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Really Nana, I don't need for you to imbed videos onto threads. If you can't speak for yourself and have to have someone else's youtube speak on your behalf, then I'm not going to consider your point of view to hold much validity. It's all just spam, to me.
Really Nana, I don't need for you to imbed videos onto threads. If you can't speak for yourself and have to have someone else's youtube speak on your behalf, then I'm not going to consider your point of view to hold much validity. It's all just spam, to me.
I am giving you examples of unschoolers who are speaking for themselves. I was not unschooled, so I cannot use myself as that example.
My point is that every child is different and that unschooling is a good option for some parents and kids.
Even people who are professional public speakers make mistakes, lose thier train of thought, and can get flustered when a camera is shoved in their face unprepared (or even prepared sometimes!) -- if they didn't, we wouldn't have all those amusing gag reels and blooper shows.
Most people, regardless of their schooling method, have atrocious speaking styles -- um, ah, like, yeah, so -- it's very common. Some people are just naturally more adept at public speaking than others, some can learn to be better with targetted practice, and some will always stutter and stammer no matter how much they try or how often they do it.
I challenge any average person to present a 5-page or 5-minute discussion or argument, "live" without editing, in one continuous take and get it dead-on perfect... no filler words, too-long pauses, misspoken words, odd cadence, or strange facial expressions.
Saying that homeschooled children have limited social skills because a few internet videos show poor public speaking skills is a straw man argument.
Many highly intelligent people who are poor public speakers rely on other people to speak publicly for them. And many less intelligent good public speakers who rely on intelligent people to tell them what to say. There are whole career fields dedicated to this phenomenon
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