Why are home-schooled kids always so weird?

Question

And why would you want to do that to your child?

Answer 1

Because their natural eccentricities have not been crushed. Because their imagination may yet be intact. Because they know better who they are and do not suffer as much pressure to "fit-in" or become complicit in a pathological culture.

Maybe because they have not watched as much TV and maybe because their parents may care for and nurture them more completely. Maybe because they have not become constrained and conformed to mass hysteria.

Maybe because they are naturally smarter! Maybe because their parents are naturally smarter?

I would take "weird" to "mindless comformity".

Answer 2

To paraphrase your question, you're saying that all students in "regular" school are "normal"? Please define normal. I'd like to know. I agree with some of the comments from the answerers on this question about how the kids are separated from others and they have no social interaction. However, that responsibility lies with the parents. It's up to the parents to get the kids out there and mixing with other kids. My children are home-schooled. If they were to go back into the screwed-up public system, they would be bored for at least 2 years compared with where their peers are. The teachers today have huge class sizes, too many distractions and their hands are tied when the class idiot decides to do his/her thing. All they can do is hope for the best and expect the worst. Nope, not planning to send my kids back to public school with the drugs, violence, sex, and other evils. You can have it. They'll have enough when they're finished school.

I have been to functions with kids from public schools. If you think running around, screaming and terrorizing other people is "normal", then that's your loss. When I'm at functions with home-schooled kids, IF that happens, it isn't very long-lasting and usually doesn't happen again.

Answer 3

Because some people don't believe in the education system, they see it as going down the drain but a lot of parents who home school their kids have less knowledge than someone who drops out of school. Another thing could be that the parents might feel like their kids are in danger of predators or school bullies and don't want their kids to be bothered. Why are they weird, probably because being home school the only friends you have are your family, you really have no way of making new friends like you would in school.

Answer 4

They aren't so much "weird" --- I never agreed with home schooling. The kids who are home schooled do not and will not have the same socialization skills as a child going to school with his/her peers. I would not have done that to my child. I think it is kind of mean really. (Unless, of course, child was kicked out of school and this was the only way - or other serious issues like that).

Answer 5

why are public school kids such conformist and always do the same thing as everyone else?

Socialization means to put under the control of the group so that the person follows whatever the group is doing -- look it up.

from dictionary.com:

To place under government or group ownership or control.
To make fit for companionship with others; make sociable.
To convert or adapt to the needs of society.

Public school kids are well socialized. Homeschooled kids (for the most part) have excellent social skills and can appropriately interact with people of all ages. They can also think for themselves and live full and meaningful lives rather than just following along with whatever everyone else is doing.

Answer 6

Home schooled kids sometimes lead very sheltered lives. That's sad. I home-schooled and we stayed very active in the local enrichment classes that our home school group coordinates. There are about 200 +/- in the enrichment classes. We met every Friday for 5 hours and kids can choose an assortment of classes such as drama, photography, basketball, cooking, games, bead work and other arts, biology lab, dance, music/band..... the list goes on. All of these classes are taught by the parents. The kids get plenty of time to interact with other kids and forge great friendships. There is also 4-H and local theater groups for home-schoolers to attend that keeps them socially active.

Answer 7

Because they are above you, mentally.
And the reason a parent would want to do that is because home schooled children out-score all others, substantially.
The NEA and teachers unions have ruined public education in this country, as is continually being proved by performance tests in comparison to home schooling and public education of other nations. We must change this trend, and vouchers, home education and other competition will help to do that.

Answer 8

homeschooled kids aren't weird, they are individuals. they don't conform, they don't suppress themselves to fit in. this makes them appear weird to those who require the opinions of others to know how to dress themselves.

the socialization cannard is just that. first off, socialization is not socializing. you socialize with peers and friends, but you are socialized by parents and other authority figures. socialization is about passing on the mores of the culture. typically, then, homeschooled kids are much better socialized than schooled kids. as to hanging with other kids, or socializing, homeschoolers do it all the time. people who think they don't are not, well, thinking. however, when homeschoolers meet shallow, ignorant, vapid public schoolers who have no opinions and no interests, they might find it difficult to talk to such a person. who wouldn't?

Answer 9

OK , My wife and I home-school. All of our children, according too our family friends, are normal. Some of those friends home-school some do not. To answer the questions of "why?". It was a decision the we had made based upon our beliefs and what we saw in and around the local schools here. As far as "socialization" , My children are involved with our church, after school sports programs , gymnastics, swimming lessons, and "play dates" with other home-schooled children. So yes they do know how too be in a crowd, and how too act around other people. Plus we can be more active in their lives. Children, in my opinion, live their adult lives based on what they learned from their parents.

Answer 10

Homeschool kids are "weird"? Who says so?

You have to demonstrate that before you can ask "why"?

Of course this requires rigorous logic, public schoolers don't typically get that.

Anyway, there are plenty of "weird" kids in public schools. Why don't these "concerned citizens" ever worry about them?

And why are the same people who are "pro choice" when it comes to abortion, so willing to invade the privacy of homeschoolers?

Why so much hypocrisy?

Those are much more intriguing questions.

Answer 11

Probably because they haven't been taught how to interact with other people, since there aren't any, and adopt the necessary social skills.
So, they seem "weird" because they have trouble adjusting in groups.
There's more to getting a good education than just books.
That's the downside of home schooling.