Who hmeschools or has homeschooled?

[Jaltus-bot]

Hi,

I seem to be seeing a lot more people mention homeschooling than I expected. I was wondering just who all homeschools, homeschooled, or has been homeschooled?

I was homeschooled 1st-12th grades.

[SManBeyond]

My parents homeschooled my siblings and me until we started 9th grade. After that, we went to public school.

[Kkun]

I'm currently a senior in high school and I've been home schooled since 5th grade.

[inkhana]

I was homeschooled 6th-12th.

[Kinkosami]

I've been homeschooled my whole life. But right now(11th grade) I'm taking a college course for college and high school credit (and still doing some school at home)

[mai]

I've homeschooled since umm.. forever I've never been to school [I'm starting the 8th grade].

[Scribs]

I was a Home shooler from K-3. when My mother got a Job at a local Christian school my brother and I attended. I think I am better of for having been homeschooled at an early age because I interacted more with Mature adults than with other imature children of my own age.

[Jman]

Been Homeschooled all my life...well I started school Last wensday.

[Scribs]

Been Homeschooled all my life...well I started school Last wensday.

This could mean several things.

A: you started a new year of home school on wendsday

B: You started Public/Private school for the first time last wendsday

or...

C: You have never been to school before and are now being homeshooled but since you only started 5 days ago you are counting that as all your life.

[Bobtheduck]

I was pure homeschooled for like a month or two... In Charter school for one semester, and in experimental school for my last 3 years of High School... All of those involve some level of homeschooling.

[Zedian]

I was homeschooled from 9th grade on until 12th.

[Golden_Griff]

I went to public school (with the exception of attending a private college) all my life so maybe I shouldn't be here. But I'm curious, why do people homeschool anyway?

[KBMaster]

Ooh, me, pick me, I'm homeschooled! I've been homeschooled all my life. The closest thing to a public school I've ever gotten in a online virtual school that I'm starting this year. I'm in ninth grade.

[Godly Paladin]

I've been homeschooled for ten years. (I'm in 9th grade.) My sister is a senior in high school and she's been homeschooled all the way. (Yet for all her intelligence she won't get a CAA membership. Urgh.) YAY HOMESCHOOLING!

[Scribs]

I went to public school (with the exception of attending a private college) all my life so maybe I shouldn't be here. But I'm curious, why do people homeschool anyway?

Well, that's a very good question Goldon Griff.

I am not a complete authority on the subject but I think that a large number of parents homeschool their children because they dont want their children to be influenced by certain nonchristian ideas that are often pressed in a public school enviroment. When a person is a young child they are very succeptable to haveing their whole pattern of thinking changed if exposed to bad influences. Another reason can be that the parents do not like the quality of education being provided at a public school and will homeschool with the intention of giveing their child a superior education.

Homeschooling has some distinct advantages and disadvantages and is not the right choice for every one, however it is a parents right and duty to educate their child as they see fit.

Hope I didn't sound too preachy! and I hope I cleared up your question.

[Kisa]

Homeschooled only once in 7th grade . . . ^^

[Golden_Griff]

[quote="piloswine"]Well, that's a very good question Goldon Griff. ]

Hmm, thanks for the explanation.

Now my next question is how does it work? Do your parents teach you themselves or do they hire someone? Are there certain subjects you have to take/ a certain number of subjects? etc.

[ZiP]

Myself and my brother (a former CAA member), are homeschooled, and have been all our lives, along with the other siblings.

[PumpkinKoRn52]

I was once homeschooled, and it was the most hellish form of torture I have experienced in a school setting.

[Raiden no Kishi]

I'm sorry about that. your experience was an anomaly. Most homeschooled students enjoy it.

I've been homeschooled all my life.

Rai

[Trinitron]

I've been homeschooled my whole life.

[gungrave]

I've been homeschooling two years going on three most likly through 12th, yea alot of people homeschool

[shooraijin]

I went to various public and private schools, but my "baby" sister was homeschooled from junior high on up through high school.

[Swordguy]

i wen't to public school til 2ed grade then in 3ed and 4th i want to a privite Christian school but i could learn in that kind of envorment so i had to go back to public school in 5th grade and now i am a senior so i guess thats that

[Madeline]

I homeschool and attend a co-op...I'm going tommorrow for the first time. ^_^
Wish me luck!

