High Member of the Triad’s idea. There seem to be a lot of you out there.
106 thoughts on “Homeschoolers”
first ppost? i’m not a homeschooler, but i think the idea is pretty cool. it’d be sweet if my dad was my teacher…
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Sadly, I am not homeschooled.
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HAHA! HOMESCHOOLERS ROCK! YAY!!! yah, i’m a homeschooler.
first post?
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I’m not a homeskooler. Go me.
Why am i posting then? I’m not really sure….
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first post??
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I’m not a homeschooler, but I might have first post, so I’ll say more later.
*prays for first post*
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1st post?
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I’m not homeschooled. Though it sounds nice. Are any of you guys ‘unschoolers’? Those people sound pathetically unprepared for real life to me.
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I’ve always wondered what it’d be like to be homeschooled.
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i wanna be homeskooled
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There’s nothing funnier than scrolling down to read “first post? pwease?” on post #7. Yep. It’s hilarious. No, I’m not sadistic at all. Watching dreams get crushed is like chick flicks to me. All that desperation and misery created by one moment.
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Gar. Second post.
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I think being homeschooled would be cool, because I think it would be great to be tought by my parents. But I wouldnt like not being able to do band, or see my friends during the day.
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I’m an ex-homeskooler. It was great but my classmate was a jerk.
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Gar? Eh?
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Unlike the vast majority of people who have posted on this thread thus far, I actually have something to say on the subject of homeschooling. Namely, that it rocks, and I have tons of homeschooler friends. I think my education has not been at all neglected (we’ll find out for sure when I take the ACT this summer), and I know my social skills haven’t. There, first post (with meaning).
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Homeschooling I think is a bad idea. I find that (from personal experiance) that homeschooled kids (no offense to anyone out there) tend to learn at a slower rate then public or privately schooled children. I, a middle schooler, met with my friend, who happens to be home schooled. About 4th/5th grade age-level, they had “just learned minuses” and attempted to subtract 8 and 3 to get 4. Just my experiances.
13th post???
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By the way, I am homeschooled (in case you missed that)
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I’m homeschooled. I did Algebra 2 in 8th grade. A good friend of mine (homeschooled) just got a 30 on the ACT (she’s 16). One of my friends (9th grade) tested at a college sophomore level in French. I don’t know what kind of homeschoolers you deal with, evildude131, but they’re not the type I know.
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Sweet! i’ve never got first post before. do you guys homeschool with a program or do you independent homeschool?(is that even an option where you live?)
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i agree with MG, most homeschoolers i know above average for their age, not below it.
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YALL ARE LUCKY, CHILLUN
sry, im leaving now
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That would be cool, i guess. maybe with online courses. but I hate those. the one i have now i hate. maybe that’s because i almost never have time to do it.
my parents are smart, but i would still rather have school.
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My parents were thinking seriously about homeschooling me a while back, but then decided it would ruin my social life (????). My parents are much more worried about my social life than I am. For instance, I am probably going to an all-girls school for high school next year. My dad says that if I go I will have to go to youth groups (bleargh!) b/c he is (this is a quote) ‘afraid I will forget how to communicate with boys.’
Okay, seriously. My current communications with non-Muser boys is generaly limited to “give me back my pencil” “Give me back my pencil NOW” and “give me back my pencil or else you will diiiiiiieeee.” I don’t need a social life any more than the one I already have, thank you very much.
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im homeskooled but i wont be next skool year. *sigh* #17 i am a year ahead of my age and i wouldnt be if it wernt for homeskool
13 and going to 9th the kid you met was probably a slow learner wich was why he/she was homeskooled in the first place
i never realy had much of a social life anyway.
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15- Gar. Weird expression of mine. More fun than Grr.
I have been trying to convince my parents to homeschool me since about first or second grade. Still in school. Gar. I have no social life, nor do I want one. Well, I talk to some people…really…. Anyway, I got invited to some girl’s sweet sixteen today, and I have no idea who she is. I don’t think I’ve ever said a word to her. Rather amusing…
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I’m homeschooled.
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no!!!! not first post. oh well.
a lot of my friends used to be homeschooled….some of them were really behind, but most of them were just where people their age are usually.
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#17, like public schoolers, some homeschoolers do learn at a much slower rate, because there parents don’t push them to do school, or they themselves don’t push themselves.
However, that’s not true in all cases. I am homeschooled and my parents pulled me and my sister out of public school when we were in grade school. My sister, who’s two years older was pulled out halfway through fourth, me halfway through second. They decided to homeschool us because they didn’t feel we were be allowed to learn at the pace we were capable of. While in second grade, the highest level of math I was allowed to take was third grade math. When my parents started homeschooling me, I jumped to fifth grade math I think. I am now in tenth grade and just took AP Calculus AB, which is a college level course. My sister took AP Calculus AB in ninth grade. That doesn’t sound like we are slow learners and behind my grade level to me. We both took SATs in 7th and 8th grade, and got scores in the 500s and 600s, better than a large majority of highschoolers, many of whom I’m sure were public schoolers. Also my sister has taken several college courses in highschool, one of which was a Calculus based physics course. Oh, yes, we homeschoolers are very slow learners and behind, aren’t we? (In case you couldn’t tell that last sentence was definitely sarcastic.)
Just thought I point out that not all homeschoolers are slow learners and behind in school. There are plenty of public schoolers who are slow learners and know much less than homeschoolers of the same age or younger.
I will say that homeschooling is bad for children whose parents are not willing to push them and actually make an effort to teach them. It also isn’t good for kids who aren’t willing to actually make and effort to work, because they won’t always have somebody standing over them making sure they work. But if your parents are willing to put in the effort necessary and you are willing to push yourselve, homeschooling is just as productive as public schooling, if not more so.
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I know lots of people that are homeschooled.
There speling iz grate.
(Just a joke, their spelling is fine, and so is mine–if I do say so myself)
I don’t really understand how you can be homeschooled.
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Wow, you moderated that quick. Cool.
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My grandparents are trying to convince my parents to send me to high school in Japan to live on my own. I think I would DIE if that happened.
I wish I could homeschool, but it’s not realistic. Not only do I dislike my parents’ idea of school, but they both work full time.
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Phoenix(24) apperently you don’t consider the long conversations about black holes you have with a certain boy “commmunication”.
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33… um, i believe i am slightly lost. i know a lot of homeschoolers, most of whom:
a)have slightly sloppy handwriting
b)are interested in unusual things
c)know tons of reall cool things that you never learn in public school.
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I’m a loner. Outside the jewish community, I have no social life.
