Anyone else here homeschooled?

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I want to be homeschooled, then I could avoid all the social activities that is in HighSchool, as that is the most painfull part for me in school. And I could then skip past all the un needed
parts of school to, just concentrate on the education part. It would way better than how it is now.

I always wanted to be homeschool'd I just imagine how easy it would have been for me to just to wake up not have to go anywhere or get all super dressed up, sit at home watch tv play video games and yatta yatta omgawd especially in highschool its a shame my parents didn't see eye to eye on this and made all kinds of threats at the very mention of the word "homeschool" is not a word you bring up around here, it is basically blacklisted in my family, so to keep me going to my highschool eventually I ended up shipped away to boarding school my senior year an then right after that they said time for college

I just imagine how easy homeschooling would have been compared to my highschool or boarding school but nobody in my area ever did that so it must be very rare thing I heard about from people online mostly that have done it but never in real life

Only good thing about highschool was the highschool girls kind of distracting so I guess it is worth going to public school for me.

I would not have taken homeschooling seriously at all either heh so I guess its better I didn't get homeschool'd but man it sure was a dream

I homeschooled since eighth grade. I went into GED classes August 2007 and passed it in Decemember. I start college soon.


-SpaceCase

I was last year.

I was homeschooled from 3rd grade until halfway through 7th and then halfway through 9th started homeschooling again. I like homeschooling way better, but even though I didn't like going to middle school I don't regret it because they were essential social development years that I was probably better off going to school and being miserable with people than being happy and learning things by myself. Highschool was completely different, mostly it was because I had two or three teachers who couldn't stand me and a principal, who, literally, went out of her way to make me miserable (this was before I was diagnosed with AS though).

Now I'm in 10th grade and am homeschooled. I can get my GED when I'm 16 in the fall (though if anyone knows a way around this law, tell me because the sooner the better), and then I'm going to college the next year.

I was homeschooled my entire life, with the exception of one semester in a private school (9th grade) and one semester in a public school (11th grade) (both because I was curious as to what they were like, and both only one semester in length because I got bored and fed up with the lack of discipline and desire to learn among the other students. This was all before I was diagnosed, too.)

I didn't have to take a GED - just have a transcript that proved I'd taken all the hours required to graduate. Now I'm in college and quite pleased with the freedom of choice available for the different classes - although it does drive me a little batty that all of the courses I'm really interested in are for upperclassmen only.

The biggest limitation to my homeschool career . . .. languages, definitely. It's just so much easier to pick up a language when you're actually exposed to someone who speaks it. Of course. . . that could be because I was pretty much self-taught by the time I got to high school level. I outpaced what my parents could teach me, so they just started ordering self-study courses and such.

Heh. . . . my parents and I must have done something right because I'm in the honors program at my university.

As for socializing? 4-H, homeschool groups and such took care of giving me enough skills to get by - although I admit I'm extremely antisocial, it's not due to lack of exposure. The more exposure I had to "socializing", the worse I was at it. Of course, that could have been because I got very tired very quickly of behavior I saw as immature and disrespectful.

For that matter, I still do.