Home-shool has screwed up my life.

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She says that forcing me to do crap all day is actually "giving me freedom" when it's actually slavery...sound familiar?

If she allows you to read a book, do any schoolwork at all, or to have enough time to write a letter or anything else, you are extremely fortunate. I mean that very seriously, I was not making any of the above up.

Well, at least none of your schoolwork had to be dumb preyers in Hebrew...

LOL lol lol.....OMG...I cannot believe you said that! Actually, I did study Hebrew on the rare ocassions when I had free time!! ! I still know a little bit of it...not very much I'm afraid...

Listen, My mom was a religious fanatic who believed G-d woudl talk to us if we only had faith and listened hard enough. She used to give us papers with all sorts of questions to ask G-d, and then we had to write down what we thought he has said!! ! Then she would take all four papers (one from each kid) and compare them. If my answer was diffrent or inconsistent with the other papers, it meant demons were influencing me. I would much rather study Hebrew any day...lol...

I feel sorry for everyone here who had bad homeschooling experience. I was homeschooled when I was more or less at 171NewYork's age (13-15 years old). This was because my father got a job in another country and we joined him. I remember this as the best time of my school years. My interaction with peers consisted mostly of me being a victim of bullying, so I didn't miss it much.

In fact I was homeschooling myself, and my parents were helping only when I asked them. I had books and curriculum requirements, and at the beginning of each semester I made detailed plans, dividing the material into daily "lessons", similarly as in a normal school. Officially I was a "corresponding student" and each month I had to send a pile of pre-assigned homework to school, as well as pass final exams each semester.

I have to admit that the first semester of my homeschooling was a disaster, and I missed all deadlines for the homework. After that I got better, but still spent many a night working on essays, math problems and chemistry equations to meet the deadline. My mother was apparently not impressed with my homeschooling, so I spent 1 semester of 8th grade in normal school. This did not work out very well. Suffice to say I am very glad that I was spared peer interaction during "worst years". And, do I need to mention that being homeschooled meant no P.E.?

PE for me is 15 minutes of the stupidest excersises ever!! !! !

And art is always going to art museums in NYC and nothing else except doctors!! !! !

OK, I can sympathize with you on the religion issue, even though it is (apparently) Judaism, a former obsession of mine. If I had to study any religion, that would be it. It's a lot more practical than many others.

I'm agnostic, so I don't know if there's a god, and I don't have a lto of use for studying religion. To my mind it's a comforting delusion that makes it easier on people to go through life.

However: unlike some religions, Judaism is ancient and infused with a lot of interesting ideas, morals, metaphors, and imagery. I read a book of rabbincal stories from the Kabbalah and it was wayyy cool. What I am saying is that you don't have to believe in the religion to find something worthwhile in it. If you read or study something that you find absurd or offensive, pick it apart, critique it, use your mind to examine your arguments...I have had an incredible amount of fun doing this during boring sermons (the church I am thinking of was a bible thumping speakigng in tongues, feely emotive type: yech!! ! count your blessings!! !). I just wrote down a brief outline (minus jokes, rhetoric, and stories) of what the pastor was saying, and wrote snide little notes alongside the outline picking it apart. And see, thi swas extremely useful. I *knew* that I did not believe as he did, that I couldn't believe in the god he was describing, but I needed to know why, to look at it from all the angles, to counter his arguments, even though I hardly spoke to him, and he never even knew.

If you don't believe it, fine. Find out why not. The deepest, most valid reasons for why not.

And I do think you shoudl be allowed to actually *do* art for art class. BTW, yoiu said you liked erotic art, Dali is very erotic...it's what most of his art was about. IIRC he would not have sex while he was working on a painting...he put all that energy into the work instead.

It sounds like the local school district is ruining your life and your parents are trying to do damage control. I would have been violent if I had people tacking me all the time too, only I would have smuggled a knife to school and let one of them have it next time they tried to tackle me, or maybe let them have it just out of revenge.

Maybe you can find some advocy group or a lawyer that works on a Pro Bono basis to help you get a more suitable classroom environment.

And before I started posting in forums, while my mother was napping sometimes I'd look at free pron too!

And yeah, I do consider myself Jewish and I do beleive in God, but I'd like to beleive in him my own way.

I only looked at the "Previews" sections so I could still see sex without having to register for anything and this pay for it.

I wouldn't suggest looing at porn. From what I've read, you seem to have an obsessive personality and parents who watch your every other move. That, and porn addiction isn't as "fun" as it sounds. Personally, I think it gets boring after a while.

To the guy who wrote this post.

Space Case, are you that dumb or what?