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joestarrr posted...

I was homeschooled from K-12 and it was horrible.

I almost never left the house except to run errands with parents because "kids don't need to interact with other kids to socialize" and my parents were home 24/7, so yeah. No friends, no life, nothing.
Plus the curriculum was bullshit and spouted nonsense that wasn't scientifically accurate.

I had it better than many, but still.

Family is your life, not friends. Everyone who leaves their house has friends. No sports or gym membership? It seems abusive not to let kids be active but fuck the idea that home school was the reason your life sucked. Did they lock you up in a farm house at night in the middle of nowhere with no neighbor kids, or activities or sports, or summer camp etc?

It is purely on the issue that your parents aren't good parents in the first place if they treat you like a house pet.

Did they really not allow you to go outside after schooling, and walk around town to events or public places, as say an 11th grader, makes it seem like you were just an awkward person, who was too scared to leave your house and socialize unless you lived in the middle of nowhere. And no, going to public school doesn't inherently make you a social person or solve personal issues that where created by having shitty parents. There's tons of kids in public school who have shitty parents and no friends lol.

I'd really like to hear your justification for excusing yourself from solving your problems effecting you today by blaming everything wrong with your life on homeschooling.

And K-12, like during part of that you could have gotten a drivers license, a part time job, a car. When I was younger than 10 I would go out in the neighborhood and play with the neighbor kids.

Did they really just prevent you from doing anything involving other people? Because that's not homeschoolings fault, it's your parents not allowing you all of the other activities outside of school. Again kids who go to public school are in the same boat if their parents wont let them join a sport, or do anything extra, get their drivers license, or ride a bike, go outside etc. Did they actually lock you in the house? Do you hate your parents? Not for home schooling you, but do you hate them as people, for how they treated you or how they interacted with you as a kid on a social level? Or do you hate yourself and blame your shortcomings on the idea that you feel like you missed out on something that you'll never get to experience, such as a tight friend group? And do you just hold that against them, thinking your life would magically be better had you had play time with other kids?

Like, I'm just trying to figure out your actual problem, because, "homeschool" isn't a root issue of anything. While your parents chose to homeschool you, they seem to have made a 1,000 other decisions that actually made your childhood suck. Unless it was you.

So part of this their curriculum and do you feel like you'd be better at say math if you went to public school? Or did they teach you the Earth spins at an incorrect speed? Like what scientifically inacurate shit did they teach you? That the Earth is the center of the solar system and the Sun revolves around us? Plz explain

And final point, there's a ton of kids who go to public school, tons of them, who are living in hell. You seem to think your life would have been an episode of Friends growing up, but in reality, kids aren't always nice to each other, and many of them aren't close to each other. Like kids have lots of friends, often they don't consider any of them real friends. And guess what else, most people you go to school with just disappear after highschool and get families and jobs and move away, and what it boils down to that you are actually missing, is a handful of facebook friends you don't even talk to anymore.
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