I went to public school all through elementary school but from middle school on I have been homeschooled. I personally like homeschooling better but I want to know what you all think and why.
I like homeschooling because: 1. It leaves me with more free time to do what I want. 2. I can go however fast or slow I want to.
From a psychological standpoint you are still developing until ~25 years of age. At 10 you do have most of the building blocks down, so anything after that time is learning how to use those building blocks, which makes complex social interaction more important, not less.
Of course it does MR. But that interaction can still be (for the most part) gained from playing with kids in the local neighborhood - maybe going to baseball practice or something with them. But if you don't get the roots down then that social interaction is less likely to take place.
Public schools keep students on target for things like looking up colleges and such, and some school districts are really good. But where public schools sometimes lack is in taking students seriously if we see that one of our friends isn't acting right. Another lacking for public school is with kids who are more socially challenged. Kids like us get bullied alot, and putting up with that for years is not nessisarrily healthy.
they have advantages. i honestly hate public school, so i'd prefer home schooling in most regards, but if i were homeschooled i wouldn't have many friends. honestly, just stick it out in public school, in the long run it will be worth it in terms of friends and experiences.
By age 10 you've developed at least the starting blocks for good social skills and development and I'd say I for one knew quite well who I was and what I believed by age 10.
Cutting off in the middle of formulating building blocks is far more damaging than not ever having building blocks at all.
By the end of third or fourth grade, you've got friends, enemies, and know your place. You get that pulled out, and it's a spiral straight down. Just stay on the ground and never take flight if you're getting shot down on takeoff.
I've experienced both. I hate both. I hate homeschooling even more. I hate it, it sucked, and I want to crush it. It wasn't proper homeschooling though, it was homeschooling for parents with not enough time. I.e. internet school. Of course, it allowed me all of this internet knowledge. On the negative, it's made me into a completely asocial a-hole who has an over inflated view of himself. That, and I hate people.
In retrospect, while I want to rip open half the people at my school's faces and make them eat their sinuses, I still prefer hatred over boredom. Extreme boredom, in this case.
Anyhow, I no longer derive the same pleasure I once did from TV, computer, and video games because of that. I purposely spaced it all out so that I wouldn't have 12 months of nothing. Yet, I still had 12 months of nothing. Don't get me wrong, I had friends. I went to their houses every weekend, but the week was killing me. I'd just wander around whatever video game I was playing, doing whatever.
Bottom line, public school gives me something to do and forces me to do it. Homeschool, internet school, or whatever based out of my house, isn't fun. No exceptions.
Many exceptionally smart (or gifted) students prefer homeschool.
I guess I'm an exception. If what everyone I've ever met is right in any case.