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0whats wrong with the jewish community?
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w00t, loners!
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I always wanted to be homeschooled. No social pressure, no being dragged down. Then in 5th grade I wanted to go to a private school near I live. Now I want to go to Exeter or Andover or Milton or Deefield for highschool. But homeschooling would still be cool, if I I could. My public school really teaches at a really slow rate, and I think I could go faster on my own.
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I am the sad result of a public school education.
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Nothing wrong with the JC. Oh countrare, they’re the only ones I’m comfertable with.
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I always wondered how people do homeschooling. Michelle W and MG (and others), what do you do? do you have a specific start time? do you use textbooks? what is a typical day like?
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I am not homeskooled. But I am in algebra 2(8th grade)
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I wish I was homeschooled. then i could raid the fridge at recess. But we would still have school on snowdays.
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Greatest thing about homeschooling? If you get your work down early, you can go out all afternoon, to the park or something, while all the other losers are stuck in school. (okay, so y’all aren’t losers, just missing out) And if your whole family is homeschooled you can take time off school and go on vacations before it gets hot, and when everyone else is in school. Flexibility.
With me, homeschooling is basically get up whenever I want (before 9:00), do my school at whatever pace as long as I get it done, and take breaks after each subject. That might sound lazy, but I get it all done. The main thing is I don’t have to wait for slower kids to do the school work that takes me probably half the time that would be allotted in public school, so I finish really quickly. I know a lot of homeschoolers that are much stricter, but we’ve always been kind of relaxed about it.
For the actualy education part, my mom just kind of throws text books at me and has me read them. She has to help my brother with all his work, but I can figure out my books on my own. I do Saxon math, a Christian science course (don’t roll your eyes, it tells everything that it should about the world around us, and has many experiments), different types of vocabulary things, I’m doing a DVD course for world history, and I’m reading an overveiw book on American government. Right now we’ve slacked off a little, because of speech and debate (with tournaments and all we don’t have a lot of time, but the experience more than make up for it). Once again, different people do it different ways.
Okay, I’m off to do my science.
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Helllloooooo fellow homeschoolers. We rock!
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Sounds cool. *seethes with jealousy*
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ok. cool.
do(es) your parent(s) teach you directly (like, stand or sit there and explain things?
What types of things do you learn compared to the schools in your area?
When you said that you got done early: do you have a specific schedule that you follow each day/do you learn a specific amount of material each day/do you learn for a specific time?
What types of things do you other homeschoolers do? (that’s different from what MG does)
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i is not homeskooled. i would do really bad if i was homeskooled. i thrive on socialness. i hav to see mi friend of i am utterly desolute and bored
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you h.s. (home skoolers) are sooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo lucky
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I have no initiative for learning at all. If i were homeskooled, i wouldn’t learn anything. I hardly learn anything as it is.
Although it’s not really that i don’t like learning things (per se) i just don’t like learning things out of textbooks, and i pick and choose a lot, and so would completely bypass everything useful and learn everything interesting instead. Which i’m not sure is a bad thing, because the “useful” things we learn aren’t really that useful. But whatev.
Skool does help social life though…especially when you move. Everybody i know here is from skool or soccer, and the first people i met were all from skool (specifically band camp…) Plus i see my friends every day and stuff. That’s kewl. And we can complain/help each other w/hw over IM and stuff after skool cuz we all have pretty much the same stuff. And eat lunch together/complain about the food and the general horribleness of our lives, and poke each other during class, and stuff like that.
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33) Zyviva is talking about how I am obsessed with annoying a certain boy on the bowl team (named Darren, incedentaly) and I am forever trying to get him to sit still long enough to listen to my Muse-gained black hole physics. And Phi. We like each other, really, I promise–we just live to get on each other’s nerves.
Zyv, Darren does not count. He is smart, therefore counts as a Muser, even though he doesn’t, tecnically, read it.
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50- I know what you mean. If I’m not interested in something, I’ll just refuse to do it. Bad habit, I know, but I have no intention of breaking it.
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The public schools in my area of Kentucky have gotten very bad in recent years, so these days there’s a thriving homeschool community here. I was only strictly homeschooled for a year, but now I attend a “cottage school”. I have no idea why it’s called that, but the basic idea of it is to create a kind of school for homeschoolers who want to socialze more and take different classes. It operates a little like a private school, but we only meet three days a week (on the other two days we have enough homework to keep us busy) and we get to choose which classes we want to take. For example, there are a lot of people this year who attend the school for courses like Latin and Roman History, things they wouldn’t neccessarily learn in as much detail at home, but they still homeschool for their math and science since they don’t feel they need the school’s help in those subjects.
It doesn’t work for everyone, but overall most students who attend my school agree that its system is very beneficial for people who really like to learn, are willing to work and want more of a challenge than the public schools in KY can give them. The work is extremely hard but rewarding – the teachers really challenge the students and, although I’ve spent most of my time this year doing homework, I have learned a lot from it. The school is based on the system of classical education, so we learn not only modern subjects such as American History but also older subjects such as Classical Studies (Roman or Greek history, we’re reading Caesar&Christ this year), Latin, Logic, and Rhetoric, which is a lot of fun! I’m a freshman, but, although these aren’t official AP classes, they could be – Roman History this year is almost college level. As I said, if you’re really motivated to learn, it’s ideal because the teachers never patrionize the students – they always expect us to do our best and constantly raise their standards. I’d post a link to the school website but I think it’d probably get zapped.
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so you only have skool 3 days a week and hav homework the rest of the time. if you don’t understand something, do you ask your parents or something?
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I wish I had an opportunity like that.
Out of blatant curiosity, do most homeschoolers you know take religious courses instead of neutral ones? I mean, obviously History couldn’t consist of purely Biblical times, but Monty has her Christian science course (I only rolled them a tiny bit!) and ETA (hey! cool initials! fr00dy!) sounds like her school is uber-Grecian/Roman. I don’t experience Rome outside of Asterix. Let’s face it-it was BO-RING.
[Oh, I suspect that if Chad were to use his time machine to plunk you down in Rome between 100 B.C. and A.D. 400, you’d find ways to keep life interesting. –Robert]
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Stormfur opened her eyes,blining away sleep,and struggled to remember where he was.Instead of his nest ofreeds in yhe RiverClan camp,he was lying in dry,crunchy bracken.Above his head was the roof of a cave,crisscrossed with tangled roots.At first it puzzled him;then he remembered how close they were to the sun-drown water,washing endlessly onto the edge of the land.He flinched as a vision burst into his mind,of he and Brambleclaw had struggled in the water for their lives;he spat,still tasting the salty tang at the back of his throat.At home inRiverClan he was used to water-his was the only Clan that could swim comfortably in the river that ran through the forest-but not this surging,salty,pushing-and-pulling water,too strong for even a RiverClan cat to swim in safety.
