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Scary4Eva on 28 January 2013

I was homeschooled. I did go to public school for kindergarten and before that, I went to something called Jump Start. I learned a lot at Jump Start and my mom was also teaching me before I entered kindergarten. I was ahead of the kids in my class, but quickly fell behind due to bullying. I wasn't only bullied by kids, but also by my teacher, the school nurse, the guidance counselor and the principal. However, I did have a wonderful music teacher who was very upset by the way I was treated.

But being of all the bullying, my mom took me out of public school and decided to homeschool me. She taught me herself and I honestly have no complaints. I liked being homeschooled.



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Mr Khan on 28 January 2013

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radishhead on 28 January 2013

Wow I forgot I made this thread - necro-bump much?



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timmah on 28 January 2013
theprof00 said:
mrstickball said:
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.

Welllllllll...not to be nit-picky but...

yaknow if these independent co-op homeschools is what people actually did, or this is what homeschooling actually was, I'd be totally for it.

That's pretty commonly what homeschooling is. There's a pretty vibrant & active community of homeschooling parents in many areas, it's kind of like private school with a lot more flexibility. I was homeschooled mainly because we lived in a terrible school district and my parents couldn't afford private school. I graduated with a 'real' state high school diploma with a class of 16, even went to prom.