Do you hate homeschooling kids?

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Sorry but i really think its unfair how homeschool kids get to lead such an easy life. I really can't stand it hearing or reading about homeschooled kids. Anyone feels the same? (Homeschool kids don't feel insulted btw.)

You've never watched the National Spelling Bee, have you? It's like training for the Olympics. Some of those parents are militant! I don't find that "easy" by any definition of the word.

Doesn't it make you jealous that most homeschooled kids do a few hours of school, play the rest of the day AND kick public schooled kids' butts academically?

Hehe, your first post in my topic, welcome to WP ^^ And thats a fact too... The're always so smart, i guess they just never knew any worrys.

No. Sometimes I wish I was homeschooled.

I plan on homeschooling.

I was home-schooled. Mixed bag: I got to work at my own pace without too many distractions, but I also ended up home when my idiot stepfathers were, and spending time in the same building with either of them usually turned out to be somewhat unhealthy.

I a homeschooled. A boy I went to preschool with ALWAYS had behavioral problems in the traditional school setting and his grandmother homeschooled him. Before my mom homeschooled me, I was SO jelous of him. So before I was homeschooled. Yes. His family are super strict fundamendlist Christians and were super hard on him for things he probably could not even control. In the end he went back to public school. I wonder if he regrets it.

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Same.


I had such a horrific time in school that I don't wish to subject my kids to that. Also the quality of education in public schooling has declined so bad that it's scary. No child left behind was a poor choice for our school systems.

xinae, make sure your kid(s) are aspies first because if they aren't then they won't have the same horrible experience.(think about it)

Thanks! Good to meet you! I've been lurking.

Your observation is part of the reason I homeschool my kids. I was a product of the public schools and saw firsthand the problems in the system. Being AS (and not knowing--just thinking I was a freak like the kids said) made it tough to navigate the system and the "social" aspect of public school did more damage than good for me.

I decided that I wanted to make school easier for my kids--I don't want them to be bullied and ostracized for being different. I want them to have fun with learning, not memorize facts for tests. Children are born with an instinctive desire to learn, but public schools damage that, too, IMO. How many kids these days say, "I hate school!" Not so with most homeschooled kids. I hope my kids always enjoy learning for the sake of learning.

So, I have to say that I HOPE homeschooling is easier. I think it means I'm doing my job as a teacher and a mom.

My son has AS. He's even more so than I am, I'm fairly high functioning. He's in public preschool for now, for his speech delays. He starts back up in Aug, I'm willing to give it a chance atm, mainly for the speech assistance. But I'm not holding my breath that he won't have issues later on.

I tried homeschooling my daughter for a while. I didn't so much hate it as was not very good at it, mainly because my daughter doesn't respond the same way I do to specific learning strategies. Things I expected her to enjoy as much as I did, she just didn't like. For instance, when I was an elementary school student, I loved workbooks -- I mean, really loved workbooks. The structured approach with specific, spelled out goals was a great strategy for me and I got a lot out of it. My daughter hated them with a passion and I couldn't seem to find a strategy that worked well.

I had thought we would do well, since when she was little and first trying to wrap her poor little left hand around a right-handed writing system, I was able to help her by taking her out on the driveway with sidewalk chalk and having her write her letters really big until she could write them smaller as well. She also liked the tossing game we developed for learning geography with a blow-up globe. She liked lessons that involved moving in some way, but it got to the more detailed subjects, I just couldn't find a way to teach her that was enjoyable for her. After about six months, we went back to public school.

Regards,

Patricia

I was homeschooled much of my life.

Go ahead. Hate me because I got mauled by the system and chose not to stay there.

I think I have an idea what you're getting at.

But, you know, I think it's fair actually. Homeschooling.

Not a really good solution, but it's fair.

Because it is real unfair that those with AS and other forms of autism often have to go into schools they cannot function at, they cannot work (as well) at and where they are at risk for social exclusion and bullying. And peole just don't care because they don't understand autism.

Homeschooling seems fairer to me compared to that unfairness against autistic people.

I totally agree with your sentiments.

Staying in school was destroying me, I was constantly anxious, and the staff couldn't leave me alone, they incessantly interfered and tried to get me to change myself and become more like other girls. (That the other girls were delinquent premature sluts was beside the point....) They refused to see my difference as anything other than a disease that needed aggressive treatment.

Between home school and public school.. I'd pick home school for my kids if I had the option (and if I had kids).

Public school fills a child's mind with garbage. It's brainwashing for the masses. I'd rather my kids get an -accurate- (because public schools do not teach fully accurate history) and unbiased education.

What do you want to raise? Sheeple or people?