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Dr Robinson's Home-school curric.?
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Question:
Is anyone here familiar with or using the Dr. Robinsons home-school curriculum
(Oregon Institute of Science and Medicine) on CD-ROMs? At $95 for the 6
CD-ROMS-- and supposedly it is complete grades1-12--it seems almost too good to
be true. Please give me your opinion
Answer:
-I just read an interesting review on the Eclectic Homeschool website that
does an in-depth review of the Robinson Curriculum. The URL is:
http://www.eho.org/robrev.htm
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Agreed, and I think it's also important to keep in mind the circumstances in
his own family. As a widower, he *needs* to do things differently than those
of us with two parents in the home. Kids are incredible little people and they
can really pull through in a family crisis. I would not be surprised that he
gets great results without stressed out kids, because the kids know life has
dealt them a poorer hand than most and they have to make up for it- so they do.
But I'm not sure that I'd expect my own children to do the same thing his
children do without a similar emergency to respond to- if I'm making any sense.
At any rate, lots of hsers *love* old, old books, the older the better, and
they tend to be the ones who buy Robinson's stuff (I happen to love musty old
books myself, but am fortunate enough (?) to have inherited a couple hundred or
more such tomes), but I've never heard of anybody who uses the stuff
exclusively. The typical pattern seem to be to buy the C.D.s and use them as
resources for part of a homeschool plan already in place.
-A friend has it and she seems to like it. The child must be a
self-motivated learner to follow Dr. Robinson's plan. The child uses
math flash cards until he's old enough to do Saxon Math 54 (Saxon Math
purchased separately), and Dr. Robinson also includes phonics cards to
teach reading. The CD's include lots of books at all different reading
levels, for pleasure reading, or to teach history, science, etc. Many
of the books are hard to find or out of print. One disadvantage is that
it appears to be necessary to print the books out before you can use
them. My friend has gone through a lot of printer paper and ribbon.
There is a website that has instructions for binding the printer paper
to make durable books for the Robinson curriculum. I don't remember the
address off-hand, but it is on the homeschool links page of our website,
if you want to look for it there. Good luck in making your decision.
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