Thread: Home Schooling Is Bad.

homeschooler with social skills here. your parents sheltered you.

Originally Posted by Snowy Egypt

Did you not ever participate in Homeschooling groups? They meet up and do things together, like having field trips or just hang out sessions, just like public school.

also this.
I was in a homeschool co-op band for over 6 years. I was heavily involved in my church activities as well. I still had many friends that I met around the block.

Just because you're home-schooled doesn't mean you won't have a social life.

Also bro-fist to Exdream for explaining shit perfectly.

what Exdream said.

The only thing us homeschool'd kids are lacking is the dulling mentality of a highschooler.

Exdream hits the nail on the head. Besides, kids who are home-schooled statistically are better educated than those going to prison-public schools.

I was homeschooled for one year in the third grade, and then the last two years of high school, but that has nothing to do with why I'm shy and a bit lacking in social skills (only when it comes to kids my age- I can hold a conversation with adults just fine. Most kids have weird mind games and behaviors of socializing where they lack straight logic and decency).

Originally Posted by no-Name

Also bro-fist to Exdream for explaining shit perfectly.

I agree to an extent that social skills can be dampened. I know plenty of homeschooled people and though many are normal... I know a few black sheep.

I was homeschooled for 1 year... grade 7... and I finished the whole curriculum by january (end of 1st semester) so I could either move up a grade or take half the year off... I took half the year off Anyways... I find that in school you're moving at the pace of the slowest student, while at home I moved at my own pace and finished quick. Kindergarten to Grade 6 I was in private school... which helped a lot. From grade 8 to 12 I was in public school... and the funny thing is even into grade 12 there were lots of things i had already learned in private school... like sciences, english, socials etc. To give you an idea of how hard private school was, in grade 4 much of my class already had a reading comprehension higher than standard grade 12 comprehension. In grade 6 my class read Bram Stoker's "Dracula"... in grade 1 we had our multiplication tables to 50, and adding and subtracting to 4 digits. My school also did, and still does, use 'the strap'. Essentially a strip of leather they hit you with on the hand a couple times when you're bad. Old school eh? LOL

You act like there isn't shy, and socially akward people who go to public school. Where do you think the sterotype of bookworms and nerds come from? Never heard of teens who got bullied? What about ones that commited sucide because bully was so bad?

The fact is, there are kids who sit in the corner and don't socialize, and they could of been in public school all their life. Public school doesn't teach people how to socialize.

Social skill has nothing to do with where you were educated. I wouldn't even call it a skill. Its an attitude. I would say 70% of socializing is walking over to someone and saying hello. If you are a shy nervous type person, then you will not be as good as a more out going person. Not because they are any better but because you never got the courage to walk over and say hello.

The fact is, there are kids who sit in the corner and don't socialize, and they could of been in public school all their life.

-True

Public school doesn't teach people how to socialize.

-Not as true! The difference is that public school forces...no... ENCOURAGES socializing. The fact is, it's much more easy to socialize when you spend six hours a day around upwards of 500 people then when you don't. You can't deny that... it's fact. That isn't to say people who are homeschooled can't socialize, or won't go out of their way to socialize... but through public school socializing is almost required for 'survival'. I see what you're getting at though...

Homeschool =/= Anti-social
Public school =/= Social
And vice versa...

But you still have to understand that whether you're homeschooled or publically schooled does have an effect on you social life... whether small or large. But they'll always be the exceptions in both cases...

That isn't true, because your supposed to be learning while at school. A person is entirely capble of studying and listening to a teacher give a lecture, without talking to people around them.

"Can I borrow a pencil" and the occasional oral book report that a person could just skip if they dont mind the bad grade, isn't exactly pushing people to be great at socalizing.

In fact, if you go to public school you would notice that most people are friends and talk to, the people who live by them. The people living near you are probably your friends already, and you hang out after school. So seeing them in school and talking a bit, doesn't add anything.

As for the amount of people at the school, that makes no difference. That is like saying walking down a crowded street causes you to become better at socalizing. In fact, the more classes you go to, and the more people you see the more they become strangers. At some point your no longer friends with your classmates because you don't know any of them, and there is no socalizing taking place at all.

That isn't true, because your supposed to be learning while at school. A person is entirely capble of studying and listening to a teacher give a lecture, without talking to people around them.

Sure it is... students are CAPABLE of not socializing... but it's a natural tendency to want to be social.

"Can I borrow a pencil" and the occasional oral book report that a person could just skip if they dont mind the bad grade, isn't exactly pushing people to be great at socalizing.

There is lunch period, and time in class where socializing occurs. And When I talk about socializing, I don't just mean communication. Even simply be around people, knowing how to act and what's appropriate is all part of being social.

In fact, if you go to public school you would notice that most people are friends and talk to, the people who live by them. The people living near you are probably your friends already, and you hang out after school. So seeing them in school and talking a bit, doesn't add anything.

Not completely true... out of my ring of 30 someodd close friends at school only one lives close... and maybe 2 or 3 passed my house on the way to school and back.

As for the amount of people at the school, that makes no difference. That is like saying walking down a crowded street causes you to become better at socalizing.

That's a terrible comparison! Being home, only with parents and sibling will deficit your social ability more so than spending 6 ours a day interacting with teachers and other students... You seem to be really defensive or something...

In fact, the more classes you go to, and the more people you see the more they become strangers.

That doesn't even make sense.

At some point your no longer friends with your classmates because you don't know any of them, and there is no socalizing taking place at all.

No offence, but this is terrible reasoning. Where's the logic? I've gone through highschool... I know how it works. I have many close knit relationships with friends and teachers. I'm sorry but you aren't making sense to me... if either you or someone else could expand on what you're trying to say. 'Cause to me it sounds like you're saying being around people makes you less social. Human beings are the number one ingredient for creating your identity and social life... I have no idea where you're coming from.

Originally Posted by Alric

In fact, the more classes you go to, and the more people you see the more they become strangers. At some point your no longer friends with your classmates because you don't know any of them, and there is no socalizing taking place at all.

This makes no sense to me. If anything I know my friends better because I talk to them, and they talk to me. I help them with their problems, and on the rare occasion I have a problem, they help me. Maybe that's because I talk to the same people every Even and Odd day, but still.