Your personal thoughts on homeschooling?

What are your personal thoughts on homeschooling where you live?

I live in the US, and I was homeschooled since the sixth grade.

Funny thing is, the average homeschooler in the States has grades that are much, much higher in every field than the average public or even private school student.

Yes, private schools.

I have a 3.62 GPA and scored an 85(Out of 99) on the Navy ASVAB, which is extremely high.

Your thoughts on homeschooling where you live?

I would also note that my mother had the qualifications to homeschool, but wasn't a teacher for a school at any point in her life.

i was homeschool

i didnt like it, cuz i was never with my friends during school. but it was easier to cheat when my mom was gone lol.

i say homeschool for middle school, and tahts it, cuz middle school is THE WORST public school age ever.

The idea is quite nice. However, the fact that many kids who get homeschooled have higher grades than those who don't is a problem.

Sure homeschooled kids have higher grades, but how could you live with your nonexsistent social life? I mean, part of what helps me through the day is the ability to talk with my friends!

Homeschooling is not allowed in my country, by the way.

Homeschooling is not allowed in my country, by the way.

vlin1108

What country are you from?

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Homeschooling is not allowed in my country, by the way.

Shad0ki11

What country are you from?

Romania. Homeschooling is not recognized by the state as a valid form of education.

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Homeschooling is not allowed in my country, by the way.

vlin1108

Romania. Homeschooling is not recognized by the state as a valid form of education.

What country are you from?

is romania still communist?

Bad for social skills.Proobie44

I say that is one of the most ignorant statements ever, I see people have way better social skills who were homeschool, personal experience. Hell, I went to school all that,I was friendly to anyone no matter how much they sucked, but now I dont have friends anyways. You can always go to church if your a believer, trust me, it is a lot easier than trying to get along with random people who dont have anywhere the same thoughts as you... Mainly I am lonely because there just was no one that I could care about in puiblic school, too many dunces in life for me. I want quality, not quantity.

And yes, this homeschool person is in trigonometry in college, while I am in algebra 2, go figure.

Also he joined sports (just baseball), so he wasnt completely sheltered.

Sure homeschooled kids have higher grades, but how could you live with your nonexsistent social life? I mean, part of what helps me through the day is the ability to talk with my friends!

UnamedThing

You've never heard of Girl Scouts, 4-H, or sports? School isn't the only place to socialize. Also, there are home school groups where all the local home schooled kids get together and in some cases do their work together.

Oh and I will be taking video game development class this year. What kind of public highschool has freaking video game development class? And as for the social issue, I've went to public school all of my life and I have plenty of friends that I still see.omfg_its_dally

mine does...

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Homeschooling is not allowed in my country, by the way.

Xeros606

Romania. Homeschooling is not recognized by the state as a valid form of education.

What country are you from?

is romania still communist?

Romania has been a capitalist state since 19 years. Reminds how small the country is.

[QUOTE="omfg_its_dally"]Oh and I will be taking video game development class this year. What kind of public highschool has freaking video game development class? And as for the social issue, I've went to public school all of my life and I have plenty of friends that I still see.Xeros606

mine does...

Mine didn't. :(

Oh and I will be taking video game development class this year. What kind of public highschool has freaking video game development class? And as for the social issue, I've went to public school all of my life and I have plenty of friends that I still see.omfg_its_dally

mine had 3 computer programming classes, which mostly consisted of making games

Bad for social skills.Proobie44

I'm homeschooled and it's cool. I take my all classes online and I go to a sports program for HSers. I'm looking to do dual-enrollment at the local collage once I finish up my Algebra 2 class.

I take the classes I want and there's none of the hassles of public school such as apathetic teachers teaching for the test and the geniuses they call students. But then again, the schools around here suck.

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Sure homeschooled kids have higher grades, but how could you live with your nonexsistent social life? I mean, part of what helps me through the day is the ability to talk with my friends!

MannequinLegs

You've never heard of Girl Scouts, 4-H, or sports? School isn't the only place to socialize. Also, there are home school groups where all the local home schooled kids get together and in some cases do their work together.

You know what? That was actually a pretty ignorant statement I made, I apoloigize.

It's all right. But it isn't from me. If I can't get away from my family for at least a little while, I go nuts.

