Homeschoolers

Postby **Kite** » Mon Jan 19, 2004 6:39 pm

im a homeshcooler, but im struggling with the fact of going to public shcool or not

You know I've been homeschooled all my life and have never wanted to go to school. I might go to highschool though.

Postby **Twilly Spree** » Mon Jan 19, 2004 8:00 pm

I think attending a public or private high school is an invaluable experience. So what there are people there that could be bad for you. You learn to stay away from them. You are going to encounter people are your life who are different then you or people trying to lead you down the wrong road. High school is a time to start learning those skills before you enter college or the real world. I learned so many just life skills from high school, don't procrastinate, work hard, etc. etc. I also think you get a little more independence and meet new people. And if you're worried about your faith being tested, well you won't know how strong your faith really is until you put it to the test. Ahh that's my opinion anyway, techno said some good stuff too.

Postby **Bobtheduck** » Mon Jan 19, 2004 8:40 pm

That Dude wrote:I've been homeschooled my whole life (well not my whole life, but my whole school life.) Homeschooling is really cool....Yeah I think that the majority of homeschoolers are christians...At least here in Colorado Springs.

When I see Homeschool and Colorado Springs together, I'm assuming it has something to do with Dr. Dobson?

With My kids, I may homeschool them until high school, but they're going to a public high school... Of course, school in Japan is probably very different... Oh, I may put them in private school until high school too...

Postby **Shinja** » Mon Jan 19, 2004 8:49 pm

i was homeschooled from 4th grade till collage, and it gave me many operrunities that i wouldnt have been able to do in public school. while i cant say wich is the best for anybody, i believe both have thier ups and downs, and i believe it is important that homeschooling reamain an option for americans, i can remeber several times when bills were close to being passed in my home state of florida, that would have forced me to atend a public or private school. wheather i will home school my children or not i do not know, i probably will, but even if i dont i will push to keep it a choice.

Postby **Kisa** » Tue Jan 20, 2004 12:14 pm

I was homeschooled for 7th grade . . .
I think in todays society, I would either homeschool or definitley send my kids to christian school.

Postby **Bobtheduck** » Tue Jan 20, 2004 12:37 pm

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Postby **JediSonic** » Tue Jan 20, 2004 1:04 pm

Well I still haven't decided yet. I think I'm starting to agree with those who say homeschooling is academically superior... I'm trying to figure out what classes I should be in, and I'm realising just how much the fact that I am very advanced in math/comp-sci is going to complicate things if I try to standardize the education. For example, I don't think I'm going to finish my Geometry book this year, which means that I might be screwing something up going into Adv. Algebra next year... and if I DO finish Adv. Al, I'll be well beyond the highschool curriculum just a year or two into my hs education! Also, what computer class should I take when I already know SOME of C++ II, and all of C++ I, but a prerequisite for C++ I is an "introduction to programming" class that looks terribly easy and boring except for maybe 2 terms I don't recognize, and a prerequisite to THAT class is the basic computer science class which I might or might not be able to pass the test on with an A, since I almost never use MS Excel. Did I mention that all of those classes are at the community college, not the highschool?

You know I think that if I could just communicate better with my mom and get some more friends available to see on a regular basis, I could like homeschooling at lot more.

So confusing :dizzy:

Postby **IZ&Trigun4life** » Wed Mar 03, 2004 2:53 pm

Well i'm 13 now and in 8th grade but next year i might be homeschooled and i wanted your guys opinion on what you think is better or eaiser?

To Write Love on Her Arms · Postby **ZiP** » Thu Mar 04, 2004 1:18 pm

I am homeschooled. BTW: if I had to choose beetween christian and pub school id go with lattar anyone guess why?

Postby **Inferno** » Sat Mar 06, 2004 3:06 pm

I'm homeschooled and proud too be!:grin: I really like to go to public highschool next year, but right now..... well you know, I can't switch schools in the middle of the school year.

Postby **Lunis** » Sat Mar 06, 2004 3:49 pm

I was homeschooled later half of Second Grade, then later half of Sixth and up. I think it's awesome! The way we do it, I am good at just reading the books and taking the tests. All my mom has to do is things like writing down what for me to do and doing interactive stuff. I even get to do my work in bed, in pajamas! :sweat:

And I get done with all my subjects super fast. Four or so average hours! I was allowed to go to a local public school to take a class in Spanish, and I got to try out for the basketball team (in which I joined). But now we moved, and the law here says that we don't even have to tell them that we're homeschooling, but the public schools don't have to let you go there for extra classes. The public schools here are really mean to us homeschoolers. They have a holier-than-thou attitude. I really don't like public schools. They have a lot of bad kids (not saying that all are bad. I met a few somewhat Christians) and they do atheistic propaganda. I have a really long worded view on public schools, but this was the very short version. Christian school was nice. I met one of my very best and closest friends, there. I say homeschool is the best, though, maybe a little lonlier. I can get past that, though. It helps that I have you guys! And I chat with my other friends around the country (I have moved a few times).

