What is better being homeschooled or public school?

I am homeschooled and have been homeschooled for seven years now. The majority of my friends are not homeschooled, but I have a large variety of friends who are. The reason most of my friends are not homeschooled are because I am not in an enviroment where I a subjected to other peers my age seven days a week.
Therefore I have learned to be much more open minded to EVERYBODY. Adults, Children, the Elderly... hey are ALL m friends, and I visit them ALL often. Age is jsut a number, and I feel as though I would not have been able to gain that frame of mind if I had stayed in public school.
This is my senior year of highschool, and mst of my friends are graduation homeschool style with me. I ahve never had social issues being homeschooled BUT I do feel the need to state that it all depends on the family.
If you are going to homeschool your child and not allow them to be in co-ops, have tutors, go to football games, yoga classes, ect. Then you cannot expect them to be social butterflys and cope well in large groups.
But if you socialize your child often, then they will probably end up better than average. I feel as though I am very open minded, th vas ajority of my friends are my age, but I love everybody not mattr how old or what race or religion, because I ahve learned that you really don't pick your friends like you are taught in public school, they choose you, and you jsut just have to love them to be happy, no matter who they are or what they do.
I like public schools, but I do feel as homeschooling helps students to hold on to their indivuality more and to help them not to form to society and helps them cope with being different in life.
The #1 problem I ahve had while being homeschooled was public schooled children. Because they do not know how to react to somebody different then they are, so they automatically jump to conclusions such as homeschooled kids are socially inept, too smart or not smart enough, and that they cannot face reality. They we are ALL "sheltered' and bake cornbread and wear matching jumpsuits and have 15 kids in evry family.
Now there ARE some people like that.... but not all..... and homeschooling is NOT for everybody, but can be a wonderful wonderful thing if used correctly.

 

yeah well tried being homeschooled with the mother i have and tell me u woulda loved it..i wasnt even allowed to leave the damn house.

 

I have gone to both public and private school but have never been homeschooled. I didn't like private school all that much. The people there are much different. Mommy- and- Daddy- have -money-so- I- am-much-better-than-you type of attitude. If you didn't do what veryone else was doing you were a big outcast (needles to say thats where I fell) and everyone knew everyone so it was easier for rumors to start.

On the other hand I much prefered public school. I had many friends there and made new ones. There were different crowds and no one had the better than you attitude. I made many new friends and it was great. Rumors didnt start quite as easy and when they did it didnt get very far. You would always see a new face. Then again the public school I went to had a bout 4,000 of us students. I just liked it so much better.

I would imagine being homeschooled could be fun. But I think it would detrimental to one's social skills. Plus it would seem like there would be more leniency in the cirriculum.

 

I went to a religious private school and hated it. I'm not sure I would have liked public school. I like the idea of homeschooling or unschooling and plan on trying that with my own (future) kids, but it probably would not have worked for me because I do not get along with my mother at all and being at home with her all day would have been torture. The best thing for me would have been to have either gone away for school or to have quit school altogether and gone straight to college or living abroad. I got my real education when I was in college, which I loved. High school was a huge waste of my time. For example, I spent twelve years in school studying a language and never learnt it. As an adult, I spent two years living abroad and learnt two languages. I always thought I was bad at languages, turns out, I'm good at languages, they were just bad at teaching it. The worst part for me is that now I have to watch my neice go to the same grade school that I went to and I have to watch them force knowledge and authority on her and her growing to hate it and there's nothing I can do (yeah, I guess I'm still angry).

 

just wondering if there are things sometimes that we think or our parents think that we don't want to learn or that conflict with views held that, in some way through learning about them and discovering how varied the world of human thinking, perspective and interpretation can be, we somehow become broader of mind? For me the ultimate is a combination of all three, the money from the private schooling, the variety of humans we can meet in public schooling and the care and passing on of knowledge and values that homeschooling can involve.

 

Institutionalised learning, whether public or private, is almost invariably inefficient, grossly so. As a means of making sure people learn the basics, like literacy, when otherwise they wouldn't have - say with illiterate parents - it was fine, but as a means of learning as much as possible, as easily and quickly as possible, of the things that are most necessary, it's tantamount to a disaster. Teaching yourself is by FAR the more efficient method, with some mentor - whether a parent or teacher - helping out when you're stuck, giving practical opportunities to use the knowledge where it's useful, but that rarely happens until you get closer to college.

You can learn from a book in ten minutes the information that is put across in the average lesson by a teacher addressing the whole class. In addition, there is too much redundancy in what is taught, and assessed, and the pace rarely suits everyone. Any confusion a child may experience is rarely identified at the moment it occurs, thus causing more confusion further down the line. You could cover the same ground in a fraction of the time with much more independent study, and added up over the years...

As for the supposed benefits of socialisation, the people who are in most need are the ones most ill-served by such institutions. The people who socialise easily with those others tend to be on pretty much the same page; others who struggle do so because they're on a very different page, and exposure to the others doesn't automatically lead them to understand where others are coming from. You have to be in the ballpark to understand what would otherwise seem like irrational behaviours. If you're not in the ballpark, a confused misery is liable to result, rather than enlightenment.

 

I've never been to private school, but I was in public school up until the end of freshman year of high school and then I went to home schooling. It really all depends on the kids learning style. In public school, I was not doing well for many different reasons. My grades were mostly Ds and Fs. Now that I'm home schooled I take all my courses through community colleges and I'm doing very well. My grades are all As and Bs. I'm all around happier.

Some people won't do well in a home schooled environment, some won't do well in public school, and some won't do well in private schools. It all depends on the person.

 

Homeschool is the best.....

 

Or maybe your mom doesn't have the heart to fail you.

 

i homeschool my children and it works great. we have a wider variety of things to learn about on a schedule that we pick. we dont have to go out on those cold winter mornings. we can let the children tell us what they want to learn about and incorporate that into there regular studies and it doesnt take the entire day to do it since i only have 2 children to attend to.they get more one on one attention and seem to be doing great. we have local homeschool groups that get together on a weekly basis and dance classes and other activities like that for them to acquire the social skills needed to get along in life.

 

If we call public school what it really is ... government school, then realizing the benefits of homeschooling might be a little more apparent.

"Government schools will teach children that government is wonderful." ~ Neal Boortz

 

i've never been public schooled but i thnk i'd rather stay homeschooled. i'm a freshman and so far homeschooling has been heaven compared to stories i hear from my friends (all of which are public schooled) and i think education-wise it is better. for instance, if i have a problem with something, i can just go directly to my teacher (mom) and she can personally help me with it. whether it's spelling problems, or math or whatever. you can't do that in a public school because your crowded into a room with 30 other kids. this is just how i see it. hope i'm not stepping on anyone's toes.

 

I've done both public school and home schooling.

Public schooling for K-5th, home schooling for 6th and 7th, public schooling for 8th, and now home schooling 9th-now (will be graduating this fall).

I can say without a doubt, trying both, that home school is without doubt superior to public schooling.

I am glad I was in public school for my first years of schooling, as it allowed me to socialize a bit, but now, I love being able to be home and not surrounded by a bunch of other kids. I just can't constraint in classrooms like that.

Hehehe, good idea.

 

I think a child should be exposed to bolth, so they could have social skills while at the same time being encouraged by their parents

 

I have to say public schools since even though 90% of the people meet in public schools are pricks it just seems better, then priavte schools or home schooling.

 

"Seems better", based on what?

Valdis

 

My kids were exposed to both, however I wouldn't say that Public School is such a great mechanism for socialization. I'm kicking myself for not thinking of or considering home school from the get go. I believe they'd have been far better off in ALL areas if I had.

Valdis

 

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