Other memories of home came rushing back.StarClan had sent cats from each of the four Clans to hear what Midnight had to tell them.They had fought their way across unknown country,through Twoleg nests,facing attacks from dogs and rats,to make the last incredible discovery:Midnight was a badger.
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i’m a home skool er
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54 – Usually, but if parents can’t explain most of the teachers will answer questions by email or phone, and if all else fails we spend class time going over the homework.
55 – I don’t want to be stereotypical, but most homeschoolers I know do take religious courses. Generally, the people I know who strictly homeschool say their parents didn’t want them to be exposed to public school, so they homeschooled them in order to preserve religious values, or something like that. My school is supposed to be Christian with no denomination specified, but this has caused some tension – there’s been an ongoing argument between Catholics and Protestants this year over whether purgatory exists (personally, I don’t care…it either exists or it doesn’t, why worry about it?). There is an emphasis on Christian morals at my school, but most people are there for a good education rather than a religious one. We do have a Christian text book for biology, but fortunately the teacher let us skip all of the “why evolution is bad/wrong/evil, etc.” chapters. Most of our books are neutral, though – the history book this year was written by an atheist.
The only reason the school is so focused on Greece/Rome is because the “headmistress” is obsessed. She thinks of Rome as the ultimate utopia/greatest society ever. Obviously she is choosing to ignore Caligula, Nero, Elagabalus (probably spelled that wrong) and all those other crazy guys, lol. I do find all of the wars and battle details boring, but the parts about the people are actually more interesting than I would have expected.
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My history unit focuses on “Wars The US Claims It Won” and other things. It was written by a person who loves all the gory details of the Crusade and ignores the Vikings, Russians, Japanese, and thinks the conquistadors were moral. And that the Arawaks survived. ?!?! I have no idea why.
My personal favorite historical topics are the discoveries of America, revolutions, the Napoleonic Wars, or Commodore Matthew Perry.
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war is stupid in general. alot of them are over imaginary lines anyway.
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yep
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I was homeschooled from third grade to sixth because I was not allowed to learn at a pace more appropriate for me. Then I went to public school for seventh grade and now eighth so I could learn how to interact with other people. All this has done for me is to teach me that most “normal” people are shallow, rather thick, and sometimes cruel for no reason.
(29) Wow, that’s incredible! It’s great that you and your sister are so motivated.
When I took the SAT in 8th grade, I got 530 and 580 on math and the other thing, respectively. On the SSAT, I got 99th percentile.
Sorry, I just felt like bragging there after yet another day of carrying around the knowledge that I’m “the circle in the triangle slot”, and the other triangles know that I’m different.
When i was homeschooled, we used an online curriculum that we got our assignments from. It was really good. I learned a lot.
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60) I agree
What is wrong with the Jewish community? I belong to my local Jewish Community Center and I have a lot of great friends there.
I am not homeschooled but I have a good friend who is. She does something like ETA does where she takes classes at some place but also learns at home. I’d miss my school friends a lot as that is where most of my friends are from.
On the homeschoolers are smarter/dumber than others subject I think that you can be either way and schooled either way. You’re brain power doesn’t depend on how you are schooled. I am a motivated public school student. Maybe I would have been a year or two more advanced but I am plenty advanced all ready. Next year (junior year) I will be taking Calculus and I am doing the IB (international baccalauriate http://www.ibo.org if the GAPA doesn’t zap it. It is an international accademic organization so it isn’t very specific at all but he might Zap it anyway.)
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My parents got so fed up with the public school system here they actually suggestes home schooling next near, but, though I liked a lot of the ideas of it, I didn’t want to be homschooled. Friends and Band. Yup.
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I think it would be cool to be homeschooled, but I don’t know if I would like it. I’m just so used to the schedule now. l like my teachers, and like my school overall (too bad I’m graduating this year…it’s my ninth year at the school)
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yes, contrary to popular belief, homeschoolers do have a social life. a large one too. oh, and we dont have to get up at six in the morning to listen to a teacher doing their best impression of someone from Ferris Bueller’s Day Off. ‘anyone…anyone…anyone…’
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I have 3 friends that aren’t at my school nor herbrew school. The twon hates me, so I couldn’t be homeschooled and have a social life.
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62 thats a very good idea!!!
good job on the SATs
i beat you on the though on the new one;
610 math
620 verbal
660 writing
10 on essay
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62-“We will most often find that the square person has squeezed himself into the round hole, the triangle into the oval, the oval into the round, the square into the triangle, and so on. Rarely do the doer and the thing done, the officer and the office, fit so perfectly or so exactly that we can say that they were made for each other.”
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whoa. you’re all taking the SAT’s! I’m in 8th grade. has anyone taken them in 8th grade?
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How many Musers are normal anyways?
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normal isn’t possible in the muse-world
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Normality restored. Anything you have trouble coping with is now your own problem.
SATs == The 3V1L
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My opinion: For some people, I believe that homeschooling might work just dandy. These people tend to have such traits as: “good relationships with parental units” and “loneral tendences”.
Unfortunately, I guess, I fight with my mom, daily. I also have friends, so homeschooling probably wouldn’t work for me.
But, as I said, that’s just me.
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you fight with your mom?
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I am totally a people person. I have to talk to people, I have to have contact with my friends. But for me, homeschooling works wonderfully. The joys of the internet.
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Omgosh! Yes, I do.
You don’t?
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no..I don’t, I sometimes get frustrated with her, but I never really fight with her.
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76- Well, yes, the internet is great for friends you already no, but not really for making them.
78- I do, we get into verbal frights quite often. She gets mad at me for leaving my ______ (dirty socks, make-up, shoes, the phone dirty dishes, homework) in the ______ (family room kitchen computer room).
i get mad at her for getting into my space or touching my stuff. She used to take night classes and that was fabulous. She would be gone for four or five hour at a time. It was great.
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I’m homeschooled! I’m getting kinda tired of it, though. No, my parents don’t teach me. I teach myself. (Whenever I say that, people’s eyes get really wide. It’s so funny.)
The reason I’m homeschooled is because the highschools where I live a pretty bad, at least for someone who wants to get an education. There is one good highschool, but you have to be reeeeally rich to go there, and besides, they give too much homework.
