How many of you were home-schooled?

[obamanation]

Woah, woah...easy there big shooter. Let's not talk about marriage yet .

You absolutely deserve to date a mature girl (sounds like she's the emotionally mature equivalent of a 25-26 year old) so don't let the age gap worry you. Your physical appearance doesn't mean shit to her, and you know it - your personality does. And I would argue that anyone pursuing more schooling is trying to improve their life. That is the very definition of being successful.

Not trying to kiss your ass or anything, but I hate to see defeatist statements like that. Just go for it.

Not to mention the fact that the best marriages are apparently with a smart, young wife with and older, dumb husband.. Sounds like a perfect match if you can make it work..

 

[shortylickens]

Woah, woah...easy there big shooter. Let's not talk about marriage yet .

You absolutely deserve to date a mature girl (sounds like she's the emotionally mature equivalent of a 25-26 year old) so don't let the age gap worry you. Your physical appearance doesn't mean shit to her, and you know it - your personality does. And I would argue that anyone pursuing more schooling is trying to improve their life. That is the very definition of being successful.

Not trying to kiss your ass or anything, but I hate to see defeatist statements like that. Just go for it.

D:

 

[BoberFett]

Both my parents taught in public schools for their careers.

Biggest problem that prevents someone from getting an education is parental apathy, in my opinion. But it is a free country, people are entitled to teach their children how they see fit.

Ah, so your parents were indoctrinating young minds?

 

[BoberFett]

Where are you reading that? Children who attend private schools (well, non-religious private schools) will also be exposed to differing viewpoints, and increased opportunities for socialization, as compared to homeschooling.

He's anti-homeschooling, but that doesn't automatically make him pro-public schooling.

I can't think of environment (outside of the military) more intent on indoctrination than public schools.

 

[InflatableBuddha]

I can't think of environment (outside of the military) more intent on indoctrination than public schools.

Organized religion is a far more powerful institution for indoctrination than public schooling has ever been.

There are high quality and low quality public schools, just as there are high quality and low quality private schools. Or are you simply blindly ideologically opposed to anything that's not privatized?

 

[ShawnD1]

I can't think of environment (outside of the military) more intent on indoctrination than public schools.

Fucking schools and their bullshit. I wish they would stop saying stupid shit like
-wash your hands
-conserve water when possible
-conserve power when possible
-respect others
-reduce, reuse, recycle
-stop drop and roll
-only you can stop forest fires
-use condoms

 

[IronWing]

Hi, my name is Aaron. I'm fourteen but my mom says I have the maturity of a twenty one year old.

This is the quote that comes to mind whenever I meet a home schooler.

 

[Ronstang]

I might as well have been. Except for a few, which I can count on one hand, all my teachers were pretty much useless. This goes all the way through the graduate level. What is the purpose of a teacher if you can learn it all from the book by yourself, or what if you have to because the fucker doesn't speak English well enough to bother talking to him?

 

[Jumpem]

Public school K-6, church school 7-8, homeschooled for a year or so after that. Really just started working at twelve.

 

[MAKENITO]

Not I said the fly. But when I have kids - they will be. Maybe

 

[n7]

I was.

 

[lokiju]

I was home schooled for only about a year and was in private school for about 3 years. Everything else was public schools.

Overall I like the private schooling the most.

 

[MagnusTheBrewer]

I went to public schools but, I was primarily self taught. The prevailing attitude then was summed up by my favorite quote from my HS Assistant Principal, "We're not here to educate you, we're here to keep you off the streets!"

 

[Terzo]

Not I. But sometimes I wish I had been.

I think most of you know I am 30 and had to go back to college recently. The kiddies do not impress me. They are stupid and lazy and spoiled horribly.
BUT, one young gal did impress me in many ways academically. As it turns out she was home schooled, and she is far more sociable and mature than anyone else there. I'd marry her, but she's too good for me and 11 years younger. If I were tall and cute and successful I could totally have her.

I would much rather be handsome than cute. Cute is what you call little kids or puppies. Not men.

That said, you sound a tad romantic and obsessive at the same time. I second what Buddha said. Worst case scenario, show her ATOT and you'll look 10x better in comparison.

 

[JulesMaximus]

Nobody home schooled when I was a kid. If there were any, we never met any of them.

 

[Kanalua]

Private School for me (7-12th grade).

I have an acquaintance that was home schooled. He kinda lacks social skills.

 

[surfsatwerk]

Ah, so your parents were indoctrinating young minds?

Yes, to play nice and get along with others.

 

[Leros]

I only knew 3 people who were home schooled. They were all hardcore religious people. One of them insisted her aunt had a miracle baby without sex, just like Mary.

We had two people at my high school who were home schooled before then. They were both religious nuts.

One was in some sort of dragon cult. They believed we all had dragon spirits or something like that. They also believed in ritualistic cannibalism. To top it off, he was into furries.

The other was just a super ultra Christian.

Both of them were incapable of being normally social.

 

[Matthiasa]

Hmm I don't know anyone who was home schooled. Though I do know a lecturer here is homeschooling all of his kids, and that they are literally years ahead of everyone else there age in the area in terms of what they know.

 

[Locut0s]

Am I wrong, or is there a huge correlation between home schooling and hardcore religitards?

I don't doubt it. However the only person I know to have been home schooled wasn't religious. He was an awkward kid without any social skills to speak of, less than me even at the time, and his parents thought of him as some kind of child prodigy. The truth was he was smart and somewhat nerdy but no genius. They took him out of school and home schooled him for some years. Last I heard he went back to the public system some years latter and did terribly. So much for the child genius label.

 

[AreaCode707]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kQoSRfu5z_4

Homeschooled 6th grade through end of high school, but I attended community college full time from 15-18. Finished off my bachelors from 18-19 and then went corporate. It's been 7 years in the big tech company corporate life now.

I wouldn't have traded my homeschooled years for anything. I did much better academically than I was doing in a classroom setting because my learning style was accommodated much better and it gave me a chance to recover from being bullied, allowing me to gradually gain confidence socially. As an added bonus I have stronger familial relationships than pretty much anyone else I know.

I struggle to this day to understand why the school system doesn't do more to give kids additional responsibility and natural consequences. It strikes me that people don't grow up with a sense of ownership over their own successes and failures, an understanding of cause and effect in their own lives and that seems like a failing the school system is positioned to undertake.

[edit] I should also note that my mom was a certified teacher in the state of California.

 

[TridenT]

I never met homeschooled kids where I use to live. I only heard of a few who were home-schooled and that was for religious reasons.

Very much more common up here in the city for some reason, but maybe it's just because they all attend the local community college I go to.

They're pretty normal folk. The general consensus of them isn't uber genius either. :| They're not smarter, better at the work, more socially awkward, or anything really... They're all kinda normal peeps from what I can tell.

Oh, and home schooling wasn't an option for me. I had public schools to attend that were all sub-par compared to national standards. Lalala...


edit: I should make a clarification I guess... They're normal folk in the sense that they have really motivated parents when it comes to their child's education, don't come from fucked up families typically, and CAN be UBER religious... But that's not different from some public school kids either. It's just MUCH more likely they come from those types than the public school kids. Also, the families are almost always financially well off.

 

[HamburgerBoy]

Yes, 6th through 12th. I blame my anti-social behavior based on the fact that Forumplanet and ATOT were my childhood influences, not so much the homeschooling itself, as my other siblings are quite normal.