Can someone who completed home-schooling 10 years ago give a update on what it did for you?
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All the testimonials from people saying “I am X-years ahead!” are a bit tiresome and not exclusive to home-schooling.
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All the testimonials from people saying “I am X-years ahead!” are a bit tiresome and not exclusive to home-schooling.
January 19th, 2010 at 6:36 pm
The only adults I know that were homschooled is a married couple. Both of which completed homeschooling 15+ yrs ago. She is returning to college this winter quarter. She scored a perfect score on the COMPASS and scored in the top 1% on the SAT. He works in IT and was one of the few to survive a huge layoff. They unschool their 3 children.
ETA: No one said being ahead is exclusive to homeschooling. Most of the time, they only mention being ahead when someone comments that homeschoolers are behind, uneducated and/or unemployable. Why does dispelling a false steroe-type bother you? You haven’t experienced tiresome until you’ve had to put up with the ignorance and lies about homeschooling on a daily basis.
If you’ve bothered to read any of our posts here, you would see that many of us have children with learning disabilities and/or developmental delays.
ETA: myrrdin_810….I would love to hear your theory on home homeschooling their oldest daughter caused her husband to be unemployed during a recession. I would also like to hear how their religion requires them to only homeschool the oldest, or is it that the rest of their children are very successful so you failed to mention them?
The thumbs down for success stories and thumbs up for failures shows a pretty clear message. The anti-homeschoolers don’t like it when homeschoolers succeed and they blame homeschooling when homschoolers fail even if homeschooling has nothing to do with it. sha_lyn68
January 21st, 2010 at 12:59 am
I’m 25 years old now. I was home-schooled for two years - 6th and 7th grades. It was a struggle for me, and when I did end up going to a school in 8th grade, I felt I was behind socially. That said, I did very well after the initial adjustment. I graduated from my (small) high school as salutatorian and went on to graduate college magna cum laude. My advice would be to make sure that homeschooled kids still get interaction with other children their own age. Nici
January 23rd, 2010 at 10:52 pm
I don’t know anybody who completed home-schooling 10+ years ago, but I do know a few who completed it 5+ years ago. They seem to be doing fine. They are working or finishing college, just like a few of the schooled people I know that are the same age.
I with you on the “I am X-years ahead!” being tiresome. It doesn’t dispel any stereotypes, it just makes homeschooled people look like pompous braggarts. The moms who say, “My children run circles around their public schooled peers” could just as easily say that their children do as well or better than public schooled children in their studies. Somehow just about every homeschooled child is exactly two years ahead and no public schooled student is ahead even one year. Just because I know a schooled kid who made a perfect score on the SATs (yes that is true) doesn’t mean anything about anybody else who took it. The same thing for the college students who say that they are “better prepared for college than their public schooled peers.” Unless they are set to graduate summa cum laude, I have no idea how they can judge what better prepared is. It just sounds stuck up. Why not just say, “I feel homeschooling was good preparation for college.” One of the most common false stereotypes is that all homeschooled kids have poor social skills. Most people think bragging is bad manners, read: a sign of poor social skills. It isn’t so much what what we say as how we say it. Besides, not every homeschooled student is an exceptional student. Many go to college, some don’t. It’s a whole lot better to say they’re regular people if that’s what you want people to believe. lampoon
January 26th, 2010 at 3:02 am
a friend i car-pooled to work with home schooled his oldest daughter. she “graduated” 13 years ago now. she is married, her husband is an unemployed carpenter, and they have 9 children.
to their credit, they do not accept any form of public assistance. the are of an “old order” religious sect, and accepting government assistance in any form would result in their immediate excommunication from their church.
my friend, aged 58 now, works 50 hours per week at his job with me and recently took another 40 hour per week job in order to support the expanded family. if the economy doesn’t begin to pick back up someday, my friend can look forward to 90 hour workweeks until he’s at least 73 years old, when his youngest grandchild will finally turn 18… hoping, and praying, of course, that he isn’t saddled with a fourth generation to support by then. as the eldest male of the family, the entire financial burden rests upon his shoulders.
if that happens, their church’s retirement plan will kick in…. “work till you die”. the sad part is they’re required to give 10% of everything the family receives to the church - even gifts and charity from neighbors.
they obey their bishop without question (also grounds for excommunication) and they’re not part of a small, fanatical cult… the last census numbered them at over 100,000 in this county alone.
yeah, that worked out really well for him. myrrdin_810