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re: Home school vs Public/Private school
Posted on 3/2/16 at 7:00 am to DrewDawg13
Posted on 3/2/16 at 7:00 am to DrewDawg13
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There is basically 2 types of home schooling.
1. The type most people think of and unfortunately does exist. You sit at home with your mom and siblings, and basically learn however much your mom knows, and act like a scared deer when you meet new people. These kids usually end up at a Bob Jones college or something similar.
2. You then have the type that has a group organization. There are some that have several hundred kids in them. They meet several times a week for small classes taught by retired teachers, or someone who works in the field. These kids are all tested every year by the same standards as public schools kids. They also do field trips, have organized sports, and even have full graduations. These are the kids that typically graduate early, and will excel at nearly any major college, both academically and socially.
Pretty much this. My Aggie brother played 6 man high school football and ended up walking on at A&M. Got his degree and plays semi-professionally.
I've run into so many folks over the years who you'd never guess were homeschooled until they let you know.
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Posted on 3/2/16 at 7:05 am to facher08
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Are there socially awkward homeschooled kids? Yes. Are there socially awkward public/public school kids? shite yea.
Yeah, that's the bottom line. Two of the weirdest motherfrickers I've ever known in my life were public school kids. One is in jail and the other is a deadbeat.
The funny thing is, us normal homeschool families laugh our asses off at the weirdos, too.
Just sucks that those are the ones that give the rest of us a bad name 
Posted on 3/2/16 at 7:05 am to lsunurse
They're only weird because you perceive them to be weird due to their educational upbringing
Posted on 3/2/16 at 7:09 am to tduecen
The only way I would even entertain home schooling would be for the increased flexibility to accelerate the curriculum if my kid was a prodigy (not likely). I would try and push for participation in sports teams or clubs of some sort, but even then I would be really concerned about the social impact.
Posted on 3/2/16 at 7:09 am to tduecen
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these kids are a bit behind their peers and social awkward.
derp.
+ it's good to see a lot of you people have been assimilated fully.
Posted on 3/2/16 at 7:12 am to TJGator1215
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They're only weird because you perceive them to be weird due to their educational upbringing
good point. also, humans have been on this earth for thousands of years and only in the past couple hundred or so did even a small % of the earth's population have anything resembling our current education system. I think humans are perfectly capable of surviving and thriving socially without that system.
Posted on 3/2/16 at 7:19 am to tduecen
Public/private school is not even close to the same thing.
out of these three very different options, choose what's best for your child.
Every kid is different and every parent has different priorities
out of these three very different options, choose what's best for your child.
Every kid is different and every parent has different priorities
This post was edited on 3/2/16 at 7:44 am
Posted on 3/2/16 at 7:31 am to tduecen
I know 5 home schooled people that are adults now. 4 are completely awkward weirdos, but 2 have a solid job. They just have lacking social ability, ironically they both work in IT with limited human interaction. One of the other 2 has 11 kids (by age 30) and lives in a rural area and home schools them too. Pretty sure he's a doomsday prepper.
The 1 who is not awkward was home schooled because his parents were moving so much for the fathers job they didn't want to keep uprooting him.
He's a damn swell guy who's about to finish his residency and become a pediatrician.
ETA:
My mom is a French teacher and that's something parents can't usually teach themselves so she moonlighted as a homeschool kid teacher. Through this, they would make connections and join some of my summer sports teams (almost always sucked).
The 1 who is not awkward was home schooled because his parents were moving so much for the fathers job they didn't want to keep uprooting him.
He's a damn swell guy who's about to finish his residency and become a pediatrician.
ETA:
My mom is a French teacher and that's something parents can't usually teach themselves so she moonlighted as a homeschool kid teacher. Through this, they would make connections and join some of my summer sports teams (almost always sucked
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Posted on 3/2/16 at 7:33 am to tduecen
Private and INEC
Posted on 3/2/16 at 7:35 am to tduecen
let the kids be kids
yes, home school has its perks (especially from the parents' POV)but the kid misses out on things like meeting people, athletics, field trips, other extracurriculars, school dances, all that crap.
some of the best times occur standing around your lockers with your friends
yes, home school has its perks (especially from the parents' POV)but the kid misses out on things like meeting people, athletics, field trips, other extracurriculars, school dances, all that crap.
some of the best times occur standing around your lockers with your friends
Posted on 3/2/16 at 7:38 am to S
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the kid misses out on things like meeting people, athletics, field trips, other extracurriculars, school dances
Incorrect for most homeschoolers, tbh.
Posted on 3/2/16 at 7:54 am to TheCaterpillar
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This post was edited on 3/2/16 at 8:01 am
Posted on 3/2/16 at 7:58 am to tduecen
private, public, homeschooled...
none of this matters if the family environment is shite
the environment in which the kid is raised is what determines how the kid will function later in life
a kid raised in a socially awkward family will be socially awkward if it goes to public, private or stay home
these threads are always dumb
none of this matters if the family environment is shite
the environment in which the kid is raised is what determines how the kid will function later in life
a kid raised in a socially awkward family will be socially awkward if it goes to public, private or stay home
these threads are always dumb
Posted on 3/2/16 at 7:59 am to TbirdSpur2010
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Incorrect for most homeschoolers, tbh.
I also think it really depends on where you live too. Homeschool kids I've met that are at or close to a larger metropolitan area seem to be better adjusted socially.
On the flipside, some of the home school kids we'd get from out in the state from some rural areas were really, really off. And really behind in content unless they were working with a cohort.
Posted on 3/2/16 at 8:04 am to BluegrassBelle
Yeah that makes sense.
Posted on 3/2/16 at 8:04 am to RachelGreen
quote:Actually yes. Im not saying this is a bad thing. It just takes the "youth" out of being a youth when a kid is around his parents/nanny all day and not other kids
You mean they are intelligent and well spoken?
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This post was edited on 3/2/16 at 8:05 am
Posted on 3/2/16 at 8:32 am to tduecen
I've never met someone who was home schooled that wasn't socially awkward.
Posted on 3/2/16 at 8:52 am to lsunurse
I don't see how any parent could homeschool their child through high school. I am a teacher and I wouldn't dare try to take over a biology class or chemistry. And what about a foreign language? That is required for TOPs unless home schoolers play by different rules. I could never teach a foreign language. This could only work for extremely bright students who are very self motivated. That's a small percentage of students. And all of that comes to mind before I've mentioned the social aspect.
This post was edited on 3/2/16 at 8:53 am
Posted on 3/2/16 at 9:00 am to Salmon
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the environment in which the kid is raised is what determines how the kid will function later in life
Pretty much. I hate Kentucky's home school laws. Basically all a parent has to do is write a letter to the respective district notifying them of home schooling. There's really no oversight to whether they're actually getting content unless someone calls CPS in a neglect situation or they try to return to the school system at some point.
We'd have parents whose kids were behavior issues and would pull them before they would serve a suspension or be sent to an alternative placement. Or if they were failing. Then a year later they would try to re-enter them and we'd be forced to place them in the grade they left from because of lack of documentation (i.e. Test scores, attendance, etc). And then the cycle would just repeat itself.
It obviously works for some, but we also see it abused here a lot.
Posted on 3/2/16 at 9:17 am to tduecen
I had one home-schooled friend who was a pretty popular traveling Cajun musician. She wanted to try out public school. Made straight A's. Very social.
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