But like I said, I’m getting really tired of it.
i no a frend hoo iss homskoold cus hes too dum for his skool.im homskoold cus mi dad dunt lik ta pubic skoos.
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how do you teach yourself? do you learn from books or something?
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My form of homeschooling:
For most of my courses, I’m taking correspondence class with out of state universities, that offer high school level correspondence courses. They send a syllabus and a text book (not for free, it costs ’cause you’re buying the materials) and then the syllabus tells you what to read in your text book. Then you answer questions in the syllabus. Some are self check tests, which you don’t send in, and there are also evaluations, which are sent in and graded. Then there are tests. Two or three a semester.
That’s how most of my courses are. If I have questions, I usually ask my dad/mom for help.
In math, for several years at least, I’ve more or less taught myself. I get a math text book, mom assigns me problems, I read the section, then do the problems. And ask dad/mom/sister for help if I need it.
Usually dad, but he isn’t always good at explaining. He explains it some how that he thinks makes sense, but if you don’t get it, he tends to repeat the same thing, just getting louder with each repetition until he’s yelling. And of course, whoever he’s explaining it to is ‘not listening’ and ‘not trying to understand’. Oh, well.
Oh, I have to start school at 9:00. If I get all the school I’m supposed to get done one week done early, I’m supposed to go ahead and start on the next weeks work, since I sometimes tend to fall behind during the school year and don’t always finish ’til late June… And if I don’t get all the things done in a week I’m supposed to, I have to work almost constantly in the evenings and weekends.
Lessee, during the day I often have lots of extracurricular activities: piano lessons, choir practice twice a week in the evenings, my sis has voice/violin lessons, now I’m volunteering at the bird treatment center four hours a week, have a meeting once a week with other homeschoolers who like me are teaching elementary kids disaster stuff (trying not to go into too much detail. I wouldn’t want any stalkers…), erm that might be it.
Well, I’ve got school to do!
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Michelle, could you PLEASE post on your harry potter fanfic thread??!!!!!!!!?
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I’m a home schooler(I’m not particullarlly good at spelling though). It’sort of a lazy homehool thing. My mom puts whatever we(my brother and sister and I) have to do on our refridgerator and we do it. We have a math book called Every Day Math (EDM) that I just finished.WOOOHOOO It’s really boring but I do it. Then we do all sorts of writing project and do minnimal history and science. Then we do whatever we want for the rest of the day. There’s my 4 hour school day for you.
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Hey Queen Julliet, whats wrong with being an anschooler. You know that it doesent mean what it sounds like. And for your imformation I’m perfectly prepared for life!!!
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Who’s ever prepared for life?
If you were prepared for it, it wouldn’t be life.
That’s my deep profound theory of the day. I’m off to jazzy band…
e-a-whatever # post, i’m too lazy to look-Me too! the jcc’s right down the street from me, so we joined even though we’re not jewish. (ssshhhh…lol jk)
Omg lamuth’s retiring!!! :'( not by choice either…more later, g2g
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Which JCC. there’s a million in the world!!!!!!!!!! How am I supposed to know which one? Oh and sorry about the prepiared for life thing its just I was annoyed at QJ
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Ok so there’s some stupid rule here that when you get to a certain age, you have to retire, but you can re-apply for your job. Well lamuth’s old so she re-applied and they refused!!! They hate her grading system, just like everybody else…but still we’re all sad and stuff cuz even though we hate her she’s a great teacher and suchlike. Love/hate thing y’know? So anyway, she’s getting piles of m+m’s and people are starting petitions and jacob’s class (3rd hr, regular) is gonna recite “O captain my captain” cuz of dead poet’s society and the skool (at least the portion that has lamuth) is in an uproar. And we’re saaaaaad…we hope the petition works, but it’ll take SO many people but i think we can. Everybody in our class signed it, even phil but he’s a $%^#ing hypocrite and just didn’t want to get yelled at by the rest of us.
Sad days, sad days.
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oh yeah
ahahahah
most of u have to go to school while we can wake up at nine
and sit on the couch and do homework
and when we’re done
we do stuff that u cant do in skool
and we dont have homework
well, all of our work is homework
BUT STIL!!!!!!
homeschooling rocks
but gets quite boring
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for those of u thinking about homeschooling
if you would like to have a social life, you may want to eliminate the idea
homeschooling=i dont get to hang wit friends much
but if ur a sad little emo kid that needs help and/or u dont have friends and you wanna get smart or if ur too smart or if ur dumb then homeschooling is for you
my mom wanted to homeschool me
but i get to go to high school next yearr
boo ya
3 years at home is ova!!!
*dances*
ahahaha
i get to see my friends
yessssssss
and i get a cell fone
cuz u dont need to call anyone when ur homeschooled
boo yahhhhh
yeahhh
while at home i have –
been going slow in Algebra 1
and gotten C’s on tests
and then finally understood it
almost finished my literature book
slacked offf a little
then been responsible
talked my way out of essays
uhhh
and then done most of the work you do in normal school
WITHOUT EVIL TEACHERS!!!!!
muahahahahahah
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I am home-schooled and love it. I am ahead in math and a whole bunch of other stuff. I started being home-schooled in grade 3 so I still have 2 friends from school and have made some “sort-of” friends from other things I do. I am taking grade 7 piano so practice during school time also I practice flute so we (my brother and I) get done around 1 or 2 o-clock. It is awsome and you get to do so many more things and talking to my friends from “real school” I am way ahead. I miss seeing my friends alot too
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Welcome, JC!
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I belong to the JCC too, and I’m not Jewish…you don’t have to be Jewish to belong to the JCC in my neighborhood…
#93 – what do you mean by “grade 7 piano”??? How can piano have grades?
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i’m homeskooled
i hab da besht shpewing theacher
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ive been homeskooled all my life, basically. and 92, just cos your homesschooled doesnt mean that you can’t see your friends. i mean i see my friends all the time. but maybe thats just cos they are all homeschooled, heehee
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oooh. i was homeschooled but than…
SLAP!
into boring fifth grade… sigh.
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hey, I’m homeschooled! i’ve been homeschooled for, like, 5 years, and it ROCKS! actually, i’m starting a charter school in september so i can take a bunch of classes that we can’t find books for at the library.
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man….. i had no idea you actually started this thread! i haven’t been to the museblog in so long.
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*welcoem back pies HMOTT*
mmm… cherry
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Okay, my mom says i have to tell you what homeschooling is like for me. i get up when i want, i sneak around the house while my mom makes biz calls, get zach to come over, say it would be fundemental if i just took today of and went outside to strengthen my friendships, hope dad/princepil isn’t around to be sensible and give me a calvin and hobbes character lecture.