When I was in pre-school to 2nd grade, I went to a Christian school even though my parents were broke. In third grade, I was enrolled in an elementary school...I didn't do so well there. By the sixth grade, I had lost interest in everything around me and hated my life and nearly everyone around me. My mom saw the major decline in my grades and my lack of interest in things that I formerly would love to do-in the G.A.T.E program they were making a movie that year, and I failed to turn in my submission (purposely) because I despised the building itself so much I just wanted to go home. She had wanted to homeschool me before but thought she was incapable of teaching me...until we found out about the "independant study program" at Mountain Valley Academy. I refused to go to sixth grade camp
and gave all my fund-raising money to a classmate, and while they were there I tried out the school. I made six friends right away and was completely at home there. Those were some of the best times I had. I homeschooled for three days a week and went into class for two. Grades were on a point-basis. I stayed there for almost a year or two and then we moved to Florida for employment reasons...
Now I'm completely homeschooled and I don't have many friends here yet, but I'm coping find and as far as education goes, I'm enjoying myself and the material. There are opportunities here...and I'll manage.
Sorry, long story...

[Jaltus-bot]

Hmm, thanks for the explanation.

Now my next question is how does it work? Do your parents teach you themselves or do they hire someone? Are there certain subjects you have to take/ a certain number of subjects? etc.

My mom was my teacher. We have class in the family room or something. Instead taking my book to school or having a locker, we had our books on a bookcase. My mom sometimes went over the material with my brother and I-we were in slightly different grades as he is a little older than I. We went and did our work, saw our mom if we needed. My dad helped with some of the chemistry, physics and the last math-he's an engineer, it's more his area. My mom graded the work and turned in lots of paper work to our school office. We homeschooled through a private homeschool covering several cities and the office was an administrative headquarters and had a principal and a few others working there.

As I understand, a few people took this one art class together taught by the same mom, but that was unusual. We had certain PE, english, math, foreign language, elective, ec. requirements of classes and years of classes that we had to take. I usually had I think 7 or 8 classes, but I don't know. Sometimes we broke english down to literature, grammer, and composition.

Being homeschooled was a lot like public schooling with a few differences. I had the usual math, science, english, social science,etc. I had to take these. I also had a couple of elective classes fitting some required type such as the fine art and foreign language requirements in highschool. PE without a school gym was a bit different.

My mom was my teacher. She had to turn in course descriptions about curriculum and grade sheets and such to our school. The school was basd in Corona and included families with students over multiple cities.

Walking to school for me meant walking to the front of the house. We were supposed to have a start time to the day, but honestly I wasn't very good aout that little detail.

In earlir school years, we had to take some kind of standardized tests. Like my brother, I took the California High School Proficiency Exam in 10th grade. This helped to prove that we knew some of what we would have to know.

The school year was broken into four quarters. Summer was a fifth quarter, but we never actually had summer school in my family. Each quarter had it's own grades that were turned in. I had tests throughout each quarter, but I never had anything like finals.

The school had various activities and some sports and things so that we weren't necessarily uninvolved, but I never got particularly involved there because I did not feel like we related to them as well. I preferred my church youth group in junior high and high school. I found out at my graduation the my gradutating class was in the low thirties. I think my class size was 34.

Number one reason to homeschool: So that the mailman has to deliver dead animals to you in the mail. Scapels are fun. We also did a little bit of lab work at home in the high school science classes.

[Roy Mustang]

Was homeschool from 6th to 12th due to a few things.

[Shinja]

i was homeschooled from 4th through 12th, so yeah, it was great it was like living outside the law, cause at the time it wasnt as accepted as today so we had to be carefull about going outside in the daytime, also several times there were bills introduced that would have made it illeagle to home school in my state so it was cool. if i have kids they will be homeschooled.

[PrincessZelda]

I've been homeschooled all my life.

[bakura_fan]

I started Homeschooling in 6th grade because we were trying to sell our house and we found it might be easier to move if I was homeschooled then uprooting me during the school year. So. I started in 6th grade and ended in 11th. That's when i started Running Start and taking college classes instead of Highschool one's. I used a Christian Computer program called Switched on Schoolhouse. It was fun.