Would you like to be home schooled or to have been home schooled?

Question

Why or why not? Please assume you are still involved in sports, activites, and have a lot of friends.

Answer 1

Well, I am done with my K-12 schooling, but I know I would have been much happier with homeschooling.  I moved a lot and so I was ALWAYS the new kid in school.  I also never learned much, partly because the school system itself is not great, and partly because I moved from school to school so much.  A consistent homeschool curriculum would have been much better, maybe then I wouldn't have had to re-educate myself so much before I could homeschool my own kids.

EDIT

Like Glee I was also picked on, and didn't like team sports.

I loved to read though, and what I did learn in school I learned from books checked out from the school library, not from the teachers (for the most part, there was ONE good teacher in all my years of Public School, hope you are still teaching MR. Mirk!)

Answer 2

Well... I am home schooled it's pretty good.  I'm still a very social person. If you plan on doing homeschooling first find a homeschooling group in your area so that you can go on class field trips and associate with other people also you can go as slow or as fast as u want. I just started in July 2007 and I am graduating high school in January of 2009 and I'm only 13, I'm going to be done by the time I'm 14 and going to college.  Point is that its very beneficial. I really like it.

Answer 3

I went to public schools and looking back I can say no I wouldn't have wanted to be home schooled.

I enjoyed my time in high school. I enjoyed the different teachers. I enjoyed the science experiments.  And I enjoyed being out of my house.

I think if I was home schooled, I would be to easily distracted to actually get anything done! (I'm suppossed to be writing a term paper for  a 400 level class right now, but I'm at home and look what I'm doing!)

Answer 4

I would not have wanted to be home schooled because my home as a child was not very conducive to schooling and learning.  That does not mean that I think home schooling is a bad thing.  For young people who are good independent learners it can be fine.  I think home schooling can be more successful for younger kids than for high school students, as high school students need instruction that requires more in depth knowledge of the material.

Answer 5

Home-schooling is not always the best choice for students.  Even if they can still do sports & activities,  they are missing things that they should be experiencing.

However, it's a personal choice.

Answer 6

not sure

Answer 7

I was home schooled from Grade 1 to Grade 9. I didn't mind it except I was a very shy kid and not being interactive with other kids away from home did not help me come out of my shell. I did like that I only had school in the mornings and the rest of the day off. I was involved with sports as well in the community so it wasn't like I was totally secluded from society. I don't think homeschooling is bad and don't hold it against anyone who does it.

Answer 8

I hated public school. I didn't enjoy team sports. I loved learning and reading. I liked target practice much better than T-ball. I was often bored and distracted in school. I would have loved to have been homeschooled by my dad, but my mother was such a kinetic person, I think she'd have driven me nuts.

EDIT: I was teased and beaten mercilessly in school. The only thing I learned from that experience was the code of silence and how to keep my head down and muddle through in misery.

Answer 9

I was home-schooled when I was in High School. It does have its drawbacks. Back in those days home-schooling was not as common as it is today. I felt very isolated because I was not interacting with people my own age.

Answer 10

I am homeschooled (or unschooled, mostly), and it's great! I love it! I used to deplore school, but I love what I'm doing now! I do have a lot of friends, and there are plenty of activities at our homeschool 'school' like drama and stuff. Of course, they did to dissection, which I had to boycott...

Okay, getting off subject, sorry.

The point is, I am homeschooled, and it is great. I plan to never set foot inside another public school. I am against them. They are wrong and they treat children like prisoners.

If there is any downside to this, and there isn't mush of one, it's that a lot of my family (think grandma) completely disapproves, causing her to come over here ranting a couple times a week... And I'd like a little more time away from my sister, and occasionally my mom,  but oh well. It's not worth going back to school!

Answer 11

No...you can never get the shared experience that you would have going through school with your classmates.  You are exposed to people from different families with different ideas.  You are forced to deal with these people and learn to get along.   You find out more about yourself through these interactions...you find out things about yourself that you might never have known if you were homeschooled.

Answer 12

Well, I'm 15 and have been home educated all my life. I wouldn't swap being home educated for attending school for all the tea in China, lol!

Answer 13

I would have liked homeschooling for high school IF my mother were working and I was allowed to work at my own pace at home. A great deal of my high school education was a joke--I had to learn much of the stuff on my own anyhow because the teachers we had were not very good. However, if I'd had to have been with my mother, no way. She's always been a highly stressed--and stressful--person.

Answer 14

Well seeing as I am still involved in sports, activities, and have pleanty of friends, I don't need to assume anything. I love homeschooling, and I wouldn't go back to public school if you paid me. I could handle it a lot better now, I think. I'm a lot more self-motivated than I ever was. I know how to handle my own affairs, my confidence increased tenfold in the past year alone, and I am considerably more sociable than I was several years ago. (That includes interacting with adults at their level, not at a teenager's level, but I don't think public school teacher would like that much...) But why go back into a system that doesn't work? I'm so far ahead of my age mates in the public schools. I get to adapt all of my lessons, my projects, and my study habits to fit my learning style which I discovered in the first month of homeschooling (and am ALWAYS rediscovering as interests and strengths shift over time). I get to learn with a real purpose. Nothing is ever "because it's required" or "because it's a state standard". If I do anything it is being done first and foremost to broaden my mind and add to my collection of knowledge and my level of awareness. I learn programming because I'm interested in it and want to know if it might be a good career choice. I learn math because I need math knowledge for programming. I do English because I love to read and write, and pride myself on a high reading level. I learn French because I love all languages, not just my own, and knowing about other cultures will help me to develope more interesting characters in writing. Knowing about ALL things will help me write better stories. I do science to lean how the world around me works, I take Government and Economics because I'll be voting in a year and want to be well informed. I take history because I want to know how we got to where we are now, and learn how ideas can influence an entire timeline. Art, music, robotics, home ec, psychology... It's all done for a real reason. Not just because I want to go to a good university. Also, as a homeschooler I get more real world experiences than I would in public school. I have more time for volunteer work, or even paying work when I can find it. I get to take on adult responsibilities that a lot of kids don't think about just yet... Meal planning/budgeting/shopping for the week (mom does some, but occasionally lets me take the job), taking care of my own finances, making my own appointments and keeping track of them, planning my own public transportation routs (Can't drive because I'm blind.), doing most of the work to obtain curricula in the beginning of each year (again with a plan and a budget), keeping my own schedule in order and sticking to it, organizing my own records when I need to and making all the arrangements for SAT/AP testing, test accommodations (for my vision), finding university requirements, talking with admissions officers, getting all of that in order... Basically doing most of the things your guidance councilor would normally do for you, and it's better that way because in the real world this kind of stuff isn't done by a parent or a behind-the-scenes councilor. I also get lots of extra time for guitar, piano, singing, fencing, trying new sports, reading what I want to read, chess, traveling to museums, science centers, observatories, parks, libraries, plays, concerts, other big events... Traveling to other states/countries, and just generally spending time with friends, family, and my boyfriend. I could go on forever about the benefits of homeschooling, but i think I'll go get started on the chem lab I wanted to do today instead. Hope this helped!

Answer 15

I think I would have enjoyed home schooling much more. I did not like school that much at all.