i dont get homeschooling

[Messes]

I don't really see a reason to do it unless you live in like the projects and your district is ranked in the top 10 worst in the country lol.

would never want to be homeschooled. all the homeschooled kids i know are really weird and losers. you cant make friends if you dont spend time with other people for 70% of the day. sure, maybe there are a few exceptions, but honestly you're just being dumb if you say homeschooled kids are just as socially adept as public/private school kids.

Would have to agree with this and harm. I mean, I'm not here to come in and take cheap shots at your personal life, but I do have a few things to say

The benefits are (for those with thick skulls and small brains):

• No 8 hour days call it preparing for work
  
• Wake up whenever oh yeah, a very useful skill to have once you grow up! See: Night Fox's response
  
• Computer all day erry day i mean if thats your thing go for it. Some people play football all day erry day, why should i judge you on this? But don't be one of those loving weirdos like RedGaijin said that probably browse /b/ all day and watch my little pony and have weird special interestes
  
• More learning/ability to work on more difficult things so you learn them instead of being left behind You have to overcome and adapt real fast in the real world. Your boss isn't going to say "here, take 2 years to learn how to operate a forklift"
  
• Yale, Harvard and other big-name colleges want you to go to their campuses lmfao, they also like to see you have amazing gpa, sat/act scores, and you working in your community and making a difference.
  
• No high-school drama BS, fake friends, or anything of the ilk Yeah, no highschool drama bs so come on the blockland forums to make drama instead lmfao. Fake friends? It's a part of life, not just public school.
  
• You're not fed biased crap from every faucet imaginable This will continue for the rest of your life, get used to it now
  
  You still have plenty of friends unless you do something wrong (be a richard to everybody?). Homeschooling does not limit your social skills at all unless you choose to be limited. Anyone can choose to go out and be social, you are absolutely correct, but you are incorrect in your statement that it doesn't limit your social skills. It does indeed. I mean, do you just go to group gatherings where you sit at desks voluntarily for 8 hours and talk to people? No? Didn't think so. I guarantee you do not socialize for 8 hours mon-fri with tons of other peers being home schooled.
  

ITT: Public schoolers will begin to pretend like they know stuff.

It REALLY depends on your environment you were raised in. I'm not socially awkward at all.

That's good for you actually. I'd just like to adjust one thing that isn't really directed towards you specifically but the thread as a whole.

ITT: Homeschooled elitists pretend that they have a 100% chance to get into an ivy league college and have a huge social circle.

How about I get to wake up whenever the forget I want and my school day only lasts 2-4 hours. At this point people are just randomly hating homeschoolers.

Protip: This is not a pro LMFAO. This is a con. Why get used to waking up at 11am everyday as an adolescent and only do "work" for 2-4 hours when in the real world once you get a job, the majority of them will require you to at one point or another (if not all the time) wake up very early and do work for several hours (usually 7-9). No one is randomly hating on them, we just realize how awful it is because our mindset isn't stuck on "Omg i'm homeschooled its the best ever i get to play video games all the time and do no hard work!!! I'm so prepared for life after highschool!"

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children who are autistic or challenged can benefit from homeschooling

[Sir Blocksalot]

Would have to agree with this and harm. I mean, I'm not here to come in and take cheap shots at your personal life, but I do have a few things to say

It comes down to the person. Some homeschoolers are social outcasts and freaks, others aren't. But arguing that homeschooling will always turn you into an outcast is silly. I admit that it's not a perfect system, and that it has it's downsides, but homeschooling has worked for me. As I said, it comes down to the person. Some people benefit from it, others don't, and it's not always the best option. It's not always the worst either. Every schooling method has some downsides and advantages, and hating on someone for being homeschooled is just silly, just as hating someone for not being is.

children who are autistic or challenged can benefit from homeschooling

Yes, this is true.

[AlsoSulfate]

children who are autistic or challenged can benefit from homeschooling

this explains why so many people here are homeschooled

[Alyx Vance]

A majority of people in this topic:
"They are home schooled because they are handicapped!"

[AlsoSulfate]

A majority of people in this topic:
"They are home schooled because they are handicapped!"

no. most of them are saying it's the other way around.

[Hiok1998]

Really it is difficult to find any topic that wont change on a case-by-case basis. Homeschooling is case-by-case, it really depends on the person and the environment.

[BlockoCrafter]

People need to quit thinking one is better than the other. I don't hate public schooling, I just don't want to do it.

