ITT: Pandan, who once again refuses to believe that anyone who has a different opinion than him could actually be knowledgeable.
Let's look at how the "anti-homeschool people" are viewing the issue:
Oh wait, they're not viewing the issue, they're viewing the straw man as it's portrayed by the media! WOOO!
I myself have seen my share of the completely socially inept homeschooler who can memorize his times tables but can't look an adult in the eye.
He's not the norm.
I've been in public school, private school, and homeschool, and frankly, homeschool was the most profitable in social interaction and learning. I know what you are thinking, "what did he say social interaction?", yeah I did say social interaction. I didn't stay cooped up in the house doing freakin' one-page worksheets. I went on a ton of field trips, made a ton of
real friends (not just irritating bratty spoiled kids you are forced to deal with in regular school), found some bandmates, and played a couple gigs, all while being a homeschooler!
On top of that, I was able to learn at my own pace (which, by the time I started homeschooling was about 5 years above what I would be studying), and was able to focus more on history, philosophy, writing, and music than I would in public school.
I go to quite a few meet-ups and conventions, and 80% of homeschooling kids I meet are not socially or academically inept.
Frankly, the only "socialization" I got in public and private school was having to deal with a bunch of spoiled morons who I was forced to be in "groups" with on my projects. Do you have any idea how frustrating it is to have some idiotic brat screw up his easier end of the project, and you get a low grade because of his screw up? And then you get an even lower grade because you "didn't work well with others"?
Do you have any idea how bitter I am at the public education system mostly because it robbed me of precious time I could've spent actually learning instead of dealing with idiots for teachers and brats for "peers"? Do you have any idea what it's like having teacher after teacher kick the crap out of your independence because the education system is more about brainwashing than it is about education? Do you know what it's like to be told that your answer doesn't count because your answer wasn't the politically charged (or simply incorrect) answer that's in "the book"?
Do you realize how many kids will never reach their full potential because any form of actual opinion is treated as a wrong answer? You are not taught to think in public schools, you are taught to obey.
You idiots who look at the media's caricature of homeschooling and think it's so bad, you are not thinking for yourself. You got told in school that the government can take care of your every freakin' need, and now you think you are being so cool because you get to pick on the kids who actually want to grow up and make a difference.
And to those of you who say this:
Good luck getting into post secondary education of any sort. Homeschooled kids would be lucky to get into the labor force.
What the heck? Colleges are actually more willing to accept homeschoolers as they know they won't have to put up with the crap they usually have to. Just from the fact that on average homeschoolers are more academically advanced means they have a much higher chance of getting into a college. You've got to be freakin' kidding me.
Get your facts straight before you start bashing on a much, much more advanced and stable form of education, please.
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