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There is also a cost in learning. I'll doff my hat to parents who have the time, energy, resources and ability to teach their own kids a wide range of subjects

There is also a cost in learning. I'll doff my hat to parents who have the time, energy, resources and ability to teach their own kids a wide range of subjects but in practice this seems to be the exception. Most homeschooled kids I've known have been very behind their schooled peers.

peterwoerner 7y ago
I taught a couple of home school co-ops during school. I found that for this particular group, these kids basically didn't learn math, but were good writers, well read and eloquent speakers. My wife says that they were all incredible awkward to be around, so there may be something to the social thing.
- siempreb 7y ago
  > so there may be something to the social thing You have a point there. In regular school you are forced to be 'social' or risk punishment. I put 'social' in quotes because I think what is considered social is subjective and mostly made up. But watching how people are treating one another in this world I'm not sure if that social component is really working out good. Homeschooled kids are definitely not as slavishly as the 'socially' drilled kids from regular school.
siempreb 7y ago
> Most homeschooled kids I've known have been very behind their schooled peers. Behind? In what? We are homeschooling our daughter. For her age she's amazing with computers, english and painting/drawing(which is her passion), and also unlike her peers at school she learned to enjoy life long learning and has become autodidact as well. She never learned the usual things taught at school like: forcing other people what to do, bullying, all day on social media, hate to learn, etc, etc..
- AstralStorm 7y ago
  Might be a harsh wake up call in the future. Unfortunately world does not revolve around what you are or can do. Not even what you do. It is fundamentally unfair and it's just that different might makes right nowadays, rather than violence.

peterwoerner 7y ago

I taught a couple of home school co-ops during school. I found that for this particular group, these kids basically didn't learn math, but were good writers, well read and eloquent speakers. My wife says that they were all incredible awkward to be around, so there may be something to the social thing.

siempreb 7y ago
> so there may be something to the social thing You have a point there. In regular school you are forced to be 'social' or risk punishment. I put 'social' in quotes because I think what is considered social is subjective and mostly made up. But watching how people are treating one another in this world I'm not sure if that social component is really working out good. Homeschooled kids are definitely not as slavishly as the 'socially' drilled kids from regular school.

siempreb 7y ago

> Most homeschooled kids I've known have been very behind their schooled peers. Behind? In what? We are homeschooling our daughter. For her age she's amazing with computers, english and painting/drawing(which is her passion), and also unlike her peers at school she learned to enjoy life long learning and has become autodidact as well. She never learned the usual things taught at school like: forcing other people what to do, bullying, all day on social media, hate to learn, etc, etc..

AstralStorm 7y ago
Might be a harsh wake up call in the future. Unfortunately world does not revolve around what you are or can do. Not even what you do. It is fundamentally unfair and it's just that different might makes right nowadays, rather than violence.