I would like eeryone who said that shcool is for socializing to tell me how it's a requirment in life to have to deal with annoying teachers, steriotypical ******* jerks and bullies and the snobby popular people? School makes you hate people, that's not "socializing" and there's other ways to make friends than school :roll:God_of_duty117

[QUOTE="God_of_duty117"]I would like eeryone who said that shcool is for socializing to tell me how it's a requirment in life to have to deal with annoying teachers, steriotypical ******* jerks and bullies and the snobby popular people? School makes you hate people, that's not "socializing" and there's other ways to make friends than school :roll:Big_player

How do you deal with people you don't like?

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Sure homeschooled kids have higher grades, but how could you live with your nonexsistent social life? I mean, part of what helps me through the day is the ability to talk with my friends!

UnamedThing

You've never heard of Girl Scouts, 4-H, or sports? School isn't the only place to socialize. Also, there are home school groups where all the local home schooled kids get together and in some cases do their work together.

You know what? That was actually a pretty ignorant statement I made, I apoloigize.

this has gotta be the first time ive seen this on the internet. :|

[QUOTE="Big_player"][QUOTE="God_of_duty117"]I would like eeryone who said that shcool is for socializing to tell me how it's a requirment in life to have to deal with annoying teachers, steriotypical ******* jerks and bullies and the snobby popular people? School makes you hate people, that's not "socializing" and there's other ways to make friends than school :roll:vlin1108

How do you deal with people you don't like?

What are your personal thoughts on homeschooling where you live?

I live in the US, and I was homeschooled since the sixth grade.

Funny thing is, the average homeschooler in the States has grades that are much, much higher in every field than the average public or even private school student.

Yes, private schools.

I have a 3.62 GPA and scored an 85(Out of 99) on the Navy ASVAB, which is extremely high.

Your thoughts on homeschooling where you live?

I would also note that my mother had the qualifications to homeschool, but wasn't a teacher for a school at any point in her life.

-TheSecondSign-

I'm not denying what you say, but my ego demands action.

Public School

4.0 GPA... 94/99 on AVAB

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Sure homeschooled kids have higher grades, but how could you live with your nonexsistent social life? I mean, part of what helps me through the day is the ability to talk with my friends!

UnamedThing

You've never heard of Girl Scouts, 4-H, or sports? School isn't the only place to socialize. Also, there are home school groups where all the local home schooled kids get together and in some cases do their work together.

You know what? That was actually a pretty ignorant statement I made, I apoloigize.

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[QUOTE="Big_player"][QUOTE="God_of_duty117"]I would like eeryone who said that shcool is for socializing to tell me how it's a requirment in life to have to deal with annoying teachers, steriotypical ******* jerks and bullies and the snobby popular people? School makes you hate people, that's not "socializing" and there's other ways to make friends than school :roll:Big_player

How do you deal with people you don't like?

It's really not that hard to tell people to piss off.

Assuming that the child's parents aren't... uhh... ill-equipped from an intellectual perspective, that they have the proper materials (there's usually a curriculum that's mandated by the state in the USA, if I'm not mistaken) and that the child has access to other children to allow themselves emotional growth, etc. I think it's a great idea.

Put simply, many teachers -- even in private schools -- aren't qualified enough, aren't caring enough, etc to do their job. A great deal of this may be due to low salaries, as people with more adequate skills may be drawn to higher paying fields. That's part of it, but that isn't all of it, of course... but I'm in a rush here because my pizza just got done and I have to take it out of the oven.

But high school is sortof like teenager daycare... if I wasn't interested enough in history, lit, science and general learning to look into a lot of this stuff on my own, I probably wouldn't have learned anything during that time.

But my pizza's burning... in short, homeschooling's good if all parties involved are dedicated enough to do it right.

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Sure homeschooled kids have higher grades, but how could you live with your nonexsistent social life? I mean, part of what helps me through the day is the ability to talk with my friends!

Xeros606

You've never heard of Girl Scouts, 4-H, or sports? School isn't the only place to socialize. Also, there are home school groups where all the local home schooled kids get together and in some cases do their work together.

You know what? That was actually a pretty ignorant statement I made, I apoloigize.

this has gotta be the first time ive seen this on the internet. :|

Yes, well i'm not one of the kids who try to act gangster, and I can see how you've never seen that before but I don't like coming across as rude or ignorant, even if it is over the internet.

When I entered public schooling I had far greater intelligence and better scores then any of my class mates. I also had tons of friends.SAURON221

And a huge ego! :roll: