KristenR Posted January 8, 2012 Share Posted January 8, 2012 Just curious because I find myself switching back and forth with no rhyme or reason and it made me wonder what says the hive. Do you spell it as a compound word or two separate ones? Care to explain? I apologize, I should have made an option for using both interchangeably as well. Opps.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Farrar Posted January 8, 2012 Share Posted January 8, 2012 The dictionary will catch up eventually. :D And my iPhone autocorrect seems to have finally learned that homeschooler is not... Something else. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KungFuPanda Posted January 8, 2012 Share Posted January 8, 2012 The dictionary will catch up eventually. :D And my iPhone autocorrect seems to have finally learned that homeschooler is not... Something else. :iagree: I voted other because my iPad autocorrects to "homeh00kers":lol: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Whereneverever Posted January 8, 2012 Share Posted January 8, 2012 :iagree: I voted other because my iPad autocorrects to "homeh00kers":lol: Whoa! LOL. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Swimtaxi234 Posted January 8, 2012 Share Posted January 8, 2012 It seems like my state refuses to call it homeschool or home school because they don't want to "legitimize" it. They call it "education in the home" :ack2:. I like to spell it homeschool.:D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
houseofkids&pets Posted January 8, 2012 Share Posted January 8, 2012 I spell it "homeschool". The forms that I receive from the ps district spell it "home school." They probably read my reports and think,"Oh that poor kid is being home schooled by a parent who can't spell!" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ellie Posted January 8, 2012 Share Posted January 8, 2012 Homeschool, similar to homemaking or homesteading. :-) Some friends, early pioneers in homeschooling, say they don't like the word, and that they prefer "home education." But you know, when they're just talking, "homeschool" slips out. "Home education" is just too awkward. :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SunD Posted January 8, 2012 Share Posted January 8, 2012 I write homeschool. Home school seems to mean school in a home, like home is just the location. It's a home school, or a school located in a home. Homeschool seems like home is modifying school in some way, if that makes sense. It's a home, which is also a school or place of learning. And I'm definitely not trying to recreate the local PS, so ... homeschool it is. The Firefox spell checker disagrees with me, though. It suggests home-school, but accepts homeschooling. Go figure. (I'm not suggesting that if you spell it home school, you're doing school-at-home, or even that a more school-y approach is undesirable. I am just talking about the impression the words themselves give me, separate vs. smushed together.) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
meltf928 Posted January 8, 2012 Share Posted January 8, 2012 I always write Home School, simply because it's Public School or Private School, as opposed to publicschool or privateschool. I also like the look of Home School better and it doesn't appear as a misspelling when I type it.That's what makes sense in my head anyway. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Parrothead Posted January 8, 2012 Share Posted January 8, 2012 I mostly use homeschool. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
elise1mds Posted January 8, 2012 Share Posted January 8, 2012 I usually use one word unless I'm being too lazy to correct the autocorrect. :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bookfiend Posted January 8, 2012 Share Posted January 8, 2012 I write Homeschool which implies (to me) an educational choice/philosophy/movement; whereas, Home School seems to relate more to the place where school is conducted much like Public School and Private School. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tmulcahy Posted January 8, 2012 Share Posted January 8, 2012 Another vote for homeschool. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KungFuPanda Posted January 8, 2012 Share Posted January 8, 2012 I wasted my vote on a joke response, but I actually use and prefer homeschool as one word. Home school means something else to me. My son went to developmental preschool for speech delays. They asked me what my home school was and I was confused for a second there because I'd been homeschooling my oldest for a few years by then. Now, I should have KNOWN better because I was a teacher pre-kids, but they took me by surprise. Your home school is the school your kids WOULD attend if they were enrolled in public school. It's where the neighborhood kids go during the day if they're not at a different school for some special reason. Home School is your geographical default. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Truscifi Posted January 8, 2012 Share Posted January 8, 2012 I write homeschool. Home school seems to mean school in a home, like home is just the location. It's a home school, or a school located in a home. Homeschool seems like home is modifying school in some way, if that makes sense. It's a home, which is also a school or place of learning. And I'm definitely not trying to recreate the local PS, so ... homeschool it is. The Firefox spell checker disagrees with me, though. It suggests home-school, but accepts homeschooling. Go figure. (I'm not suggesting that if you spell it home school, you're doing school-at-home, or even that a more school-y approach is undesirable. I am just talking about the impression the words themselves give me, separate vs. smushed together.) I've never thought about it, but if I did I might come up with something like this. Proably not as coherent though. :tongue_smilie: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ellie Posted January 8, 2012 Share Posted January 8, 2012 I wasted my vote on a joke response, but I actually use and prefer homeschool as one word. Home school means something else to me. My son went to developmental preschool for speech delays. They asked me what my home school was and I was confused for a second there because I'd been homeschooling my oldest for a few years by then. Now, I should have KNOWN better because I was a teacher pre-kids, but they took me by surprise. Your home school is the school your kids WOULD attend if they were enrolled in public school. It's where the neighborhood kids go during the day if they're not at a different school for some special reason. Home School is your geographical default. Ah. Excellent reason. