Joe Wicks #21 Dosie and the ferals

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He recorded some YouTube videos out there so I'll bet he'll be offsetting some as a business expense 🙄 don't forget he flew home and back only a few weeks ago as well, moaned about premium economy, and I'm none the wiser what he actually had to fly back for.
He's also made sure to set it up with numerous posts that he will be non stop eating when he gets back. But has also already posted about "healthy" new year recipes coming. He's so toxic!
 
Joe definitely has a private tutor from Oxford or something educating his kids from home. There's no way its just him and Rosie.. Those kids are so smart. And Joe knows that education will give them access in life. He just does a bit of cooking with them but we don't get to see how they're really getting educated.

And joe probably loves that everyone believes its just him and rosie because they'll be star students one day and he can lap up the credit for home school educating them.
 
I think you're probably right, sitting at a restaurant doing the work books ordered from Amazon while they wait for food is not proper focussed education. But no amount of tutors is going to replace the social skills with your peer group school gives. He's said Indie goes to ballet/drama but what activities outside of home with kids his own age is Marley getting? Also none of the kids has had any interaction with other kids since September. Wonder if Leni will go to nursery as Marley/indie did.
 
It’s fairly unusual to home school unless it’s for kid specific reasons eg SEN that has made school really hard for kids. To do it purely to facilitate spending three months in your USA holiday home really is taking the piss!!

I don’t think it’s rocket science to get kids reading and writing basic stuff using work books. But they won’t be getting the general knowledge they do at school because J and R aren’t very intellectual let’s face it. And yes socialisation and peer group fun is really important. I suspect they will have one or two more autumns in Santa Monica and then decide it’s not worth the hassle of home schooling.
 
Don't want to derail the thread but another side of the coin for homeschooling here

We are seriously considering home schooling our daughter who is currently a toddler. For numerous reasons really but when we have mentioned it to family the main reason they've said against us doing it is the social impact.

However my view is...I am only friends with one person I went to high school with, anybody else I see from school (especially previous bullies who conveniently forget about that now) I don't and won't speak to. I am not and never have been a sociable person, school didn't help me with that at all.

I was always top in primary school and in top sets at high school yet always felt under the radar as such. The 'naughty' kids got the teachers full attention which took away from mine and others schooling.

Homeschooling to me gives me the flexibility to be able to teach my daughter what she is interested in/good at rather than her learning for example what pi is which I have never used in my adult life.

I don't necessarily believe Joe & Rosie have gone down the homeschooling route for the right reasons however, the narrative that parents are tit if they do decide that isn't good.

To add my daughter doesn't attend nursery (another thing I get shunned for and told her social skills will suffer) yet she is the most social in the few classes we do attend 🤷
 
smirkingpot said:
I don’t think it’s rocket science to get kids reading and writing basic stuff using work books. But they won’t be getting the general knowledge they do at school because J and R aren’t very intellectual let’s face it.
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my whole point is that while they may not be educated themselves, it doesn't mean the kids are not getting an education via homeschooling. As homeschooling to them probably involves third party educators who are specialised in what they teach. I HIGHLY doubt they're letting them kids go uneducated and fall behind their peers.

Also we don't have an accurate view of how the kids are socialised because if joe shared that info it would : put the kids at risk and potentially put the kids they socialise with at risk, so they may well have loads of activities goin on.... I know people think joe is dumb but he is not letting his kids livelihoods suffer due to selfishness the way people make out here... Plus they have the money to throw at all these things.
 
happygolucky1 said:
my whole point is that while they may not be educated themselves, it doesn't mean the kids are not getting an education via homeschooling. As homeschooling to them probably involves third party educators who are specialised in what they teach. I HIGHLY doubt they're letting them kids go uneducated and fall behind their peers.

Also we don't have an accurate view of how the kids are socialised because if joe shared that info it would : put the kids at risk and potentially put the kids they socialise with at risk, so they may well have loads of activities goin on.... I know people think joe is dumb but he is not letting his kids livelihoods suffer due to selfishness the way people make out here... Plus they have the money to throw at all these things.
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Hi Joe’s Mummy 👋
 
I’ve said this before and I’ll say it again - considering the Wicks family can afford to send their kids to a fabulous private school and give them the best, most well-rounded education money can buy (not to mention the longer school holidays!) it beggars belief that they would choose to home educate IMO.

Whatever they do at home, even if they have tutors coming in on the quiet, it wouldn’t be a patch on the experiences they could be having at school.

All that money is wasted on them, truly 😅
 
happygolucky1 said:
my whole point is that while they may not be educated themselves, it doesn't mean the kids are not getting an education via homeschooling. As homeschooling to them probably involves third party educators who are specialised in what they teach. I HIGHLY doubt they're letting them kids go uneducated and fall behind their peers.

