I’ve been home-schooled for the last yrs against my will (just finished), i absolutely hated it. What do you guys think about it? Should it be allowed?
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Of course it should be allowed. It’s a perfectly legitimate form of education. I’m sorry you hate it, but most kids don’t. Most kids enjoy not being restricted by a school’s curriculum, the freedom to do what they like, the time to work, to volunteer, to get out in the community and have fun.
The socialization problem is anti-homeschooling mythology. forced association with kids the same age and grade is not socialization.. Homeschoolers have a wider range if friends than their schooled peers and their social skills at just as good, if not better than kids who attend school.
I’ truly sorry you didn’t enjoy homeschooling. But that does not mean it should be illegal for everyone else.
Source(s): Parent of a homeschool graduate
I absolutely believe that it should be allowed/legal. I’ve been homeschooled by entire life and I’m graduating the end of this month. I’ve always had the choice to go to school if I wanted, and I certainly believe that a child should never be homeschooled against their will. I loved it because I was able to do other activities that other kids couldn’t because they were in school, and it helped me so that I was still able to do semi-professional theater and I could keep up with school at the same time. I’m sorry that you had such a terrible experience with it though.
Before I get in to anything,hate to break it to you people who say “public school is the real world” but, public school is not the real world,not even.
But yes,I love homeschool,I’ve been homeschooled for years and love it,I get done early and go to my friends house or do whatever I feel like.
The main problem with homeschool is people assume being homeschooled=Non-social,even some homeschoolers think public school is the only ******* way to get social,no,just no.
I’ve been social and had friends just as much as anyone else,public schooled or not.There’s SO many ways to get social without going to damn public school.
And how indifferent people are to homeschoolers and think they’re freaks,which is stupid as all hell,besides most people just don’t understand public schoolers are in a small,caged enviroment.
They get used to other students and lack having a wide area of being social,which homeschoolers can have.
Source(s): Common sense.
Going to school does not guarantee you’ll have friends or someone to go to the dance or Prom with, you know. I love it when kids say “I want to go to school cuz I want to have friends”. One does not automatically follow on from the other; and it is very easy to feel as lonely as heck sitting in a classroom of kids.
Similarly going to public school does not guarantee you’ll learn how to get on with people or function in society : the one person I know who, aged in her mid-s, still lives at home, has never had a job or a relationship, never mixes or socialises with anyone other than her own mother, doesn’t leave the house without her mother went to public schools all her life.
I’m sorry your parents didn’t listen to you when you said you wanted to go to school, and I’m happy for you that your homeschooling is now over since you didn’t enjoy it.
Plenty of young people, of course, are in exactly the opposite boat. They are stuck in school despite hating it, and their parents are unwilling to homeschool them. (Wouldn’t it have been great if you could have done a “parent-swap” with them, LOL?)
Ideally, if circumstances allow, I think older children should always have a choice about where and how to learn. It’s your education and your life.
Oh, God. I hate homeschooling sooooo much. I’ve been homeschooled my whole life (I’m ) against my will and am begging to go to public school. No such luck >:(
If I was in charge I’d honestly make homeschooling illegal if it’s against your child’s will. I understand being homeschooled if you’re bullied or something and that’s what you want to do and you choose it, but having your parents decide at your birth that you’re going to homeschooled your whole life whether you like it or not is ridiculous to me. You miss out on so much when you’re homeschooled! Prom, school dances, friends and a social life in general, the whole experience, the skills you learn around other people, just everything. It’s a shame that parents shelter their children from the real world. There’s such a thing as gripping your egg (or child, in this case) so hard it cracks.
Source(s): Homeschooled, unfortunately
Sorry to hear that you hated it, but of course it should be allowed! What, should we ban it because you didn’t like it? I am homeschooled and I like it. All my friends like it. I get good grades, I have a social life and I don’t spend eight hours every day in a classroom. Again, I’m sorry that you didn’t like it, but just because it didn’t work out for you doesn’t mean it’s a bad thing.
It very much depends.
The parents need to be educated to a hgih enough level to make it viable. Assuming this is the case, I imagine there are some great educational benefits as you receive one to one tuition, as oppose to kids in a class with one teacher.
The downside, as I see it, is that the social aspect of normal schooling is very important also. It allows kids to learn how to deal with people of their own age. They are also exposed to many personality types, belief systems, group or team activites…..all of these things are important in becoming a rounded member of society.
Education is key. I do agree to that. However, not at the absolute expense of everything else. You can be as intelligent as you like, if you can’t interact with people, your choices will become limited as an adult.