Home school vs Public/Private school

I've went to a Private Catholic High School my whole life, nothing will drive you away from religion like their persistent asses but good education makes up for that I guess. Don't send your kids to public schools unless public schools are known state wide for being good or better than private. Also frick home schooling kids you have to put up with their asses all day? plus home schoolers are awkward and usually suck

I was never homeschooled but IMO you learn just as much if not more from social interactions and exchanges with your peers and teachers throughout school. Shutting your kids off from the world won't keep them safe anyway and seems like would have more of a negative effect than a positive. I've never met anybody that was homeschooled that seemed completely normal.

You've been here long enough to know how this thread will go.

For the record, the home schooled kids who I've known have been on both ends of the spectrum. If they were home schooled for religious reasons, they tend to be a bit awkward, but they would have likely been that way regardless of their schooling choice. If they were home schooled for academic reasons only, they usually are just fine.

It all depends on the kid, the parent, and the resources they have available. You see home school kids winning high level academic competitions and getting accepted to elite colleges. But you also see kids arriving at adulthood without the skills necessary to get along in the world. An upper middle class family with highly educated parents will probably do great. OTOH, those are the kind of kids who do well in a traditional school setting, too.

I'm less sold on the home schoolers who do it for religious reasons to keep their child away from worldly influences and whatnot. And I think they are a substantial portion, if not the majority.

Depends. In larger cities you can usually join an umbrella and basically be homeschooled but have access to organized sports and other normal high school functions.

I went to a large private school my last 2 years of highschool but my freshman year at Auburn I dated a girl that was homeschooled in Atlanta but she said it was essentially just half home school and half group learning/ activity stuff under some sort of umbrella program for area homeschool kids.

We have a home schooled student and a public schooler. The deciding factor for where each attends school was determined by their individual learning styles.

Our son started home schooling in second grade because he was struggling in public school. He will continue to be home schooled until he enters high school. He's not looking forward to it but that's what we decided he will need. Every learning style is different and requires parental oversight. I wouldn't say home schooling is better & I agree with the criticisms. His teacher has a network of other home school teachers who participate in collaborative activities to help teach their students social skills.

Our public school student is very social and requires the structure and interaction she receives in public school.

To answer your questions about which is better and which do we prefer? It depends!

Homeschooling is not for everybody, the reasons very for each family as to why they are doing it. It's been my expericance that the education level of the parents heavily factor into the success of the children. It also helps to be in a larger city to utilize all the diffrent programs. The overall group that my family is involved with has several hundred children in the program. The co op my wife runs has close to 100 kids from grades pre k to seniors in highschool. But, I've definitely seen the full gambit in children's ability to adapt and it usually falls back to the family itself. If the kid comes from a strange family, the kids usually going to come out weird no matter what.

I've met more home schooled people than I originally knew. Socially, they've been all along the spectrum, if only slightly skewed to the "off" side. The one thing I did find that was somewhat consist was many of them seemed to struggle with meeting deadlines. It made me wonder if that environment allowed more flexibility in time allowed to complete tasks, and that hurt them somewhat when they were held to the same standards as everyone else.

I didn't get into reasons for the choice, so it could very well be the case that many of them went that route because of learning disabilities (e.g. ADHD).

I went on a couple dates with a guy that was home schooled. Guy ended up being a total weirdo. 29 and still a virgin. Painfully socially awkward. He's the guy from my infamous "you look like an angel while sleeping" online dating story.