What is your education plan for your child?

[Anonymous]

You can look at this from so many perspectives, but you can't escape doing the work yourself. School will only cover so much.

What are your strengths? What are your weaknesses? Start here.

[Anonymous]

Is this a CKLA shill thread?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I'd like to raise a well-rounded well educated child who has a solid foundation of the classics and the liberal arts and a thorough appreciation of STEM if he is so inclined.

What tips or suggestions you may have to achieve this?

The classics? Liberal arts? I suggest you read "The Well Trained Mind".

[Anonymous]

The so-called “classics” are racist.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Is this a CKLA shill thread?

No, parents just like when their kids learn actual content and not just a bunch of nebulous “skills.”

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The so-called “classics” are racist.

The homeschoolers I know are better at including diverse books in their reading than the public schools are, as well as diverse figures.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Honestly? Homeschooling.

That only works if the parents knows everything mentioned by the OP. It’s doubtful too many parents qualify for the job.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I'd like to raise a well-rounded well educated child who has a solid foundation of the classics and the liberal arts and a thorough appreciation of STEM if he is so inclined.

What tips or suggestions you may have to achieve this?

The first thing we did was opt out of this country’s crumbling public school system and put our kid in a high quality private school.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The so-called “classics” are racist.

lol ok.

OP probably meant Plato, Catullus, Socrates, Aristotle … the classics. The basis of Western philosophy.

Not Huck Finn or Joseph Conrad.

My kid will have read The Iliad and the Odyssey by the time she graduates high school, so she can understand the classic hero’s journey that we see repeated over and over again.

She will have read The Republic, so she can understand the basis for modern political systems.