homeschooling

[tpryce93]

is anybody here home-schooled and whats it like???? I personally would hate to be home-schooled. Cause I love the school bus trips for sports and all my friends and sports.(in fact i just had a b-ball game today and won 46-36) :beer:

[mattos]

i was homeschooled in the second grade. one good side is that you can finish class by noon and have the rest of the day to do whatever you want. another good thing is that you learn much more - when i returned to regular school for 3rd grade i was way ahead of the other kids; however after a year of regular school i was right back with the rest.
the downside is that you don't get to hang out with friends at school. however, as homeschooling becomes more popular (it has become far more common than it was when i was homeschooled some 20 years ago) this has been addressed by different sorts of programs. plus you can always get your kids into public sports teams and the like.

i'd recommend homeschooling.

[tpryce93]

i was homeschooled in the second grade. one good side is that you can finish class by noon and have the rest of the day to do whatever you want. another good thing is that you learn much more - when i returned to regular school for 3rd grade i was way ahead of the other kids; however after a year of regular school i was right back with the rest.
the downside is that you don't get to hang out with friends at school. however, as homeschooling becomes more popular (it has become far more common than it was when i was homeschooled some 20 years ago) this has been addressed by different sorts of programs. plus you can always get your kids into public sports teams and the like.

i'd recommend homeschooling.
well yeah there's always the ymca sports and stuff but i mean like Friday Night Lights football sports. you know getting pumped up before the big game the crazy parties bringing glory and honor to your school that never really happens at a a homeschool. I have one more question.....Why is it always the nerdy homeschooled kids in the national spelling bee?? :beer:

[broncolitis]

Yeah I've been homeschooled my whole life. The academic benifits afe HUMONGEOUS!!!!!!!! I really don't mindnot having the company of other kids because my intrests are not the same as public schoolers. If you don't beleive me here are my goals in life:
1.finish school with good grades.
2.go to a christian college to study music
3.be a choir director or somthing else having to do with music
see unusual goals.

[mattos]

well yeah there's always the ymca sports and stuff but i mean like Friday Night Lights football sports. you know getting pumped up before the big game the crazy parties bringing glory and honor to your school that never really happens at a a homeschool. I have one more question.....Why is it always the nerdy homeschooled kids in the national spelling bee?? :beer:

well it's true you won't get the friday night lights side of sports. but the main point of school is education - and spelling bee kids speak for themselves. :)


see unusual goals.

nothing unusual about any of that

[LordTrychon]

well it's true you won't get the friday night lights side of sports. but the main point of school is education - and spelling bee kids speak for themselves. :)



nothing unusual about any of that
Our school was unusual... some of you from CO may have heard of it... D'Evelyn...

It is an alternative Jr/Sr. High school that stresses the core academics... the only options you had for electives were language, band, choir, art, computers.... and Language was required for 3 years (at least 2 in HS).

We had a few kids who came to our school who were homeschooled, but needed the band class, or the math class...

Some of these kids also joined the sports teams... and I think there was at least one kid who wasn't actually a part of any class that was on the football team. It's worth looking into seeing if any schools nearby would allow you to play sports while homeschooling. :cheers:

[broncolitis]

well it's true you won't get the friday night lights side of sports. but the main point of school is education - and spelling bee kids speak for themselves. :)



nothing unusual about any of that
I shouldn't say unusual what I should say is uncommon.
Plus I'm baptist and the town that I am in is 85% mormon so almost every school activity has Mormon atatchments.

[tpryce93]

I dont think thats unusual at all atleast you know what you wanna do with your life. as for me I'm in the 8th grade in a public school and i have no idea what i want to do with my life because obviously i cant party constantly :beer:

[FanFromMichigan]

Could anyone be homeschooled all throughout high school, and still have all of the academic benefits of students enrolled in public or private school systems? :confused:

I mean, my parents don't know a damn thing about calculus. My math teacher had to go to school for a loooong time to learn how to teach calculus, and that is the only class she teaches. For a single person to learn how to teach calculus, chemistry, physics, foreign languages, and other difficult classes seems like it would be nearly impossible.

I could imagine homeschooling someone through elementary school, or maybe even middle school. The one-on-one teacher-to-student relationship would help a kid learn much better than a single teacher speaking to a class of 25-50 kids (depending on the school district). One must also consider the social isolation their child would experience, and the effects it would have on him/her, before they commit to homeschooling.

[tpryce93]

I think that academically you learn more from a private/home school. but socially i think you gain way more from a public school :beer:

[broncolitis]

Could anyone be homeschooled all throughout high school, and still have all of the academic benefits of students enrolled in public or private school systems? :confused:

I mean, my parents don't know a damn thing about calculus. My math teacher had to go to school for a loooong time to learn how to teach calculus, and that is the only class she teaches. For a single person to learn how to teach calculus, chemistry, physics, foreign languages, and other difficult classes seems like it would be nearly impossible.

I could imagine homeschooling someone through elementary school, or maybe even middle school. The one-on-one teacher-to-student relationship would help a kid learn much better than a single teacher speaking to a class of 25-50 kids (depending on the school district). One must also consider the social isolation their child would experience, and the effects it would have on him/her, before they commit to homeschooling.
Yeah my older brother did and so did my sister and now I am doing it.
Both of our parents went to college so they can teach us pretty well but we also have a sattelite called homesat. It gets three channels and they all show school classes. we just record them and then watch them when we are ready to take the class. It works.

