Earning degree from home or school?

Question

Why is it so hard for society to accept those who graduate from a classroom-based school to those who homeschooled? Sometimes people don't talk about it, but I do find this is discriminating for those who homeschooled and earned their degrees honestly.

Answer 1

I think that there are a variety of reasons.
--One is that hs'ers [in general] test out as advanced when compared to their traditionally-schooled peers. I have found that if my kid does better than someone else's kid in
ANYTHING, my kid will be criticized. It is human nature to be SO invested in your child's life.
--Then, when some people find out I hs, they feel like I am saying I am doing more for my kid than they are doing for theirs,and that causes a defensive reaction, also.
--Sometimes others are defensive because they have thought about hsing but don't want to do it because it would take too much of their time.
--Sometimes people have known hs'ed kids who are not where they should be academically or what they should be behaviorally.
--People do not take into account different kids' abilities. If your kid goes to public school and does not know a basic math fact, people assume the child is not good in math. If my kid misses a basic math fact, then people blame it on hsing.

When I first had my kids tested [Iowa tests] my mother-in-law said, "Now you'll find out how you're doing." Um, if my kids had taken that same battery of tests after a year of public school, she would have said that I was about to find out how well my KIDS were doing.

I've been teaching kids at church for 25 years, and if you look at any class of 25 kids that I've taught, most of whom go to public schools, you will find a much greater percentage of kids that are socially awkward than you will find in homeschool circles. If a ps kid is socially awkward, people say that the child is shy or immature or introverted. If a hs kid is socially awkward, people say it is because the child is hs'ed.

Answer 2

People do not like what is unfamiliar. They assume that the people who get a degree from home are socially awkward and didn't get a good education. It is pure ignorance on their part. They don't bother to do the research, meet homeschoolers (that they know of), or think about the numerous homeschooling co-ops there are out there. They don't think people can learn well without a teacher/professor at the front of the room lecturing several hours a day. They refuse to think that just maybe homeschooling is effective because they have seen a few bad examples of it.

Answer 3

maximum homeschoolers I even have properly-known do no longer bypass to an cyber web college. sure, Harvard, MIT, and maximum universities have all universal homeschoolers; some have actively recruited homeschoolers. in case you bypass on any of those college's web pages you will locate admission standards for homeschoolers.