Homeschooling help PLEASE!!!!!!! I want to be home schooled!?

Question

Geeze!! Oh how i would love to be home schooled!

The extra time you can spend socializing with family and friends and everything!

You see, I produced this idea to my parents and they thought i was mad! They said I would miss out on the social aspect of being in school, I would be lonely. my brother said it would hinder me psychologically, either socially, intellectually, mentally??? please help,

The reason why i wish to be home schooled is the main reason that my parents travel a lot and every time I tag along, I end up skipping school and I feel guilty. However, my parents disapprove of this and say I'm mad. They also say im getting bullied which Is certainly not true!

I need something persuasive PLEASE, please help!?

Any suggestions

Answer 1

Okay, I'm just going to let this one roll with all the arguments I used to persuade my parents (I was unsuccessful, by the way, they wanted me to have a social life).

1) The curriculum was wasting our time.

2) The atmosphere in school is stifling; you're stuck in a social caste system, you're afraid to ask the teachers, you spend more time dealing with "politics" than studying, and all this hinders the learning process.

3) It's easier to learn when you're given individual attention.

4) [only applies to me - I think] School is a waste of time because of the social life, politics, etc. Networking is a pain I'd like to get away from. It's necessary to abandon your own beliefs to fit into the caste system. Peer pressure is negative (usually). Bullying, etc., can cause psychological trauma.

5) You're missing out on school, so one thing you could argue for is that when you're home-schooled, you can study anywhere, so you won't be missing out on as much. Also, this allows for usage of material from a wide variety of sources so that you're not stuck within the government-imposed learning environment, and this can actually lead to some interesting insights (as in different from your peers).

Anyway, I don't believe home-schooling could affect you negatively in the intellectual aspect. One reason I argued for it was because I felt that politics in school was killing off all my brain cells. Mentally and socially maybe, when it comes to making friends, but if you ensure that you still have a healthy social life then it shouldn't be a problem.

Answer 2

well actually the whole point of school is to learn AND SOCIALIZE which is why it'd be difficult to make new friends all the time

Answer 3

the same thing happened with me but now i regret getting my parents to let me home schooled cause its the worst thing ever i thought nothing could be worst then public school now i would rather be in public school then home schooling but you have to learn from your mistakes so what i did was i researched home schooling  program and talked to them alot about home schooling and showed them the sites and i told them that i dont like public school and how i thought home schooling would be better for both of us and things like that

Answer 4

No, you're not crazy. You're very smart to think of home school. I don't see why your parents won't home school you, what with all the traveling.

Here's some tips for persuading them.

First, here's a link to an incredibly persuasive book by John Taylor Gatto (who by the way was an educator in the NY public school system for 40 years before he became a home schooler. If anybody knows the ins and outs of both, he'd be the one.) Check it out:

http://www.johntaylorgatto.com/chapters/...

Next, Google "home school" and you'll have about a million sites come up. Home schooling is huge in America now, and most people understand and at least tolerate your right to do it, if they don't understand the reasons why.

Go to your local library and check out some books on home schooling. For example: "the Big Book of Home Schooling: 101 Answers to Common Questions", "Home School Your Child for Free", "The Relaxed Home School" and many many more are available.

Your brother is wrong. You'll actually be smarter if you home school. It doesn't take as long a day (we usually spend less than four hours a day studying) and with your travel schedule, you can take your books with you and keep up with your studies. Plus, you can count a lot of that traveling as school!! Field trips, field work, hands on history, whatever you want to call it. The world is a wonderful classroom.

You won't lack for friends, in fact, you will learn to associate with people of all ages, instead of the artificial social scene at school of only associating with people of your own age. (the world really isn't like that. Can you imagine working for a company that only hires 27 year olds??)

A big word you'll keep bumping into: socialization. Look it up in the dictionary. It means "to place under government control." So, if people say you'll lack socialization, thank them!

Another perk: you can go at your own speed. No more being totally bored because the teacher is taking way more time to cover stuff you already understand, or the teacher's going too fast and you're like "Wait, I don't get it!". You can go to college and be miles ahead of your old classmates by the time you graduate. And colleges are actively recruiting home schoolers now.

We hope this helps. We've been home schooling for two years now, and wonder why the heck we ever went to public school!!

Answer 5

I agree homeschooling is a good thing but you won't get to see your friends as much. I'm a freshman and have been HS all my life. Recently I was trying to get into public school, but thought I'd have to get up early,(being HS I get to sleep until whenever I want) do loads of homework and I wouldn't have time to get a job. Now I've decided to not go to public school and just get my GED and take my SAT. So beg your parents, throw out the loads of homework, and sleep all day!!! Good luck!!!

Answer 6

Some questions... do you have friends, neighbors, people you hang out with outside of school.  Are you associated with any clubs or sport?  If so, you'll miss out on nothing and gain more than you think!

My daughter absolutely hated school from about 11 years old, bt in my eyes she couldn't give us a real reason!!, so we decided as parents to let her have her way for a year and see what came of it.  After an exhausting year I was sooo impressed and as a member of the homeschooling association in our area and a former non-lover of homeschooling, I have to say, there's something different about homeschooled kids.  They seem slightly older for their age, and a little more interested in the world around them,  and OK YES I KNOW there are plenty of these kids outside of homeschooling too. BUT what I noticed is that our daughter became less self obsessed.  I always get very positive comments about her now, how well adjusted she is.. things we had never heard before.  it also reinforced our relationship to get ready for the teen years!

BUT homeschooling requires a great deal of commitment from your parents or at least one, unless you can find a tutor.  

The fact that your parents travel allot is a very genuine reason for wanting to be homeschooled.  Perhaps win them over with a trial period, that way you could prove how beneficial it would be and also see for yourself, you may not like it!!

Answer 7

All 3 of my kids were homeschooled for a large part of thir education. I agree that you will learn more, and be farther ahead if you use a good sound program. BUT, I also agree that your social skills will suffer unless you take part in activieties and socialize with others of your own age. For us it was easy. We have a large homeschool population here, and 3 times a week we all got together for a "home schoolers only" day at the roller skating rink, the bowling alley, and the YMCA, and of course had lunch together at the same time.

Hope this helps.

Answer 8

I was homeschooled up to 9th grade. I went to Public school for the first time as a High school freshman. I like it a lot better than being homeschooled because I got to see my friends every day and I got to make a  lot of new friends. When, your homeschooled, you don't get to see your friends on a regular basis, you'll have to wait until they're out of school. So, you really don't have any extra time to spend with your friends unless there homeschooled too. And your parents might not be quailified to teach u high school level stuff. Elementary and junior high are pretty easy to teach, but, high school is a lot harder. In my case, my parents wanted to homeschool me and I wanted to go to public school. But, your case is the opposite. Maybe, you  could try making a list of pros and cons of going to school and then do the same with being homeschooled. Show the list to your parents. (Just make sure on the homeschooling list, that the pros are good and they outweigh the cons.) Hope I helped!!! OMG, I typed A LOT. :-D