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but for some strange law it’s impossible to sta… i, uh, i mean build realationships every day of my life until i turn eighteen.
i alway have to catch up. although, once i managed to delay until summer (don’t do that!!!! i got ONE SINGLE WEEK OF SUMMER VACATION.)
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hey, i bet most of the homeschoolers can read this:
hmeosohcoelrs
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I’m homeschooled! 6 years, just about! And no one’s even visited this thread in, like, 8 months, almost…*sigh*….
GAPA’s, how does it work? Like, when somebody posts something, how do you know? Is there some sort of alert system, or anything?
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Tell you what: I’ll create a new Homeschoolers thread for 2007.
first ppost? i’m not a homeschooler, but i think the idea is pretty cool. it’d be sweet if my dad was my teacher…
Sadly, I am not homeschooled.
HAHA! HOMESCHOOLERS ROCK! YAY!!! yah, i’m a homeschooler.
first post?
I’m not a homeskooler. Go me.
Why am i posting then? I’m not really sure….
first post??
I’m not a homeschooler, but I might have first post, so I’ll say more later.
*prays for first post*
1st post?
I’m not homeschooled. Though it sounds nice. Are any of you guys ‘unschoolers’? Those people sound pathetically unprepared for real life to me.
I’ve always wondered what it’d be like to be homeschooled.
i wanna be homeskooled
There’s nothing funnier than scrolling down to read “first post? pwease?” on post #7. Yep. It’s hilarious. No, I’m not sadistic at all. Watching dreams get crushed is like chick flicks to me. All that desperation and misery created by one moment.
Gar. Second post.
I think being homeschooled would be cool, because I think it would be great to be tought by my parents. But I wouldnt like not being able to do band, or see my friends during the day.
I’m an ex-homeskooler. It was great but my classmate was a jerk.
Gar? Eh?
Unlike the vast majority of people who have posted on this thread thus far, I actually have something to say on the subject of homeschooling. Namely, that it rocks, and I have tons of homeschooler friends. I think my education has not been at all neglected (we’ll find out for sure when I take the ACT this summer), and I know my social skills haven’t. There, first post (with meaning).
Homeschooling I think is a bad idea. I find that (from personal experiance) that homeschooled kids (no offense to anyone out there) tend to learn at a slower rate then public or privately schooled children. I, a middle schooler, met with my friend, who happens to be home schooled. About 4th/5th grade age-level, they had “just learned minuses” and attempted to subtract 8 and 3 to get 4. Just my experiances.
13th post???
By the way, I am homeschooled (in case you missed that)
I’m homeschooled. I did Algebra 2 in 8th grade. A good friend of mine (homeschooled) just got a 30 on the ACT (she’s 16). One of my friends (9th grade) tested at a college sophomore level in French. I don’t know what kind of homeschoolers you deal with, evildude131, but they’re not the type I know.
Sweet! i’ve never got first post before. do you guys homeschool with a program or do you independent homeschool?(is that even an option where you live?)
i agree with MG, most homeschoolers i know above average for their age, not below it.
YALL ARE LUCKY, CHILLUN
sry, im leaving now
That would be cool, i guess. maybe with online courses. but I hate those. the one i have now i hate. maybe that’s because i almost never have time to do it.
my parents are smart, but i would still rather have school.
My parents were thinking seriously about homeschooling me a while back, but then decided it would ruin my social life (????). My parents are much more worried about my social life than I am. For instance, I am probably going to an all-girls school for high school next year. My dad says that if I go I will have to go to youth groups (bleargh!) b/c he is (this is a quote) ‘afraid I will forget how to communicate with boys.’
Okay, seriously. My current communications with non-Muser boys is generaly limited to “give me back my pencil” “Give me back my pencil NOW” and “give me back my pencil or else you will diiiiiiieeee.” I don’t need a social life any more than the one I already have, thank you very much.
im homeskooled but i wont be next skool year. *sigh* #17 i am a year ahead of my age and i wouldnt be if it wernt for homeskool
13 and going to 9th the kid you met was probably a slow learner wich was why he/she was homeskooled in the first place
i never realy had much of a social life anyway.
15- Gar. Weird expression of mine. More fun than Grr.
I have been trying to convince my parents to homeschool me since about first or second grade. Still in school. Gar. I have no social life, nor do I want one. Well, I talk to some people…really…. Anyway, I got invited to some girl’s sweet sixteen today, and I have no idea who she is. I don’t think I’ve ever said a word to her. Rather amusing…
I’m homeschooled.
no!!!! not first post. oh well.
a lot of my friends used to be homeschooled….some of them were really behind, but most of them were just where people their age are usually.
#17, like public schoolers, some homeschoolers do learn at a much slower rate, because there parents don’t push them to do school, or they themselves don’t push themselves.
However, that’s not true in all cases. I am homeschooled and my parents pulled me and my sister out of public school when we were in grade school. My sister, who’s two years older was pulled out halfway through fourth, me halfway through second. They decided to homeschool us because they didn’t feel we were be allowed to learn at the pace we were capable of. While in second grade, the highest level of math I was allowed to take was third grade math. When my parents started homeschooling me, I jumped to fifth grade math I think. I am now in tenth grade and just took AP Calculus AB, which is a college level course. My sister took AP Calculus AB in ninth grade. That doesn’t sound like we are slow learners and behind my grade level to me. We both took SATs in 7th and 8th grade, and got scores in the 500s and 600s, better than a large majority of highschoolers, many of whom I’m sure were public schoolers. Also my sister has taken several college courses in highschool, one of which was a Calculus based physics course. Oh, yes, we homeschoolers are very slow learners and behind, aren’t we? (In case you couldn’t tell that last sentence was definitely sarcastic.)
Just thought I point out that not all homeschoolers are slow learners and behind in school. There are plenty of public schoolers who are slow learners and know much less than homeschoolers of the same age or younger.
I will say that homeschooling is bad for children whose parents are not willing to push them and actually make an effort to teach them. It also isn’t good for kids who aren’t willing to actually make and effort to work, because they won’t always have somebody standing over them making sure they work. But if your parents are willing to put in the effort necessary and you are willing to push yourselve, homeschooling is just as productive as public schooling, if not more so.
I know lots of people that are homeschooled.
There speling iz grate.
(Just a joke, their spelling is fine, and so is mine–if I do say so myself)
I don’t really understand how you can be homeschooled.
Wow, you moderated that quick. Cool.