EDIT: Emanku, you're following me.

*snickers* Well I'm tracking you. :lol:

This is fun!

Postby **Emanku** » Sat Mar 06, 2004 3:57 pm

I was homeschooled for grade 7 and grade 8, mainly because of my ADD (attention deficit disorder). That was a really great time for me, and by grade nine I had my ADD under control without tranquilizing drugs like ritilin. When I did go back in grade 9, I did really well. However, I didn't know anybody there, and I didn't make any good friends again until grade 10. Still, I don't regret being homeschooled in the least.

Postby **Kenchii** » Sat Mar 06, 2004 4:26 pm

Nice thread. I was never home-schooled. But many of my online-friends were/are. In about the 8th grade I felt the need to go to homeschool. I was in a chater school (its like a normal school) and my friends all turned on me and were getting in 'groups' of populairity. About two of my friends that stuck by me for 2 years (6th and 7th) ditched me and went there own ways. I was left, abandioned walking around the P.E. yard alone. Because in the small school had a caught-up on being cool, and wanting to feel accepted. I never had the need to feel wanted by others, and I was the only on who really felt that. It was a very long, depressing, year I went though. In around 9th grade in my highschool, it was fine, except occasinally 'wanna-be bullies' bothing me. I really wanted to be homeschooled! Because I wont have to deal with hell everyday I wake up. My nehiborhood is very bad. Drugs, gangs, killings, racisiam, and everything. I live in Miami Florida which is very bad now. The students don't bother me any more, because I really had enough one day and just snaped.. I smashed a kids face.. But, I felt really bad. They acutally got me that mad to make me do something like that.. I really want to be homeschooled.

The good-news is that my mom's friend knows a someone that is having there kid HS. But I heard that if you are homeschooled, you don't get a real deploma? I don't know if that is true or not.. But I really want to be HS. Public schooling is horriable now-a-days...

Postby **Inferno** » Sun Mar 07, 2004 6:13 am

Emanku wrote:I was homeschooled for grade 7 and grade 8, mainly because of my ADD (attention deficit disorder). That was a really great time for me, and by grade nine I had my ADD under control without tranquilizing drugs like ritilin. When I did go back in grade 9, I did really well. However, I didn't know anybody there, and I didn't make any good friends again until grade 10. Still, I don't regret being homeschooled in the least.

WOW! you have ADD too? I have it but it's under control now.

Postby **JediSonic** » Sun Mar 07, 2004 10:17 am

Well can you guys beleive that i STILL haven't decided whether I'm gonna be homeschooled next year? lol

From these last few posts, I'm starting to feel like maybe I don't want to be in public school as much as I sometimes think I do. The only thing that gets me is that my ONLY good homeschooling friend is going off to public next year and I don't want to be all alone :stressed:

Postby **AnimePriest** » Sat May 22, 2004 11:08 am

this is pretty cool i am homeschooled too it's cool to see that there are so many others that are homeschooled

Postby **starstoryteller** » Sat May 22, 2004 12:07 pm

I was homeschooled till now. I'am a freshmen altho I still wish I was homeschooled
"Sob" But i just have to go for two years because of the program I'am doing. Bob the duck pointed out

It was only after I graduated that I ran into problems... See, many in the government, primarily liberals (no offense, MF or anyone else who holds liberal political views, just commenting on this one view that is considered a liberal view which is against school choice) are very against such schools.

I noted that one reson that homeschoolers seem more intellagent is because we get along well with older people or younger people. but one weakness that homeschoolers have is spelling and math :stressed:

I don't think homeschoolers don't get social inhibeded.
They are acutly the lest likely to get clickish or insacure because they a good reationships with there parnents. Some liberals (Not the ones that love God.) Feel theatened @ Homeschoolers because they are not brain-washed :eh:

in the god-hating/postmodernstic thinking. because of my homeschooling backround I'am abel to think for my self and its so cool XD

Postby **Shao Feng-Li** » Sat May 22, 2004 12:13 pm

amen! i never got anything good from those government indoctrination camps. its unbiblicle. nowadays they're jsut teaching kids to be little sociallists and "dumbed down".

Postby **Ashley** » Sat May 22, 2004 12:17 pm

amen! i never got anything good from those government indoctrination camps. its unbiblicle. nowadays they're jsut teaching kids to be little sociallists and "dumbed down".

Oh, I don't know about that. Considering, for example, that my history and government teachers were anything BUT socialists and accused many college professors of being left of lenin, I highly doubt that last part. As for dumbed down, I don't know about that either. I've had some pretty tough classes, and it was way over what my parents could have taught me.

I'm not trying to quibble with you, I'm just trying to shed some light from the public high school point of view.

