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I always wonderd how adults that have been home schooled or went to high school online feel about their experiance when they get older? I prefer to people that actually live through the experiance.
Do you think your education prepared you for work or college? What about the social awkwerdness that often accompanies being home schooled? I know that it was extremelly difficult for myself who has always been well socialized to learn how to make the transition from childhood to adult. I would imagine that homeschooled kids would have a much harder time with that.
Overall was it a positive or negative experiance? Are you glad you were homeschooled or cyber schooled?
I wasn't homeschooled, but I assure you that social awkwardness is really just an individual thing, not a "homeschool" thing. Consider also, that homeschooled students are typically out in the world every day, so it's not really that big of an adjustment once they become adults.
In July 2000, the Discovery Institute, a Seattle-based think-tank, published an extensive report on homeschooling written by Senior Fellow Dr. Patricia Lines. She describes several controlled studies comparing the social skills of homeschoolers and nonhomeschoolers.
The homeschoolers scored as "well adjusted." In one study, trained counselors viewed videotapes of mixed groups of homeschooled and schooled children at play. The counselors didn't know the school status of each child. The results? The homeschooled kids demonstrated fewer behavioral problems. Dr. Lines' conclusion? "There is no basis to question the social development of homeschooled children."
Well this should be obvious since that is one of the biggest criticisms of home schooling.
It may be one of the biggest criticisms of homeschooling but if you think about it critically it doesn't make much sense. Children who go to school spend most of their days in a classroom made up of their age mates plus an adult, their teacher. There isn't a whole lot of time for socializing as most of the activity is directed by the teacher. A child who is homeschooled has the opportunity to be out and about in their community interacting with a wide variety of people of various ages. I'm not convinced that school is the best place for a child to become "socialized". Of course there are exceptions to the rule as there are great schools and there are also homeschoolers who don't get out much but for the most part I'd say the concerns about homeschoolers not being socialized are overblown nonsense.
"What about the social awkwerdness that often accompanies being home schooled?"
As if there are no socially ackward students in high school.
Given how many HS students are, not socializing with them would be better for the kid.
The Columbine shooters were considered social ackwards by many students, that was a public school. I remember in my own school the social misfits there, probably a social anxiety disorder more than anything, but still socially ackward.
Oddly enough, I'm not one of your requested subjects, either! Perhaps homeschooled parents have better things to do with their time than read CD?
However, in 2004 a book was published entitled Home Educated and Now Adults: Their Community and Civic Involvement, Views About Homeschooling, and Other Traits, by Brian Ray. Among the items covered are reports that adults who were homeschooled:
participate in local community service more frequently than does the general population,
vote and attend public meetings more frequently than the general population, and
go to and succeed at college at an equal or higher rate than the general population.
indicate that ~74% of them homeschooled their own kids and another 15% did a combination of private and homeschooling.
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Consider also, that homeschooled students are typically out in the world every day, so it's not really that big of an adjustment once they become adults.