My grandparents are trying to convince my parents to send me to high school in Japan to live on my own. I think I would DIE if that happened.
I wish I could homeschool, but it’s not realistic. Not only do I dislike my parents’ idea of school, but they both work full time.
Phoenix(24) apperently you don’t consider the long conversations about black holes you have with a certain boy “commmunication”.
33… um, i believe i am slightly lost. i know a lot of homeschoolers, most of whom:
a)have slightly sloppy handwriting
b)are interested in unusual things
c)know tons of reall cool things that you never learn in public school.
I’m a loner. Outside the jewish community, I have no social life.
0whats wrong with the jewish community?
w00t, loners!
I always wanted to be homeschooled. No social pressure, no being dragged down. Then in 5th grade I wanted to go to a private school near I live. Now I want to go to Exeter or Andover or Milton or Deefield for highschool. But homeschooling would still be cool, if I I could. My public school really teaches at a really slow rate, and I think I could go faster on my own.
I am the sad result of a public school education.
Nothing wrong with the JC. Oh countrare, they’re the only ones I’m comfertable with.
I always wondered how people do homeschooling. Michelle W and MG (and others), what do you do? do you have a specific start time? do you use textbooks? what is a typical day like?
I am not homeskooled. But I am in algebra 2(8th grade)
I wish I was homeschooled. then i could raid the fridge at recess. But we would still have school on snowdays.
Greatest thing about homeschooling? If you get your work down early, you can go out all afternoon, to the park or something, while all the other losers are stuck in school. (okay, so y’all aren’t losers, just missing out) And if your whole family is homeschooled you can take time off school and go on vacations before it gets hot, and when everyone else is in school. Flexibility.
With me, homeschooling is basically get up whenever I want (before 9:00), do my school at whatever pace as long as I get it done, and take breaks after each subject. That might sound lazy, but I get it all done. The main thing is I don’t have to wait for slower kids to do the school work that takes me probably half the time that would be allotted in public school, so I finish really quickly. I know a lot of homeschoolers that are much stricter, but we’ve always been kind of relaxed about it.
For the actualy education part, my mom just kind of throws text books at me and has me read them. She has to help my brother with all his work, but I can figure out my books on my own. I do Saxon math, a Christian science course (don’t roll your eyes, it tells everything that it should about the world around us, and has many experiments), different types of vocabulary things, I’m doing a DVD course for world history, and I’m reading an overveiw book on American government. Right now we’ve slacked off a little, because of speech and debate (with tournaments and all we don’t have a lot of time, but the experience more than make up for it). Once again, different people do it different ways.
Okay, I’m off to do my science.
Helllloooooo fellow homeschoolers. We rock!
Sounds cool. *seethes with jealousy*
ok. cool.
do(es) your parent(s) teach you directly (like, stand or sit there and explain things?
What types of things do you learn compared to the schools in your area?
When you said that you got done early: do you have a specific schedule that you follow each day/do you learn a specific amount of material each day/do you learn for a specific time?
What types of things do you other homeschoolers do? (that’s different from what MG does)
i is not homeskooled. i would do really bad if i was homeskooled. i thrive on socialness. i hav to see mi friend of i am utterly desolute and bored
you h.s. (home skoolers) are sooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo lucky
I have no initiative for learning at all. If i were homeskooled, i wouldn’t learn anything. I hardly learn anything as it is.
Although it’s not really that i don’t like learning things (per se) i just don’t like learning things out of textbooks, and i pick and choose a lot, and so would completely bypass everything useful and learn everything interesting instead. Which i’m not sure is a bad thing, because the “useful” things we learn aren’t really that useful. But whatev.
Skool does help social life though…especially when you move. Everybody i know here is from skool or soccer, and the first people i met were all from skool (specifically band camp…) Plus i see my friends every day and stuff. That’s kewl. And we can complain/help each other w/hw over IM and stuff after skool cuz we all have pretty much the same stuff. And eat lunch together/complain about the food and the general horribleness of our lives, and poke each other during class, and stuff like that.
33) Zyviva is talking about how I am obsessed with annoying a certain boy on the bowl team (named Darren, incedentaly) and I am forever trying to get him to sit still long enough to listen to my Muse-gained black hole physics. And Phi. We like each other, really, I promise–we just live to get on each other’s nerves.
Zyv, Darren does not count. He is smart, therefore counts as a Muser, even though he doesn’t, tecnically, read it.
50- I know what you mean. If I’m not interested in something, I’ll just refuse to do it. Bad habit, I know, but I have no intention of breaking it.
The public schools in my area of Kentucky have gotten very bad in recent years, so these days there’s a thriving homeschool community here. I was only strictly homeschooled for a year, but now I attend a “cottage school”. I have no idea why it’s called that, but the basic idea of it is to create a kind of school for homeschoolers who want to socialze more and take different classes. It operates a little like a private school, but we only meet three days a week (on the other two days we have enough homework to keep us busy) and we get to choose which classes we want to take. For example, there are a lot of people this year who attend the school for courses like Latin and Roman History, things they wouldn’t neccessarily learn in as much detail at home, but they still homeschool for their math and science since they don’t feel they need the school’s help in those subjects.
It doesn’t work for everyone, but overall most students who attend my school agree that its system is very beneficial for people who really like to learn, are willing to work and want more of a challenge than the public schools in KY can give them. The work is extremely hard but rewarding – the teachers really challenge the students and, although I’ve spent most of my time this year doing homework, I have learned a lot from it. The school is based on the system of classical education, so we learn not only modern subjects such as American History but also older subjects such as Classical Studies (Roman or Greek history, we’re reading Caesar&Christ this year), Latin, Logic, and Rhetoric, which is a lot of fun! I’m a freshman, but, although these aren’t official AP classes, they could be – Roman History this year is almost college level. As I said, if you’re really motivated to learn, it’s ideal because the teachers never patrionize the students – they always expect us to do our best and constantly raise their standards. I’d post a link to the school website but I think it’d probably get zapped.
so you only have skool 3 days a week and hav homework the rest of the time. if you don’t understand something, do you ask your parents or something?
I wish I had an opportunity like that.
Out of blatant curiosity, do most homeschoolers you know take religious courses instead of neutral ones? I mean, obviously History couldn’t consist of purely Biblical times, but Monty has her Christian science course (I only rolled them a tiny bit!) and ETA (hey! cool initials! fr00dy!) sounds like her school is uber-Grecian/Roman. I don’t experience Rome outside of Asterix. Let’s face it-it was BO-RING.
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i’m a home skool er
54 – Usually, but if parents can’t explain most of the teachers will answer questions by email or phone, and if all else fails we spend class time going over the homework.
