homeschooling

was anyone else homeschooled as a kid? i was for a few years and i feel like it stunted me even though it wasnt for that long. im honestly surprised how its legal to do in do many countries with no reason given or supervision. ive started trying to be less inept but its been really hard so far, ive talked to people at uni a bit but i had a lot of trouble getting past basic small talk. ive also been looking at volunteering for a thrift shop since it would force me into talking to people all day basically but im not sure if it would be worth it

>>48909 did you start a new thread because you wanted to edit the OP? very interesting..

was anyone else homeschooled as a kid? i was for a few years and i feel like it stunted me even though it wasnt for that long. im honestly surprised how its legal to do in do many countries with no reason given or supervision. ive started trying to be less inept but its been really hard so far, ive talked to people at uni a bit but i had a lot of trouble getting past basic small talk. ive also been looking at volunteering for a thrift shop since it would force me into talking to people all day basically but im not sure if it would be worth it

>>48911 i was homeschooled for a year because i was a massive sperg before that

I wasn't homeschooled, but I am socially inept anyway

>>48910 seems like homeschooling really stunted him lmao

kinda wish i was homeschooled my family was poor but tragically we have good genes so i was viciously bullied by lesser garbage during my formative years, leaving a scar that persists to this day

>>48916 It depends entirely on your location and whether you can get into a nice school or not. Most public schools are more like zoos or insane asylums. You don't learn many life skills in them besides the law of nature and how to socialize with people who will become drug addicts or criminals in their near future.

I was homeschooled my whole life and greatly appreciate it in retrospect. The only downside was that random adults in the neighborhood would think you were playing hooky because you weren't trapped in school after your work was done like everyone else. We had more free time for hobbies and spending time with friends, too.

>>48919 I've only known a couple people that were homeschooled but the general consensus i've heard is that they greatly appreciated it. A lot of homeschooled kids actually learn better than they do in a public school, most of them figure out how to socialize outside of homeschooling through stuff like summer camp or boy scouts or etc. Through family probably often times.

>>48911 The worst part of my homeschool experience is how controlled it all was. Parents who read "oh, the kid needs social interaction" like it is a nutrient and think that a sibling or a grandfather or a friend of the family will do. You can't develop properly if there is no opportunity to manufacture your own affinity for other people. I don't think I've ever made a friend in my life. I used to think I had later in life, but I was never honest with them about who I really am because I could never trust them or because I could never expose those parts of myself even to myself. I remember wishing for a deep and strange wilderness in the suburbs. Somewhere things could happen.

>>48911 I was homeschooled for grades 6-7. The quality of education was excellent, but it severely stunted my social development, and I was never able to make close friends again. I think the best recipe for making close friends is to have your child stay in the same school system for as long as possible, allowing them to create long-lasting relationships which have been strenghtened by time. When you're bounced around various schools (like I was), it's much more difficult to create and maintain long-lasting relationships.

>>48916 What is the relevance of the genes part of this story

>>48918 I went to a private school and had a similar experience, even tho the kids there came from wealthier families they were fuarrrked in the head in a different manner. The degeneracy was similar but still the same only on richer kids level. That being sad it gotten a lot worse over the years, it was bad even back then but now its just purely a freakshow. Homeschool is better in theory, but most parents are useless incompetent fuarrrkups who should be sterilized so even then most are hardly competent to educate children, regardless if parents or teachers.

>>48911 I read about a mom who teaches her kids for about 2 hours a day and the comments claimed public school wastes that much time.

I don't know if I would describe myself as being "homeschooled," although my mother claimed we were homeschooled but preceeded to go through with no schooling. If I have to say honestly, then "homeschooling" ruined my life. Out of all of my siblings, I think I am the most lucky because I am in my third year of uni and am on track to graduate, albeit not on time. Basically, I don't get to have a normal time-line due to being severely academically stunted. I didn't properly learn algebra until I was 19. My sibling is a 19 years old NEET as of currently, and I am watching them break down and cry because they are struggling to learn long division. I listen to my other sibling, almost an adult, cry over a lack of friendships. We were expected to give ourselves an education using out of book textbooks from the 60's and Khanacademy. When we called out how unreasonable this task was, we were told, "You can lead a horse to water, but you can't make it drink." My delusional mother thought my siblings would learn all the life skills they needed from playing Animal Crossing and thought the only friends we needed were our cousins. My siblings and I were severely isolated and never got to go to many playgroups. The few times we did, we were shunned because of our odd and uncanny behavior from being so isolated. All of the kids usually knew each other, too. Although I am in university, I am struggling with socializing greatly. I don't have many shared experiences as my peers. When I was in community college, making friends was like pulling teeth because everyone had their friends from high school and middle school. Although I have learned a lot socially since I have started college, I am still far behind my peers and trying to pick up things I should have learned in middle school. It was also extremely demoralizing to be 18, watching my peers get to go to prom and go to graduation, but I am trying to figure out how to teach myself arithmetic, and wondering if I am even going to go to college at all, or if I am going to end up a NEET and end up killing myself. I heard people complain about COVID, the lockdowns, the isolation, but prior to COVID, when I tried to complain, I was told to be greatful with how my parents were providing me an education (when I really wasn't) or dismissed in some other sort of way. Transitioning into a college setting was the most painful and agonizing thing to me to this day - going from no schooling. I had no concept of deadlines. I was not used to being taught in a class setting. I had never written an essay. I remember I took the most basic intro to college class, and it would take me weeks to do a small assignment because I had never done a school assignment before. The social anxiety was tantalizing because I was constantly in fear that I would "be discovered." That my peers would find out that I did not belong there, and that my high school records were forged. In spite starting college late; in spite being here for four years, with likely two more years to go, I still have not found "my people" and doubt I ever will. Every person who I have talked to or tried to befriend has either ghosted me or faded away. They do not need me in their life because they already made their connections in primary school. I am constantly hounded by my age, "Doesn't it start to feel bad being in college by that age?" But I can never answer honestly. I don't have a life I can readily share with people. I have had to become a pathological liar to dream of being treated as normal. "Oh, what highschool did you go to?" "Oh, it was [local highschool name]." If I do tell the truth, I am talked down to and never treated as normal again. For what I would do just to have a normal life. I get to experience the stigma of homeschooling that I never even got to choose. I never asked for this.

