• Cat without eyebrows @lemmy.world
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    11 months ago

    I was homeschooled. I ‘graduated’ without a valid diploma and had to get a GED. I don’t speak to my parents and my child is currently enjoying his day at public preschool. All my church friends who were raised similarly also are in similar situations. That’s about all I’ll say about it.

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      11 months ago

      I was homeschooled up until 12. I went to college at 15. That’s about all I’ll say about it.

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          Technically it’s a junior college program because I still had some high school requirements until I was 16 and took the high school proficiency exam. After passing that I did not have to attend any classes in the program.

          At 17 I transferred to a state university as a junior because I accumulated enough credits in the community college.

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        11 months ago

        thank you for saying it! good homeschool experiences tend to be under rated. Not all homeschool kids have religious nutbags or unschooling types for parents.

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          11 months ago

          Of course not all homeschooling is bad. But these days it does seem that homeschooling tends to skew towards the ultra-conservative MAGA Jesus crowd.

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          Eh, even if the parents are educating, the social development of such folks as I have seen is horribly stunted, and stunted during some key formative years. Doesn’t help when the parents are telling the kids they are so smart that no school could hope to teach them right.

          Even if you acquire knowledge, life can suck if you can’t deal with people.

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            11 months ago

            As a home school parent, socialization is really the hardest and most expensive part. We use an online, self-paced version of the state curriculum (provided by the state, so yes it fully “counts”) so that part is pretty easy. But keeping them involved in communities outside the home, with other kids and adults, is a constant effort. They can finish a whole week of curriculum work for all their core subjects in 8 hours or so (hence the online self-paced school), but all the extra curriculars and meetups that keep them socially active consume most of the rest of the week (and many of them are pretty expensive).

            Home schooling is not for the faint of heart, and it’s certainly not the easy button some people treat it as.

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            11 months ago

            Opinions are like assholes my friend, everyone’s got one but we don’t need to share them just for the hell of it… you do you, but this was a dumb thing to say so i’m going to file it with all the rest of the dumb shit people say. have a nice day

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        11 months ago

        Tuition paid using the money you stole from the public education system.

        How many poorer kids do you think that money would have helped get into college that didn’t go so you could at 15?

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          11 months ago

          I would have spent the same money going to college anyway? I just did it earlier, this post makes no sense