Funny Homeschooling Questions?

Question

What are some of the funniest questions non-homeschoolers have asked you? Like have they even asked if you do your school naked (Hmmmm..............not a bad idea.)? Thanks!

P.S

I love non-homeschoolers. I just think their questions are funny.

Answer 1

Well I've got "Haven't you ever done REAL school?",

"Do you guys get a prom?",

"Do you get to do sports for homeschooling?",

and, "Do you get real food for lunch?"

Answer 2

Most people ask how I manage to stay sane ... easy, my kids are well behaved and enjoy learning and having fun - as do most home schooled kids.

Thanks.

Answer 3

Once after a church dinner, one of the dads started asking my kids if they could spell their names backwards. My 3 year old started saying "I can" and she did.There were seven kids and four adults at the table and she spelled them all forward and backwards. Kathleen, Samuel, Benjamin, Joseph, Margaret, Zachariah, Ezekiel, Elizabeth Richard and Marcella Not real easy names. It did stop the questions for about 5 minutes.

Then about 2 weeks later, my 5 year old asked me "What did they mean by spell?" Poor little guy....

Answer 4

Not so much a question as a reaction

"Oh, you're so brave!"

Err? Why?

Answer 5

How can you stand to be with your children that much?

Note:  Not really funny, but VERY telling, isn't it?

Answer 6

Last week, we were really busy.  We only school in the mornings, so the afternoons are usually spent on field trips, sports, arts, play arrangements, outings, nature and volunteering.  This is what we did in the afternoons, last week.  On Monday, we met up at a park with two other homeschooled families.  There were a total of eight kids of varying ages.  On Tuesday, we had our monthly visit at a senior's home.  We do this with the same families we met at the park.  The kids interact with the residents through conversation, games, puzzles, music, etc.  On Wednesday, my six year old had a creative writing class while my four year old had swimming lessons.  On Thursday, we went to the zoo.  We took Grandma with us.  We met up with another family we know.  On Friday, we had some friends over.  They have three kids and they homeschool, as well.  We decorated our own tee shirts with fabric paint and played hide and seek.  They left at about four in the afternoon.  At around five, a relative stopped by to drop something off.  The kids were playing quietly.  The relative actually said "Are you sure you're doing the right thing with this homeschooling stuff?  These poor little kids need to get out of here sometimes and see some other people, you know!"  My son (6) replied for me.  He gave her a detailed description of our week and asked if he could read her a story.  He's really proud that he just moved up to grade two/three readers.

Answer 7

"Well, is he learning anything?"

I want to answer with "No.  If he does learn anything, we make him immediately forget it."

Of course he is learning.

Oh, and Kerry B..though the question that you think is the funniest is rather lengthy, that is a funny question.

Answer 8

I haven't been asked weird things, but my kids and other kids I know have been:

Do you have silent reading time every morning?

Don't you want to go to school? (Asked to my then 6yo daughter.)

How do you make any friends? (Asked to a girl who was with a group of friends.)

When you're done homeschooling, are you just going to be a stay-at-home mom?

What are you going to do now that you've dropped out of school?

Why are you reading that novel? (Asked to a homeschooled high school student who has to do novel studies as part of obtaining provincial credits towards a diploma; the person asking didn't believe that she had to do a novel study and certainly didn't believe she'd read that particular novel just because.)

Answer 9

To my son (answers are what I would likely respond, he responds respectfully) :

-Why aren't you in school?  (Uhh...I am.  Why aren't you at work?)

-Do you get to talk to people?  (I'm talking to you, aren't I?)

-Do you have any friends? (Yep, lots.  And I don't ask them rude questions.)

-Do you get to learn things, or do you just have to listen to your mom?  *This is with me standing right there, lol!  Like maybe I'm an idiot and have nothing to teach him?*  Well, to this one he just launches into "everything you never wanted to know" about what he's learning about.  They're either impressed or leave the room quickly.  :)

To me - and what I really do answer, if they're asking rudely:

-How can you stand being around your child that much?  (Well, he's a lot nicer to be around than some people I've met.)

-How do you know he's learning?  (Well, I do actually spend all that time with him - it's pretty easy to figure out.)

-Do you ever get to get out of the house?  *Ironically, this is always asked when we're not at home.*  (I just look around and say something about how I've got to redecorate, and why are all these people in my "house", anyway?  Oh yeah, I don't live here.)

If these questions are just asked out of curiosity, I answer them nicely and explain what our day is like.  If they do it to be snide, though, I have no problem shooting right back :)

Answer 10

First reaction to my kids are homeschooled.

The other day I had someone ask "Is there a reason for that?"  If only someone could give me a reason to send them to school, maybe they would go.

"So, where do you go to do that?"  Um... home... (actually that could be more insightful than I thought.)

"How do you know they are learning anything?"  Because only report cards hold that information.

"How long are you going to do that?" until it doesn't work (I used to get that more when my kids were young)

This was a comment, but it made me laugh. "Oh, my dad is a minister."

:D

Answer 11

"I'm thinking about homeschooling my kids. Tell me EVERYTHING you know."

Answer 12

Why do you do that? The answer is usually "because I can!" or "Why Not? usually said with a bit of sarcasm because they are rude and deserve it.

Some one asked my husband that question today in the grocery after they asked why she wasn't in school. Instead of telling them our daughter has an ear infection and they were getting her antibiotic he told happily told them that we Home school. The response to the question of why was great! He told the lady in the school board shirt that the school system wasn't good enough for his children. After all they couldn't teach a second grade kid how to subtract let alone keep her from getting hurt. The lady was angry to say the least! Hope she learned to keep her nose in her business and out of ours.

Answer 13

My daugher and I were at a local amusment park last summer. It was really slow, because most of the schools were still going to make up for all the snow days we had. One woman approched us and asked my daughter (without so much as saying hi to me) how come she wasn't in school.

One man, after my daughter told him that she didn't like history, told me, "She doesn't like being homeschooled. She told me so just now." - Now I would love to go into a high school history class and ask all the kids how much they like history!

A lot of people ask me how I stand being with my kids all the time. That question just is sad.

The one thing that bugs me the most is when people start quizing my kids. Someone will, out of the blue, start asking her what the state capital of Vermont is and such. Why, I don't know. I don;t go up to kids at the school playground and quiz them!lol

Answer 14

Well, let's see..

"How can you DO that to her??"

"But how will she learn math?"  (We hear that a lot.)

"How do you know you are teaching her EVERYTHING she needs to know?"

"How can you stand it?"

"Can you do school in your pajamas?"

"Do you get Spring Break?"  

"When are you going to put her back in school?"

Answer 15

We've had, "do you get all A's with your mom as the teacher?" Or, "Is recess when you go to the grocery?"

Answer 16

"Who is your teacher?"

"How do you know when to do your work" I guess I can't possibly know that I have a responsibility to stick to without a teaching either repremanding me or offering incentives, can I?

Answer 17

I appreciate that that school system is not for all children.So long as they are out there  and get  physical activity  and mixing with other children. I certainly  wish that kids with ADD  problems are taught at home in preference to the school system.I am not denying them an education.There are some that are very disruptive and really need oneon one education which the teachers cannot provide at school.A lot of them disrupt the classes denying  kids their education, are horrible to teachers, in fact  there was one in  my daughter class that behaved badly to the teacher and other students,The school did not know what to do with him.Parents really need to think about  other means of education for kids like  these.