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A place to discuss life outside the educational system. Continued from version 2007.1.
Do homeschoolers have to study national curriculum?
second post! I’ve always wondered about homeschooling. it wouldn’t work for me as I don’t like my parents knowing anything about my life.
1- no
2- and homeschooling whould change that?
I’m homeschooled!
1-I think the exact laws vary depending on states, but you definitely don’t in CA, I don’t think you do anywhere…
I don’t study any standard curriculum. This year I’m doing two AP classes, European History and Human Geography, online through an organization that offers a lot of AP homeschool onlin classes…I’m doing writing online through a different site with writing classes for homeschoolers, Spanish I’m self-studying with a variety of different materials, mostly online, math i’m doing with soething called thinkwell where I watch little video lecture things then do problems online, and biology I’m doing through some sort of online open access course.
I haven’t always done so much online, but now that I’m in 9th grade and doing APs and such that’s the easiest way for homeschoolers to do it….
And to answer a question which I know will be asked: Yes, I do socialize.
I wouldn’t like all that direct attention because then I have no time to daydream and doodle.
I’m homeschooled. Always have been. Part of me LOVES being homeschooled and part of me wishes I went to public school. But I have lots of friends and plenty of socializing…sometimes it’s just hard to get my work done. It’s so easy to become lazy when at home. And it doesn’t help that the computer is right there staring at you!
6- No kidding. I should be doing my homework, cleaning the kitchen, and cleaning my room, and look at what I’m doing instead.
I argee with momo.
5- well, just think: you could have a whole time period to doodle and daydream.
5-Okay, there’s another common misconception about homeschooling that needs to be cleared up.
Homeschooling does NOT necessarily mean that you’re sitting with your parents all day, having them teach you exactly the way a schoolteacher would except that it’s one-on-one. It may be like that in some cases (there are many different ways to homeschool) but certainly not all. It was like that when I was younger, but for several years now Ive spent most of my schooling time alone in my room, self-studying from books and such or taking online classes.
9- well, that’s just becuse you are in high school.
7-you ain’t homeschooled any more….come to think of it, neither am i….why am i posting?
well, i was homeschooled all of my life, so i have a slight expertise on the subject. one thing, its fun. you don’t have to have a set pace of study, you can jump in leaps and spurts from one subject to another, but your social life is limited as you don’t hang out with kids your age all day. there are goods and bads to both systems.
I was homeschooled for 2 years and I have to honestly say it was the worst thing that ever happened to me. When I went back to public schools I was an outcast for 3 years.
11- me nether. but I might be again!
9- thanks, i didn’t know that.
I’ve always wanted to go to bording school (slightly off topic)
1-Bah! I don’t have to. I do know of some people who lie on their transcripts, but those people are dumb…literally, haha!
9-Ja, good point. My experience is definitely like that!
To answer another soon-to-be-asked question: I do NOT get to “sleep in”, and I do NOT wear my pajamas the whole day…unless I’m sick.
10-I’m only in 9th grade, and i’ve been doing almost all of it by myself for quite a few years now.
Now, as to my own answers to the questions shadowkat predicted….
I get up at 7 every morning and start schoolwork around 8, so not sleeping in, but I think that’s later than a lot of schoolkids get up (correct me if I’m wrong, I don’t know that much more about regular school than you schoolkids do about homeschooling)
And no, I don’t stay in pajamas all day. Only until about lunchtime
If you’re sick – not like violently sick, or unconsious, or what ever, but like if you have a fever or contagious disease, you would still have to do school, right? In regular school you get the day off.
17- yes, I had to to work.
16- me to. (pj. wise) after lunch is when I socilize!
There are “flaws” in both methods of schooling. I have to say, though, that I’m SURE the food is better when you’re homeschooled. *Shivers*
9: Totally. I’m in 9th grade as well and I do a LOT of my school on my own and have been for years. I hardly spend any time with my mom doing school!
17: I do school when I am sick because I really don’t like getting behind. If I am really sick (like too sick to function correctly) then, no, I most certainly do not do school. If I’m not going to get anything out of it, why do it? I think my mom usually leaves it up to me, but if I’m not really sick, she’ll tell me to do school.
