Current Events > I wonder how many home-schooled children are actually living in hell.

(+) Yeah! (+)

There are many positive perks to home-schooling your kids, but its also a good way to lock your kids away and brainwash/abuse them without scrutiny.
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I've seen this scenario too many times in the news.
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Normally home schooling means the kids are in pretty good care because if the parents didn't like them they'd want to have them at school because it gets them out of the house.
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I was home schooled from 5th-8th grade and I am thankful as fuck for it.

Every single person who was home-schooled I've ever met in my life was a fucking weirdo.
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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.
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I did some volunteer work with a homeschooled kid in late high school and he was the same age. Pretty cool guy but had a very weird energy about him. Idk. Doesnt make any sense why he was homeschooled - the place where I grew up has fantastic public schools that can easily funnel you anywhere you would want.
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My freshmen year of high school, the school district changed the rules and only let people be home or private schooled through 8th grade, so there were a shit load of socially awkward, inept, and naive kids in my class.

One of the funniest/saddest things I've ever seen in my life was when our gruff, old, ex-military P.E. coach made a kid cry because he yelled at him for not running, then the kid says he was home schooled and his parents never made him run so he didn't know how. Coach didn't believe him and sent him to the office, then one of the A.P.s came back with the kid and he explained the situation to him. Coach spent the class teaching him how to run while we did some fitness test crap. We're doing our pushups and sit-ups and there's this awkward kid running all bowlegged, plodding feet around the perimeter of the gym.

There was also a girl from a Catholic school who I'm pretty sure found out what sex was from some cholo in math class. That was kind of hilarious.

But yeah, seeing all those poor, stunted kids made me think neither of those options are any better an alternative to public schools.
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My cousin was homeschooled.

I only met him once when we were both 14, kid was still illiterate and kept stealing cigarettes from my mother. It doesn't help that the guy his mother was seeing was some sort of white supremacist skinhead (they lived up in northern Idaho).

Last I heard from him he was a father at age 18.
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Drpooplol posted...

Every single person who was home-schooled I've ever met in my life was a fucking weirdo.

This is true. There was this weird guy in my college English class who was home-schooled.
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Millennials posted...

One of the funniest/saddest things I've ever seen in my life was when our gruff, old, ex-military P.E. coach made a kid cry because he yelled at him for not running, then the kid says he was home schooled and his parents never made him run so he didn't know how. Coach didn't believe him and sent him to the office, then one of the A.P.s came back with the kid and he explained the situation to him. Coach spent the class teaching him how to run while we did some fitness test crap. We're doing our pushups and sit-ups and there's this awkward kid running all bowlegged, plodding feet around the perimeter of the gym.

this can't be true...
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nothing wrong with homeschooling as long as they have other activities and hobbies outside of it like a team sport or something.

but by the sounds of it this rarely happens and it's just straight homeschooling for kids who do it
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Niel cicierega was home schooled
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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.

YOu sound like an ungrateful child. I could only imagine what your parents would think after reading your post.
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CrazyandLazy posted...

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.

YOu sound like an ungrateful child. I could only imagine what your parents would think after reading your post.

And you sound like a troll.
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Drpooplol posted...

Every single person who was home-schooled I've ever met in my life was a fucking weirdo.

Hate to say it, but this.

School isn't just about the learning material, it prepares you for social interactions in the real world as well
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iClockwork posted...

this can't be true...

I promise you it is. His parents were allegedly masons and he's currently a recovering meth addict. Dude never had a chance tbh.
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CrazyandLazy posted...

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.

YOu sound like an ungrateful child. I could only imagine what your parents would think after reading your post.

Oh, believe me, they know how much I hated it.

Once I (somehow) started college, I wrote a 10 page paper questioning the legality of homeschooling and I proudly showed it to both of them. So... yeah.
And no, I'm not grateful for being homeschooled.
It, for all intents and purposes, fucked up my life significantly.
I don't have to be thankful for being fucked up.
Still fixing myself to this day and I'm 21.
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joestarrr posted...

CrazyandLazy posted...

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.

YOu sound like an ungrateful child. I could only imagine what your parents would think after reading your post.

