Are all home schooled kids weird?

Question

All the home schooled kids I know are weird. I don't mean it as a stereotype, but in my experiance, they all have been? Is there a reason for it? Is it because, they parents teach them, and gives them a sheltered life or something. And if you are a homeschooled kid, prove to me you aren't weird. I never said weird was bad though.

Answer 1

I was a pretty weird public school kid 10 years ago. A lot of my peers were into dating getting drunk and drugs. While my friends and I were into JROTC and focusing on getting out of High School. Guess what my peers from then are still into partying and being dummies. OK some of them have great careers and all but they aren't grounded in reality yet. No not all public school kids are weird and neither are the home schooled kids. They are just as different as one person is from another. Have they ever thought of you as a bit weird?

Answer 2

Are all the public school kids weird.  I don't mean it in a stereotype way either, but all the kids I know that are in public school are weird.

I'm not sheltered.  I do as I please.  I work full time and home school about 1-2 hours a day.  I have no problems in the real world with being around other people.  I would perfer to hang out with homeschoolers because they are smarter and much more mature than the kids that go to public school.

Answer 3

im homeschooled and im playin soccer for the NY Red Bulls in Major League Soccer. and ive got friends and all girls look at me. its true.

I was in Public Schools until 7th grade

Answer 4

you need an avatar thtoopidd

yes, they have no public experience, and they don't learn things us normal kids do from social school.

they don't have many friends, and they don't really know how to talk to people or not be weird.

they can be cool though

p.s. it's kim

Answer 5

It seems that homeschooled kids don't have the daily, constant influence of the kids in

public school - who are mostly influenced by american tv & culture to no end; so the kids

at home are "different", and different seems "wierd" to people who are ocustomed to

everybody fitting in the same box. Better to be wierd than to be accepted by those who aren't!

Answer 6

I'm 14 and I've been homeschooled my whole life and i love it i am very social my mom is always telling me i do way to much! i have i great homeschool group with lot of kids my age. just last week i went to homeschool homecoming there was about 100 kids there we had i great time i know that sounds really nerdy but it wasn't. i know there are a lot of weirdos but most of us are very normal.

Answer 7

It depends on what you classify as weird.  Smart, interested Geometry not Pot or Mike's Lemonade, not into black fingernails and goth clothes.

Keep watching the statistics.  40% of homeschoolers get into college at least 1/3 of them finish.

In public schools it is more like 10% and only 1% finish.

If that makes someone weird, then so be it.

Answer 8

I can't prove I'm not weird, but I also can't prove you're not weird, or that my homeschooled friends aren't weird (some of them are, but that's what I like about them...)or that my public schooled friends aren't weird.  EVERYONE IS WEIRD.  If a person accepts the asinine stereotype that says that all homeschoolers are weird, innocent, and socially retarded, that person also has to accept that all public schoolers are vulgar, immoral, hateful, and s*x-obsessed.

Neither of these is true.

The unusual circumstances in which homeschoolers grow up can lead to all the same benefits and problems as public schooling.  I have met homeschoolers who have the same perverse sense of humor as the msot stereotypical public  schooler, and also public schoolers who are just as oblivious and innocent as the most stereotypical homeschooler.

I am proof that not all homeschoolers only know other homeschoolers.  about 1/2 of my friends are in public school.

Answer 9

It depends on your definition of the word weird. If by having a proper education based on scholarly acheivement rather than worry about gossip and drugs, etc. then YES.

On the other hand some families homeschool because their child has some sort of minor special needs. So yes, they will be a little different and it has nothing to do with their educational establishment.

Most families I know make sure their child/ren are very well socialized and the only way you can pick them out of a crowd is they are the ones in it during school hours!

Answer 10

No...

...not unless you mean homeschooled kids are "weird" because we tend to be more secure and comfortable in our own skin and confident enough to go against the popular tide to follow our own path in this world.

Answer 11

I know two people who were home schooled and then went to a public high school. Neither are remotely weird, and one is the valedictorian.

Answer 12

My kids are both homeschooled and are ABSOLUTELY weird! I'm proud of that! Here are a few ways they have come to differ from many of their brick-and-mortar schooled peers:

- They both have been able to explore and develop their talents including art, music and athletics.

- They speak and understand at a much more mature level than their peers.

- They read five grades above their own level (and understand not only the words, but the ideas).

- They don't watch a lot of television so they're not commercially driven.

- They don't do homework (since they don't have to wait for answers, wait for passing period, wait through lunch, wait, wait, wait, they can get their work done in the morning and have the rest of the day to follow their dreams).

- They play a LOT. (See above.)

- We travel to explore concepts in the real world rather than sit at a desk and learn from a textbook. That means lots of camping, and museums, and dinosaur bone digs and other adventures away from home.

Yep. Our home schooled kids are certainly abnormal. Aren't they fortunate?

Answer 13

Home-schooled kids are only "weird" to the extent that it is quite uncommon to find children that are courteous, well-mannered, articulate in English, and knowledgeable about subjects such as history, math, and politics. They are "weird" because they score so much higher on tests than private and/or public schooled kids. And, they are "weird" because they will frequently enter college mostly unaware of so many of the vices to which other kids are jaded by high school. Yes, the homeschooled kids are different, but it's a difference that makes a difference.