19: Mmm, yeah. I feel so bad for all public schoolers who have to eat caffeteria food. Ick.
our cafeteria food isn’t all that bad, and it’s nice to have a complete lunch one day that doesn’t include the food thet you’d had for lunch for the past 3 days… I think the worst part about public school is being in the “dummy classes” where you have to wait for the others to understand before you go on, but this year I’m in 3 advanced core classes so thet is more or less cleared up.
I definately like public school, I used to go to a tiny catholic school and I didn’t mind it then because I didn’t know anything different, but when I went to public school, I really started to like school. The teachers are either really fun or you make fun of them with other kids (I know it’s mean but it’s a good way to get to know someone you don’t already know… “hey, isn’t Oakleaf the worst teacher ever?”)
exactly…
I’d hate to be away from my school friends, but I think it would be fun to be home schooled.
If I was home schooled I would probably be an antisocial freak. I live on a main road and the nearest person is a long walk away and the other nearest person is a guy who wouldn’t talk to me anyway. I’m in ninth grade and am in all of the ap classes i can be in. Last year I skipped lunch so I could take all the classes i wanted to. That took a bit of work and met a lot of opposition. NOBODY had even considered it before! School food is OK this year. It’s not cold or so I’ve been told. I bring food.
The table I’m at is very strange. Most of the people eat (5min) and then study, do homework, sleep, or goof off. The goofing off however can get pretty interesting. I have started wearing a largish hat to school. It got used as a Frisbee.
I have also started started experimenting in identity. Hence the hat and weird music (everything from bach to greenday. Really)
And the fauxhawk. My few friends think I’m crazy
I’m in public school and I’m still an antisocial freak. Homeschooling would probably improve my situation.
Re: food
I basically get home food at school because I bring lunch. It’s usually and sandwich, and other miscellaneous things. I buy lunch occasionally, but most of the time it’s gross. (The last time I bought lunch, it was a chicken patty. Or so it claimed.) Ick.
23- Yes you are. But aren’t we all. And yes, I was wondering about the hat.
Re:socialness
I would probably be antisocial, except for the internet.
Must get off now, and practice.
17 – eh, at the school I go to, the people in most of my classes come to school no matter what – if you miss a day, you get so behind, it’s really really hard to catch up. Hence, we get the Massive Flu Epidemic, etc.
or should that be pandemic?
Ha, antisocial freaks. I’m not–quite. I have friends, but I sort of blend into the background and I was so suspicious about the people who decded, seemingly arbatrarily, that they wanted to be my friend, that I’ve been rather cool towards them. But I have friends, a lot more than I had when I was homeschooled.
I sort of miss being homeschooled. I don’t think about it a lot, but when I do I miss it. It was a laid-back sort of life. *sighs wistfully*
27- yeah, there was a girl that came to our school after being homeschooled and everyone was trying to be nice and her friend and all, I think it sorta overwhelmed her. They meant it in a good way though, and a lot of them really were nice people, I don’t know the people at your school, but I would try being nice back… just an idea
so, what do you think of public school?
28- [multiple expletives snipped.]
Actually, that wasn’t the GAPAs, but if I summed up my opinion of public school, they’d probably do something along those lines.
28- Yes, I’ve decided to be a little bit nicer towards them.
28 (again)- It’s okay. Right now I’m trying to close my eyes to the fact that I have to go back tomorrow, even though tomorrow’s the good day. I was not fond of school this morning because I had to get up and I was SO TIRED, but now that I’ve missed the bus once I feel like it will happen again if I’m not careful so I’ve set my alarm clock even earlier. *yawn* I don’t like PE, but whatever.
When you’re homeschooled, do you get sick of seeing your parents? Mine both work two jobs. But it sounds really nice. What do you do for college applications? Are there any parts of school w/other kids that sound nicer?
Any unschoolers on the MB, by the way?
31- (unschoolers) I was one until . . . September 4th. But I always say homeschooler because it’s easier and people don’t need an explanation.
The thing about public school is that, of the people that work there, there are always the few that choose to teach because they really enjoy doing it and do it well and make kids want to be there. I think having just a few teachers like that make the school day a lot better. I’m not saying some parents don’t enjoy teaching, but you don’t get all the different styles of teaching and when you get older and teach yourself like some people had been saying I can’t imagine it’s as fun as sitting in a class with15 others and a teacher where everyone is making jokes and laughing and still learning as much if not more than if they were just sitting quietly reading and taking tests and all.
