MHowell Posted December 22, 2011 Share Posted December 22, 2011 DH and I were talking in the car today about famous people who homeschool. He couldn't think of any :tongue_smilie:, and the first to come to mind was Tim Tebow (QB for the Denver Broncos) and Glen Beck (conservative talk show host). Without googling, who comes to mind first? Add in who they are just in case someone is not familiar with them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
claire up north Posted December 22, 2011 Share Posted December 22, 2011 Will Smith (actor) homeschools. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Farrar Posted December 22, 2011 Share Posted December 22, 2011 Of current people, Tim Tebow and wasn't Justin Bieber homeschooled. Also, back in the day people like George Washington or John Adams. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
momtokea Posted December 22, 2011 Share Posted December 22, 2011 Christopher Paolini, author of Eragon. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Carpe Posted December 22, 2011 Share Posted December 22, 2011 First one is Angelina Jolie, and I don't even know if she actually does. :lurk5: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
higginszoo Posted December 22, 2011 Share Posted December 22, 2011 Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie mostly homeschool Kristen Stewart was homeschooled through all or most of high school Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FairyMom Posted December 22, 2011 Share Posted December 22, 2011 Blossom actress. Mayim Bialik. I don't know if she does, her name pops into my head, though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fhjmom Posted December 23, 2011 Share Posted December 23, 2011 Here is a list: Famous Homeschool Parents The other pages lists famous people that were/are homeschooled. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ohdanigirl Posted December 23, 2011 Share Posted December 23, 2011 I believe Chuck Norris home schools his dc as well. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Carpe Posted December 23, 2011 Share Posted December 23, 2011 I believe Chuck Norris home schools his dc as well. Survival techniques for a Chuck Norris encounter: Admit defeat. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Carpe Posted December 23, 2011 Share Posted December 23, 2011 Survival techniques for a Chuck Norris encounter: Admit defeat. This one is better: Chuck Norris walked out the first day of kindergarten when he found out they had recess. He doesn't play. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cindyz Posted December 23, 2011 Share Posted December 23, 2011 Does this mean their children are schooled at home with a tutor? Or the actual parent does the home schooling? Just curious. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sharon H in IL Posted December 23, 2011 Share Posted December 23, 2011 Well, Susan Wise Bauer is famous in my world, but maybe not in wider circles. :D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WarriorMama Posted December 23, 2011 Share Posted December 23, 2011 This one is better:Chuck Norris walked out the first day of kindergarten when he found out they had recess. He doesn't play. :lol: I bought dh a day-by-day calendar of Chuck Norris stuff like that for Christmas! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MHowell Posted December 23, 2011 Author Share Posted December 23, 2011 :lol: I bought dh a day-by-day calendar of Chuck Norris stuff like that for Christmas! Where did you find it? :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eternalknot Posted December 23, 2011 Share Posted December 23, 2011 I was flipping through a People magazine this week, the one with the $exiest actor (don't know who he is) on the cover. One of the blurbs about ... shoot, can't remember her name either, but she was the little girl in that vampire movie with Tom Cruise a million years ago. Spiderman, too, I think? Blonde young lady. Anyhow, one of the things she mentioned in her blurb was advice to others; hers was along the lines of going to regular school and "not do homeschool" -- so I took that to mean she was homeschooled during her heydey. And not happily, apparently. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
catz Posted December 23, 2011 Share Posted December 23, 2011 Felicia Day ( from season 7 Buffy and writer/actor in The Guild) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Laurie4b Posted December 23, 2011 Share Posted December 23, 2011 The Wyeth family (artists) Andrew Wyeth (painter of Christina's World, for instance) was homeschooled by his parents including father NC Wyeth, who illustrated many classic children's books. In turn, he and other family members homeschooled his son, Jamie Wyeth after elementary school. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Debbi in Texas Posted December 23, 2011 Share Posted December 23, 2011 Doesn't John Travolta homeschool ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
