Ignorance On Home Schooling
I know I have written a blog similar to this one before, but at the same time, they are different.
I went hunting the other day with my boyfriend, and 3 of his cousins. At one point, one of his cousins called me stupid. I do not stand for people calling me stupid, and I love to throw in people’s faces just in fact how stupid I am NOT. So naturally, right out of my mouth comes “yeah. I’m stupid. That’s why I graduated high school a year early on my own.”
Tim, my boyfriend’s younger cousin says “suck up.” How am I a suck up? “You must have been to graduate that early.” I did it on my own thank you. I was home schooled. Pam, the 2nd oldest says “Well you didn’t get the social skills.”
Bullshit, wanna bet? First of all, I went to public school from preschool-9th grade. Halfway through 9th grade was when I started home schooling. Don’t try to tell me that I don’t have social skills.
Second of all. It is PROVEN that home schooled students are just as good, if not better with social skills as public school children.
Come on people. Educate yourselves. Don’t think that your way is the only way. I bet you anything most of you would have done better with home schooling than you would have with public. And I bet you anything again that A LOT of you would be WAY more mature than you are now had you been home schooled.
And when it comes down to it-graduating a year early, finishing 4 years of high school in 2 years, I would say I came out on top. When you consider, people I went to public school with are still in that school, they are still immature and stuck on their drama. They still dress like crap, they act like crap.
As they sit in school judging each other and learning nothing, I am getting ready to start college. Living in another state, with a much better life than any of the public school education and social areas would have given me.
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I applaud you cause from what i heard home schooling takes alot of time and patience
It definately does. To add to it-I was teaching myself through a long distance education school. My parents were there to help when I needed it, but most of the time, it was entirely up to me. Focus is the key.
Yup. I agree with you 100% I am homeschooled to, and it IS hard. My sister went to college at 17 and she was homeschooled too. I don't understand why people say we are "STupid" or "lack social skills" We are definitely just as smart and just as good where social skills are concerned. Good Job!
Thanks :D
Good luck with it all :D
I went to public school, and I will say, If I have children, I will probably homeschool them if I have the time. It does take a lot of dedication to do this. Good for you! I think it would be great to homeschool my kids. I would take them on field trips to learn history!! Like do roadtrips to local civil war battle areas, or maybe even take a cross country summer trip and hit up some of the places that former presidents live or lived. I know a lot of people who are homeschooled and they are very smart. It's just a stereotype that we should really get away from!
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There is definately a very strong stereotype that people refuse to get past when it comes to homeschooled kids.
If you homeschool your kids all their lives-you have complete control, and they work at your (or their) pace, instead of their peers. It isn't fair to force kids to work at others peoples' pace, especially when they don't understand what is going on.
The field trips would be a lot better (and probably overall cheaper) too if you did it :D
I was homeschooled until sixth grade and loved all of it except for the fact that mom was my teacher and we never get along as it is, so knowing that my main teacher hated me was a horrible experience. When I ended up going to a public school, all of the teachers looked down on me and thought that I was stupid even though I was half a year ahead in math, a year ahead in English, and about three years ahead in spelling and had already had geography and American History. As for socializing, a group of us home schoolers got together every Friday and had a history, science, or health day where we would go over to a person's house and that person's mom would teach us from one of those subjects and we would go on field trips. We got to visit a weather station when we studied weather, and an emu farm when we studied something else. We also went to Chimney Rock in Nebraska and down part of the Oregon Trail after studying the pioneers, and we had mock battles, Mayflower trips, elections, presidential speeches, field days, and Underground Railroad simulations to learn in a unique way about history, science, and health. All of us kids in the original group became really good friends...I don't see how anyone could call us homeschoolers socially inept. I personally hate public school and would love to go back to being homeschooled, but being a senior, it's kind of hard to do it now with only 5/8 of the year left(again, my school's semester break is in the middle of January. We start school again the 23rd of January.).
I wish I would have discovered homeschooling sooner. I have not decided yet if I will homeschool MY kids someday, but it is definately now a thought!
Homeschooling is definitely hard to keep track of, to say the least. My brother-in-law is wanting to know that since I am in school to be a teacher if I would mind homeschooling his children. I have had to do a lot of research into it just to find out how to pull children from a school, what the required curriculum is, how to track their progress, and all the legal proceedings that go along with it.
But it's nice to know that no matter the curriculum, there is no requirement for how they learn it. So for now, they are learning math by redesigning and redecorating my house :)
But I can understand the thought that homeschooling robs children of social skills. Granted, it can't be the case every time, but I have seen it happen on occasion. I think it would depend on how much interaction that child had with anyone (parents, siblings, daycare, etc) outside of the schooling environment.
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Told by a member of the faculty(not a teaher) that I am ignorant. That was pretty funny actually. I enjoyed it. It happened because that person doesn t like me(i m writing on a broken keybord lol). Well the person use to at the beginning of the year but not anymore. According to frinends, this person may be jealous of me. Well, one day, me, that person, and another person were walking to a building. I went the way i usually go because i didn t know there was another way . That person went another way. i guess it ws the way that person was use to going. because i didn t go in that person s direction(i m not saying he/she on purpose), that person turned to the other person and said (can t find the quote button:[) look at that, that s ignorant. of course we both ended up at the same destination. that s kind of the way we re goin g in life too. two different directions. that s the way i read into it after that little confrontation. there s a long conversation behind this but i dont wanna bore you with it. lol.
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