I once saw a quote and it said (paraphrased) if you can get people laughing, they are listening, and when they are listening, you can tell them almost anything.
That’s how it goes in school. The kids that struggle want to listen in a good class and therefore they do better. They get peer pressure to do better and support from many other people.
There’s nothing wrong with homeschooling, but I think the actual learning process would be more enjoyable in a public school with good teachers.
OK, when i wuz in 2nd grade, my teacher stinked. The kids in my class stinked, and it was really ironic, cuz my school was like 1 uv da best in the state or something. i was really smart(not 2 brag), and they weren’t challenging me enough. I started getting sick, having nightmares, and crying before i got on da bus. My mum homeskooled moi, and VIOLA! My life rocked again! I met my BFF in a homeschool co-op, and we still talk every day and see each other nonstop on weekends even though she lives 19 miles away or something. My mom challenged me and i still got social expiriences. Im going back 2 school 4 6th grade (aka, this year) but im being taken out again until hi school. But, because i was homeschooled, i am the smartest kid in the school (all 500 of them voted, and i was almost unanimous, not 2 brag) and I won the spelling bee 3 x in a row. Seriously, my advice, get out of school and be homeschooled! It rox!
emmatheduck, i have recently dcided you rok. First, you obviously like ducks. Second, well, ive never met a mean homeskooler!!!
34- Alice wants very badly to proofread that post.
Alice thinks that homeschooling is better if you live somewhere where there are kids and if you are an outgoing person. If you are not an outgoing person and do not make friends easily (like Alice), then schooling is good to people-watch and because there is at least one person in a public school who will initiate a conversation/friendship themselves, thus making you less shy. Alice also thinks that she will learn social skills that she could not learn if she was homeschooled.
All Alice’s advocation of school is because she likes having interesting conversations with peers. That is why she likes MB, too.
my friedn is homeschooled and she gets Ds and Cs
23-Sorry about your hat. But a guy ran over my favorite trilby with his Schwinn a while ago, so I know how you feel.
33-Point made.
Most of my teachers talk too much. Especially my bio teacher, Mrs. M. She just keeps rambling on after assigning you a worksheet that will be homework if you don’t finish. I don’t personally dislike her, it’s just that she doesn’t understand that the less you talk, the better we follow the directions.
37: Which probably means she doesn’t try hard enough and it has nothing to do with being homeschooled. I didn’t mean that in a mean way.
38- yeah, I’ve had my share of bad teachers, so maybe homeschooling could have been ok in elementary when you only have one teacher, but now I have so many teachers to choose my favorites from, there’s almost no chance I don’t like any of them
Alice, hey sorry!!! I wuz feeling rather ungrammatical. My overall score in english is 247, and that’s 10th grade level. That’s a few years ahead of my age. Anyway, MissSwann2223 has decided that Alice has stared a new dobbyish fashion.
the man for aeiou might be homeschooled. might be.
MissSwann2223 thinks that the man for aeiou is very mysterious. Very mysterious.
43- well, look at my name.
16 – I wake up at six, and the late bell rings at 7:50, though my school starts fairly late for high school. I took one high school course in eighth grade, and it started before 7:30, I think.
::double post::
And I don’t think I’d do too well being home-schooled. As is, I have no social life whatsoever ( :: is a geek :: ), and I would spend my life reading bad fanfiction, which I already do too much of anyway. And staring at MB. And this time of year, haunting NaNo. And other various things online which are not very conducive to meeting people in person.
But I’m really glad my school district has a pretty good honors program, so I mostly don’t have to deal with the stupid question type. Except in arts classes, and that sort of totally sucks….
45- *feels lucky* My school starts at 8:04
47-mine at 8:45
44- what about it? (and why isn’t the man for aeiou talking in 3rd person???)
the man for aeiou thinks his name is odd. the man for aeiou didn’t fell like third person.
the man for aeiou has an interesting name. MissSwann2223 does not get his name, but likes aeiou. the man for aeiou spelled feel wrong.