parias1126 Posted December 23, 2011 Share Posted December 23, 2011 Felicia Day ( from season 7 Buffy and writer/actor in The Guild) I did not know this! Love The Guild! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Carrie12345 Posted December 23, 2011 Share Posted December 23, 2011 I think it's difficult to know which modern day stars are homeschooling in the way we here think of homeschooling. I was watching old episodes of 16 and Pregnant (don't make fun of me!) and one of the girls was "going to homeschool"... as in, getting up, getting in the car, and going to be taught by someone not her parent. Another girl met with her "homeschool teacher" periodically, which I assume is what we really call homeBOUND instruction. Many Disney/Nick stars are said to homeschool. I think some do, but others just mean "I don't GO to school." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Melissa in Australia Posted December 23, 2011 Share Posted December 23, 2011 I think it's difficult to know which modern day stars are homeschooling in the way we here think of homeschooling.I was watching old episodes of 16 and Pregnant (don't make fun of me!) and one of the girls was "going to homeschool"... as in, getting up, getting in the car, and going to be taught by someone not her parent. Another girl met with her "homeschool teacher" periodically, which I assume is what we really call homeBOUND instruction. Many Disney/Nick stars are said to homeschool. I think some do, but others just mean "I don't GO to school." How do you think of defining homeschooling??? Here in Australia the definition is that the child is Homeschooled when they are not attending a school public or private, and are being educated at home. This can include through correspondence, with a tutor, or by a parent. And often a homeschooled child might be doing a mixture of parent instruction, a tutor for some subjects and maybe a few courses through correspondence. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Carrie12345 Posted December 23, 2011 Share Posted December 23, 2011 How do you think of defining homeschooling???Here in Australia the definition is that the child is Homeschooled when they are not attending a school public or private, and are being educated at home. This can include through correspondence, with a tutor, or by a parent. And often a homeschooled child might be doing a mixture of parent instruction, a tutor for some subjects and maybe a few courses through correspondence. I think of "homeschooling" as parent-directed. Parent picks the resources (books, whole program, selected outsourced courses), and is responsible for following any applicable regulations as well as, ultimately, the outcome. I'm not judging choices. I just think the.... "essence" of "homeschooling" doesn't really apply when public school teachers come to deliver public school work, yk? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WishboneDawn Posted December 23, 2011 Share Posted December 23, 2011 This one is better:Chuck Norris walked out the first day of kindergarten when he found out they had recess. He doesn't play. I wrote a blog post on Chuck Norris and homeschooling a couple of years back. :D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BatmansWife Posted December 23, 2011 Share Posted December 23, 2011 Here's a list. When my ds was little, he had this t-shirt. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JumpedIntoTheDeepEndFirst Posted December 23, 2011 Share Posted December 23, 2011 I was watching a documentary about Henry VIII the other day in which they think they have proof that he was homeschooled, probably along with his sister, for several years before he was given a tutor who directed his education. The proof--his handwriting. He had an atypical way of forming particular letters-went against the style that would have been normally taught. However-his style was nearly an exact match for his mother's handwriting. There is a bit of confusion at this point as some historians seem to think that Elizabeth may have taught her son and others think his maternal grandmother may have been responsible. Either could lead to the handwriting situation above. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
waa510 Posted December 23, 2011 Share Posted December 23, 2011 I was flipping through a People magazine this week, the one with the $exiest actor (don't know who he is) on the cover. One of the blurbs about ... shoot, can't remember her name either, but she was the little girl in that vampire movie with Tom Cruise a million years ago. Spiderman, too, I think? Blonde young lady. Anyhow, one of the things she mentioned in her blurb was advice to others; hers was along the lines of going to regular school and "not do homeschool" -- so I took that to mean she was homeschooled during her heydey. And not happily, apparently. Kirsten Dunst. It was in response to a question about advice she would give aspiring actresses, I believe. I was mildly annoyed as well, as I hate when little jabs are taken towards us in the media...especially by one who was homeschooled. Doesn't exactly help my case against naysayers as some people in this country take a celebrity's opinion as gospel. But that's another thread... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
redsquirrel Posted December 23, 2011 Share Posted December 23, 2011 Many working child actors and athletes are 'homeschooled' in that they are taught by a tutor on the set or use a correspondence course. And I am guessing that many of the very rich celebrities mentioned aren't correcting math, but hire private teachers that live/travel with them. More along the lines of an old fashioned governess. It is an issue of privacy and safety. I personally don't consider that homeschooling. That is more like a very exclusive private school. :lol: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aurelia Posted December 23, 2011 Share Posted December 23, 2011 I think Tom Cruise homeschools his kids, as does Will Smith. I read something several years back about the Jonas brothers using Alpha-Omega. I think Ryan Gosling was homeschooled, too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Carpe Posted December 23, 2011 Share Posted December 23, 2011 Many working child actors and athletes are 'homeschooled' in that they are taught by a tutor on the set or use a correspondence course. And I am guessing that many of the very rich celebrities mentioned aren't correcting math, but hire private teachers that live/travel with them. More along the lines of an old fashioned governess. It is an issue of privacy and safety. I personally don't consider that homeschooling. That is more like a very exclusive private school. :lol: I tell people my kids go to a very exclusive private school. Very.Exclusive. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Laura Corin Posted December 23, 2011 Share Posted December 23, 2011 (edited) Here is a list:Famous Homeschool Parents The other pages lists famous people that were/are homeschooled. I took a brief look at the homeschooled people. Many date from a time when upper middle/upper class people were tutored at home by governesses/tutors before being sent off to boarding school. This was common even into the 20th Century: my mother had a governess in the 1930s - because her mother didn't like the idea of her going to the village school - before she was sent away to boarding school. I don't think this pattern is quite what we think of as home schooling. Jane Austen, CS Lewis, Shackleton, Winston Churchill, Malthus and John Locke fall into this group. Walt Whitman, Charlie Chaplin, David Livingstone and Charles Dickens would be better described as autodidacts, having been forced out of school and into employment at an early age. George Bernard Shaw, according to this account, seems to have attended school. Robert Frost attended and graduated from high school (I can't find information about his earlier schooling). And I don't think being tutored along with a group of other aristocrats by Aristotle (as was Alexander the Great) really counts as home schooling. I think that home school activists do themselves a disservice by fudging the definitions so much. I could write a list of 'Famous People who Attended Boarding School' that would overlap the home school one to a large extent. It's a shame, because there are good examples of genuine homeschoolers on the list, like John Stuart Mill. Laura Edited December 23, 2011 by Laura Corin Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
higginszoo Posted December 23, 2011 Share Posted December 23, 2011 Doesn't John Travolta homeschool ? I'm pretty sure that Jett was homeschooled. I think that Ella goes to some sort of Scientology school, but don't know if that's more part-time like a co-op or what. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ohdanigirl Posted December 23, 2011 Share Posted December 23, 2011 I wrote a blog post on Chuck Norris and homeschooling a couple of years back. :D Thanks for the laugh. I guess people like Chuck Norris. Danielle Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WarriorMama Posted December 26, 2011 Share Posted December 26, 2011 Where did you find it? :) Chapters! (Canadian bookstore chain...which probably doesn't help you out much in California!) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stripe Posted December 26, 2011 Share Posted December 26, 2011 (edited) Margaret Atwood. Sorry, she was homeschooled. I don't think she homeschooled her kids. Edited December 26, 2011 by stripe Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MHowell Posted December 26, 2011 Author Share Posted December 26, 2011 I wrote a blog post on Chuck Norris and homeschooling a couple of years back. :D That was hilarious! Thanks for the laugh! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stripe Posted December 26, 2011 Share Posted December 26, 2011 I think that home school activists do themselves a disservice by fudging the definitions so much. I definitely see your point; I always cringe when I see Beatrix Potter listed as an example of someone who is homeschooled, considering how miserable her home life was. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sewingmama Posted December 26, 2011 Share Posted December 26, 2011 [i think Tom Cruise homeschools his kids I don't think so - Last I read Suri goes to a Scientology school. The Jolie-Pitt kids all have individual tutors - the adopted ones have tutors that speak their old language. I think they "homeschool" because they travel so much rather then any personal philosophy. I'm pretty sure I saw an inteview with Will Smith and his kids where they said they weren't really homeschooling - rather his kids had other interests he was allowing them to take up and they "unschooled". Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Poke Salad Annie Posted December 26, 2011 Share Posted December 26, 2011 Francis S. Collins, M.D., Ph.D. He was the former head of the Human Genome Project. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stripe Posted December 26, 2011 Share Posted December 26, 2011 Me Rah Koh, the photographer somewhat famous in the blogosphere, homeschools her kids; she also travels a lot with them. Several bloggily famous people like Amanda Soule homeschool too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SailorMom Posted December 26, 2011 Share Posted December 26, 2011 My DS's favorite player on the Miami Dolphins is Jason Taylor. He was home schooled all the way through high school - played on the high school football team but did not attend classes there. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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