im confused!!!?

Question

ok so heres my situation.......
im homeschooled and heres what i like about it:
get up later
be aropund family (which actually i only sometimes like..lol;)

ok i want to puclic school my parents dont want me to because "they think the Lord is leading them towards homeschooling"
well i dont im a CHristian and wouldNOT want to give it up even to have a bigger social life....;)
so ya um its not like i dont do anything i do a lot of Xtra stuf and so im pretty busy. i just have trouble making new friends, though i have lots of old ones. can people tell me if what they would do? (i.e homeschool or public school)
heres some more info:
id be starting public school next year. i will be 14 next year so ill be going into high school. is highschol funner then public school? (i doubt!)
HELP!

oops i didnt meen is public school funner then highschool, i meant is homeschool funner then high school...srry

What is it like?

do you think i should?

THANK YOU ALL SO MUCH! youve helped alot

ok i kinda made my choice, which is i want to go and do like two classes or something. but but but one issue, my parents dont want me to go anymore becuz they dont trust me. (i get in trouble for a lot of things, alot) any how ,...
PRAY!! lol
yep cuz my dads answer (that he yelled at me when he was leaving to work) was "only the Lord himself can change my mind" he dosnt really get it even though i told him why i want to go. but i think he was stressed to so ya i have a whole year (not a whole year but...) i s pubschool harder then homeschool? by the way my curriculam is call "bob jones university" its a Christian curriculum that in my oppinoin is hard (but thats just me maybe....) ps my mom, bro, and dad go to college also so i dont really have a "person teacher" so im not lake babied or wutev, but i do have dif teachers because we record them on a satellite thing... theyre ok. some r dorky;) nEwaze im gonna join trak in march so i will be buzzzzier so i hope it helps if i cant P.S

Answer 1

um i would definitely say stop being homeschooled! you are losing out on valuable social skills you will need for the rest of your life! i think if your parents can't trust you to go to public school and still be a good girl you need to have a heart to heart and tell them what your intentions are. explain to them you're growing up, but you will always believe in the Lord and will not stray away from that path. Tell them that you need to learn social skills that you will need one day when you have a job, that you will need to learn to interact with people. I know a girl that was homeschooled until 9th grade when she started to come to school and she is the nicest christian girl, who was in the school play and has made lots of new friends! its important you talk to your parents though.

Answer 2

I'm confused by the question!

"I want to public school"--you want to go?
"I'm a Christian and would not want to give it up"--give up what? Homeschooling? Or "it"?

Public schools vary, just as each homeschooling household varies from others. Whether you enjoy it more or not is going to depend on a lot of things--what the teachers are like, what the school in general is like, what the other students are like, how academically prepared you are for it, how social you are, how mature you are (if there's a lot of immature drama--the cliques, who's dating who, who said what about whom, which rumours are going around about who slept with whom, who's had an abortion, who was too chicken to sneak out to a party and get drunk/do drugs...-- at school and you are more mature, you're going to just be annoyed by it all).

I'm not sure why you think you should be making new friends all the time. That's just now how life works. If you were to go to school, you'd likely make friends your first year and those would be your friends for the years after that. So you'd be back to where you started: having trouble making new friends.

If you want to be a part of the clubs and all the social activities, then yes, you'd probably find high school funner (although you would have to adjust to sitting in class all day then having a couple of hours of homework each night). If not, it probably won't be so great!

Answer 3

Here's the thing with school and highschool, but understand where you are can make a difference, are your rural or urban, if urban most of this applies.

You have to get up early and be there on time. You have to go from class to class. In Urban schools you carry your books in a back pack. You have to buy the correct supplies for the class. You have to follow the rules of the class. The correct answer is not the "right answer" but the answer the teacher wants to hear.

There are a lot of non-Christian activities you're going to face. Cliques (preps, geeks, nerds, jocks), drugs (done even in rural settings), overt sexuality, criticism from others over your dress, ideas, etc.

You're going to face class clowns (could be made one), people who bring the class down, gangs and possibly violence. In a lot of urban schools they new use metal detectors at all doorways.

Drug dealers and gan members bring knives and guns to school.

Maybe you better watch the TV news in your area and read the newspapers and do a search of education in your area and possibly do an essay on life in your local schools based upon what you read.

Yu might also want to read up on the success and failures in your local school system.

Also, you have to keep up with the work, which means you will still be "homschooled" part of the time because the teacher ain't going to help you.

Teachers are on a time table. They have to cover a certain amount of "ground" each day. You go from class to class with different people in each class and a different teacher for each class.

A lot of things have pre-requisites and you may not have had these in your homeschooling, so those classes may not be available to you.

As for social events, don't yu go to church. What about a bibles study class or group.

Answer 4

To start out, see if you can go half a day! My son's friend did that for the past two years and enjoyed it a lot until recently ... he just now decided to come back to full time home-schooling but definitely enjoyed some benefits of being in a public school.