51- the man for aeiou had a montay lack of rembance of how to spell “feel”
the man for aeiou’s name comes from the first post I made, on the kokopelli for esident theard. the first one. back in 2006. it was:
“if crraw is the pesident, aeiou has to be vice pesidnet.”
yes, I know, it was odd.
the man for aeiou is bad at spelling, MissSwann has realized. Aeiou and urania are MissSwann’s faves. Has any of the Muses gone to school, MissSwann wonders?
Hohohoho, MissSwann has a double post [muahahaha]
With all of the recent High school shootings, I’m REALLY not sorry I will be homeschooled…
Red-tailed HAWK
YAY for Hawk, that is my soccer team’s name.
Oooh, fun germs going around the schools now. Looking more appealing all the time! No, really, it’s not the only reason I’m homeschooled.
I have about four breakfasts, a lunch, and a few snacks in the afternoon and I’m still feeling a little hungry at times. How would I last in public school?
We start at eight and go to four or later, but the frequent snacks take a little time out of the day.
I usually am in normal clothes before school, but in the bitter cold months sometimes it isn’t appealing to get a cold pair of pants and a shirt out of the drawer. I am sometimes wrapped up like a mummy with blankets, and still feeling cold (and we have the thermostat at a reasonable temperature too).
Red-tailed HAWK
OMG we are like soooo alike!!! I eat a ton during the day and school always is the wrong temparature and i am always cold and whooping cough is going around my schoolright now.
Wow! Good luck with the bug. I’m still homeschooled, so luckily I won’t be around the bug they’re talking about on the news…
I like your name too!
Red-tailed HAWK
57/58: Haha, sounds like me. My sister teases me cuz my schedule for food breaks goes something like this: Breakfast, snack, snack, lunch, snack, snack, snack, dinner, snack, snack, snack, bed, snack. It’s not really true, but it’s partially true. I think I would NOT be able to survive public school because I would be so hungry! I wonder how public schoolers do it.
60- hide candy in locker.
*breaks into your locker and chows candy like there’s no tommorrow*
62- I don’t have a locker! ha!
Neither do i so HA [we have cubbys tehehe]
4- me too! ha!
Yay my school is so smalltown that we don’t have enough money. But, yet, the PTO payed five thousand dollars plus for a projectible computer screen in Mrs. Connolly’s room. She being my evil science teacher [grrrrrrrrrr]
I’m watching Star Wars in the background. Huh.
Well, now that my Weirdness thread died, I guess I’ll take over this one. Ommmm…
Welcome to Missswann’s haven! Today she will be discussing birds with herself.
Miss: Wow birds areawesome.
Swann: Yeah, I know!
Miss: Bluejays are my fav.
Swann: Guess which bird I like?
Miss: Wow,that’s a tuff one…
(gapas, for the sake of my sanity, will you please just kill this thread?)
*Takes thread back over-teheheh!
*
Cubbies? Cute
But not as big (?) or lockable (?) And I like birds too…
*Gobbles up food* I think this is another massive growth spurt. I am eating constantly, one food item done? On to the next!
The cold and a growth spurt=veryveryhungryahh…
Red-tailed HAWK
I am Homeschooled too, emmatheduck!! I do find it a bit more relaxed than public school, and I took the CA standerdized test. For math, I am doing Math-U-See, which is a fairly fun curriculum.
I read a heck of a lot, and enjoy Star Wars BattlefrontI II.
71- being homechooled might be fun, i don’t ever get enough time to read. Speaking of reading, I am reading Lord of the Rings and I suggest Sauron over frodo. Sauron gets a beard.
Saruman gets a beard; Sauron just gets an eye.
oh, darn. I’ve managed to make a fool of myself, yet again. Sauron is still cooler.
w00t cool thread. I’m in public school…there are definitely some good things about public school, with the friends and the cool teachers and stuff, but yeah the food is crappy (though the pizza and chicken tenders can be ok) and waking up at 6 annoys me XD.
The worst part, I think, is being stuck in classes where everyone else moves SO FREAKING SLOWLY THROUGH THE CURRICULUM. Or when the teachers are stupid, “Go look in the textbook!” types.
