what's your opinion of homeschooled kids?

[fleurdesaison]

i've only had one friend who was homeschooled and she was a bit strange but not totally socially inept ...she wasn't very well-liked by her "friends" though....

and i know this other girl who isn't home schooled but much of her family is and she is totally socially inept....she's like the weirdest person ever and everyone knows who she is just because she's so fucking weird

thoughts?

dont get all defensive here, let's admit it, there is a higher rate of social ineptitude among home schooled kids than among public school kids.

[TypicalMale]

I bet I'm weirder than both of those girls put together, and I went through the public school system.

[Douchebaguette]

I'm 'homeschooled' I must admit when I went into home schooling I became very anti-social but I had already went anti-social in public school I just kept friends around me at all times for appearance reasons but once I hit homeschooling I just gave up on the social front. I don't like people I hate them but without the pressures of having to deal with people on a daily basis my anti-social attitude really picked up.

But I know how to react in all social situations thrown at me, as I've seemed to notice for the other homeschooled kids I've ran into.

[nickyXnihilist]

dont get all defensive here, let's admit it, there is a higher rate of social ineptitude among home schooled kids than among public school kids.

Do you actually have statistics or any kind of proof (not anecdotal) to back that up, or are you just saying that because homeschooling is considered weird?

I mean, I totally think homeschooled kids are weird too and I don't at all trust parents who choose that method of educating their kids, but I've yet to see any actual EVIDENCE, beyond my own inflated ego, that what I think is actually true in this case.

[SaveTheManatees]

When I hear someone is "homeschooled" I assume they're either completely socially inept or their parents are crazy religious white separatists.

[leafgum]

There is some statistic that states that homeschooled children more often than not come out ahead of students in the same grade who go to public school.

"Numerous studies have found that homeschooled students on average outperform their peers on standardized tests. Home Schooling Achievement, a study conducted by National Home Education Research Institute (NHERI), supported the academic integrity of homeschooling. Among the homeschooled students who took the tests, the average homeschooled student outperformed his public school peers by 30 to 37 percentile points across all subjects. The study also indicates that public school performance gaps between minorities and genders were virtually non-existent among the homeschooled students who took the tests.

New evidence has been found that home schooled children are getting higher scores on the ACT and SAT tests. A study at Wheaton College in Illinois showed that the freshmen that were home schooled for high school scored fifty-eight points higher on their SAT scores than those of kids that went to a normal school. Most colleges look at the ACT and SAT scores of home schooled children when considering them for acceptance to a college. On average, home schooled children scores eighty-one points higher than the national average on the SAT scores."

And saying they're socially inept is a complete generalization, and a stupid one at that. It depends completely on the parents, the aptitude of the child, and whether or not the child has other out-of-school activities (and every child should).

"John Taylor later found, using the Piers-Harris Children's Self-Concept Scale, "while half of the conventionally schooled children scored at or below the 50th percentile (in self-concept), only 10.3% of the home-schooling children did so."[70] He further stated that "the self-concept of home-schooling children is significantly higher (and very much so statistically) than that of children attending the conventional school. This has implications in the areas of academic achievement and socialization, to mention only two. These areas have been found to parallel self-concept. Regarding socialization, Taylor's results would mean that very few home-schooling children are socially deprived. He claims that critics who speak out against home schooling on the basis of social deprivation are actually addressing an area which favors home schoolers."

[LikeTheHunted]

The two people I have known who were homeschooled did act "different" and "strange", not very good at socializing either. But it may just be a coincidence, I'm not judging or generalizing homeschooled children.

[x0xmanda]

face it you guys: they are majorly fucking weird.

[mcbeefster]

i think that it means the kids are anti-social or they get picked by kids at public schools

[Doctor-Pooki]

I can't form opinions on people I've yet to identify.

[Marie-is-Weird]

I don't like this thread it hates on the homeschooled kids.

Some of the kids from schools are more fucked up then us, I know that cause I met them and their down right weird and crazy.

[Daisyyyy]

They are eally weird. When I was in 7th grade I knew this boy who had been homeschooled all his life and then finally came to school and he was REALLY weird.

I had to be homeschooled for the last 9 weeks of 8th grade because I got really sick for a few weeks and didnt do my makeup work and I feel behind so my parents decided to just take me out of school until I started high school the next year so that they couldnt flunk me. But im not weird...then again I wouldnt call myself a "homeschooled kid" cuz it was only for like a month and a half lol.

Oh yeah and when I went down to this homeschool office place..I dont know why I was there...but anyways there was some kids there you could tell had been homeschooled their whole life and they were WEIRD looking

[zeke92]

Have you considered maybe getting away from the epic-fail we call high school might open your mind to some things? Maybe that person she likes isn't all that weird if you are open minded.

Maybe all these "wierd" people are just open minded and different, rather then the same exact way everyone in your school is.

[mcbeefster]

they're so "weird" because they dont know how other kids act. cuz they never went to school with other kids

[Daisyyyy]

they're so "weird" because they dont know how other kids act. cuz they never went to school with other kids

It doesnt matter why theyre weird but they are weird lol

OPh god that boy from 7th grades name was sirgay i just remembered haha

[mcbeefster]

well if the kid had gone to a public school the entire time, he probably wouldn't have turned out so "weird". funny name tho

[Daisyyyy]

Exactly lol

[mcbeefster]

there wuz a guy i seen on tv and his name wuz dusan mandick but it wuz pronounced douch-on-man-dick

[Marie-is-Weird]

well if the kid had gone to a public school the entire time, he probably wouldn't have turned out so "weird". funny name tho

Exactly, and that's why I am happy that I never went. People think I am weird and crazy but if I went to school I think I wouldn't of been the person that I am of today, I love being weird also crazy and I don't care really.

[mcbeefster]

exactly, it seems like kids that r home schooled get picked on 4 being weird and thats just dumb