Oh, believe me, they know how much I hated it.

Once I (somehow) started college, I wrote a 10 page paper questioning the legality of homeschooling and I proudly showed it to both of them. So... yeah.
And no, I'm not grateful for being homeschooled.
It, for all intents and purposes, fucked up my life significantly.
I don't have to be thankful for being fucked up.
Still fixing myself to this day and I'm 21.

Please homeschooling is not the end of the world unless they were abusing you with physical violence, to which I doubt. Don't blame your parents for your shortcomings. I am pretty sure they did what they thought was right.
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CrazyandLazy posted...

joestarrr posted...

CrazyandLazy posted...

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.

YOu sound like an ungrateful child. I could only imagine what your parents would think after reading your post.

Oh, believe me, they know how much I hated it.

Once I (somehow) started college, I wrote a 10 page paper questioning the legality of homeschooling and I proudly showed it to both of them. So... yeah.
And no, I'm not grateful for being homeschooled.
It, for all intents and purposes, fucked up my life significantly.
I don't have to be thankful for being fucked up.
Still fixing myself to this day and I'm 21.

Please homeschooling is not the end of the world unless they were abusing you with physical violence, to which I doubt. Don't blame your parents for your shortcomings. I am pretty sure they did what they thought was right.

Okay. If I belittled someone every day for most of their childhood and refused to let them have peers, something needed for healthy psychological and social development, it would make me a shitty person. Thinking you are doing the right thing doesn't mean you're actually doing the right thing.

My parents did the wrong thing and they knew it, later on. It's a touchy subject with my parents because my mother does indeed regret homeschooling me. So.... yeah.
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Drpooplol posted...

Every single person who was home-schooled I've ever met in my life was a fucking weirdo.

There's a lot of truth to that.
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goldenBoi45 posted...

Drpooplol posted...

Every single person who was home-schooled I've ever met in my life was a fucking weirdo.

Hate to say it, but this.

School isn't just about the learning material, it prepares you for social interactions in the real world as well

That's really the only benefit to school tbh. Everything they actually need to learn can easily be taught in less than half the time they actually spend in school.
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joestarrr posted...

CrazyandLazy posted...

joestarrr posted...

CrazyandLazy posted...

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.

YOu sound like an ungrateful child. I could only imagine what your parents would think after reading your post.

Oh, believe me, they know how much I hated it.

Once I (somehow) started college, I wrote a 10 page paper questioning the legality of homeschooling and I proudly showed it to both of them. So... yeah.
And no, I'm not grateful for being homeschooled.
It, for all intents and purposes, fucked up my life significantly.
I don't have to be thankful for being fucked up.
Still fixing myself to this day and I'm 21.

Please homeschooling is not the end of the world unless they were abusing you with physical violence, to which I doubt. Don't blame your parents for your shortcomings. I am pretty sure they did what they thought was right.

Okay. If I belittled someone every day for most of their childhood and refused to let them have peers, something needed for healthy psychological and social development, it would make me a shitty person. Thinking you are doing the right thing doesn't mean you're actually doing the right thing.

My parents did the wrong thing and they knew it, later on. It's a touchy subject with my parents because my mother does indeed regret homeschooling me. So.... yeah.

You don't choose your parents though. If you can't grow up and learn to forgive and forget then you are just making yourself miserable not having your parents in your life. You did say they knew later on and regret it. It's not like they set out with the sole aim of making you fail in life. They probably were hard on you early because you lacked discipline or something. Home schooling is not that bad.
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joestarrr posted...

"kids don't need to interact with other kids to socialize"

What in the goddamned hell..?
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dave_is_slick posted...

joestarrr posted...

"kids don't need to interact with other kids to socialize"

What in the goddamned hell..?

"A boy's best friend is his mother! "
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joestarrr posted...

"kids don't need to interact with other kids to socialize"

What in the goddamned hell..?CrazyandLazy posted...

Please homeschooling is not the end of the world unless they were abusing you with physical violence, to which I doubt. Don't blame your parents for your shortcomings. I am pretty sure they did what they thought was right.

Stop trolling.
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CrazyandLazy posted...

joestarrr posted...