I have had some AWESOME teachers who really knew how to reach kids, and some great classes (me loving to learn and all). Overall, I like public school. I don’t think I would have done so well in homeschool, because I never would have learned how not to be shy. I had my nose in a book most of the time from preschool to 6th grade, unless I was daydreaming. I did make friends though, and I remember playing alot. X) still friends with a lot of them.
36- Exactly! I’m not sure if I would have developed social skills.
My friend (lol not just friend)(who I met this year) was homeschooled until this year, but I certainly wouldn’t have known if he hadn’t told me. He did a bunch with the middle school in his neighborhood (like being in their band, I think) and boyscouts.
OMG I just realized…if I was homeschooled, I would have missed BAND!!! *horror* Maybe I could have joined other schools’ band like he did, but still.
This is very interesting. =D
My opinion of public school is mixed. I really like learning, and I do more active learning in public school than I did as a homeschooler, but some classes are really boring or unpleasant, like PE. (I hate PE.)
I didn’t learn social skills at all. If Brenda and Lauren hadn’t found me that first day, I’d be pretty much friendless. Well, not quite. I’d probably have quite a few friends, but for a long time I would have been friendless.
One interesting thing I’ve learned from school is that there is no “normal”. I used to think there was. But now I know that no one is normal, because they all have their quirks. So there really isn’t such a thing as normal, is there?
21 – *gasp* I think I know you. Was the name of the Catholic school St. Mary’s, and were some of your old classmates in that school Brian, Adam, Bethany, Hunter, Armond, and Angel?
76 – I hate PE too. And there isn’t a single person in my school who is normal. So yea, pretty much there is no such thing as normal.
Oh never mind. I’ll just ask you in real life.
I have only two reasons I don’t skip school althogether.
1) All my friends are at school/karate, and I couldn’t live without their company
2) To get anywhere I want to go, I need a college education. Therefor, I need a high school graduation. Therefor, I need a middle school graduation. And so on and so forth.
I have no use where I want to go in life for what I’m currently learning. I see no use for learning the difference between “Neep” and “Spring” tides when I plan to be a director. I can’t swim anyway. Why don’t they teach swimming? Then maybe “Neep” and “Spring” tides would be apropriate for me to learn.
I am not a homeschooler [ps. eargon put me up to it!]
79- It’s spelled “Neap tide.”
79–Aha, but if Muse did an article on neap and spring tides you wouldn’t think it was so stupid now would you?
I go to public school. It’s okay, except for ebil teachers of doom who pile homework on you like mashed potatoes. (Yes. Mashed potatoes.) What I’d like to know is if they realize they are keeping us up till midnight. D:
I used to go to public school but just withdrew. Now I’m a homeschooler and I absolutely love it! You can work on your own schedule, so I have lots of creative time…time to work on novels, or acting, or screenplays, or anything….
I just hated the high school I used to attend. It was supposedly this high-level honors program but was basically just lots and lots of busywork. We didn’t write a single freaking essay for English; all we did was standardized test prep. My classes followed a strict pattern: evil/nasty/incompetent teachers, busywork…busywork…busywork…, and obnoxious/braindead students.
I’m so glad I escaped. =D
82–Heh, I know a Nora who plays the cello.
Queen Francois the First and I are doing a project for school on whether home schooling is a good form of education. We said yes. Neither of us has ever been home schooled, and we go to one of the best public schools in the state. Does anyone have any good reasons/stories about why home schooling is a good choice? Also, please say if you would feel comfortable being cited by your blog name in the project.
84. I have always been homeschooled, and I’m a sophmore in high school. I like homeschooling because I get to know, actually know, my siblings. I can tell my siblings anything, and they know that they can tell me anything. I go to a homeshool co-op two days a week from 8:40 am until 4:30 pm, and on those days I miss my family so much. That sounds like I’m super shy or something, but actually I’m very outgoing, and have several best friends (outside of my family!). I definitly think that if we weren’t homeschooled my family wouldn’t be so close. We aren’t perfect and, yes, we do fight, but some how we can see that after a while it’s more worth it to be friends then to win an argument. If you have any more questions, feel free to ask me! I’d love to talk about my experience as a homeschooler! I don’t mind being cited at all!
