Would you like to be home schooled or to have been home schooled?

Question

Why or why not? Please assume you are still involved in sports, activites, and have a lot of friends.

Answer 1

I would have liked homeschooling for high school IF my mother were working and I was allowed to work at my own pace at home. A great deal of my high school education was a joke--I had to learn much of the stuff on my own anyhow because the teachers we had were not very good. However, if I'd had to have been with my mother, no way. She's always been a highly stressed--and stressful--person.

Answer 2

Well... I am home schooled it's pretty good. I'm still a very social person. If you plan on doing homeschooling first find a homeschooling group in your area so that you can go on class field trips and associate with other people also you can go as slow or as fast as u want. I just started in July 2007 and I am graduating high school in January of 2009 and I'm only 13, I'm going to be done by the time I'm 14 and going to college. Point is that its very beneficial. I really like it.

Answer 3

I was home schooled from Grade 1 to Grade 9. I didn't mind it except I was a very shy kid and not being interactive with other kids away from home did not help me come out of my shell. I did like that I only had school in the mornings and the rest of the day off. I was involved with sports as well in the community so it wasn't like I was totally secluded from society. I don't think homeschooling is bad and don't hold it against anyone who does it.

Answer 4

Well, I am done with my K-12 schooling, but I know I would have been much happier with homeschooling. I moved a lot and so I was ALWAYS the new kid in school. I also never learned much, partly because the school system itself is not great, and partly because I moved from school to school so much. A consistent homeschool curriculum would have been much better, maybe then I wouldn't have had to re-educate myself so much before I could homeschool my own kids.

EDIT
Like Glee I was also picked on, and didn't like team sports.
I loved to read though, and what I did learn in school I learned from books checked out from the school library, not from the teachers (for the most part, there was ONE good teacher in all my years of Public School, hope you are still teaching MR. Mirk!)

Answer 5

I hated public school. I didn't enjoy team sports. I loved learning and reading. I liked target practice much better than T-ball. I was often bored and distracted in school. I would have loved to have been homeschooled by my dad, but my mother was such a kinetic person, I think she'd have driven me nuts.
EDIT: I was teased and beaten mercilessly in school. The only thing I learned from that experience was the code of silence and how to keep my head down and muddle through in misery.

Answer 6

I am homeschooled (or unschooled, mostly), and it's great! I love it! I used to deplore school, but I love what I'm doing now! I do have a lot of friends, and there are plenty of activities at our homeschool 'school' like drama and stuff. Of course, they did to dissection, which I had to boycott...
Okay, getting off subject, sorry.
The point is, I am homeschooled, and it is great. I plan to never set foot inside another public school. I am against them. They are wrong and they treat children like prisoners.
If there is any downside to this, and there isn't mush of one, it's that a lot of my family (think grandma) completely disapproves, causing her to come over here ranting a couple times a week... And I'd like a little more time away from my sister, and occasionally my mom, but oh well. It's not worth going back to school!

Answer 7

I went to public schools and looking back I can say no I wouldn't have wanted to be home schooled.

I enjoyed my time in high school. I enjoyed the different teachers. I enjoyed the science experiments. And I enjoyed being out of my house.

I think if I was home schooled, I would be to easily distracted to actually get anything done! (I'm suppossed to be writing a term paper for a 400 level class right now, but I'm at home and look what I'm doing!)

Answer 8

I would not have wanted to be home schooled because my home as a child was not very conducive to schooling and learning. That does not mean that I think home schooling is a bad thing. For young people who are good independent learners it can be fine. I think home schooling can be more successful for younger kids than for high school students, as high school students need instruction that requires more in depth knowledge of the material.

Answer 9

I was home-schooled when I was in High School. It does have its drawbacks. Back in those days home-schooling was not as common as it is today. I felt very isolated because I was not interacting with people my own age.

Answer 10

Well, I'm 15 and have been home educated all my life. I wouldn't swap being home educated for attending school for all the tea in China, lol!