I was home schooled all the way from preschool through high school. I've graduated and I'm in college now, but along the way, people would always ask me and my mom things like "Is this legal?" or "How do they make friends?" Now I want to ask y'all something--does everyone think that way about us?
2006-09-06 07:53:00 · 14 answers · asked by craftykid22 3 in Education & Reference ➔ Home Schooling
When I home schooled I wasn't alone or isolated at all. I had my various extracurricular activities. I played tons of sports--basketball, soccer, swim team--and had friends from those places. I have friends from my church too. In high school I took a lot of my classes outside of my home that were with other kids, so I had friends from there also.
2006-09-06 08:03:33 · update #1
As you can tell from the responses, there are a lot of people who know very little about homeschooling and have some, uh, interesting opinions and don't think very highly of homeschoolers.
Fortunately, that is beginning to change. I don't encounter negative comments quite so often and do encounter things like, "Good for you! I'd do the same if my kids weren't grown [if I had kids]" or genuine interest about how homeschooling works.
If some of the people who spout ignorant things about homeschooling hung out with our family for a week or so, they'd see quite clearly that my children (and all the other homeschooled children they would meet) are not sheltered, do interact with other kids (and adults) and quite enjoy themselves, in addition to getting a good education. This is not to say that all homeschoolers are like this, but I would say the vast majority are.
It's very unfair, isn't it, that there are tons of socially messed up kids in public schools yet people are so quick to judge and think that a strange homeschooled student they met is representative of the whole.
2006-09-06 11:07:13 · answer #1 · answered by glurpy 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I was also homeschooled from the beginning and all the way through high school and am now in college. I was never really into sports, so most of my friends were from church and/or homeschool groups. I never felt like I was missing out on anything good, but I think I did succeed in missing out on a lot of the negative aspects of school. I think that homeschoolers have an advantage socially in that they are able to relate to people of any age a lot more easily than kids who are surrounded by their peers do. In the real world people interact on a daily basis with people of all different ages, not just with people their own age.
2006-09-06 09:29:09 · answer #2 · answered by theology_chick 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
If you learned via computer in virtual classrooms and had the benefit of very smart teachers well skilled in the art of teaching.
Then you probably did very well on your own.
However, most parents today who are teaching at home do not have the skills needed to teach children what they will be required to know to compete in the real world.
The day will come when all children will be home schooled by computers. They will have access to any form of knowledge available in the world. To learn at their pace and not that of the dumbest kid in the class. At that point we will have the most educated people in the world. Children who have been taken out of the main steam school system and trained this way far exceed the child in the normal high school environment. Who spend most of the day trying to look attractive to the opposite sex.
2006-09-06 08:25:16 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I work in a school and I can tell you that you were one of the lucky ones home schooled that succeeded. I work with children now in 3rd grade that struggled in 1st grade were removed by the parent for home schooling in second grade and failed to learn to read and write properly up to current 3rd grade standards . They are actually pretty bright children in the sense that if I read a problem to them they can actually answer and figure out the answers. This leaves these children apart from the rest in progress and leaves the school system in the unfortunate position of picking up where the school left off in 1st grade . Thank your parents dearly for being attentive and steadfast when you see them next because had they not have been good home schooling parents they did a great job for you .
2006-09-06 08:59:11 · answer #4 · answered by D K 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I met a girl who was home schooled, her mom had her in sports and such to make friends. She seemed to be really nice until one day she started acting like she was in high school, gossiping about the other mom's our children's school things like, "omg why would she wear that isn't it hideous". She would doodle on papers in her car ask me really bizarre questions about sex... it was to weird for me, I went through high school I didn't want to do it again! After meeting her in my opinion she didn't get the normal interaction that you get at school, like the caddy people passing notes etc...It could very well be it was just her personality because she is the only person I know who was home schooled.
2006-09-06 08:05:47 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Not everyone, I've been home schooled for 10 yrs and yes, I've met some close minded people who didn't agree with home schooling but most people were really cool about it.
Oh and for all you people who think homeschoolers have socialization problems,have you ever met someone who was home schooled? and if so, did they show any signs of being socially handicapped?
2006-09-06 08:04:00 · answer #6 · answered by softballgal 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Great question!
I have no problem with homeschooling, when it is the exception to the norm. I think a lot of kids suffer because of it. I know I'm over-generalizing, so let me be more specific. My nephew's teacher said he was ADD. Instead of treating the problem, my brother and sister-in-law took him out of school and my sister-in-law is homeschooling him.
She was a THEATER major in college. How that qualifies her to teach math and science, I don't know. And how is he supposed to learn to cope in a world with ADD when his studies are constantly being interrupted by his two toddler siblings? I think it is making his problem worse, not helping him.
Now let me be clear, I don't feel this is the case with all homeschoolers. But I fell it happens too often, so they need to make very sure these children are being properly educated. Did all that make sense?
2006-09-06 08:02:33 · answer #7 · answered by Ginny D 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
I knew a couple of kids on my block that were home schooled....they were outcaster....played with themselves never anyone else....adn always close to their families...Personaly I feel now a days it is great....they aren't out there in the crowd getting in trouble or in gangs because they are kept at home....When I have kids that is what I wish I will be able to do....
2006-09-06 07:59:58 · answer #8 · answered by ERICKSMAMA 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No I don't think that way, from what I have seen I think homeschooling is great in fact I am thinking of homeschooling my son next school year. I have friends that do homeschooling and their kids seem to have no problems in the friends department.
2006-09-06 07:57:16 · answer #9 · answered by micheleh29 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I think you get sheltered in home schooling so when you get into the real world you do not no how to cope. Not to mention you miss interactions with other children.
2006-09-06 10:11:09 · answer #10 · answered by tohellwitu 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