CrazyandLazy posted...

joestarrr posted...

CrazyandLazy posted...

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.

YOu sound like an ungrateful child. I could only imagine what your parents would think after reading your post.

Oh, believe me, they know how much I hated it.

Once I (somehow) started college, I wrote a 10 page paper questioning the legality of homeschooling and I proudly showed it to both of them. So... yeah.
And no, I'm not grateful for being homeschooled.
It, for all intents and purposes, fucked up my life significantly.
I don't have to be thankful for being fucked up.
Still fixing myself to this day and I'm 21.

Please homeschooling is not the end of the world unless they were abusing you with physical violence, to which I doubt. Don't blame your parents for your shortcomings. I am pretty sure they did what they thought was right.

Okay. If I belittled someone every day for most of their childhood and refused to let them have peers, something needed for healthy psychological and social development, it would make me a shitty person. Thinking you are doing the right thing doesn't mean you're actually doing the right thing.

My parents did the wrong thing and they knew it, later on. It's a touchy subject with my parents because my mother does indeed regret homeschooling me. So.... yeah.

You don't choose your parents though. If you can't grow up and learn to forgive and forget then you are just making yourself miserable not having your parents in your life. You did say they knew later on and regret it. It's not like they set out with the sole aim of making you fail in life. They probably were hard on you early because you lacked discipline or something. Home schooling is not that bad.

Holy fucking hell, I've made A's my whole life until college (and even then, my lowest grades are B's, but mostly A's) and I will be graduating college summa cum laude.
I didn't lack discipline whatsoever. I didn't even have full summer breaks most of the time and my parents had me get through enough work to skip a grade so I graduated early.
My mother belittled me if I made so "low" as a 94 on an exam. It turned me into a very insecure perfectionist. They've been hard on me my entire fucking life.
And no, I haven't failed in life. I'm just fucked up.
You don't get how things were for me, and you don't have to.
Peace.
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joestarrr posted...

CrazyandLazy posted...

joestarrr posted...

CrazyandLazy posted...

joestarrr posted...

CrazyandLazy posted...

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.

YOu sound like an ungrateful child. I could only imagine what your parents would think after reading your post.

Oh, believe me, they know how much I hated it.

Once I (somehow) started college, I wrote a 10 page paper questioning the legality of homeschooling and I proudly showed it to both of them. So... yeah.
And no, I'm not grateful for being homeschooled.
It, for all intents and purposes, fucked up my life significantly.
I don't have to be thankful for being fucked up.
Still fixing myself to this day and I'm 21.

Please homeschooling is not the end of the world unless they were abusing you with physical violence, to which I doubt. Don't blame your parents for your shortcomings. I am pretty sure they did what they thought was right.

Okay. If I belittled someone every day for most of their childhood and refused to let them have peers, something needed for healthy psychological and social development, it would make me a shitty person. Thinking you are doing the right thing doesn't mean you're actually doing the right thing.

My parents did the wrong thing and they knew it, later on. It's a touchy subject with my parents because my mother does indeed regret homeschooling me. So.... yeah.

You don't choose your parents though. If you can't grow up and learn to forgive and forget then you are just making yourself miserable not having your parents in your life. You did say they knew later on and regret it. It's not like they set out with the sole aim of making you fail in life. They probably were hard on you early because you lacked discipline or something. Home schooling is not that bad.

Holy fucking hell, I've made A's my whole life until college (and even then, my lowest grades are B's, but mostly A's) and I will be graduating college summa cum laude.
I didn't lack discipline whatsoever. I didn't even have full summer breaks most of the time and my parents had me get through enough work to skip a grade so I graduated early.
My mother belittled me if I made so "low" as a 94 on an exam. It turned me into a very insecure perfectionist. They've been hard on me my entire fucking life.
And no, I haven't failed in life. I'm just fucked up.
You don't get how things were for me, and you don't have to.
Peace.