Hello, Canon! Welcome back to the blog! We haven’t seen you since the end of June. Celebratory pies will (no doubt) be obscuring your vision shortly. Meanwhile, how’s life?
85 – Thanks! I might have more questions later.
86. Wow, thanks! I didn’t think anyone would recognize me! I feel so loved! I’m doing well, I just had a major move and then school that kept me away. I hope I won’t be gone for so long next time!
Hey, Canon in D!! *pies Canon in D* Ruler of duckland, i have a Q. how many ducks do you have?
84.-I agree with you. I’m in 8th grade and I’ve been homeschooled all my life.
85- I have been homeschooled since third grade, and I am now in tenth. I have loved being homeschooled because I get to study Christian based curriculumn. Plus you get to pick which curriculumn suites you the best. I have more freedom to explore more places and do more things on field trips. It also works well with my soccer schedule. I have also become closer with my brother, and we are like close friends. My family does everything together and we are able to spend alot of time together.
I am now in seventh grade and have been homeschooled since kindergarten. I enjoy being able to get done my work so I mess with my Legos or read a good book. I like being able to pick my own schoolwork that suites me.
hmm. Lego ranger7 started to homeschool at the same time as soccergirl216… are you related?
Yes, we are related. Lego ranger7 is my brother. Our mom homeschools us both.
I have ben homeschooled sins 1st grade but have ben in publick- school (to tell storys of all things) hou can one stand it???????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
95 – Your naivete astounds me. I stand it because I have to. Both of my parents work. People are mean there, sure, but at least I can make friends. I know some homeschoolers, but they don’t have many friends. That’s a drawback of being homeschooled. You don’t meet many people at home.
I think public school is fine as long as you can be nice to at LEAST one person.
I was homeschool for 4-6 grade. Now I go to public school for math and science, and am homeschool the rest of the day. next year I’m going to school all day.
I like school, in fact.
I admit I dont have meny firends (snif sob. )But I get more time to my self(trying despretly to think up good points) and for me that is what the internet is for (straten) eny one like to be my friend in this muse blesed plase?
98- I don’t have many friends either. But you are right about one thing, you do get more time to yourself. Being homeschooled gives me more time to read and study different things I want to learn. What grade are you in? I’m in 10th and my brother is in 7th.
98, 99 – Yes, you may have more time to yourself, but don’t you sometimes wish that you can have someone to talk to besides your family?
It’s okay. I’m here for you.
I don’t have a whole lot of friends, or at least friends that I get to see often. A good number of my friends I only get to see once of twice a year, and keep in touch through emails and/or snail mail during the rest of the time. Although sometimes even that correspondence is rather thin.
I think it doesn’t matter as much how much time you spend with people, but more how you spend it. For example, in public school you aren’t visiting and having a good time with all your friends, you’re doing your work. (Or at least supposed to be.) When you get together with your friends now and then and really visit and have a good time it counts much more.
A lot of my parent’s friends are my friends as well, even though they’re boring adults….(sorry GAPAs, I’m just kidding!)
Sometimes I get bored with just my parent’s company, but then I go read a book, take a walk, call up a friend, go on MB, play my violin, etc.
100- Thanks for your comment, I really appreciate it.
101- I’m here if you need to talk to someone.
98- I was just wondering if you read my message, because if you need someone to talk to, me and my brother are always listening.
102~ I know
And we really should get together more often, I thing there are parental plans brewing….
Anyway, on the friends issue, I consider all MBers to be my friends, even if I don’t know them very well. You guys are all really great and I have a wonderful time talking to you on here.
MuseBlog has been a real godsend for getting to talk to other people my age that act like civilized human beings, as so many teenagers don’t, but don’t get me started….
104- I totally agree with you about hard it is trying to find civilized people our age to talk to.
People always laugh at me when I say how much I usually despise teenagers. Then they ask me again how old I am just to make sure…..
105 – Yes. I am in a higher grade than I would have been, and I STILL think my classmates are uncivilized and… well… immature.
106 – How old are you?
I think teenagers are the weirdest things ever.
107~ 15.
People think I’m weird (or worse, anti social because I’ve been homeschooled) because I don’t really enjoy being with other kids my own age. Not usually, anyway. If they are civilizd human beings that concerned about more than the latest celebrity scandal, then I’ll be fine. Unfortunately, that sort of person is a rarity.