[carolcat]

all of the public schools where i live are awful so my sister and i ended up being home schooled
being home schooled ended up putting my sister incredibly far ahead of the public school's education. as a result, next year she'll be attending a much more advanced school which, after beating other schools of its kind 5 years in a row, got invited to a competition against colleges like MIT and harvard, took 1st place, and didn't get invited back

but yeah homeschooling isn't very good on one's social life
i used to be outgoing and social but now i can't stand being around people

[TeslaCoil]

I don't really see a reason to do it unless you live in like the projects and your district is ranked in the top 10 worst in the country lol.

Would have to agree with this and harm. I mean, I'm not here to come in and take cheap shots at your personal life, but I do have a few things to say

So you really are going to loving generalize every homeschooler?

I don't know if this is what you're saying but the last bit makes me think that you're saying Homeschoolers are so sheltered that they don't live in the real world. Did you know that a good portion of the time a homeschooler will be employing people rather than being an employee? Do I even need to bring up the statistics of how badly Americas public schools perform? There's a reason homeschooling is needed, and it doesn't boil down to a "few" circumstances.

I don't even need to say how little you know of what you're talking about here. I recommend that you get some experience.

[AlsoSulfate]

So you really are going to loving generalize every homeschooler?

I don't know if this is what you're saying but the last bit makes me think that you're saying Homeschoolers are so sheltered that they don't live in the real world. Did you know that a good portion of the time a homeschooler will be employing people rather than being an employee? Do I even need to bring up the statistics of how badly Americas public schools perform?

admit it, most of them end up being hobos!

[Alteration]

call it preparing for work That's implying I don't do any school work/normal work during the day. I woke up every morning at 6:00 a few years ago to feed some cows we had, and I can wake up around 5:30/6:00 with no problems.
oh yeah, a very useful skill to have once you grow up! See: Night Fox's response It takes approximately a week for me to get used to a new sleeping pattern. It would not take long for me to adjust.
i mean if thats your thing go for it. Some people play football all day erry day, why should i judge you on this? But don't be one of those loving weirdos like RedGaijin said that probably browse /b/ all day and watch my little pony and have weird special interestes a: This is my thing, I plan on working in some faucet of electronic media b: Do I look like a freak?
You have to overcome and adapt real fast in the real world. Your boss isn't going to say "here, take 2 years to learn how to operate a forklift" Half if not more of the kids in my class when I went to school did not get a subject by the time we moved on. I'm also not applying it to myself, I'm very quick to adapt and learn (my only struggles being in geometry or fraction related algebra, but I'm getting over that). Also, two years is an exaggeration. Try two weeks tops for a specific subject.
lmfao, they also like to see you have amazing gpa, sat/act scores, and you working in your community and making a difference. Which is perfectly possible. What test do you think we take, the FAKEs? That's asinine. Every test you take we take as well. I'm not sure what to say about "community difference" because I don't do anything worthwhile, but it would not be hard to do so.
This will continue for the rest of your life, get used to it now I am used to it, believe me (that happens when you are a regular of a heavily biased online forum), but I'm not told I'm wrong for not believing an opinion.

I mean, do you just go to group gatherings where you sit at desks voluntarily* for 8 hours and talk to people? No? Didn't think so. I guarantee you do not socialize for 8 hours mon-fri with tons of other peers being home schooled. I go to a public co-op class each wednesday, see many of my peers at church, and occasionally meet up in other places. It's not 8 hours monday through friday; quality, not quantity. Additionally, I was part of the school football team the first year we did homeschooling. I can do anything social I want, though with all these "no-homeschool" restrictions some people have it's awfully hard to do so.

*Do you want me to believe most of you voluntarily go to school? I guess all that stuff about "skipping school" is bs, huh?

all the homeschooled kids i know are really weird and losers. All the public schoolers I know will end up working at mcdonalds for the rest of their lives and very few can read brown townog clocks. I don't blanket that on all the smart public schoolers, though. you cant make friends if you dont spend time with other people for 70% of the day. Like I said: Quality, not quantity. sure, maybe there are a few exceptions, but honestly you're just being dumb if you say homeschooled kids are just as socially adept as public/private school kids. That's ridiculous. I can't name a homeschooled kid that isn't confident, socially adept, nice, or able to make friends. Every homeschooled kid I know is in at least 2 social groups, has more than +5 decent/good friends, 2 or 3 best friends, and every kid has me so it can't be that bad.

Sorry for not replying, I was at that social wednesday thing I was talking about.

[Harm94]

I will assure you this will change after becoming El Presidente when the people's revolution is over.

[Epicduke]

I'm just going to re-quote this.

lol at the people arguing about which type if school is better. It's about the same if you ask me, just different learning styles.

[Sir Blocksalot]

I will assure you this will change after becoming El Presidente when the people's revolution is over.

I have yet to see a thread you post in where you aren't making inflammatory remarks and spouting nonsensical quasi-political gibberish. Would you kindly stop?