55 – I don’t want to be stereotypical, but most homeschoolers I know do take religious courses. Generally, the people I know who strictly homeschool say their parents didn’t want them to be exposed to public school, so they homeschooled them in order to preserve religious values, or something like that. My school is supposed to be Christian with no denomination specified, but this has caused some tension – there’s been an ongoing argument between Catholics and Protestants this year over whether purgatory exists (personally, I don’t care…it either exists or it doesn’t, why worry about it?). There is an emphasis on Christian morals at my school, but most people are there for a good education rather than a religious one. We do have a Christian text book for biology, but fortunately the teacher let us skip all of the “why evolution is bad/wrong/evil, etc.” chapters. Most of our books are neutral, though – the history book this year was written by an atheist.
The only reason the school is so focused on Greece/Rome is because the “headmistress” is obsessed. She thinks of Rome as the ultimate utopia/greatest society ever. Obviously she is choosing to ignore Caligula, Nero, Elagabalus (probably spelled that wrong) and all those other crazy guys, lol. I do find all of the wars and battle details boring, but the parts about the people are actually more interesting than I would have expected.
My history unit focuses on “Wars The US Claims It Won” and other things. It was written by a person who loves all the gory details of the Crusade and ignores the Vikings, Russians, Japanese, and thinks the conquistadors were moral. And that the Arawaks survived. ?!?! I have no idea why.
My personal favorite historical topics are the discoveries of America, revolutions, the Napoleonic Wars, or Commodore Matthew Perry.
war is stupid in general. alot of them are over imaginary lines anyway.
yep
I was homeschooled from third grade to sixth because I was not allowed to learn at a pace more appropriate for me. Then I went to public school for seventh grade and now eighth so I could learn how to interact with other people. All this has done for me is to teach me that most “normal” people are shallow, rather thick, and sometimes cruel for no reason.
(29) Wow, that’s incredible! It’s great that you and your sister are so motivated.
When I took the SAT in 8th grade, I got 530 and 580 on math and the other thing, respectively. On the SSAT, I got 99th percentile.
Sorry, I just felt like bragging there after yet another day of carrying around the knowledge that I’m “the circle in the triangle slot”, and the other triangles know that I’m different.
When i was homeschooled, we used an online curriculum that we got our assignments from. It was really good. I learned a lot.
60) I agree
What is wrong with the Jewish community? I belong to my local Jewish Community Center and I have a lot of great friends there.
I am not homeschooled but I have a good friend who is. She does something like ETA does where she takes classes at some place but also learns at home. I’d miss my school friends a lot as that is where most of my friends are from.
On the homeschoolers are smarter/dumber than others subject I think that you can be either way and schooled either way. You’re brain power doesn’t depend on how you are schooled. I am a motivated public school student. Maybe I would have been a year or two more advanced but I am plenty advanced all ready. Next year (junior year) I will be taking Calculus and I am doing the IB (international baccalauriate http://www.ibo.org if the GAPA doesn’t zap it. It is an international accademic organization so it isn’t very specific at all but he might Zap it anyway.)
My parents got so fed up with the public school system here they actually suggestes home schooling next near, but, though I liked a lot of the ideas of it, I didn’t want to be homschooled. Friends and Band. Yup.
I think it would be cool to be homeschooled, but I don’t know if I would like it. I’m just so used to the schedule now. l like my teachers, and like my school overall (too bad I’m graduating this year…it’s my ninth year at the school)
yes, contrary to popular belief, homeschoolers do have a social life. a large one too. oh, and we dont have to get up at six in the morning to listen to a teacher doing their best impression of someone from Ferris Bueller’s Day Off. ‘anyone…anyone…anyone…’
I have 3 friends that aren’t at my school nor herbrew school. The twon hates me, so I couldn’t be homeschooled and have a social life.
62 thats a very good idea!!!
good job on the SATs
i beat you on the though
on the new one;
610 math
620 verbal
660 writing
10 on essay
62-“We will most often find that the square person has squeezed himself into the round hole, the triangle into the oval, the oval into the round, the square into the triangle, and so on. Rarely do the doer and the thing done, the officer and the office, fit so perfectly or so exactly that we can say that they were made for each other.”
whoa. you’re all taking the SAT’s! I’m in 8th grade. has anyone taken them in 8th grade?
How many Musers are normal anyways?
normal isn’t possible in the muse-world
Normality restored. Anything you have trouble coping with is now your own problem.
SATs == The 3V1L
My opinion: For some people, I believe that homeschooling might work just dandy. These people tend to have such traits as: “good relationships with parental units” and “loneral tendences”.
Unfortunately, I guess, I fight with my mom, daily. I also have friends, so homeschooling probably wouldn’t work for me.
But, as I said, that’s just me.
you fight with your mom?
I am totally a people person. I have to talk to people, I have to have contact with my friends. But for me, homeschooling works wonderfully. The joys of the internet.
Omgosh! Yes, I do.
You don’t?
no..I don’t, I sometimes get frustrated with her, but I never really fight with her.
76- Well, yes, the internet is great for friends you already no, but not really for making them.
78- I do, we get into verbal frights quite often. She gets mad at me for leaving my ______ (dirty socks, make-up, shoes, the phone dirty dishes, homework) in the ______ (family room kitchen computer room).
i get mad at her for getting into my space or touching my stuff. She used to take night classes and that was fabulous. She would be gone for four or five hour at a time. It was great.
I’m homeschooled! I’m getting kinda tired of it, though. No, my parents don’t teach me. I teach myself. (Whenever I say that, people’s eyes get really wide. It’s so funny.)
The reason I’m homeschooled is because the highschools where I live a pretty bad, at least for someone who wants to get an education. There is one good highschool, but you have to be reeeeally rich to go there, and besides, they give too much homework.
But like I said, I’m getting really tired of it.
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i no a frend hoo iss homskoold cus hes too dum for his skool.im homskoold cus mi dad dunt lik ta pubic skoos.
how do you teach yourself? do you learn from books or something?
My form of homeschooling:
For most of my courses, I’m taking correspondence class with out of state universities, that offer high school level correspondence courses. They send a syllabus and a text book (not for free, it costs ’cause you’re buying the materials) and then the syllabus tells you what to read in your text book. Then you answer questions in the syllabus. Some are self check tests, which you don’t send in, and there are also evaluations, which are sent in and graded. Then there are tests. Two or three a semester.
That’s how most of my courses are. If I have questions, I usually ask my dad/mom for help.
