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It would suck to leave for college and come back home during summer breaks only to realize that you have no friends to return too as a result of being home schooled.

Lol

@PerfectSight:

i had no friends for most of my life.

If you've already been to a public school and you're considering home school then I don't believe you are going to lose much of your social skills. Especially if you interact with people outside of school hours.

The only problem with not having social skills happens when you are home schooled will usually only happen if you started at a very young age and don't have much contact with other people because you've had no way to develop friendship. I knew a guy when I was in 2nd grade that was home schooled and had never been to a public school which was ironic because we lived right next to my elementary. At school he was known as the weird kid because he would run outside when the bell rung at the school and just sit outside of the fence separating the school from our apartment and watch the kids from the public school run out past him to the playground. Since we lived in the same apartment building I visited him quite a bit after school and although he was a nice guy you could just tell he was different. Always super quiet and played with his hands all the time like he didn't know where they were suppose to go. He was really dedicated to learning though, probably smarter most of the kids in my grade at the time. Every time I'd come over he would want to show me some of the stuff he was learning on his Leapster and things like that but he'd always point and rarely say anything. He also had a sister but she was older so it was way harder to tell. They lived with only their mom so that might have had an effect on him too. I don't know why recalling this made me kinda sad

[quote=Ipoopster]@PerfectSight:

i was homeschooled until 12 they basically bring some books and a white board and teach you 1 to 1 it was lonely though.[/quote]
when you went back to public school what was your reaction?

@PerfectSight:

i was homeschooled until 12 they basically bring some books and a white board and teach you 1 to 1 it was lonely though.

[quote=xtripled]i haven't and personally wouldn't because i enjoy meeting new people (school provides a pretty good opportunity to do that) and making friends. That's not to say being home schooled means you can't do those things, it's just different in a sense.

However, i have a friend who was home schooled until 8th or 9th grade, something like that. He says his mother was his teacher and she would just teach from the textbooks (usually same edition/copy that a school would be using) and some other resources. He tells me that his mother wasn't strict on when he studied so he didn't have a structured time frame of when "he had to be in school". Although most of the time he studied in the morning/afternoon like the rest of us. Pretty smart guy, he graduated high school at 14 and i think he's finishing his undergrad at Princeton this year.[/quote]
Yeah. What I'm scared of if I homeschool is that I become less sociable, but Imo I would learn more than 3x better if I homeschool, I wouldn't be tired and stressed every time. Thing is I am tired each morning for school since I was 5... because stress and lack of sleep makes us even more tired. And I might be able to practice Buddhism more efficiently.

i haven't and personally wouldn't because i enjoy meeting new people (school provides a pretty good opportunity to do that) and making friends. That's not to say being home schooled means you can't do those things, it's just different in a sense.

However, i have a friend who was home schooled until 8th or 9th grade, something like that. He says his mother was his teacher and she would just teach from the textbooks (usually same edition/copy that a school would be using) and some other resources. He tells me that his mother wasn't strict on when he studied so he didn't have a structured time frame of when "he had to be in school". Although most of the time he studied in the morning/afternoon like the rest of us. Pretty smart guy, he graduated high school at 14 and i think he's finishing his undergrad at Princeton this year.

[quote=Ipoopster]my parents just hired a personal teacher.[/quote]
how was it like? The teacher taught you at home? and how old were you when that happened?

my parents just hired a personal teacher.