Any home schoolers on egg cave?

olimpt • 11 October 2013 at 12:45 PM

I just started home school for 8th grade (I'm in high school level english/grammar/composition/ect) 6th grade math (Singapore style! ;D) and 8th grade science and social studies.

I'm feeling rather anti-social and I was curious if there was any other home schoolers around here.

Anyone have any funny home school stories btw?

aedia • 11 October 2013 at 10:42 PM

@olimpt

I was homeschooled k-12. Now I am currently a full time college student. I enjoyed being homeschooled, and it was a great experience for me. 😊

I can't think of any funny stories at the moment, but I certainly will come back and share any that come to mind, that is, if I remember. 😊

Best wishes to you in your schooling!

Edit: I'd like to ask, why are you anti-social? Or are you just selectively social? Surely you do enjoy spending time with people sometimes? 😉

Deleted • 11 October 2013 at 10:45 PM

@olimpt I am not homeschooled and will not be. I am not "anti-social" and my parents both dissaprove of home-schooling. So, I cannot relate to you ☹️

olimpt • 12 October 2013 at 5:51 AM

@aedia
@moon_thief
I couldnt think of a word for it, Like I'm not really talking/socializing with people other than adults. (I enjoy people a lot xD)

karamel • 12 October 2013 at 6:20 AM

@olimpt Anti-social means that you /don't like/ being social with others, not that you're not socialising with anyone. 😋

I personally don't like the idea of home-schooling just because it tends to isolate you from other people. Even being in a girls- or boys-only school can make you awkward or nervous around boys (if you're a girl) or girls (if you're a boy). That's what I've found, anyway, as someone who's been in a girls-only school since year 6 (or grade 5).

I'm not saying it happens to everyone; this is just my personal view. Sometimes home-schooling or single-'gender' (for lack of a better synonym!) education can be better for certain people. I guess I'm just not one of those people. x3

whereiscupcake • 12 October 2013 at 7:39 AM

@olimpt I have never been homeschooled but the thought of it has always seemed much nicer to me than going to school. I have a very big confidence problem and being forced to talk to people I hadn't seen until that moment is just too much for me and actually makes me wish I was dead (lovely thoughts going on here~) unless my friends are there in which case I struggle through with minimal damage.

@karamel I agree that being in a single gender school can make it hard to talk to people of the opposite gender, and I'm so glad it didn't work this way for me. I started an all girls school for my secondary and hadn't communicated with any boys outside of family and teachers for near on 4 years. Last friday I started sea cadets which is for both genders. I was really surprised at how open I was with the boys, even more so than the girls. We have a mutual hatred of fashion and makeup and a dislike for whatever girls are meant to like in music terms today. I feel so alone in my school right now...literally no one is like me, or at least they aren't any more. My closest friend switched to the 'dark side' about 2 years ago and started chatting about makeup and clothing. A lot. Of course I didn't leave her because of this but things don't seem the same. I am wondering if this spell of evil will consume me at some point and I will be 'forced' to buy these things by some strange entity 😋

jin • 15 October 2013 at 12:44 PM

Let me tell you the horror story that I had to deal with in both public school and homeschool. It all started in kindergarden, I was like a 5-year-old and I had never been away from my mom so, of course I wanted to be homeschooled. I would get distracted when my mom was trying to tell me something important and my horrible social studies teacher, my sister, was horrible to me. On top of that, I couldn't read and hardly knew my ABC's. So, I was sent to school next year, in 1st grade. It was decent other than the fact the the teacher was horrible and always screamed at us little children when we misbehaved. 2nd grade, was the best school year that I have had. EVERYONE loved me! It was great! 3rd grade, all heck came in, everyone started hating me all of a sudden and always teased me. Now, 3 years later, I'm homeschooled, and scared to death to meet new people. Really, it's sad. I want to go to a Christian school, but having to meet new people just ruins it for me.