This could give you and your parents a 'taste' of both worlds to help in making the final choice. My son's friends took wood working, history, and one other subject. Some kids will take electives (foreign language, for instance) and focus on the other work at home, others will take the 'important' things like English and Math at school and then explore elective subjects at home.

Good luck with your choices!

Answer 5

Well, friend, I was homeschooled from childhood untill 7th grade, and I think you should go for public school. Sure, you have to get up early, but it prepares you better for the real world. You will have better scholorshiop oppportunities for colleges, which in turn will lead to better job opportuniites. Think of it! School dances, making new friends, Drama, Chior, Band, Basketball, Volleyball, Football Games, Pep Ralleys, and soo much more. You will not regret going to pubilice school.
Do give it some time though. A year at the least to get use to it. I think you scould go to public school. Take it from someone with experience from both sides.

Answer 6

Just because you are homeschooled does not mean that you lose out on social aspects. I was in public school, but after two years of high school I was homeschooled. I liked homeschool, and I was able to finish a year earlier than expected. It all depends on your personality. If you are a motivated person you'll do fine homeschooling, but if you aren't, your parents will probably have to prod you a little bit.

Answer 7

I totally get what you mean. i'm homeschooled, i've been homeschooled since i was 13 (i know) i'm 15 now, i know it hasn't been long, but i've also experienced public and private school.

for me, i enjoy homeschooling becausei get to learn more about what i want to learn about. (almost, i don't get to skip math!) but in my state there is a program where homeschooled highschoolers can take up to 2 classes at their local highschool. i decided to take advantage of that program, and it's great for getting science done, imagine dissecting a frog on your kitchen table, or doing a highly dangerous chemical experiment! yikes! so i take classes at the highschool, which is a really easy way to get plugged into the whole "school" scene. i get an ID card, so i can check out books and go to school events. i can sign up for any club i want to, or whatever. it's pretty neat, and i've made some friends too.

If your community doesn't offer programs like that, there most likely is a homeschoolers community where you can take classes like science or gym in groups, and it also gives you more chances to make friends.

for me, the happy medium is the way to go. i get the best of both worlds. i don't get sick of my mom, and i don't deal with all the drama at school.

you should choose what's best for you. but i warn you, if you haven't been to public school before, you will go through a bit of a culture shock, should you choose to "go public". public highschool is a rough place. even though i'm only there 2 hours a day, i've seen kids getting beat up in the hall, the police are always at our school, and if you're not used to profanity, youre ears will be sore for a while. everyone swears in highschool.
i'm not going to try and sway you either way, you need to choose what you think is best for you, and what you're parents can agree with.i just want to make sure you make an informed decision, and i wish you good luck.

GIC (God's in control)

Answer 8

people who say that you will be a social misfit just because you were homeschooled have not experienced it themselves and they are ignorant. I was homeschooled and I had lots of friends and lots of opportunities. I know in my state homeschooled kids have their own prom and other events that you can meet other people who are homeschooled at. Also you can join dance or sport classes in your spare time as an additional way to make new friends. As a teen I hung out at a local Chrisitan Coffeehouse and I got to meet alot of different people that way and still be in a positive environment.
High school offers a lot of opportunities, but don't give up on homeschool yet. Keep in mind that highschools are becoming more and more dangerou these days. Maybe you could ask your parents to let you try it out for a week or two and let you make your own decision that way. They can always unenroll you and bring you back home if it doesn't work out.

Answer 9

It depends on the school, you, and your parents' style of teaching as to which will be more fun. My son says he never wants to go back because he hated school unfortunately & found it a mix of stressful and boring.

I also found school to be boring and my brother did, too. We were both smart, gifted kids, and I think if you are smart and gifted, you will be bored in many of your classes too. I didn't enjoy school until college. My kids enjoy homeschool though because we learn about subjects they want to learn about though, and I try not to bore them to death.

Nowadays if you google online your hometown (look for yahoo groups also if that doesn't work) and then google your town and homeschool you should be able to find homeschool activities online. Nowadays most towns have sports, classes, dances, proms, and homeschool graduations in addition to the regular classes you can take with non-homeschoolers.

I also found myself not fully prepared for college because my math teachers were not very good. They were sports coaches for the school that were sports-oriented and not actually math teachers. I plan to have my son attend community college for his junior and senior year of high school for math so that he will be better prepared for college than was I. This is called dual enrollment homeschooling and you can attend and take part-time classes at your community college once you are 15 or 16 in many states so you may want to look into that also as it is free. You can finish up the first 2 years of your college by the time you finish up high school which is nice. We hope both of our children will do that, and it is also a way to make friends as well.

I hope you make the right decision, I'm sure you will pray about it and make the right one! Good luck!

Answer 10

Hi, I was home schooled until I was 10. I then went to public school and it was a shock how mean people could be. But I don't regret going into the school system. I'm now in grade 10 in the IB programme (an advanced program) and I don't regret anything. I'm thankful that I got the chance to be home schooled, it gave me a really good head start, and I feel it gave me stronger morals. I was not home schooled for religious reasons. But I would suggest being positive about going to high school. High school is an awesome experience, and you grow through it everyday.