Im getting home studies starting next week dammit, anyone here takes or took it before? if so whats it like?

Question

since i have been absent for a long time, because i got very sick,

my counselor at school talked to my mom and since i am still sick unable to show up, my mom turned in some paper work from my doctor saying i have no release date from her care and i will be taken out of my high school and out into home studies.

all i know is that some teacher is going to be knocking on my door to teach me or something like that.

im only 15 in high school my freshman year (9th grade).

how is it like being home studied? isnt it the same as being home schooled?

Answer 1

I did that a few years ago for the same medical condition that forced me to do independent study this year. It is nice because the teacher is there to help you if you need it, but mostly you can do the things on your own whenever you feel up to it. It isn't as bad as you are making it sound. The teacher is usually nice and doesn't pry into your personal business. You will likely be doing the same work as your classmates at the normal high school.

Answer 2

Well it doesn't sound like being home-schooled to me (I'm 15 too and a lifelong home-schooler). For a start, you don't get a teacher turning up on your doorstep to help you if you're homeschooled!

Home study is usually provided when you're too sick to go to school so the school or local school board will provide you with schoolwork to do at home and a tutor to teach you until such time as you're well enough to go back to school. It is still pretty much doing public school at home. It's also usually free (at the point of delivery).

Being home-schooled is when your parents pull you out of school altogether (or they never register you with the school in the first place) and you're left to go it alone with your education (with your mum's help where necessary). Your parents have to buy everything you need for school themselves if you homeschool and you don't get any help or support or resources or materials from your local school board.

As a homeschooler, I get to decide for myself what I want to learn and how and when I'm going to learn it whereas you'll prolly still have to follow the school's curriculum and do whatever schoolwork the school says you're supposed to be doing if you're in a homestudy programme.

Home study programmes are just like doing public school at home in that you usually study the same things you've been studying at school and would still be studying if you were well enough to be in school; whereas doing home-school is more like being enrolled in an alternative private school where everyone gets to do their own thing.

Answer 3

In our district, what you are referring to is called *home bound* and is doing public school from home.   You will be assigned a teacher who will visit your home periodically with assignments and to collect assignments, provide you with help, etc.

Home bound and homeschool are two very different things.

You might try posting your question in Primary and Secondary education ...

... or ...

Consider true homeschooling.