity like this. There's no real other precedent. The closest would be now interest groups like TTC or Special Needs Kids, but those are innate circumstances thrust upon people who need support, not groups devoted to a deviant lifestyle choice.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I think homeschoolers just want a forum on DCUM because they see that as some sort of validation of their decision.

I think there's a lot of channels already on the Internet for homeschoolers. It doesn't make any sense to me for DCUM to create a thread for a fringe activity like this. There's no real other precedent. The closest would be now interest groups like TTC or Special Needs Kids, but those are innate circumstances thrust upon people who need support, not groups devoted to a deviant lifestyle choice.

I don't homeschool or even have kids and this is just over the top.

[jsteele]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I think homeschoolers just want a forum on DCUM because they see that as some sort of validation of their decision.

I think there's a lot of channels already on the Internet for homeschoolers. It doesn't make any sense to me for DCUM to create a thread for a fringe activity like this. There's no real other precedent. The closest would be now interest groups like TTC or Special Needs Kids, but those are innate circumstances thrust upon people who need support, not groups devoted to a deviant lifestyle choice.

I don't homeschool or even have kids and this is just over the top.

I agree. That kind of terminology actually makes me more willing to set up a homeschooling forum.

[Anonymous]

HOMESCHOOLING DEVIANTS!!!!!!!

Sounds like a good forum title.

- OP