I am thinking of homeschooling and...?

Question

I am a 15-year-old girl in the 10th grade. I got a public school in a pretty small town. I really am thinking of going to a a religious homeschooling school, or a homeschooling organization. The only problem is, like so many have said before, I am worried about losing friends and not having a social life. I just need to know from someone who has switched from a public school to homeschooling, which one is better and why? I need any information you can give me on this. A few pros and cons would be nice to.

And also is there a website I can go to, to find a homeschooling school or orginization in my area? (Ponchatoula, Louisiana - 70454)

Thanks for all who answer! God bless.

Answer 1

im 13 and i started homeschooling 2 months ago. its really cool and i have lots of friends from my public school so i go to their house and stuff every weekend. its just like school

btw, i take the keystone national high school program. its credited in colleges like duke, usc, virginia tech, ny university, etc.

http://www.keystonehighschool.com/

Answer 2

Hi Coco,  I have a sis in law that homeschooled her last year of high school and if it wasn't for that she would of never made it this far in college.  Her education that she received that year was better than the 3 years she spent in a private school.  She is currently in her 2nd year of college and is doing really well.  The school she went to were on the verge of saying she had a learning disability.  They were wrong, her style of learning was just different than sitting around all day with a room full of students.  She went to a tudor that helped her with her literature and chemistry and math.  

Homeschooling requires an extreme amount of discipline.  It's too easy to skip a day here and there, thinking you can catch up later.  You have to be dedicated and a self motivator.

By the way you put down that you live in LA, and you asked a ? about BMI a while back.  Do you know the Shaws?  If you do than you couldn't ask for better friends.  Nicest people I know.

Answer 3

i think the pros would be u can work at your own pace and u can finish earlier then goin thourgh public school. cons woul dbe it costs money an du won't be with your friend

i am tryin to do this also

Answer 4

My daughter is experiencing the flip-side of the coin, but that can be just as effective in giving the pros and the cons.

My daughter has been homeschooled from K to 11th grade. She wanted to go to public schoolher senior year to explore what it was like and to test her wings closer to home before going far away to college nextyear.

These are some of the things she has been sharing with me about her experiences and assessments of the two options:

Pace - You get to work at your own pace and have some influence over what you do when you homeschool. She has felt that some public school classes move way too fast to absorb the material adequately while other are dragging along so slow she is bored to tears.

Quality of the Instruction is a bit more in your control with homeschooling - Her Spanish II class at public school has been a joke. They couldn't find a teacher that speaks Spanish, so the class is suppervised by an office staff worker that doesn't know any Spanish (literally, not a word). They do not have textbooks and the online course doesn't have an audio component nor text based content. There are assignments that are supposed to be done according to the normal online course design but instead they get the worksheets with the answers written in to study and use for the test. That is literaly all they have for content. With homeschooling, she would be free to have dumped such a ridiculous combination of circumstances and get content. She taught herself Spanish I last year in homeschooling using several quality homeschool curriculums, watching Spanish movies with English subtitles, talking and texting Spanish speaking friends, and always had a tutor at the ready to check her progress. Unfortunately, she is so busy with the school day and the homework, she hasn't had time to teach herself the Spanish independently like she did last year.

Friends - It is a mixed situation. My daughter had lots of friends online and from our very active youth group at church before she entered public school, most of them were public schoolers. She went to prom and several games last year at the high school where most of her friends go. That school is out of our district and too far to drive daily to, so she is going to a school that she initially didn't know anyone at. She got busy finding facebook friends that went there and before the first day knew about 6 of the seniors. She was pretty social before public school and she is pretty social now in our local public school. One thing she is frustrated with related to the social side of public school is that the boys are way too forward sexually. She finds it frustrating that the boys go straiight from, "Hi, nice to meet you," to "Do you want to be my girlfriend?" without just being friends in between.

Answer 5

Schooling is not about friends but education.  If you are a self-starter and motivated and the family has enough resources to supply your needs homeschools generally provide a faster and better education.

I see almost no one from my brick school as we all went our sepearate ways.

And if your friends as so shallow as to leave you in the dust for your decision they weren't your friends.

You don't specify a reason for homeschooling and usuaully that has to be one.

Is your school bad.  Is the education poor.  Are you being bullied.  Do the teachers ignore you.  Is the food bad.  Is the place unsafe.  Are you so far ahead in your courses you are bored and tired of doodling.

These are usually reasons to homeschool, because the brick school isn't providing the right elements.

If the brick school is working and has resources (what are you going to do about Biology, Lab Chemistry in homeschool, you may have to buy lab equipment to equal what the school has, unles the school has nothing) then there is no adequate reason the leave.

It's only when the school isn't working.

Answer 6

I'm also 15 in 10th grade. I use to go to private skool in the middle east. Now my mom homeskools me. Being in the middle east is much different then being in the usa if thats where you are. I like homeskooling way more cuz skools in the middle east suck. But I'm not sure sorry I can't really help you on this cuz I havent been to public skool in the usa

Answer 7

i am home schooled and i have tons of friends. this is my 4th year home- schooling and i am still in the school band and stuff.  you would love it, u get done eariler and have more free time.  as far as friends go, u will still meet new people.  It is not like u live under a rock!!! lol!!!  :)

BE HAPPY

~maddie

Answer 8

Homeschooling is more efficient. There is more time left for socializing. Being involved in groups like church youth groups, Girl Scouts and any interest groups gives you a social life. You can also attend public or private school games and functions.

Answer 9

WOW! YOU'RE YOUNG! Your parents should be looking into this for you!!!!! If you're doing it on your own and no parents are pushing you, there's a good chance that you'll get lazy (since you work on your own pace) and NEVER COMPLETE THE COURSE.... Then you'll become a high school drop out!!!

I know! that's what happened to me. That is something that should be up to your PARENTS, NOT YOU or yahoo ppl.

Ask yourself these questions....

1. When you need help, what reliable people are available to teach you?

2. Will your parents push you? Do they care about your ed?

3. Do u have money for a GOOD tutor?

if the answer is "no" then you need to stay in school.

It concerns me that you're requesting info, when your parents should be doing that for you. You're a child, your parents need  to have control and makes decisions for you.

After many years later i went back to school/college. So eventually i got my **** together.

Dont make the same mistake i did. You got nothing in this life with out a education... email me if ya wanna talk

Answer 10

I switched in the beginning of highschool and am more social now than I ever was. I get my work done fast and have so much time to go out places, spend time with my boyfriend, go to the fencing club or to band class or football games or concerts or whatever. And I still kept all of my friends from public school, AND made a ton of new friends at fencing practice and music lessons and art lessons and in the homeschool groups.