I don’t usually fit in very well, and once my “odd-ness” wears off (vegan, one-room house, homeschooled, etc.), they tend to group up and exclude me and I end up playing with the little kids. Or stuck talking to the adults, whatever the case is. that’s not really a problem, but sometimes it is annoying.
108 – YES!!! I feel your pain. My odd-ness is that a) I am the youngest and smallest in the grade, b) I am the ONLY person who has any idea who or what Kokopelli is, and c) I take very advanced math classes (the homework of which I should be doing now in study hall).
I’m the tallest andmost ‘physically mature’ in my class. I cannot WAIT to be out of my school. My mum said that she would homeschool me for the next grade I am entering.
Hey, what does everybody think about homeschooling being “disallowed’ in CA?!
I feel bad for those RVers, There name began with G…
111-As far as I know, that wasn’t going anywhere. They were trying to do that, but people weren’t going to let it happen… It’s none of other people’s business if we homeschool, I wouldn’t try to stop people from going to public school. Some people just don’t fit into the school setting, and they are best homeschooled. They receive better training for their learning style and avoid bothering the schools by needing extra attention. Of course, I will point out again that before public schools even existed everybody was homeschooled, and the human species obviously survived it!
Red-tailed HAWK
111- I don’t think it’s fair to not allow homeschooling in CA.
112~ Yes, the Gozas. I was thinking about them when I read about the CA homeschool thing, they went by CA laws. I think that Zephyr (the son) was 17, so he would’t have that much more to go. How long has it been since they last posted? they were really nice.
I don’t think that it’s fair either. The whole thing started from a complaint (from a homeschooler) of abuse. Well if the parents are that sick it doesn’t matter if the kids are homeschooled or in oublic shcool. Humph.
Well guys, I’m saying, as far as I know it isn’t illegal, the government wasn’t going to allow it. It was merely being considered, as far as I know…
Red-tailed HAWK
-115, my sister knows Zephyr.
oh, i’m Homeschooled [is that a shock/??!] well it’s not wierd, it’s just that i get to spend more time doing what interests me most.
108- Ooh, I lived in a one-room house once. But we had a loft to sleep in.
Ahh, that house. What a mess…
104- i agree wholeheartedly. everyone here is so open and nice and SPEAKS IN COMPLETE SENTENCES! it seems that 99% of the people i meet in real life are, at one point or another, giving me the “woah, you’re crazy,” look. i have never fit in at school, everyone is so immature, and i can never have a civilized conversation with anyone. thus far, i have met one, only one, person with whom i can have a deep, satisfying conversation with (of course we have to wait until we’re alone to have one of the said conversations so no one else is around to give us funny looks and think we’re strange).
by the time i got to sixth grade i was thinking violent thoughts, and was taken out of the public school i went to. that’s when i started getting homeschooled. i would present to you a novel about the blissful times of homeschooling, but i haven’t the time, so i will fast forward a bit:
i really wanted to continue homeschooling, but alas! i found myself accepted into one of the top schools in the united states! i couldn’t miss this opportunity, so i gave up homeschooling *sniffle* and entered (SNIP), where I found myself void of free time, constantly kept occupied by the excessive amount of homework the teachers insist on giving.
but there is always the bright side. this new school is where i met the one person with whom i can have conversations, and i’ve made friends!
still, sometimes i find myself distressed because there is only one person who understands me, or at least accepts the fact that i act differently.
wow, that was long. whew..i shall conclude by saying: i, for one, loved being homeschooled, but i can understand why it wouldn’t work for some people. it annoys me when people say things like..here i’ll give you an example:
other person: did you see american idol last night?
me: no, i don’t watch tv.
other person: WHAT?!?! YOU DON’T WATCH TV?! HOW DO YOU LIVE?!
that was a silly example but it applies to everything, pretty much. people should just accept that others may do things differently, and that works for them, just because you wouldn’t do it that way doesn’t mean the other person is poor and deprived. so, if someone is homeschooled, that must mean it works for them, so leave it be.
i’m not sure what i’m talking about anymore, THIS POST IS SO LONG I MUST END IT NOW!!
i apologize sincerely for going on and on and probably boring a lot of you, i wonder if any of you actually read the whole thing, and i wonder if it had anything to do with homeschooling.