Also we don't have an accurate view of how the kids are socialised because if joe shared that info it would : put the kids at risk and potentially put the kids they socialise with at risk, so they may well have loads of activities goin on.... I know people think joe is dumb but he is not letting his kids livelihoods suffer due to selfishness the way people make out here... Plus they have the money to throw at all these things.
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do you watch the same stories, not letting his kids suffer due to selfishness?! When he’s admitted previously that the reason the kids don’t go to school is because they want their holidays (well Rosie did) and to be able to travel when it suits him
Taking a baby abroad when he was tiny and having him sleep in a bag on the floor when he couldn’t even see because again Joe wanted his fancy holidays
Having their growing child sleep on a sofa for 3 months because, you’ve guessed it Joe wants to be in America
Man is the epitome of selfishness…yes we only see what he wants us to but what he shows doesn’t make me think he’s ever putting his children’s needs first, despite what he believes
 
maytoseptember said:
I’ve said this before and I’ll say it again - considering the Wicks family can afford to send their kids to a fabulous private school and give them the best, most well-rounded education money can buy (not to mention the longer school holidays!) it beggars belief that they would choose to home educate IMO.

Whatever they do at home, even if they have tutors coming in on the quiet, it wouldn’t be a patch on the experiences they could be having at school.

All that money is wasted on them, truly 😅
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Joe does not want posh eton kids. You can even see he used to take videos of Marley's little cockney accent. I think its a socioeconomic thing he wants them to seem normal (to him) and prviate school would make them alien. He wants little gymnast skate boarders who know 10 languages. Its a different strategy but I doubt they're not getting highly educated.
 
happygolucky1 said:
Joe does not want posh eton kids. You can even see he used to take videos of Marley's little cockney accent. I think its a socioeconomic thing he wants them to seem normal (to him) and prviate school would make them alien. He wants little gymnast skate boarders who know 10 languages. Its a different strategy but I doubt they're not getting highly educated.
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Ooh, that’s a really good point. I hadn’t considered that before. Joe obviously puts a lot of stock in himself (and his brother) being self-made from a humble/disadvantaged childhood. Most people want their kids to have better than they did though 🤷‍♀️

Also the point about them being too lazy to get themselves up and out in time for school 🙃 I mean I get it - I remember one occasion when I had to get my daughter ready for school in about 20 minutes because I could not haul myself out of bed. But I still did it. It’s just what you have to do when you’re a parent.

It helps if you’re not perpetually pregnant or toting a baby around…
 
They are just lazy/selfish, many people get up and get kids to nursery/child minder/breakfast club an hour or so before normal school starts then go to work, because they have to!
Joe seems perfectly able to get up early to exercise so no reason he couldn't have been using that time to get kids up and ready. But he prioritised himself.
 
Merriboo said:
And just like that… coincidental timing of course 😆 he posts stories showing him “teaching Marley and Indie
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Of course he has to show the front of the book to show five year old Marley is doing the 6-7 work. And a random mention of key stage 1 maths when Marley is only reception age. Can’t be seen to be doing work for their age. And is he implying Leni is writing too? I didn’t want to click and give engagement for the hothousing 🙄
 
RandomFrog said:
Don't want to derail the thread but another side of the coin for homeschooling here

We are seriously considering home schooling our daughter who is currently a toddler. For numerous reasons really but when we have mentioned it to family the main reason they've said against us doing it is the social impact.

However my view is...I am only friends with one person I went to high school with, anybody else I see from school (especially previous bullies who conveniently forget about that now) I don't and won't speak to. I am not and never have been a sociable person, school didn't help me with that at all.

I was always top in primary school and in top sets at high school yet always felt under the radar as such. The 'naughty' kids got the teachers full attention which took away from mine and others schooling.

Homeschooling to me gives me the flexibility to be able to teach my daughter what she is interested in/good at rather than her learning for example what pi is which I have never used in my adult life.

I don't necessarily believe Joe & Rosie have gone down the homeschooling route for the right reasons however, the narrative that parents are tit if they do decide that isn't good.

To add my daughter doesn't attend nursery (another thing I get shunned for and told her social skills will suffer) yet she is the most social in the few classes we do attend 🤷
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I think it’s a shame you are basing decisions for your daughter purely on your own negative experiences. And there is more to maths than not using Pi. These are thinking skills that build the foundation for adult learning. Actually I have used Pi as an adult. I’m glad I wasn’t limited to what I enjoyed as a young child as it was much later on that I realised I had a flair for and interest in some of the subjects I had previously found dull.
 
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