The question seems pretty self explanatory: were you or are you home-schooled? I thought it would be interesting to see what turns up.
Poll: Were you/are you home-schooled?
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Not really a part of educational system here in Finland. I'm not sure if you can even not send your kids in school.
I googled, and apparently you can. But it's really really rare, and mostly for children who are very sick and can't leave the hospital or home.
I googled, and apparently you can. But it's really really rare, and mostly for children who are very sick and can't leave the hospital or home.
Nah, I kinda wish that were the case, but all my friends were in school and as painfully dull as it was I did get to see them.
No, luckily I have parents who sent me to a real school.
I know a guy and his sister who were home scooled by their parents, and through no fault of their own theyre were some of the most stupid, socailyl retarded and downright fucking annoying kids I have ever met.
Having said that, I'm sure a lot of home schooled kids who have proper tutors are fine, but these 2 were cursed with the most lathargic fucking hippy parents imaginable.
Its people like them that make me agianst home schooling, they practically ruined their kids life.
I know a guy and his sister who were home scooled by their parents, and through no fault of their own theyre were some of the most stupid, socailyl retarded and downright fucking annoying kids I have ever met.
Having said that, I'm sure a lot of home schooled kids who have proper tutors are fine, but these 2 were cursed with the most lathargic fucking hippy parents imaginable.
Its people like them that make me agianst home schooling, they practically ruined their kids life.
I've been homeschooled since grade 7.
At first it was a mixture, for the first two years or so I went to large class room with other kids for two days a week, then I moved.
I don't mind it, it's helping me graduate early.
At first it was a mixture, for the first two years or so I went to large class room with other kids for two days a week, then I moved.
I don't mind it, it's helping me graduate early.
Oh yes, the persistent "What about socialization?!" refrain, that never got old. News flash: You do not learn "adult social interaction" from your fellow high school students because they're not adults, and anyhow I socialized plenty - our family was part of a group of other homeschoolers who would meet for various extracurricular activities, field trips, what have you, and I was part of a showchoir (composed of students from various schools all over the area where I reside) for the entire time I was homeschooled.xXGeckoXx said:
The notion that choosing to homeschool your children will produce socially awkward recluses is a silly myth - homeschooling doesn't mean forbidding interaction with the outside world.
I don't know I just think that the high-school years are particularly important time in natural social development that's all. I can't see anything filling the space of the constant interaction brought around by school. Also I find it hard to believe that a person could learn as much through homeschooling without an internet high-school. Just my belief.Gildan Bladeborn said:
I was home schooled in fifth grade because all the 5th grade teachers at my elementary school were awful.
If it is such a myth, then explain this to me: I'm in college away from my hometown, and in this past weekend I helped out with a jr high/high school trip the youth group of my church took down here. One of the girls in the group of 40 had a particularly rotten time. It's not that anyone really picked on her, it's that she was in jr. high and it was her first year being out of home school. Her mom wanted her to go so she could get used to being around other girls her age.Gildan Bladeborn said:
But she just couldn't handle it. She was very self-contained, and had one particularly bad breakdown. She said she hated the "negativity" and "gossiping" that the other girls were engaging in. The other girls who were listening and who were very close to the youth leader explained. They said none of it was ever directed toward her, and they were never viscous or deliberately cruel in what they said. They were just joking around--being junior high girls. But that girl had never really been around others who used sarcasm, so she interpreted it as them talking mean about others.
You don't learn about people and how they interact overnight. It takes years of steady practice and observation. And nor do you learn it at one level. It goes in stages, just like childhood and adulthood. That girl missed close to 10 years of experience around close-knit groups of girls like that. You can't tell me that a child who is home-schooled for most their adolescent life and whose parents don't make keenly sure to make sure they get plenty of social interaction on the side doesn't have SOME semblance of social awkwardness when thrust into an unfamiliar social situation.
It may not be true in all cases, but you have to agree, unless the parents make damned sure that kid gets out and gets out often, they have a bit of a disadvantage when it comes to gaining experience interacting with others their age.