Answer 14

Thanks alot!! I was a home schooling kid, and I don't think that I anm that weird. Alot of the time, kids are homeschooled for a religious reason, or b/c they have a mental illness. I am back in public school, and I am a bit of a loner, but that is my own personal inclination. (I do agree with you though, a lot of homeschooled kids are weird!)

Answer 15

Depends on what you mean by weird.

My kids are weird compared to their buddies in their swimming class. Know why? Because they love being there, they're eager to learn and to show what they can do, they try hard. This is a good weird.

Some homeschooled teens I know are weird compared to their public schooled teen friends (not all of them, but most of them). Why? Because they're totally fine being different, they are motivated to do things with their lives, enjoy things like, omg, reading, don't feel the need to listen to the same music or wear the same clothes as everybody else and they tend to want to talk about more mature things. Oh, and some of them find this one girl I know, 16yo, really weird because she doesn't steal things, hasn't snuck out of the house, has no interest in going to parties where there's drinking and drugs. This, too, is a good weird.

I hope one day that society will change enough that many of the current public school behaviours will be seen as weird.

Answer 16

Define weird?  Is it weird to enjoy spending time with your family, or is it healthy?  Is it weird to enjoy reading?  Is it weird to wear clothes that you personally like instead of what is in style?

Regardless of how you define weird, you will find some homeschoolers don't fit your description, and some do.  If you look around at Public School kids you will find some that are what you would call weird, and some are not.  Everyone is different, homeschooled or not.

Answer 17

Ummmm... How many do you know?  How did you meet them?  If you met them, why were they not being sheltered?  

I know public school kids and homeschool kids.  I work in the public school and homeschool my son.  Most teens haven't reached the normal stage yet.  It doesn't matter what school they attend, there are some weird kids out there.  You are right, it is not a bad thing.

I will assure you, that the answer to your question is "No".   All homeschool kids are not weird.

Answer 18

Most homeschoolers are not weird..except they are really smart! (I knew a girl who got a 32 on her ACT right out of 9th grade!!)

I'll admit, there are some crazy ones, but then there are crazy public schooled kids too. Probably 90% of all the homeschoolers I know are not terribly sheltered and do things like sports, music lessons, acting classes etc. I am sorry you got that impression from someone from the very low percentage of homeschoolers who are weird.

Answer 19

My next door neighbor homeschools her boys and I don't think they are weird at all. She does a great job of making sure that they are involved in a lot of other activities. Maybe that makes a difference?

Answer 20

Alright, i'm not homeschooled, but I spent a whole week with my homeschooled cousin last week.  She is not wierd at all.  Here's why:

>>>She's on a homeschool volleybal team, and her team wins like every game.  I wouldn't call that wierd, would you?

>>>She's very mature.  Actually i'm glad she's not caught up in the dating scene and backstabbing girls.  She surely doesn't miss that.  I'm sure it's not wierd being mature..?

>>>She is so much fun to be around!  Almost funner than my own friends.  And i'm in 9th grade, she's in 6th.  I would definately call her the oppositte of wierd.

Answer 21

Trolling today are we?

Answer 22

However, they CAN spell experience and know the correct use of a comma. They know proper subject verb agreement.

Weird is in the eye of the beholder.

Answer 23

Are you one of those people that think anything different from you is weird? Could it be that they are different and not weird? I guess you have never come across any weird kids in your school, that's incredibly hard to believe.

Maybe these kids are weird because they do not use vulgar language, like being disobedient, like hanging out in places they know they should not be, have s*x, do drugs, smoke cigarettes, and a long list of other "normal" things that the majority of public schooled children participate in.

People are different, and we should love and accept them all. At least we are not out there shooting up other classmates and teachers.

Answer 24

Hmmmmmm, have you heard the expression birds of a feather?  I would have to hear your definition of weird before I could give an accurate answer.

If you mean weird because they aren't involved with drugs, don't do things because of peer pressure or because they enjoy studying and learning...then I would say yes they are weird.  The majority of homeschooled students in my area are being homeschooled for educational reasons and are involved with the communityand are involved in the following kinds of activities, sports, dance, music, Boy or Girl scouts, Campfire, 4H, different clubs etc as well as hanging out with their friends.    What about that is weird?

I also wanted to mention that most of the homeschooled kids I know take some if not all of there classes from someone other than their parents.  My almost 6 year old is in several classes a week.  She takes chess, soccer, art, skating, science, history, karate, performing arts as well as field trips and workdshops. She is also a docent at the local History Museum.   We are almost never home...and for most homeschooling is more like "out and about schooling"

Answer 25

I say yes and proud of it!  If by weird you mean different, if by weird you mean standing out in a positive way.  My kids, my friends kids, and other homeschooled kids I know are very, happily wierd.  

Of course, I think it is "bad" weird for a parent to want to send their kids to public school where their kids are exposed to drugs, early s*x, school shootings (there was another today), disrespectful attitudes, poor academics, and more....but I respect their choice, and request that mine be respected.  I won't try and convert someone, as long as they don't try and convert me and lambast me with all the "positives" happening at their child's school.  Unless, of course they want to hear about all the positives of homeschooling, which they rarely do, mainly because they then start to feel a little guilty and selfish ....