What kind of education would have been perfect for you?

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Either homeschooling or a Montessori-type setup where I could've worked at my own pace. I was always WAY ahead of what my class as a whole were doing. I was ready to delve into algebra and trig in 6th grade when the rest of the class was still doing long division. I wish I could've worked at my own pace. Who knows, I may have finished high school early!

Perfection for me would've been learning by staying at home and reading, with a teacher available for questions by phone. I never learned anything from a lecture or from the babblings of other students; just let me absorb the facts at whatever speed is working for me that day and don't waste my time with a teacher repeating what I've already read or other students clouding my store of facts with their nonsense on the topic.

One to one education. I had this in maths and it helped me a lot. The guy who was teaching me was quite Aspie, too. He scored well on the AQ test

Interesting answers.

I would have preferred homeschooling myself, but would have wanted interaction from classes that I was interested in and apprentice-type opportunities.

I'm planning on taking Tenzin out of school anytime he's ready.

It pains me to send him to school at all because I don't agree with the mainstream paradigm. I believe in intrinsic motivation not extrinsic motivation.

He's in a Montessori program at our small, neighorhood public school just a couple of blocks from our house. As long as I can have a voice there, I see no signs of prejudice, discrimination or bullying and he's happy to be there... school it is.

I'm a homeschooler at heart but really need to develop my organizational skills so I can set up some kind of structure for T to do it well.
And I'm educating myself in all the ways to get free resources as we don't have the $ for tutoring or much else that needs to be paid for.

I'm guessing Middleschool might be too much, too big and that will be the end of school. I'm open to whatever happens...

Homeschooling or individual learning program. I was forced to socialise and I think it was destroying me.
My school offered ILP for me, but my parents decided to socialise me, not isolate. I think it was wrong choice.
I didn't know they offered it and I was dreaming about ILP, because I hated school. Later they told me about the offer... oooooch, how pissed off I was!

distance learning

Definitely home school/unschool (I'm never quite sure what that means). I did the bulk of my real education as an unemployed adult, with an internet connection, an inferiority complex, and a burning desire to know.

Unschooling is a specific style of homeshooling where the adult doesn't control the content of what the child learns whatsoever.

The child chooses everything that they want to learn and the adult just helps facilitate access to the child's interests, and resources related to what the child wants to learn about.

Google.

Ooops, my first double post. Sorry!

Library, computer, no adults present.

Microwave and infinite pizza supply inside library. Only extant key to library door also inside library.

I am not sure if all the home-schooling preferences are preference over-riding need.

I always did best in well-defined, formal school settings with examinations. I found highly structured learning (including coursework, where it was individual and highly structured) most effective. I equate high results with effective, and possibly with enjoyment.

In contrast to an earlier posting, beatings and punishment did not ever add any value to structured learning.

I have always tried to put similar structure around my own learning, activities and hobbies since then.

Homeschooling while socializing with other AS kids and NT kids 4-5 years younger than me. Throughout middle school and high school, I was an outcast, emotionally bullied on a daily basis. Academically, I was about 2 years ahead of my age but socially and emotionally, I was about half my chronological age.