Bindi Irwin is homeschooled...

[blessed with boys]

How cool is that! I love hearing about famous families that homeschool their kiddos too, it helps get the "word" out about homeschooling. Anyways I was excited to read about that today.
Gotta love the Irwins....way to go Terri!
Jackie

[Mom4tot]

That's cool. I had a hunch.

[Arduinna]

Who?

[Arduinna]

ok nevermind I googled it.

[holyhelianthus]

Steve Irwins little girl. the Crocodile Hunter who was killed in a freak accident with a sting ray a while back.

[holyhelianthus]

Originally Posted by Arduinna

ok nevermind I googled it.

cross post!

[UnschoolnMa]

That's neat. She seems like an interesting kid when I see her now and then on TV.

[JeniferS]

Is she actually homeschooled (by her mother) or does she have a private tutor?

With their lifestyle, I'm not surprised that she is homeschooled. I don't see how their life would work with a school schedule. I wonder if hs critics would say that she is "unsocialized" because she doesn't spend her days with 30 other 8 year olds?

The John Edwards (running for prez) has pulled his young children out of school so that they can travel with him and his wife on the campaign trail. I'm sure they have a tutor but I still think it's great that they are spending the extra time with their children. (even though I'm not a democrat! LOL)

[reeseccup]

She's a neat little girl, very articulate and wise beyond her years.

This reminds me of a dream I had the other night:

I was doing something...outdoorsy? and Will Smith was helping me. We were talking and I said, rumor has it you hs, I think that is way cool. He said, "huh? Where'd you hear that, we don't homeschool!"....UGH burst my bubble, so I said, "well, you know how the rags (yellow journalism mags) gossip and fabricate, you can never tell what is real and what isn't".

[rmzbm]

Cool! She's such a cute little girl.

[umbrella]

Is she actually homeschooled (by her mother) or does she have a private tutor?

It wouldn't occur to me that having a tutor doesn't "count."

[Marsupialmom]

Originally Posted by umbrella

It wouldn't occur to me that having a tutor doesn't "count."

Don't you know she is a single mom of two kids she can and should do it all with out help. (Sarcasm)



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I am tired of how people criticize the many options parents take trying to do the best for their child. There is more than one way to step out of the system and homeschool. Some times you step out and you get help by the system. Homeschooling is about doing the best for your child. How and who helps with the education doesn't matter. The Irwin's have stepped out of the traditional system, who and how doesn't matter as long as it is in Bindi's best interest.

[mom2kbeth]

I always just assumed that Bindi was homeschooled. She is always at the zoo, she has been doing school assemblies for a few years now, etc. That is the life I would love to have, to live at a zoo, lol!

[Softheart]

So neat! I need to start recording that show...DD is just starting to get into non-cartoon stuff like this...

[marilynmama]

Man, I wish I could afford a tutor for my kids. I think that is great! Homeschooling goes far beyond "who" is schoolin your child. My mom homeschools my girls when I'm in class or at work, does that not "count"?

To me homeschool is also facilitating your child's education and I have anyone who wants to help out pitch on in with my girls education--classes at the science museum, homeschool group classes, friends, neighbors, family, etc. It's not about sitting at home with "mom" doing everything (ughhh the though of that makes me want to run away! LOL).

I HATE the word 'homeschooling' by the way!!!!

[Mamax3]

Originally Posted by reeseccup

She's a neat little girl, very articulate and wise beyond her years.

This reminds me of a dream I had the other night:

I was doing something...outdoorsy? and Will Smith was helping me. We were talking and I said, rumor has it you hs, I think that is way cool. He said, "huh? Where'd you hear that, we don't homeschool!"....UGH burst my bubble, so I said, "well, you know how the rags (yellow journalism mags) gossip and fabricate, you can never tell what is real and what isn't".

I thought Will Smith's kids were homeschooled, maybe just while his son was in the movie with him....I know John Travolta's kids are homeschooled and that actress Rebecca something (the little girl in Little Miss Sunshine) she is homeschooled.

[reeseccup]

Originally Posted by Mamax3

I thought Will Smith's kids were homeschooled, maybe just while his son was in the movie with him....I know John Travolta's kids are homeschooled and that actress Rebecca something (the little girl in Little Miss Sunshine) she is homeschooled.

this was a couple of years ago... http://www.contactmusic.com/new/xmlf...eir%20children from a year ago http://www.africanamericanhomeschooling.com/

[JeniferS]

Originally Posted by Marsupialmom

Don't you know she is a single mom of two kids she can and should do it all with out help. (Sarcasm)



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I am tired of how people criticize the many options parents take trying to do the best for their child. There is more than one way to step out of the system and homeschool. Some times you step out and you get help by the system. Homeschooling is about doing the best for your child. How and who helps with the education doesn't matter. The Irwin's have stepped out of the traditional system, who and how doesn't matter as long as it is in Bindi's best interest.

Umm, wow. I don't think I said anything negative or about Bindi's education not counting if it was by tutor.

I did say that "homeschooling" would be the obvious choice for her family, especially with her tv show.

But, since you brought it up, I don't think someone who hires a fulltime tutor is doing the same thing as most of us. Most of child actors do not go to school, they have tutors at the set, would you consider that homeschooling?

Again, I am saying nothing about Bindi's education. She is getting an education that most of us can only dream of giving to our children.

[umbrella]

But, since you brought it up, I don't think someone who hires a fulltime tutor is doing the same thing as most of us. Most of child actors do not go to school, they have tutors at the set, would you consider that homeschooling?

yes, I would call them homeschooling.

Some of them make a distinction. Those who go to school when they're not making movies, are school students who use tutors for movies. And there are those who don't go to school even when they're not making movies. They're homeschoolers.

How many outside classes does a kid take before she is no longer homeschooling? How much influence can one get from members of the community, before it's no longer homeschooling?

I guess my "definition" of homeschooling, pretty much amounts to "not enrolled in school." And even then, I guess I just mean a traditional school, as most in the community attend.

In a homeschooling family, if a teen chooses to take several classes at the CC, I wouldn't say the family homeschools, except the oldest. Frankly, that's one of the cooler things about homeschooling: you can take as many outside classes as you want, and don't have the local high school counselor telling you that you can't take X, because that district arbitrarily has it such that you must take Q before you take X, even though it's entirely unnecessary, and that the neighboring high school insists on R first, instead.

Homeschooling, imo, is when the family (child or parent or both) directs the education, choosing what to study, when, how. Having a tutor fits with that.

[Marsupialmom]

Originally Posted by JeniferS

But, since you brought it up, I don't think someone who hires a fulltime tutor is doing the same thing as most of us. Most of child actors do not go to school, they have tutors at the set, would you consider that homeschooling?

Again, I am saying nothing about Bindi's education. She is getting an education that most of us can only dream of giving to our children.

Well does that make my friend who can't teach her children "not homeschooling" because her mil does it for her? I know a homeschooling mom that not only teaches her child but one other --is they other child not being homeschooled?

Home education is really a misnonmer. It is education outside the box and sometimes using the box when it is in the best intrest of the child/family unit. Esspeically now that Terry is a single mom. She has to support her family she needs the added help.