[Dean]

I have taught chemistry and physics in the public school system for over thirty years and have come in contact with many home schooled students over the years (they needed a laboratory based science class).

My experience is that their educational background was very uneven. Some were exceptional students some were dismally far behind. The one and only generalization that I can make is that so few had social skills. They struggled to fit into the group.

[Nomad Broncofan]

I have taught chemistry and physics in the public school system for over thirty years and have come in contact with many home schooled students over the years (they needed a laboratory based science class).

My experience is that their educational background was very uneven. Some were exceptional students some were dismally far behind. The one and only generalization that I can make is that so few had social skills. They struggled to fit into the group.


You're right there, Dean. The social skills is what they lack that's the reason 95% of homeschooled kids are wash-outs in any branch of military during basic training (wife was a recruiter for three years). And that's the reason a homeschooler has such a hard time getting in the military. But the plus is that most homeschooled kids when they did take the ASVAB they scored higher than public or private school kids.

[mattos]

Could anyone be homeschooled all throughout high school, and still have all of the academic benefits of students enrolled in public or private school systems? :confused:

i know 2 people who were. one graduate first in his class from the citadel. the other was a bit odd IMO but i heard recently was a teacher who recieved offers from about ever school in the area.

as to their lack of socialization, people were interacting just fine for thousands of years prior to the existence of our style of schooing. i think where the impression that homeschooling = lack of socialization comes from is that odd families tend to homeschool more often. that has been my experience anyway. i was only homeschooled for one year, but had i been all throughout highschool, i think i would have turned out as the same wonderful person i am now :goofy: . on the otherhand, the odd homeschooled kids i knew generally came from odd families and would have been odd regardless of whether they had gone to a regular school. i mean, there are certainly kids lacking social skills in the regular school system. columbine comes to mind, but we all know less drastic examples.

[Snk16]

The thing with homeschooled children is that they're "socially challenged." They do not have the regular social growth from kindergarden to whatever grade they decide to enter a public/private school at. There is so much social development that happens in school that just cannot be replicated at home.

Friends are an important part of people's life. You need to socialize otherwise you will feel very lonely in life...

[maruske845]

well i am in the 8th grade and i know my future perfecctly..some guy told me downtown

i will play highschool football and be one the best ever toplay at my school..
then i will go to a small school near my hometown(morningside)
or if i did things right i whould go to play at Iowa( :ugh: )
after college i whold go into my carrer(w.e the major was at college) and whould meet the love of my life...wh whould marry..and live happily..but then he said it go fuzzy...and then he asked if i was going to finish my hott dog :D

and on homeschooling....i dont know if iw hould liek it cuz i dont know any of the homeschooled kids to good..and i dont know if i whoul dhave any friends :confused:

[BlueDamsel]

I was homeschooled for a year, in 7th grade. We were living over in Germany at the time, and I was having a lot of problems at school with some of the worst teachers around. When my parents found my grades were dropping below the usual a's and random b here & there, they called a conference with my teachers...The only ones worth sticking around for class there were my English teacher (One of the only good teachers in the school that wasn't shipped back to the states for being gay or sent to teach a different class for a different grade.) and band, not because the teacher was great or anything, but because that was not something that my mother could teach me from home.

I was put into flute lessons separately, which was great - I got to work with a lady who was first chair in the all-services band until she quit to have a baby. My mom purchased some algebra textbooks for me, but I never opened them. I would work with my sister (4 years older) to learn what she was learning (and oftentimes do her homework for her...amazing how she went from a c student to a b & a student within months of me "dropping out" of school!!)

As far as the socialization skills went - I would still go to the local youth group progams at the churches I attended, would still go to the roller rink (the ONLY social activity that all the Americans went to in the area) to hang out with people, still had the 2 classes I went to school for (and the nice thing was that we were on a rotating schedule -- so with every English class I attended, I saw a different batch of students every day...) and was also a part of an award-winning Odyssey of the Mind team.

For the rest of my "learning," we never stayed home. My mom would take me shopping - in France or Belgium or even just downtown from where we lived. I learned language skills, economical skills, math, reason, deduction, history (we'd often stop at random castles or whatever to see what they were about). I think I got the best education of my life for that half of a year that I was not in public school. The following year, the district/superintendant approved for me to transfer to a different school in the area, since a bus already went there for the high schoolers, and they realized what crackheads they had running the school I had been going to previously.

I know that my situation was unique, but my parents had already been planning on if I had to be homeschooled for 8th grade as well - There were several support groups in the area, and a lot of people that were homeschooled. They formed a unique program where all of the parents would pool together their resources - knowledge, money or time - and contribute to the education of all of the children in the group. Sure, one person might not be strong at math, but better at English -- those people would "switch kids" for those subjects. Everyone would contribute and it'd work on a Montessorian system. (Unless you want another 3 page explaination of such things, don't ask...Basicaly, a hands on experience, where one student learns, then teaches, and so on...)

[Dean]

I was not making any blanket accusations about home schooling and social development. I was simply relating what experience I have had with the topic being discussed. I have had some rather unusual students from home school environment and that is being generous. I am in no way saying that being in public school precludes a student from being socially maladjusted nor that being in homeschool cause poor socialization.

I didn't mean to hurt anyone's feelings and I hope that I didn't.