Do homeschoolers actually exist? I've never met anyone in the real world

Home school dad wrote:

patti wrote:

Right, huh? Amazing.

Homeschooled kids being recruited by colleges. Most kids think outside the box.

no sats acts...full ride...non sport.

I don't follow your post.

I suppose the post is sarcastic. Well, my daughter applied to Geneva College in PA because of the engineering program. It is an unusual small school in that engineering is actually the most popular major with an emphasis on training female engineers. They offered a small scholarship simply because she had been home schooled regardless of her SAT scores. The home school scholarship offer was eventually supplanted by the much larger offer for her SAT scores. She will be attending another school.

There is a sub-culture of colleges and universities, mostly Christian in character, that are very welcoming and encouraging to the home school community especially knowing that the students tend to be more prepared for college.

The mothers, because it is almost always the mothers with the responsibilities, tend to be very worried about their kids' academic performances and tend to be very competitive with other home school mothers. The negative comments on this thread are typical of what home school families encounter in their neighborhoods and within their extended families.

The dread of hearing "I told you so" from a relative is a great motivator. Uninformed insults are expected when unions spend

great gobs of money annually to misinform the public about home schooling. One parent likes public schools, another prefers private institutions and others embrace the new. There is certainly room for all.

Has anyone ever asked a home schooled kid if they regret being denied access to high school?

Also, how do they perform in the work world when they have to interact with difficult people (people from a completely different environment and culture from them)?

Success in academia does not necessarily translate to success in the working world.

You should know better.

Did ever knock out your Mom, cold.

Concussion?

Did you ever get raped by a married female teacher, a pig?

Did you get jumped by thugs?

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Count your blessings.

You like Thugs?

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This teacher will be missed, RIP.

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It would be very unlikely that any form of education could be worse than the US public system. Anything that gets kids out of public schools is a good thing, even if the alternative is religiously oriented.

Thank you. Interesting

theJeff wrote:

Karl Hungus wrote:

I've dealt with a few over the years. For the most part, they were brighter than their peers but were a bit behind socially (even for academia.)

Agreed.

Plus, the dances are super awkward.

Underrated post.

I went to public school where there were no socially awkward students and every student interacted appropriately with everyone and in the working world we are all successful and we all love and understand and tolerate everyone.

It's true that religious conservatives are major group in homeschooling, but another major group is the liberal... what do we call "hippies" these days? The groups meet each other at the natural foods co-op and the alternative medicine shop.

if you go far enough left or right you end up the same place wrote:

It's true that religious conservatives are major group in homeschooling, but another major group is the liberal... what do we call "hippies" these days? The groups meet each other at the natural foods co-op and the alternative medicine shop.

As a natural foods co-op/alterntive medicine shopping hippie, this post made me laugh.... :-)

DSB15 wrote:

Has anyone ever asked a home schooled kid if they regret being denied access to high school?

Also, how do they perform in the work world when they have to interact with difficult people (people from a completely different environment and culture from them)?

Success in academia does not necessarily translate to success in the working world.

I was never denied access, in fact in my state you have to take a certain number of each subject during your high school aged years and I did.

I think you meant "public school." My Parents asked at least once a year if I wanted to go to the local public school (they are a XC dynasty) - That is a semi-regret.

As I mentioned earlier I work as a computer engineer. The make up of computer engineers in the US is very diverse, half my team wasn't born in the US.

While I am biased I would say people in general get along with me (both on my team and not on my team). The only others I don't get along with are people who are above me who don't do their job, I typically will call anyone out on their crap so there may be conflict. That however, is personality and I would say (anecdotally) most homeschoolers tend to be the opposite of me (less confrontational).

Because they tend to be less confrontational and less competitive in non-academic/non-intellectual pursuits I believe they tend toward getting a good starting job and staying in that type of roll the rest of their lives. That's where the others on this forum and myself are different: We know the importance of athletic pursuits.

Now here is my actual opinion and why homeschooling isn't better than public schooling/private schooling and also why money is not they key factor either:

Homeschooling: Most involvement of parents (and 100% of parents are involved) (few high, mostly mid, some low income, maybe bell shaped?): 1 SAT/ACT

Private Schooling: Still a ton of involvement by parents (and large % of parents are involved) (High income): 2 SAT/ACT

Public Schooling: (much less parent involvement (not a large % of parents are invovled) (high,mid,low income (very bell shaped): 3 SAT/ACT

Public schools will always have less parent involvement (yes more can be done) but parent involvement is much more likely to help a kid. Sure public schools slow down the smart people and turn the ones who aren't like the other 80% into drug addicts but I believe if you are involved in your children's education they will succeed no matter, public, private, or home.

So if you aren't too sure about pulling your kids outa school: don't! just be involved. If you think a private school is the best thing for them it's probably the involvement that private school requires from you that helps them.

Kinda like parenting books. Buying the book doesn't make you a better parent (though the stats say so). It's caring enough to buy the book that makes you a better parent.

oh goodness no, I wasn't bring sarcastic.

Sorry, U was unclear.

Some colleges go after home schooled kids like division one athletes.

I knew I wanted to homeschool , years before I married Hubby and had children

I wanted to homeschool for reasons other than other options available. It was gine where we lived. Never had any problems.

We travelled quite a bit going across the country several times.

Life itself is an education. I'm so thankful to have seen a homeschooling family while traveling during the 80's.

The dynamic of the family I sta yed with imprinted on my heart. I knew then that I was going to do, homeschool.

It was a wonderful way of living.

My friend is a professor and has had several in classes.....for the most part they are ok but don’t seem to follow directions or deadlines very well. Apparently the flexibility of school might make them a bit harder to tame.

Ok...this is silly our education isn’t that bad.

Honestly we still have one of the best in the world if you consider our demographics and population.

Our country is almost the size of Europe and when you consider that any really large institution like education has tons of flaws...we are still cranking out a pretty good crop of professionals.

This is, as might have been expected, a weird thread.

We home school with a decent degree of success. Our oldest son Benjamin graduated from BYU with a degree in applied math at the age of 17. He was a part of the BYU math competition Putnam team and scored 41 (look up what that means if you are curious). His PRs are:

3000 8:53

5000 15:28

Half 1:09:11

Marathon 2:35:45

He is currently serving a two-year mission for our church (The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints) in Kiev, Ukraine. Still running there six days a week, though it is more difficult and he does not get as much time.

His oldest sister Jenny is 17, just finished her second semester at BYU majoring in computer science. She is also a runner, 5 K road PR 19:56.

We have eight more younger children (ten total) that we hope will more or less follow the footsteps of their older siblings. They are on track so far.

Home schooling can be effective if you have the right mix of ingredients. You need to have somebody in the home that has the knowledge, likes to share it, and is sufficiently driven and persistent. Then you need to help your kids to develop the drive to learn and the work ethic/character/ability not to give up when things get hard. We do it through running starting at a very young age. Then once the kids reach a sufficient level of mental and emotional maturity they absorb the knowledge naturally. The age is different for different kids, but the wonderful thing is that the learning will take place as soon as the children are ready without having to wait for some arbitrary age threshold.

HS gives just ok advice

What he fails to speak of because he has no experience is the lesbian teachers, the homosexual teachers, the nihilist Physics teachers that warp a decent kid’s world view.

Sure, my nephew makes $ 125,000 in San Franny but he’s been know to pee or urinate on himself and people belonging. Drinking problem (public school association)

Another girl, another public school gem, turned into a world traveler sl*t, now drug user and you know that goes hand and hand with sexual prostitution.

All because those nihilist teachers taught those once kids to be arrogant and self destructive because why live like a religious person? Right? (/sarcasm)

Use at Your Own Risk

For a real live example look up hateful Dan Savage, gay spokesperson, making religious teen girls cry.