TexasGal wrote:Respectfully, I would ask you to attend one of the home school conventions where some of the best curriculum in the world is offered for sale. Home Schoolers are not just making it up as they go along. The booths are overwhelmingly run by home school families whose small to teen children will discuss the merits of whatever is available on an intelligent adult level. I have been to several and it never fails to impress me the average public high school student would be a fish out of water. The students who are breaking records at your local college for the youngest to graduate are home schooled. I have had the chance to see several home school families raise their children to adulthood. The vast majority of them is happy, healthy, well adjusted to all age groups--not just their own. They go on field trips to actually see the things the public school kids see in a book or watch in a class presentation. They have not been hazed by bullies, been in drug rehab, arrested by the police, etc. They actually notice what goes on in the world and don't hate their parents or their siblings. They don't live in a vacuum without friends. The older ones sit in our waiting room quietly helping the younger ones to study. Are there SOME weirdos---yep, but FAR less than what you will see at any public school you care to point to. I hope this did not sound like a rant. It was not meant to be offensive.psijac wrote:All the home schooled people I know are just a little bit off. They have no sense of how to interact with their peers. Its like watching a live version for Sheldon Cooper from the big bang theory
VMI77 wrote:How many do you know? Two? Three? You don't have a teacher in the family by any chance do you?psijac wrote:All the home schooled people I know are just a little bit off. They have no sense of how to interact with their peers. Its like watching a live version for Sheldon Cooper from the big bang theory
I think its a two edged sword, TexasGal is right, I was homeschooled up until the year before I started highschool, there is more focus on your school work and in such a small settings its easy to plan the material around the kid, that and you know the kid well enough to know how they learn best.
That being said, I still agree with psijac, you dont develop (for having no better way to say it) the same social behaviors, as you do interacting with a large group of kids daily at school. if you do al ittle looking around though, you will find that there are a lot of homeschool groups you can find to get your kids out their and interacting with others, just not in the same way, although with the drug problems most of the public schools around here have I dont know which is worse hehe