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Being home school in high school?

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ok i been home schooled since 6th grade cuz my mom does not like the middle schools in my area but my high school is like amazing its soooo dam huge. anyways i was wondering if its better to still be home school or go to public? i have like 100s of friends so im not worrying at that. and i love being at home my parents are at work 24/7 all day so i dont have to put up with them i be alone unless my brother is here sick.

which is better?

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  1. I don't understand. Your parents home school you, but they are at work 24/7??? Are you really being home schooled or are they just saying you are?


  2. High school.  You can be involved in things, figure out what you want to do for a career, you'll have a better chance of getting into a great college, and you can meet so many more people.

  3. Wow, I'm not really sure what to say.

    Your parents are at work all the time--that's worrisome.  Part of me says you should go to school to have some sort of supervision.

    That you feel you have to "put up with them [your parents]" is worrisome. It sounds like you don't have a good relationship with them and going to public school is likely to foster a negative attitude towards them.

    That you feel the need to use "dam" (spelled incorrectly) is worrisome. On the one hand, maybe you've picked this up at home and don't have a good sense of when it is appropriate and inappropriate to use such language, in which case public school may be a good place, especially since your parents aren't around to guide you. Otoh, you're likely to have this habit reinforced in public school.

    That you think a school is amazing because it's huge is worrisome--the bigger the school, the bigger the problems.

    Which one is better depends a lot on the person and the situation. In your case, given what appears to be neglect on your parents' part, I'd say go to school.

  4. Go to real school...

  5. Since you're not worried about having enough friends and you seem to like being at home, I think it would be easiest to stay home. It might be kind of weird going to public school for high school if you didn't for middle school. As for which one is "better" I couldn't really say because i don't know what you mean by that. You could get a lot better education at home, but only if you keep trying hard. I'm a little concerned that your parents are gone all the time, I know I can't get anything done when I'm the only one home, but different people have different learning styles. Also, If your worried about missing homecoming or something like that there are a ton of homeschool support groups and a lot of times they will have stuff like that. It might be a little bit harder to get into a college (especially a public one) if your homeschooled because a lot of colleges are biased against homeschoolers, but also there are a lot of colleges that prefer homeschoolers.

  6. The reasons for beings homeschooled in highschool are usually the same reasons for being homeschooled in elementary and middle school.  

    If your reason for homeschool was that your mother did not like the middle school in your area, does that mean she likes the high school?  

    We home school and I like the public school system in our area.  As a matter of fact, I work in the public school.  Our reason for homeschooling was that the school did not provide the individualized teaching that my son needed.  He does not learn efficiently and sufficiently  in the classroom setting.

  7. If you like being homeschooled, be homeschooled.

    If you want to try your local high school for a while ask your mom if you can try for a semester.

    Being homeschooled is better for me and I know a few kids who would be better off in school.

    However, a big high school is probably not going to be a good one. If there are 1,000 kids in that school -or more, like the ones in my area- there are going to be a lot of problems.

  8. High school is better i was home schooled from 8Th grade to half of 9Th and i couldn't take it i guess bcuz I'm a Social Butterfly and i luvs attention and Attention Loves ME! but u miss out on so so so so so much being home-schooled ESPECIALLY in highschool like homecoming MINE Is NOVEMBER 9! YAY!

  9. Honestly kids who are home-schooled come out a little....strange. There is a noticeable difference between their social skills and those of a public-schooled kid. (This isn't just my opinion, I've had this conversation with a lot of people in college and they all say the same thing).  My first roommate in college was a few months younger than me, but home-schooled all her life. She partied constantly (I don't think I ever saw her when she wasn't drunk or hung over), slept with everyone who looked at her, and generally made a lot of bad decisions. (A devout Catholic, BTW). We had a lot of mutual friends who all said it was her getting it out of her system, since she hadn't learned the social skills and behavior that we all did in high school.  Another girl, a couple years older, was a cadet in ROTC with me...home schooled too, MAJOR partier, lot of bad decisions. (She'd get mad because people would comment on her being home-schooled and her behavior now).

    Bottom line, if you take a puppy and let it out to play with other dogs only every so often, it's going to behave a lot differently from a puppy that sees and interacts with other dogs on a regular basis and learns "dog behavior".

    People that have been home-schooled will tell you it makes no difference, but they're not the ones to be listening to...you want the outlook of the people that are interacting with them and observing their behavior (eg, everyone else).

    There's always some degree of immaturity to home-schooled kids, that's practically unavoidable, no matter how many clubs or groups they're involved in outside of home. NOTHING can replace being with other people 7-8 hours a day.

    If I were you I'd fight like h**l to go to public school. It might not be a better education, but it'll have a greater impact on the rest of your life (not to mention college experience) than a few crappy high school classes will.

  10. go to high school....this is the time in your life that you will build friendships that are on a more mature level and prepare you more for college and the world in general...you will be able to go to dances and interact with kids that maybe you dont get along with..you will learn alot..and worse case scenerio..you can go back to home schooling if high school isnt for you..but give it a try

  11. I AM ALSO IN HIGHSCHOOL AND HOME SCHOOLED AND I RITHER BE IN PUBLIC CUZ I MISS OUT ON PROM AND GRADUATING WITH ALL MY FRIENDS FROM MIIDLE SCHOOL!!!! :(

  12. I'm 15 and home educated all my life. When I was about 12, I used to have these occasional moments of wanting to go to high school but my mum always said "no" (she knows me too well, lol!) and my dad said he wasn't paying a mob of strangers $25,000 a year to teach me bad habits when he could do that himself for free, lol!

    Anyway if you reckon your local high school is 'awesome' why not give it a go? If it works out, good for you; if it doesn't, you can always go back to homeschooling. Seems to me, you can't lose by giving this high school a go for a term or so and just seeing how you feel about it after that.

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