Anyone Else "Homeschool"

[dxm8975]

I was lucky enough to be able to enroll in quite a good district. The Livonia Public School system here in Michigan is top notch. I was lucky enough to take multiple Career center classes there.

While in Engineering & Design class senior year, I met this incredibly smart home schooled kid. He was very, very shy, but he was a good kid. He was one of the best kids in class and he was always quiet ( I admire that because I never shut up ). I think he has quite a bright future ahead of him.

Probably the home-schooled kids do learn something different from a distinct angle from you can usually follow through your own college life... The less time he goes out from home and having more time to hang with siblings at home instead, he will earn more chance for forstering his own imagination to become more creative, more quiet but lacks self-social skill to resolve matters himself, since they only spend their time within his family circle where the parents can always keep an eye for their children, without encountering to actual problems(or extremely less occasion) with his classmates and other outsided-people during his childhood, which can be more serious, sinister and impossible to be settled only by his parents.

There are also cases I've personally seen where the kids become 🤬. This kid I know, he thinks he is the smartest person on the planet. He says because he isn't a moron like high school kids because his parents are teachers. All he ever does is play call of duty and sleep. He is a worthless, pampered rich kid. He got so angry at me because he got a 18 on his ACT saying it was worthless.

It can go either way. It depends on the school. It depends on the parents, and most importantly, the student.

I don't understand why a kid whose parents are teachers or highbrows takes it for granted that he is so a smart or talented kid that he unhesitantly assumes he's the cleverest(or cleverer than those who went through under a way of supposed education) brat in the world... it doesn't mean that he undoubtedly becomes more intelligent than others just because his parents are in a walk for socially acknowledged intellectuals... rather those who say they're smarter than others with no ground reason are silly(or as stupid as they assume the school students to be).

 

[shmogt]

One interesting phenomena I've noticed with many home school students is they some how assume they are more intelligent than their enrolled counterparts. And/or have far too much religious bias in their education.

This is what I have found. I met a girl who is pretty smart I assume since she is in school to become a scientist and was home schooled before that. When this subject came up she only talked about how smart home school kids are and how dumb and awful regular school kids are. It's not really fair to assume that since it's like 10,000-1 ratio of regular school to home school kids. Of course there will be a lot more dumb kids. However school is what you make of it. If you don't care you will not learn as much, doesn't matter where you go.

Also the religion thing I didn't even know about until I talked to her. She was saying it's like all the heavy church people home school their kids and they take group class' at each others houses (somewhat cult like to me) and that's how all the parents share the load. Smaller classes are gonna make it easier to follow along and understand things so it probably is a bit better. Everything is real religion basis that she says and her family believes in to the point where it effects important decisions. In my opinion I think home school has more to do with keeping the religion strong and not letting others influence their kids any other way than it does with the actual education quality.