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Everytime someone mentions "homeschool", there are always people asking: but what if the kid is missing out on (insert things). How about another point of view:

by NhanH 12y ago

Everytime someone mentions "homeschool", there are always people asking: but what if the kid is missing out on (insert things). How about another point of view: high school students are (potentially) missing out on the opportunity to not wasting their time, to not being unhappy during the 3 years, to truly reach the potential they can be. I did not study high school in the US, but had I have the chance to be homeschooled, skip high school and graduate university at 20 without a social life, I'd take it in a heartbeat.

thirdsun 12y ago
Fair point of view - but you make it seem as if having a bad time in school is a given. I'm from Germany, maybe it's different in US highschools, but back in my time (29 years old now), school life didn't have much in common with your average highschool movie. Bullying was a rare thing, being "different" not that big of a deal and we generally got along rather well. I sure as hell wouldn't have wanted to miss those days.
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existencebox 12y ago
I had a rather "terrible" public school social experience (like I'm sure many of the people in our field did, unfortunately, if I may be assumptive) which also failed to teach me much of anything of value. Even with all that time spun out for very little, I mark it as less of a waste than kindergarten, elementary, and middle school. Highschool _forces_ you to some extent to play the social game, if only to survive it; in either case you start to understand the true nature of people far more personally. These are all very important insights, IMO, and have served me well post-factum, both in college and in industry. I think the other posts in these comments indicate the "highschool" in both of those scenarios quite well. (And to address why I think the prior schoolings are so vapid, all of the lockstep progression through "tasks", gameable metrics, and the sheer environment that felt more like a babysitter than a place of learning removed both any natural drive to learn 'interesting' material AND any opportunity for social growth.)

by NhanH 12y ago

thirdsun 12y ago

Fair point of view - but you make it seem as if having a bad time in school is a given. I'm from Germany, maybe it's different in US highschools, but back in my time (29 years old now), school life didn't have much in common with your average highschool movie. Bullying was a rare thing, being "different" not that big of a deal and we generally got along rather well. I sure as hell wouldn't have wanted to miss those days.

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existencebox 12y ago

I had a rather "terrible" public school social experience (like I'm sure many of the people in our field did, unfortunately, if I may be assumptive) which also failed to teach me much of anything of value. Even with all that time spun out for very little, I mark it as less of a waste than kindergarten, elementary, and middle school. Highschool _forces_ you to some extent to play the social game, if only to survive it; in either case you start to understand the true nature of people far more personally. These are all very important insights, IMO, and have served me well post-factum, both in college and in industry. I think the other posts in these comments indicate the "highschool" in both of those scenarios quite well. (And to address why I think the prior schoolings are so vapid, all of the lockstep progression through "tasks", gameable metrics, and the sheer environment that felt more like a babysitter than a place of learning removed both any natural drive to learn 'interesting' material AND any opportunity for social growth.)