I am homeschooled but want to GO to public school. make a list of reasons why you think people should go to?

Question

school. IF you disagree in any way DONT answer.

make a list like this:

1.make more friends

2.exersize (p.e walking there everyday)

like that. i am a christian and I wanna go SOOO bad. but my mom says no. every single person in my family has but me! THATS 7 PEOPLE!

Answer 1

Hey, no offense but i feel sorry for you!!! I would hate to be home schooled!!! If your mum and dad won't let you go, it may be as you have only a few more years left but i don't know what year you are in so yeah!! ( I'm sure home-schooling isn't that bad, but it must get a bit boring sometimes as you are at the same place all the time)

- You become more confident ( around and infront of people)

- More subjects to choose from

- Exercise from sport at school

- Extra activities (school ones, sport teams, school sport temas, clubs etc)

- More socializing

- Better learning area (classrooms, technology etc)

- More experienced teachers, they may know more than parents as they went to uni

- Time away from home

- Excursions

If you do go to a school, choose a good one and good subjects!! Try to be yourself on the first day and don't let anyone bully you!!!

Good luck...

Answer 2

No.....I can't make a list.  I do not "think" in lists, but.......

I have always told my kiddos that if they want desperately to go to public/private school, they need to speak to a wide variety of students, visit a few open activities such as sporting events, dances, etc. to see what the students are like.  They need to clearly express their reasons for their desire to go AND they need to present a well thought out WRITTEN essay examining the pros and cons.  Then and only then will I consider the request.  Final decisions rest with we parents.  

    But the most important thing I tell my kids is to consider this move to brick and mortar school as permanent not a trial.  At least in my house, "be careful what you wish for."

Answer 3

Most children would hate to be homeschooled for the same reason that they would hate to eat their veggies or clean their room, they'll actually have to work instead of play during learning time.

This is why homeschooling produces the overwhelming  positive academic results that it does.

You should do whatever your parents have decided. period. If you don't have enough friends, ask yourself how anyone had friends before government schools began, and then go make some.

We are busy and active people and have lots of friends through community involvement. Has everyone out there  forgotten about community involvement?

Check out my source, and ours is a SMALL town near Birmingham, Alabama.

Everybody can have library club!

Start a community club of your own.

Saying a school is the only place to meet people is silly.

Answer 4

Oh please trust me, as someone who has both homeschooled and gone to public school: you don't really want what you think you want. Let me explain. After 6th grade, we moved to a new suburban neighborhood. I had been homeschooled for most of my life at that point, but my mom thought surely these suburban schools were better, so she told me I could go if I wanted to. I jumped at the chance, thinking it would be really cool. So I went for 7th grade. I quickly learned from my new "friends" that being a good girl was not the cool thing to do. So I started acting up, and giving my parents SERIOUS attitude. I started completely neglecting my schoolwork and ignoring class lectures because I had already learned everything they were teaching when I was in 4th and 5th grade, and I was BORED. All I did when I went to school was pass notes, skip class, act as immature as all the other people there, and watch my grades sink progressively lower as I reached a point where I literally skipped all my homework and made no effort to study for the tests. Finally, a few weeks into 8th grade, I brought home a progress report with a 24 in English (because I skipped all the essays), and 60s in most of the other classes, along with comments about my disrespectful behavior. My parents, who knew that I was perfectly capable of getting straight A's and behaving properly, yanked me out of school that week. I HATED them for it for the entire next year. But as I started straightening myself back out and applying myself to my work, I did come to appreciate their decision. And now looking back from an adult perspective, I THANK GOD they took me back out. I can't even imagine what my future would have turned out like if I had been subjected to the public high schools. I would NOT have straightened my life back out and would be a very different person today.

Your parents love you, and they have years of life experience that gives them wisdom and perspective that you haven't had enough time to develop yet. Trust their instinct to homeschool you.

Answer 5

The first step would be to know why your mom says no.

The second would be to have authentic reasons, not just a list you got from the internet. They aren't YOUR reasons for going, they're just reasons. It's not the same thing. If they aren't YOUR reasons, they won't come across as things you believe in and it's hard to convince somebody of something you don't believe. Don't just collect the reasons--make sure they are things you truly believe and want.