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Murphy101 Posted January 8, 2012 Share Posted January 8, 2012 (edited) TWO WORDS!!!! Public school Private school Distance school Extended school After school Summer school HOME school I know it has become common practice to make it one word, but I think it looks illiterate. Like purposely accepting the murder of kittens.:tongue_smilie: ETA: I actually don't like the phrase home school/homeschool at all. I prefer home education/educated/educator. We are not a school at all. ;) ETA again: I also dislike supposedly artistic expression of writing. Such as "eat mor chikin". I firmly believe those cows are capable of proper spelling!!!! Edited January 8, 2012 by Martha Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Carpe Posted January 8, 2012 Share Posted January 8, 2012 I feel like homeschool is a verb and home school is a noun. So I homeschool my kids. I've never had a need to use it as a noun though and can't think of a sentence I would say using it... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Murphy101 Posted January 8, 2012 Share Posted January 8, 2012 I feel like homeschool is a verb and home school is a noun. So I homeschool my kids. I've never had a need to use it as a noun though and can't think of a sentence I would say using it... Our home school uses Catholic curriculum. ;) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dirty ethel rackham Posted January 8, 2012 Share Posted January 8, 2012 For me, it's kind of like bf-ing. For people who actually do it, it is one word. For others, it is 2 words. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KungFuPanda Posted January 8, 2012 Share Posted January 8, 2012 For me, it's kind of like bf-ing. For people who actually do it, it is one word. For others, it is 2 words. There is no "laughed so hard I wet my pants" smiley. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Farrar Posted January 8, 2012 Share Posted January 8, 2012 TWO WORDS!!!! I know it has become common practice to make it one word, but I think it looks illiterate. Like purposely accepting the murder of kittens.:tongue_smilie: But none of your examples function as verbs. And none of them are a movement either. To me, this is a case where the language has grown and changed in response to specific things. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Murphy101 Posted January 8, 2012 Share Posted January 8, 2012 But none of your examples function as verbs. And none of them are a movement either. To me, this is a case where the language has grown and changed in response to specific things. :001_huh: so people say Publicschooling? Distanceschooling? Bowelmovement?;) Every time someone calls something a movement, I get that image for some reason.:tongue_smilie: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Carpe Posted January 8, 2012 Share Posted January 8, 2012 Our home school uses Catholic curriculum. ;) Thanks. Clearly I have not had enough coffee today. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Carpe Posted January 8, 2012 Share Posted January 8, 2012 :001_huh: so people say Publicschooling? Distanceschooling? Bowelmovement?;) Every time someone calls something a movement, I get that image for some reason.:tongue_smilie: Does anyone actually say public schooling as two words either? I've never heard of anyone using schooling as a verb with any other type distinction. I don't hear private schooling, public schooling, distance schooling etc. but I do hear homeschooling. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Farrar Posted January 8, 2012 Share Posted January 8, 2012 :001_huh: so people say Publicschooling? Distanceschooling? Bowelmovement?;) Every time someone calls something a movement, I get that image for some reason.:tongue_smilie: No, they don't - that's my point. You homeschool your child who is being educated at home, but no one says you public school (or publicschool) your child. So the act of educating at home is routinely used as a verb - much more than as a noun - but the rest of that list is nouns more often. Bowel movement. Heh. I do think there's something to the fact that we're the ones doing it and there's clearly a majority of us spelling it as one word though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Murphy101 Posted January 8, 2012 Share Posted January 8, 2012 No, they don't - that's my point. You homeschool your child who is being educated at home, but no one says you public school (or publicschool) your child. So the act of educating at home is routinely used as a verb - much more than as a noun - but the rest of that list is nouns more often. Bowel movement. Heh. I do think there's something to the fact that we're the ones doing it and there's clearly a majority of us spelling it as one word though. Hmmm. So what does a public school teacher say? They are the ones doing it, but they don't say they publicschool. Hey, I know I'm fighting a losing battle on this one. Doesn't mean I won't still put up a bit of fight though.;) Btw, my bowelmovement reference wasn't intended as an insult. Just a random weird fact about myself. Every time I hear that word, I instantly think of bowels. One of those odd results of having been changing diapers for 17 years? Idk.:) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kolamum Posted January 8, 2012 Share Posted January 8, 2012 I picked "other" because we use Home Educate a lot in this area, and after listening to a conference about the definition of Educate vs School, I think Educate is much more the word we're all looking for. ;) However, if I use the term homeschool, I don't put a space in it. :D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stansclan89 Posted January 8, 2012 Share Posted January 8, 2012 I use home school when it is being used as a noun and homeschool when it is being used as a verb. I don't much care how it relates to public/private school references. This is how I've seen it most used and how it will probably be used most in the future (imo). I think of different things when I read home school and homeschool. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Laura Corin Posted January 8, 2012 Share Posted January 8, 2012 Home education. Laura Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ali in OR Posted January 8, 2012 Share Posted January 8, 2012 I like homeschool better. I use home school because spell checkers don't like homeschool. I don't want to be "wrong." But I do want "homeschool" to be added to our language as a noun, verb, and adjective! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hadassah Posted January 8, 2012 Share Posted January 8, 2012 Mostly homeschool, for the same reasons as Ellie. My state calls it "providing home instruction", which I just find plain weird. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dirty ethel rackham Posted January 8, 2012 Share Posted January 8, 2012 There is no "laughed so hard I wet my pants" smiley. Did I say something funny? No offense taken, just confused:blushing:. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
threeturn Posted January 8, 2012 Share Posted January 8, 2012 I prefer home's cool, but I'm a big-time introvert. :D I actually use homeschool. I spell it "homeschool". The forms that I receive from the ps district spell it "home school." They probably read my reports and think,"Oh that poor kid is being home schooled by a parent who can't spell!" I know for a fact that I didn't get a job interview once because the principal thought I misspelled adviser on my resume. The thing HE didn't know was that scholastic journalism advisers and the related community use the AP Stylebook, which prefers the adviser spelling -- both are correct. I was highly recommended for the position, and he was very vocal about my perceived inadequacy -- enough so that the story got back to me. :glare: I was happy not to have to produce a yearbook under his administration. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trilliums Posted January 8, 2012 Share Posted January 8, 2012 I write homeschool. Home school seems to mean school in a home, like home is just the location. It's a home school, or a school located in a home. Homeschool seems like home is modifying school in some way, if that makes sense. It's a home, which is also a school or place of learning. And I'm definitely not trying to recreate the local PS, so ... homeschool it is. The Firefox spell checker disagrees with me, though. It suggests home-school, but accepts homeschooling. Go figure. (I'm not suggesting that if you spell it home school, you're doing school-at-home, or even that a more school-y approach is undesirable. I am just talking about the impression the words themselves give me, separate vs. smushed together.) :iagree: When I first read the title of the thread I thought it was a discussion about whether or not people do school-at-home (home school) or have a different educational approach (homeschool). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KungFuPanda Posted January 8, 2012 Share Posted January 8, 2012 Did I say something funny? No offense taken, just confused:blushing:. Um, I didn't think of breast feeding for "bfing" This is ridiculous because i was a card carrying LLL member Your screen name and my imagination conspired to make it more interesting than you intended. I blame the "I'll bet you never . . . " thread. :lol: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fairfarmhand Posted January 8, 2012 Share Posted January 8, 2012 I'm a freelance writer. The AP style guide is the official guideline for the site for which I write. They say the following: home schooling (n.) home-schooled, home-schooler (adj.) I've had to re-train my brain to get it right. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bookfiend Posted January 9, 2012 Share Posted January 9, 2012 Um, I didn't think of breast feeding for "bfing" This is ridiculous because i was a card carrying LLL member Your screen name and my imagination conspired to make it more interesting than you intended. I blame the "I'll bet you never . . . " thread. :lol: Yeah, I didn't come up with breast feeding either, and I was all.... :ohmy::ohmy::ohmy: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HappyCrazyMama Posted January 9, 2012 Share Posted January 9, 2012 TWO WORDS!!!! Public school Private school Distance school Extended school After school Summer school HOME school I know it has become common practice to make it one word, but I think it looks illiterate. Like purposely accepting the murder of kittens.:tongue_smilie: ETA: I actually don't like the phrase home school/homeschool at all. I prefer home education/educated/educator. We are not a school at all. ;) ETA again: I also dislike supposedly artistic expression of writing. Such as "eat mor chikin". I firmly believe those cows are capable of proper spelling!!!! :iagree: I'll be in the minority with Martha.:) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kari C in SC Posted January 9, 2012 Share Posted January 9, 2012 I write Homeschool which implies (to me) an educational choice/philosophy/movement; whereas, Home School seems to relate more to the place where school is conducted much like Public School and Private School. :iagree: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dirty ethel rackham Posted January 9, 2012 Share Posted January 9, 2012 Um, I didn't think of breast feeding for "bfing" This is ridiculous because i was a card carrying LLL member Your screen name and my imagination conspired to make it more interesting than you intended. I blame the "I'll bet you never . . . " thread. :lol: :lol::lol: Oh my! This wouldn't be the first time I was misunderstood! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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