*sigh* it seems everyone has abandoned this thread, come back everyone!
i’m back on, had to pause for the cat.
17: Depends on far behind you are on school….
31: College apps are more or less the same: a few schools require a description of your highschool courses, and your parent has to fill out the info required by a highschool counselor, but basically, you just fill out the exact same app as public schoolers
And now to various people: Yes, homeschoolers often have fewer friends, but just because you go to public school, does not mean you automatically have more friends. My mom went to public school, and she says she didn’t have anymore friends than I do.
I love school (except when there’s homework or people are being idiots). I think it’s because all of my teachers are awesome people, and really make the classes interesting. My mom teaches me for one of my classes (math), so I guess you could say that’s sort of homeschooling. I get annoyed at her all the time (read: every day) when we’re doing that, though, so I don’t think I could stand homeschooling in ALL of my classes.
123- I also love school, except when there’s homework or people are being idiots. Unfortunately, people are idiots 24/7, and homework is nearly on the same timeframe.
I HATE MY SCHOOL. Thank goodnes I’m graduating in a few weeks.
I’ve been going to school for the last three years and I am FINALLY going to be homeschooled again.
I think my brother is even happier than I am.
I don’t know how long it’s going to last, but hopefully a few years…but not exactly likely..
It makes me laugh to hear the things people say or ask me when they find out I’m homeschooled. Such as: “But isn’t that terribly unusual?” “But what about sports?” “How do you socialize?” Or even: “Why?”
Yes, I too find it rare for me to talk to someone my age (homeschooled or otherwise) who can talk with me about Shakespeare, shear-thickening fluids, or cephalopods without interjecting: “Isn’t (insert random movie star here) like totally the cutest?” That’s part of why I’m here on the MuseBlog. I appreciate all of the interesting, civilized discussions that take place here.
By the way, how dare the spell check not know how to spell cephalopods?!
(GAPAs, can we have a renewal of this thread please?)
126–I often get the curiosity questions as to why I’m homeschooled, but actually, the main thing I’ve got here at college when people here I was homeschooled is: “Wow, really? I had/have a friend who was homeschooled and he/she is *&&%ing brilliant.” Everybody seems to think homeschoolers are, like, unnaturally smart. It’s quite amusing.
126-That happens for me too, kind of, but for me it gets really annoying….. Usually when I meet someone (an adult someone), we get into a conversation about something, they talk to me like I’m a normal human being (not that I’m not
), and then at some point they ask what grade I’m in. I say I’m homeschooled, and they say “yes, but what grade would you be in?” It really bugs me how in-the-box people are…. And I mean , I live in an area where people do some stuff that’s much weirder than homeschooling (painting their pickup truck bright pink and stenciling two-foot-high flowers all over it, for example)…..
)…… People are so stereotyped……
And then when I tell them I’m in seventh grade, what do they say? I can say it along with them by this time, every single person I meet says it…… “Wow, you’re so tall!” Because I’m really tall for my age, I think most people I meet think I’m fourteen or so, and they feel like they can talk to me, but when I tell them I’m twelve they immediately put me in the category of ‘in seventh grade, not interested in anything but movie stars and how to get out of the next homework assignment’….. Ignore the fact that I don’t go to school, I don’t have a TV, I never watch movies (I’ve seen three movies in my life: Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (my parents rented it as a ‘novel experience’ when I was 8); something by Miyazaki I watched at a friend’s house without permission; and The Water Horse, which was the in-flight movie when we flew back from Florida this spring. It was a lot better without sound.
Sorry for the really long rambling post……. I do stuff like that very one in a while……
*once
I have gone to a few homeschool group get- togethers, and there always seems to be this strange… mini society. But I am defenitely not saying anything against it, since I’m a homeschooler myself and have friends who homeschool. I just have had pretty much had no luck with groups.
130-You are? Cool! There seems to be a very high percentage of homeschoolers on MB, for some reason…. I know what you mean about groups. It’s no different than school, really, when you’re in a large group it’s hard to pay the same amount of attention to everybody, but I prefer smaller groups (like, under 10 people).