Third would be to make sure those reasons can NOT be accomplished through homeschooling. What I mean is that you have "make more friends" as your first reason. Well, you can make more friends through either homeschooling or public schooling (although, sometimes it's difficult in either situation to make friends--don't assume that just because you'd be going to school that you'd make more friends). So that's not really a reason because you can do that through homeschooling, too--it just means doing more social activities. Your second reason, too, can also be accomplished through homeschooling (it's not like you can't exercise in homeschooling), so that's not an actual reason to go to school.

Why do YOU want to go "sooo bad"? I'm sure it has nothing to do with exercise while walking to school! Figure out those reasons, but if they can be accomplished without going to school, you need to honour your parents and realize that they are doing what they truly think is best-and at the same time ask for help in getting those wants met through homeschooling. That everybody else in your family has gone has nothing to do with whether you should go or not--if everybody else had smoked, does that mean you should smoke?

ADDED: Just looked at the other person's response so far. Let's have a look at them:

- You become more confident--there is no reason to assume that public school is going to make you more confident. Plenty of people have very little confidence in public school and plenty have left school and found themselves more confident while homeschooling.

- More subjects to choose from--this may or may not be helpful. Technically, homeschooling has more to choose from since there are no rigid requirements. However, specialized classes (art, shop, home ec if you don't have a sewing machine at home, certain enrichment classes, etc.) may exist at the school you'd like to go to. If there are classes there that you'd want to take that you wouldn't really be able to do through homeschooling, that could be a reason to go. (However, just WANTING to do a class like that isn't necessarily going to be seen by your parents as a reason to be there full-time.)

- Exercise from sport at school--sports are not limited to schools, so this isn't a strong reason

- Extra activities--life has plenty of activities; however, there may be something specific related to a passion or interest of yours that could be a reason to go to school: if you love drama and the school has a drama club and there's nothing really available for homeschoolers where you live; that's just an example.

- More socializing--probably true, but more socializing isn't actually a reason to go to school, imho, unless your home circumstances are such that it's practically impossible to socialize through homeschooling. (By practically impossible, I don't mean that your parents aren't allowing you to join activities available; I mean things like transportation or location or other make it very hard.)

- Better learning area--ah, no. Definitely not a reason since for many, many students, the school environment is not the best place for them to learn.

- More experienced teachers--this isn't necessarily a reason to go to school. Just because they're experienced doesn't mean they are good nor does it mean they'll teach you more than resources you use at home. Plenty of people learn far more on their own than with experience teachers.

- Time away from home--this can also be accomplished through homeschooling. If this is one of your reasons to want to go to school but your parents still say no, you might consider asking to volunteer or if you are old enough, get a job, or participate in sports or clubs or something.

- Excursions--field trips can be done through homeschooling, too, and to be honest, students where I live only do 1 or 2 per year for the most part. In high school, definitely no more than 1--1 if they are lucky.

Answer 6

I agree with glurpy - and as homeschool moms, we're not trying to rain on your parade, we're trying to show you the real picture.  If you want your mom to see your point, you're going to have to have something of your own, something more than "I wanna go SOOO bad."  WHY do you wanna go sooo bad?

From the wording of your question, it sounds like you want to go mostly because you haven't been.  There's probably a reason you haven't been - because others in your family didn't find it a very beneficial thing.  Have you talked with your sibs, and with your parents, about what they *really* thought of ps?  The good, the bad, and the ugly?  (You may be a little surprised at how much of it falls into the bad and the ugly.)

What you're going to need to present your mom with is WHY you think your reasons are worth going - this is how you would need to approach anything of this magnitude.  Why do you think ps will afford you more friends?  (You're not allowed to talk to them except during lunch and after school, and if you don't fit in perfectly with their little group, most have been conditioned not to like you anyway.  Sad and strange, but true.)  Are you not allowed to walk outside the house unless you're walking to a school your parents won't allow you to go to?

This is why your reasons need to be your own - otherwise, your mom will see straight through it and not only tell you "no", but be a bit disappointed that you hadn't thought through it better.  I know this isn't what you want to hear, but if you want your mom to truly see your point, you're going to have to do more than collect lists from strangers on the internet.