Sorry but I am a firm believer of good homeschooling + respecting your parents. That's why, I said what I said. Peace to you as well.
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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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Because people through out school k-12, drop friends and get new ones. So Jim might be your friend last year, and doesn't talk to you the next year. Likewise after school people continue to make new friends, if you didn't know that it is possible to make friends outside of school, this is great news. But no one wants to hear your homeschool sob story and I wouldn't use that as an opener to introduce or define yourself. Every problem you have today, is solvable right now.
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Considering that so many people on CE have posted horror stories about how badly they were bullied and how it utterly ruined their life etc. You would think that more people here would be in favor of home schooling.
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Homeschooling is literally just another form of indoctrination. Usually religious but not always. It's a trash practice.
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VaniIIa Coke posted...

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.

Holy fuck this man is triggered
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NadYobWoc posted...

Holy fuck this man is triggered

Lotta bitterness and victim blaming. Methinks the man has a persecution complex.
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NadYobWoc posted...

Holy fuck this man is triggered

I don't think he's triggered but holy batman that's an essay wall of text.
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No he is definitely triggered
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NadYobWoc posted...

Holy f*** this man is triggered

I don't think you know what that word means..

I can write, very long posts down to the last character if that's what you meant. But "triggered" isn't the word I would use for that.

There's a difference between having interest in a topic, vs simply being bothered by an aspect of it.
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I feel like schools screw up kids pretty badly as well, but yeah, isolated kids have to be fairly messed up.
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Millennials posted...

There was also a girl from a Catholic school who I'm pretty sure found out what sex was from some cholo in math class. That was kind of hilarious.

lol
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Millennials posted...

My freshmen year of high school, the school district changed the rules and only let people be home or private schooled through 8th grade, so there were a shit load of socially awkward, inept, and naive kids in my class.

One of the funniest/saddest things I've ever seen in my life was when our gruff, old, ex-military P.E. coach made a kid cry because he yelled at him for not running, then the kid says he was home schooled and his parents never made him run so he didn't know how. Coach didn't believe him and sent him to the office, then one of the A.P.s came back with the kid and he explained the situation to him. Coach spent the class teaching him how to run while we did some fitness test crap. We're doing our pushups and sit-ups and there's this awkward kid running all bowlegged, plodding feet around the perimeter of the gym.

There was also a girl from a Catholic school who I'm pretty sure found out what sex was from some cholo in math class. That was kind of hilarious.

But yeah, seeing all those poor, stunted kids made me think neither of those options are any better an alternative to public schools.

He couldn't... run?

That's like locked in the basement homeschooling.

And yeah, let's get rid of most home schooling. Every kid I've met that's been HS'd is either an odd duck, or a reeeeally odd duck.
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Millennials posted...

One of the funniest/saddest things I've ever seen in my life was when our gruff, old, ex-military P.E. coach made a kid cry because he yelled at him for not running, then the kid says he was home schooled and his parents never made him run so he didn't know how. Coach didn't believe him and sent him to the office, then one of the A.P.s came back with the kid and he explained the situation to him. Coach spent the class teaching him how to run while we did some fitness test crap. We're doing our pushups and sit-ups and there's this awkward kid running all bowlegged, plodding feet around the perimeter of the gym.

that doesn't make sense. how do you not know how to run? that's like not knowing how to lift an arm. it's instinct

Some of you actually read Vanilla Coke's book?

Drpooplol posted...

Every single person who was home-schooled I've ever met in my life was a fucking weirdo.

This most of the time it stunts their social growth because they don't have enough opportunities to interact with others. Honestly I think homeschooling is generally a bad idea it takes a lot for it to work out well and the majority of the time public school is better.

Also most parents who do it are normally overly protective. And the whole "the schools are bad in my area" excuse doesnt fly with me
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I think you can homeschool a child and socialize them its just that most parents who do it are lazy as fuck and arent willing to teach things they may not agree with and also do all the extra stuff including getting them into social clubs and athletics which you have to do.

I sometimes consider homeschooling my children. Not only because schools these days are weak as fuck and dont challenge children but because they cannot protect children from each other. Bullying and school shootings shouldnt exist. It is a complete failure of the system and educators should be ashamed of themselves.
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It's really kind of wild that people can do this and get away with it.
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I feel like most home school kids are normal actually, and this image of them being weird is statist propagnda to promote the state public school system (which sucks).
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