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During my first few years in university, I was a real asshole. My friends and I had this game called "spot the homeschooled kid", which was more or less exactl
by Crito 12y ago
During my first few years in university, I was a real asshole. My friends and I had this game called "spot the homeschooled kid", which was more or less exactly what it sounds like. We'd observe other students in class or social settings, and attempt to determine which had been homeschooled before attending university. One of us would make a wager, we'd all bet on it, then one of us would befriend the subject of the bet and determine who was right.
There is little doubt that our false-negative rate was very high, but our false-positive rate was also astonishingly low. You play the game long enough and you start to notice some pretty damning "tells".
(This said, the damage doesn't seem to be permanent; after about the second year the game became much harder as people acclimatized to university life.)
Hell, maybe this anecdote supports your point. We all went to traditional schools and we were serious assholes...
- gress 12y agoWhat 'damage' are you talking about with regard to the homeschooled kids?
- Crito 12y agoDifferent social skills. The "tells". They can be very strong for people who just got done being homeschooled, but seem to fade after two or three years. One example of such a "tell" is attempting to have a personal discussion with a professor during class. People who were schooled traditionally will have long since realized that should not be done, but somebody fresh out of homeschooling may not have that inhibition. Some (many? most?) people who were homeschooled do not exhibit this.
- gress 12y agoYou haven't explained why that is 'damage' - only that there is difference from people who went to school.