home schooled folks

Ibellibie
Wed, 13 Aug 2008 03:32:38 +0000

I was home schooled second grade through eleventh, and yes, I am a Christian. I dual-enrolled as a senior at a local community college. But that wasn’t the main reason my parents chose to teach me at home. Rather, the school district I’m in is, sadly, the WORST in our state. Additionally, it’s about 95% Native American and rather underserved and my parents didn’t want to put me in a situation where I was the minority. I live about 45 minutes from the nearest private school, and the commute was just too much on a daily basis.

As such, I learned at home and feel that I’m no worse for the wear socially (I have many, many friends, both home schooled and not and feel like the transition to college will be cake), academically (no diploma, obviously, but I scored a 30 on my ACT which isn’t too horrible and am matriculating at a university, which is a huge relief!), athletically (I played club USA volleyball and travelled with a team and did all the strength training and other BS that goes along with that.), and emotionally.

We’ll see how this plays out as I enter college, but I’m convinced I’ll be ok. I’d just ask all of you to please not judge home schoolers before you meet/actually know some of them. Yes, some of us are particularly geeky and socially awkward (but then, so are some public schoolers) and some of us are rather social and are home schooled just so we can excel in other things like music or sports. I’m glad I was home schooled!