How is it to be home schooled?.?

Lonnie Jehle: its boring because there is no one to talk to, but, if your talking about online home school (thats what i do so my parents dont have to be certified), you finish your classes super fast and you can virtural chat with high ranked teachers live if you need help. most online homeschools send you a computer! lol its kinda boring, but if you keep up with your social life and keep up with your studies at the same time, you will do good. ive been doing it for 3 years and graduating at age 16 (:...Show more

Julee Lanham: Its sort of easy, but it sucks really bad. you don't get to hang with your friends all day, and have spontaneous adventures.

Elfreda Grossen: The parent and child liking it all depends on the motivations behind it, and the program used to home school. My son is 11 and was struggling terribly in school, we use an online program and supplement, he loves it. Know why? Because he is no longer the "dumb kid" in school. My son is cognitive di! sabled. He chats with his friends online or on the phone after school. He goes to the park, and plays with the neighbor kids after school. He was very popular in school, and those kids haven't gone anywhere just because he is at home. He also still participates in school sports as well as the summer programs. So it will depend on what you think is important as to you liking it or not....Show more

Irma Poiter: It is what you want it to be because you are free to make it what you want. Like some people say it's boring, they say they sit there at the computer or books all day-- well, if they think their way of doing things is boring, maybe they should change it. Like if you don't like your books, go to the library and get a new one, or get an educational documentary from Netflix. Don't just read engineering books, build a pyramid scale model out of scrap wood. If your stupid questions & answers section is boring, film your own documentary or make a scrapbook or write a p! lay about it. See-- basically you can think outside of the box! and do what interests you. Like if we study China my one child is into art and might paint a picture or make a diorama; my other is into drama & music she might write a skit or perform a dramatic reading of a Chinese folk tale or try to play some Chinese music, my other son wants to be a chef so he might look at ingredients in Chinese cooking and make us a meal. Then we all come together, invites some friends & family over and have a Chinese cultural night, display the artwork, put on a little performance, serve dinner & talked about what we learned. Some people here are saying you're home alone all day-- you don't have to be. My kids do a lot of stuff with their friends... they take co-op classes and go on field trips a lot, and that's just their homeschooling friends. Even if they don't hang out with the homeschoolers they still go out after school and play with the neighborhood kids, my teen still hangs out w/ her friends, or they go do things like classes at the commun! ity center or library Yu-Gi-Oh tournaments or volunteer for things that are important to them... you don't *have* to stay home all day. There is a whole world out there. I knew one kid that spent 2 years raising goats through a 4H project, and 1 family that travels in an RV on educational vacations... it's very flexible.I highly recommend you read the Teenage Liberation Handbook....Show more

Marcel Then: i'm fifteen &i do all my school work online, and have since the middle of seventh grade. it's okay, but i'm going back to school next year. i miss actual schoool /: but it's pretty easy and nice, and you don't have a schedule. which isn't good for some people ..haha.but i really liked it, just to warn you though after awhile you start missing actual school and being in that whole environment. buuut yeah, you might like it. (:any more questions & you can email meee....Show more

Rubye Bonnin: My sons both are happier with it and love the fact that they can pursue ! their own interests to a degree as well as move at their own pace.

Derrick Kloke: I was in public school up until my sophmore year, when I was taken out of the school because they thought I was going to kill the spanish teacher. (had a crush on her daughter so that would have gone over really well -_-) anyhow, I was homeschooled for a year, and I hated it. I was stuck at home with no real way to socialize with my friends. we hung out on the weekends, but once all the work was done, I found myself going crazy sitting around ALL DAY. I found that being back in school was preferable to being isolated all day, but if you focus more on studies than a social life, it might be for you....Show more

Dallas Bartolini: There are a number of ways to learn at home. True homeschooling is just that - School is at home. Teachers are your parents. The main reason to homeschool is to get out of the traditional school system.Real homeschooling you have full control over your education. You have the say in what you learn, how you learn and when you le! arn it. You do not have to follow a set of lessons required from your local school. You learn the way you want. You are a self learning.If you sign up to some free public school online learning thing then you are just following the same thing you were learning at school. No different from at all. You still have set rules and you are still in control of the state.Find your local state laws here - http://www.hslda.org/laws/default.asp"she'd rather have me live in Australia with my aunt but she's warming up to the home school thing" - your mom needs to be more than warmed up for this. Homeschooling is a lot of work. If she just kind of wants to do this then it will not work out for you. A homeschooling parent puts their whole life aside to teach their kids at home. Mom's have quit their jobs, put aside family vacations & many other things just to be able to teach their kids. It is a sacrifice.No one can tell you how it is really is since there are so many different ways way to! homeschool. Our family follows a mix of the Charlotte Mason method, re! laxed homeschooling & unschooling. We will usually learn science, history, geography & other extra subjects together. We will use unit studies & most often the kids do what is called notebooking to share what they learn. They will draw & create a visual report along with some writing to share how & what they learned that day. My oldest is 14. She is now old enough to teach herself most things. Or at least handle her daily work. She like her siblings has a binder with her workbooks in it. We are all sick with a nasty cold/flu thing right now so I'm letting her rest this morning then she'll sit down where ever she feels comfortable & at least do some math work today. There are many other ways we learn too. Watching movies for history, once when we were all sick we watched a few episodes of Myth Busters and talked about science. We learned black history from watching Roots. We'll play board games to learn & so on. We learn from stories such as the "Little House" books. Vacatio! n almost always counts as school. We are traveling and learning from seeing the sites, visiting different places & doing different things. Best of all we don't have to vacation in the summer. We've gone on family vacation in the winter. Less crowded and one time we went to a town that was full of seniors. lol My kids entertained them more than anything else. We met all kinds of people because there were not other kids in that beach town. All the other kids were in school. Real & true homeschooling is a family thing. It is not sitting at the computer learning lessons planned out by the state. It is not having a tutor paid to teach you all your lessons. Homeschooling is learning as a family, learning to be self taught & most of all learning that education is in your hands....Show more