Oklahoma Homeschooling
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1. It’s not boring as all get out. I expended the original 5 and a half years of my education in public schools. There were, of course, times when I enjoyed learning things and talking to my friends. On the flip side, though, there were long stretchings of monotony and boredom. And that was just grade school! I can’t even imagine what it would have gotten like in middle and high school. I vaguely do not forget a class I took in 6th grade before I begun to be homeschooled. “Conflict resolution” they called it. It was an entire class we had to sit through for 50 minutes a day on how not to get in a fight. Instead of instructing us something utile like math, history or science, we had to sit and learn that getting in a fistfight wasn’t good for anybody. I think it goes without saying that homeschooling was far more interesting. I was either doing something and learning, or I was enjoying my free time. I never had to sit through extended periods of monotonous lectures or look with fixed eyes at a chalkboard while a teacher catered to the slowest student in the classroom. I was competent to learn at my own pace and get enjoyment from it. 2. No one gives you wedgies. Unless, of course, you have an older sibling and then you might get more wedgies than you may handle. One of the fantastic things regarding being homeschooled is that there is no awkward social structure that you have to fit yourself into. Unless you live in a very elaborated family, there are no bullies, no drug addicts and so forth. Again, the vantage is more than what you don’t have to deal with, but also in what you do get. Being homeschooled enabled me to manufacture much more inviolable relationships with my parents and my siblings, and I did find a potpourri of friends through our homeschool group and church and so forth. I found that when I got to college I was capable to comfortably commune with everyone from the older students (some who were even grandparents, coming back for their education) to the younger students and even the professors and staff. None of these humans ever gave me a wedgy. 3. Odds are your teacher will probably like you. I didn’t personally ever have issues with a teacher that didn’t seem to like me or treat me well, but I do know that those experiences are out there. The odds increase, I think, as you get into high school that you might run into a teacher that you either don’t like or who doesn’t like you for a great deal of reason. I wouldn’t say that it’s anything personal, just most times there are personality clashes. On the other hand, I think you gain from homeschooling because you’re competent to formulate a much deeper kinship with your parents. Instead of coming home from school and plainly telling them what you did (if you may even do not forget all the details) you live it with them. |