In math, for several years at least, I’ve more or less taught myself. I get a math text book, mom assigns me problems, I read the section, then do the problems. And ask dad/mom/sister for help if I need it.
Usually dad, but he isn’t always good at explaining. He explains it some how that he thinks makes sense, but if you don’t get it, he tends to repeat the same thing, just getting louder with each repetition until he’s yelling. And of course, whoever he’s explaining it to is ‘not listening’ and ‘not trying to understand’. Oh, well.
Oh, I have to start school at 9:00. If I get all the school I’m supposed to get done one week done early, I’m supposed to go ahead and start on the next weeks work, since I sometimes tend to fall behind during the school year and don’t always finish ’til late June… And if I don’t get all the things done in a week I’m supposed to, I have to work almost constantly in the evenings and weekends.
Lessee, during the day I often have lots of extracurricular activities: piano lessons, choir practice twice a week in the evenings, my sis has voice/violin lessons, now I’m volunteering at the bird treatment center four hours a week, have a meeting once a week with other homeschoolers who like me are teaching elementary kids disaster stuff (trying not to go into too much detail. I wouldn’t want any stalkers…), erm that might be it.
Well, I’ve got school to do!
Michelle, could you PLEASE post on your harry potter fanfic thread??!!!!!!!!?
I’m a home schooler(I’m not particullarlly good at spelling though). It’sort of a lazy homehool thing. My mom puts whatever we(my brother and sister and I) have to do on our refridgerator and we do it. We have a math book called Every Day Math (EDM) that I just finished.WOOOHOOO It’s really boring but I do it. Then we do all sorts of writing project and do minnimal history and science. Then we do whatever we want for the rest of the day. There’s my 4 hour school day for you.
Hey Queen Julliet, whats wrong with being an anschooler. You know that it doesent mean what it sounds like. And for your imformation I’m perfectly prepared for life!!!
Who’s ever prepared for life?
If you were prepared for it, it wouldn’t be life.
That’s my deep profound theory of the day. I’m off to jazzy band…
e-a-whatever # post, i’m too lazy to look-Me too! the jcc’s right down the street from me, so we joined even though we’re not jewish. (ssshhhh…lol jk)
Omg lamuth’s retiring!!! :'( not by choice either…more later, g2g
Which JCC. there’s a million in the world!!!!!!!!!! How am I supposed to know which one? Oh and sorry about the prepiared for life thing its just I was annoyed at QJ
Ok so there’s some stupid rule here that when you get to a certain age, you have to retire, but you can re-apply for your job. Well lamuth’s old so she re-applied and they refused!!! They hate her grading system, just like everybody else…but still we’re all sad and stuff cuz even though we hate her she’s a great teacher and suchlike. Love/hate thing y’know? So anyway, she’s getting piles of m+m’s and people are starting petitions and jacob’s class (3rd hr, regular) is gonna recite “O captain my captain” cuz of dead poet’s society and the skool (at least the portion that has lamuth) is in an uproar. And we’re saaaaaad…we hope the petition works, but it’ll take SO many people but i think we can. Everybody in our class signed it, even phil but he’s a $%^#ing hypocrite and just didn’t want to get yelled at by the rest of us.
Sad days, sad days.
oh yeah
ahahahah
most of u have to go to school while we can wake up at nine
and sit on the couch and do homework
and when we’re done
we do stuff that u cant do in skool
and we dont have homework
well, all of our work is homework
BUT STIL!!!!!!
homeschooling rocks
but gets quite boring
for those of u thinking about homeschooling
if you would like to have a social life, you may want to eliminate the idea
homeschooling=i dont get to hang wit friends much
but if ur a sad little emo kid that needs help and/or u dont have friends and you wanna get smart or if ur too smart or if ur dumb then homeschooling is for you
my mom wanted to homeschool me
but i get to go to high school next yearr
boo ya
3 years at home is ova!!!
*dances*
ahahaha
i get to see my friends
yessssssss
and i get a cell fone
cuz u dont need to call anyone when ur homeschooled
boo yahhhhh
yeahhh
while at home i have –
been going slow in Algebra 1
and gotten C’s on tests
and then finally understood it
almost finished my literature book
slacked offf a little
then been responsible
talked my way out of essays
uhhh
and then done most of the work you do in normal school
WITHOUT EVIL TEACHERS!!!!!
muahahahahahah
I am home-schooled and love it. I am ahead in math and a whole bunch of other stuff. I started being home-schooled in grade 3 so I still have 2 friends from school and have made some “sort-of” friends from other things I do. I am taking grade 7 piano so practice during school time also I practice flute so we (my brother and I) get done around 1 or 2 o-clock. It is awsome and you get to do so many more things and talking to my friends from “real school” I am way ahead. I miss seeing my friends alot too
Welcome, JC!
I belong to the JCC too, and I’m not Jewish…you don’t have to be Jewish to belong to the JCC in my neighborhood…
#93 – what do you mean by “grade 7 piano”??? How can piano have grades?
i’m homeskooled
i hab da besht shpewing theacher
ive been homeskooled all my life, basically. and 92, just cos your homesschooled doesnt mean that you can’t see your friends. i mean i see my friends all the time. but maybe thats just cos they are all homeschooled, heehee
oooh. i was homeschooled but than…
SLAP!
into boring fifth grade… sigh.
hey, I’m homeschooled! i’ve been homeschooled for, like, 5 years, and it ROCKS! actually, i’m starting a charter school in september so i can take a bunch of classes that we can’t find books for at the library.
man….. i had no idea you actually started this thread! i haven’t been to the museblog in so long.
*welcoem back pies HMOTT*
mmm… cherry
Okay, my mom says i have to tell you what homeschooling is like for me. i get up when i want, i sneak around the house while my mom makes biz calls, get zach to come over, say it would be fundemental if i just took today of and went outside to strengthen my friendships, hope dad/princepil isn’t around to be sensible and give me a calvin and hobbes character lecture.
but for some strange law it’s impossible to sta… i, uh, i mean build realationships every day of my life until i turn eighteen.
i alway have to catch up. although, once i managed to delay until summer (don’t do that!!!! i got ONE SINGLE WEEK OF SUMMER VACATION.)
hey, i bet most of the homeschoolers can read this:
hmeosohcoelrs
I’m homeschooled! 6 years, just about! And no one’s even visited this thread in, like, 8 months, almost…*sigh*….
GAPA’s, how does it work? Like, when somebody posts something, how do you know? Is there some sort of alert system, or anything?
Tell you what: I’ll create a new Homeschoolers thread for 2007.