Home-schooling: Your opinion?

[mrstickball]

theprof00 said:

mrstickball said:

deskpro2k3 said:
those kids will have no friends or learn how to make friends. i feel sorry for them.

I was homeschooled my entire life. I have quite a few friends. My wife, who was public schooled, was more socially inept than I was, and was (and still kinda is) afraid to stand up and give presentations. Comparatively, I do it all the time with no problems, and never have.

Of those I graduated with, most of them are very social. One of my classmates entertains thousands of people as a piano player on a cruise ship - and was rated the #1 musician among cruise lines because of his social interaction with the patrons. So that argument is really a myth. Can it happen? Sure, but just as often as it does in public school.

FWIW, I really enjoyed my ~10 years in home schooling. I had a lot more freedom to do what I wanted, because I spent a lot less time in class than my peers (about 3.5hrs to 8hrs between all that is involved with public schooling). The cost to home school is a fraction of public school. Most of the costs are in the fact that the government screws over homeschoolers by not providing anything for them, while $10,000 is spent per student via public school.

 

If you have any legitimate questions about homeschooling, I'd be glad to answer them.

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Homeschool co-ops. I was schooled at my home, but there were approximately 100 other kids in my county that also homeschooled. We would pool our talent and resources together so kids could have extra classes that couldn't be provided by parents. So I actually graduated with about 8 others in the co-op.