>>48929 Same person here. As a final note, on top of it all, I was barred from getting the same financial support that high school graduates do because I had to go to a community college first. My university give free tuition to students who make under a certain amount, but that's only for people who enter university straight out of high school. Although I should be getting transfer scholarships, I am not getting them despite having a 4.0 GPA in community college. I busted my ass off just to only have to pay tuition out of pocket, even with what negligible financial aid I get. I get no scholarships, period. fuarrrk-offs who squander away the opportunities they got get more assistance than I do. I don't have the luxury of mommy and daddy paying my tuition. I have to pay for it myself. No one ever made a college fund for me.

>>48922 >I was homeschooled for grades 6-7. The qu SIX SEVEN

>>48929 >I am constantly hounded by my age how old are you? judging by your post your in the US of A so i dont know if this might just be a cultural thing (yuropoor here) but i know people who are 25-27 and still studying undergrad in college. also one family friend whos 26 (i think? maybe?) and is in his 1st year of college because he gave up on 2 colleges previously. the trope of the 'forever student' is pretty common here and while parents might be disappointed, other students dont give you soykaf for it. idk, maybe older students closer to your age might be more chill with you, worth a try at least (if there are some)

>>48935 nta but can second. i "lost" two years as a drop out and no one cares. i know someone in my class who is 30 and everyone is completely cool about it. in fact she's better off socially than me. i get pretty sad when i see people that are like "i cannot lose a SINGLE week of my life" because, well i see my past self in that, but they also don't realize how it's still all unconscious pressure they feel that started from their parents. being a NEET for a while ironically freed myself from that cycle of achievement and showing off grades that started at a young age, it taught me to care about actually useful stuff instead.

>>48909 If were smart enough you can just teach yourself everything. You knew you had based parents if they let you take as many shortcuts as possible in school and let you do whatever you want. If your parents were homeschooling you then you were already fuarrrked. If you're parents are strict you're even more fuarrrked. If you're parents were strict, stupid, and degenerate themselves then you never had a chance. The best parents need to leave their kid alone and let them make their own choices. There is no need to control whatever is already there.

usecase for 3 of the same thread?

>>48935 Yup. I am in the Jew S of A. I am actually younger than the age range you mentioned by a year. I'd say the people I hang around tend to average around mid 20's. But there's still a couple of people that fuarrrk with me about it. I generally gravitate towards people who are in their mid-late 30's honestly. >>48938 Sounds pretty interesting. My life until I went to college was basically being a NEET, and I found that the pressures were even worse. My grandfather would intentionally give us algebra problems he knew we couldn't solve and mock us for it. I find myself developing a mindset like yours, but then other people will point things out.

>>48952 >If were smart enough you can just teach yourself everything. While I may have managed to pull this off and gave myself the ability to enter community college with a level of foundation that allowed me to succeed in courses that eventually led me to be able to take higher-level STEM courses at a university, I don't think this it a reasonable thing to expect most people to fully teach themselves. While I was able to do it myself, it was actually a giant pain in the ass to learn everything from scratch, and that's because a lot of the resources out there were remedial resources that were intended for people who learned stuff but forgot it. In the context of math, they often left out small but key details, and they skimmed over things that would've been taught the first time. Those small details can be pretty huge when learning something for the first time. I am now taking what is considered some of the most difficult classes of a STEM major, and if I had to choose between teaching myself math again or doing this, I'd rather take this, any day of the week. There is a huge difference between trying to learn something you forgot and learn something for the first time entirely. In my classes, there are sometimes things I have to review because it had been a while since I'd seen some of those concepts. However, I will re-learn those concepts very quickly, despite it taking much longer to learn the first time I was exposed to that concept. Why did most kids struggle during COVID and online learning? You're offloading the work of multiple teachers who have college degrees to a child.

It's child abuse. I was homeschooled and all I recall of it was being bored 24/7. My parents are retards. I'm a social retard. Thanks parents. Once you're dead I'm never visiting either of your graves. I hope I die first.