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As a homeschooler who grew up in a very rural area and didn’t attend a co-op I feel like I missed out on a lot of things socially. It’s not really economically
by swiley 7y ago
As a homeschooler who grew up in a very rural area and didn’t attend a co-op I feel like I missed out on a lot of things socially. It’s not really economically impacting but not everything is about making money.
I think I made up for it in college but not everyone gets to do that, and it took a lot of effort on my part.
- DoreenMichele 7y agoNone of us gets to go back in time and run the simulation over and see how it would have gone had we taken the other path somehow. You are romanticizing public school and assuming it would be have been a wonderful social experience that you missed out on. Perhaps it would have been a terrible experience. Perhaps you would been horribly bullied. Most people do not seem to look back on k-12 and miss it terribly as the most wonderful time in their life. They usually found it wanting, at best, or even quite awful. Please don't conflate positive college social experiences with positive K-12 experiences. College students are generally legal adults who have, to some degree, chosen the school in question, chosen their major, chosen their classes and can very much choose their social activities. In contrast, K-12 kids are usually thrown together against their will, have very little real choice, etc.