| 1. It's not boring as all get out.I spent the first 5 and a | | | | than what you don't have to deal with, but also in what |
| half years of my education in public schools. There | | | | you do get. Being homeschooled enabled me to |
| were, of course, times when I enjoyed learning things | | | | develop much stronger relationships with my parents |
| and talking to my friends. On the flip side, though, there | | | | and my siblings, and I did find a variety of friends |
| were long stretches of monotony and boredom. And | | | | through our homeschool group and church and so |
| that was just grade school! I can't even imagine what it | | | | forth. I found that when I got to college I was able to |
| would have gotten like in middle and high school. I | | | | comfortably communicate with everyone from the |
| vaguely remember a class I took in 6th grade before I | | | | older students (some who were even grandparents, |
| began to be homeschooled. "Conflict resolution" they | | | | coming back for their education) to the younger |
| called it. It was an entire class we had to sit through | | | | students and even the professors and staff. None of |
| for 50 minutes a day on how not to get in a fight. | | | | these people ever gave me a wedgy.3. Odds are |
| Instead of teaching us something useful like math, | | | | your teacher will probably like you.I didn't personally |
| history or science, we had to sit and learn that getting | | | | ever have issues with a teacher that didn't seem to |
| in a fistfight wasn't good for anybody.I think it goes | | | | like me or treat me well, but I do know that those |
| without saying that homeschooling was far more | | | | experiences are out there. The odds increase, I think, |
| interesting. I was either doing something and learning, or | | | | as you get into high school that you might run into a |
| I was enjoying my free time. I never had to sit through | | | | teacher that you either don't like or who doesn't like |
| extended periods of monotonous lectures or stare at | | | | you for some reason. I wouldn't say that it's anything |
| a chalkboard while a teacher catered to the slowest | | | | personal, just sometimes there are personality |
| student in the classroom. I was able to learn at my | | | | clashes.On the other hand, I think you benefit from |
| own pace and enjoy it.2. No one gives you | | | | homeschooling because you're able to develop a |
| wedgies.Unless, of course, you have an older sibling | | | | much deeper relationship with your parents. Instead of |
| and then you might get more wedgies than you can | | | | coming home from school and simply telling them what |
| handle. One of the fantastic things about being | | | | you did (if you can even remember all the details) you |
| homeschooled is that there is no awkward social | | | | live it with them.To learn much more about |
| structure that you have to fit yourself into. Unless you | | | | homeschooling, particularly, homeschooling the high |
| live in a very complicated family, there are no bullies, no | | | | schooler, please visit homeschool to college. |
| drug addicts and so forth.Again, the advantage is more | | | | |