Postby **Shao Feng-Li** » Sat May 22, 2004 12:29 pm

you will find good teachers, christian even in public schools. (i have)you can get an eduacation if you push it, but in general, government schools suck. For the most part the whoe thing is to dumb down america. 100 years ago, kids could read at a highschool level for example. most adults today probly coiuldnt pass an eighth grade test from a long time ago. littel by little america has gotten dumber and that's why the homeschool monement is in full swing and that's why the eduaction head honchos oppose it.
not to mention the fact that parents nedd to raise their chiuldren! not the corruopt government!

Postby **inkhana** » Sat May 22, 2004 1:02 pm

but one weakness that homeschoolers have is spelling and math

I thought I heard that homeschoolers fairly consistently won the national spelling bees.

Postby **Aka-chan** » Sat May 22, 2004 1:12 pm

I got my learning foundation homeschooling and my spelling and math (as well as most of the other subjects) were really helped by that. I guess it depends on the individual situation. Middle school and up, though, I think it was better that I went to school, because I need set deadlines and a school system grading me to really work.

Postby **Mangafanatic** » Sat May 22, 2004 1:14 pm

Wow, didn't know homeschool could spark such flames. Glad I wasn't around back when this thread was big.

I've home schooled my whole life.

Postby **Pent** » Sat May 22, 2004 4:41 pm

I was home schooled my entire life untill this year. I think people dislike homeschooling because you don't get to be with friends all day. With me it was different. There were many "homeschool" things I was in. Most of my friends were home schooled. And luckly most of my friends from church were and still are home schooled. And when your home schooled you can finish your work fast or slack off. I would usually fnish fast in order to go over to friends houses early. Then I would stay there all day. Or I might slack off. Thats whats great about home school. Then again in school theres the popular game. Normal school is not the same every day like home school can get. You always see people with problems and anouncements and stuff. When ever you get all these friends togather theres a lot of things that happen that effect friendship. Before school I all ready knew about this though. My friends from church act this way. Probably cause they go to church every sunday, wednesday, and saturday. Then theres all the trips they go on togather. But when it's just two friends you never get these types of problems.

Postby **MasterDias** » Sat May 22, 2004 9:27 pm

inkhana wrote:I thought I heard that homeschoolers fairly consistently won the national spelling bees.

I have heard that as well.

I don't know, but I do remember hearing someplace (from my mom perhaps) that homeschoolers are a little bit on the weak side when it comes to essaywriting, but don't take that as 100% fact as I'm not really sure.
And I, personally, have gotton mostly As on all of the essays that I've written for college so far, so...
*shrugs*

I enjoyed being homeschooled for the most part. It was fun. I made some friends. I sometimes got off early...

Postby **starstoryteller** » Sun May 23, 2004 12:00 am

Must be just me then, I ssufer form discixsa where i get all my letters mixed up in
a word. Homeschooler's reading skill's are very storng in gernal, altho i have a friend (Homeschooler) who does not like reading as much.

Postby **Sam*ron** » Sun May 23, 2004 12:35 pm

[quote="Michael"]Many people think that homeschoolers are 'social outcasts.' That we 'do not fit in.' I disagree. I have seen homeschoolers who are ten times more comfortable around people than public schoolers. As for homescooling your kids: That's God's descision.
There are also many activities you can participate in]

Well said! I am not anty social, I have loads of friends! they are all home schoolers too! My best friend(Who has moved now...) She was a publice schooler and we were great together! But I have been home schooling all my life! It's great! My cousins live like right up by us so I have them to play with too(They are home schooled too)! And all the groups that you can join, home schooling is great! I'm suprised that there are so many home schoolers here! But I like it! Ainme Christian Home schooler Alliance! Tee hee! Man I love this place!

Postby **Mangafanatic** » Sun May 23, 2004 2:14 pm

Yeah, I think the top three contestants in the National Spelling Bee have been home schooled for a couple years. But that may just be that they learned so well that their parents thought it was best to bring them home where they could be taught a rate that few children could handle. These children were probably brilliant before, but I'm still proud to have them in my ranks.

In relation to essay writting, I've never heard that homeschooled students had trouble writting essays. I cousin who's homeschooled wrote an essay which she performed as a speech and it won her $500. I, personally, have strong essay writting skills.

In the end, I suspect that a student's strong points and their weak points depend alot on what their natural talents are.

Postby **MasterDias** » Sun May 23, 2004 5:08 pm

Mangafanatic wrote:In the end, I suspect that a student's strong points and their weak points depend alot on what their natural talents are.

Agreed. Some people are naturally stronger in certain subjects than in others.

Postby **Ichigo_89** » Sun May 23, 2004 7:05 pm

I've been homeschooled all of my life. Next year I'm going to be a homeschooled freshmen in highschool. To tell you the truth, I wouldn't have it any other way. There's alot of crap out there that'd I'd really rather not want to experience until at least college. (oh boy....) I consider myself a social misfit, and everybody I know besides 1 or 2 people, think anime is stupid or don't even care and think it's just like Pokemon or something. So I guess anime and comics is my way of being original. :cool:

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