<p>My point was that I made most of my friends at school. That is where most people make the majority of their friends…</p>
<p>Okay. Beyond education though - what then?</p>
<p>^^ Naturally you made most of your friends at school. You spent most of your time there! I made most of my friends at church, at my dad’s workplaces, and in my homeschool group.</p>
<p>This is crazy, but I’m going to agree with Mosby in this one. You make friends wherever you spend the most time. You make them at school, I make them through work, Mosby makes them at church. You don’t have to go to school to have an awesome time with your friends. I spend much more time with my friends now than I ever did in school (not including class time - sitting silently next to one another does not qualify as hanging out).</p>
<p>“sitting silently next to one another”?
Silently? Lawlz, you were a much better student than me.</p>
<p>Stupid thread going around in circles. I’m done here. </p>
<p>MM, please learn to read. Just in general.</p>
<p>I was “homeschooled” for most of my life. At least, I was legally homeschooled. All of my classes were either done at a community college or through a tutor. I was reading at a 12th grade level when I was nine and finished CalcI when I was 14. This is no testament to my own IQ (which is only slightly above average), but rather to what most children have the ability to understand if given the right environment/expectations. </p>
<p>That said, “typical” homeschooling (in my experience) is usually just an excuse for parents to isolate their children from opposing ideologies and would definitely be in favor of making homeschooled children pass standarized tests at each grade level to make sure they are up to par.</p>
<p>I went to HS with a girl who was homeschooled till finishing middle school. She was shy and it took time for her to thrive in HS, but nobody could doubt her intellectual abilities.
She is at Princeton now. but I still think she was a little socially ackward.</p>
<p>There are plenty of public schooled socially awkward kids, too. That’s the thing. Homeschooling AND public or private schooling can produce stupid, sheltered, and/or socially awkward students.</p>
<p>I’ve met other people through volunteering too.</p>
<p>Thanks, applicannot. Isn’t the internet awesome, we can agree here and be diametrically opposed in the next thread over :P</p>
<p>I know a lot of people who were homeschooled.
They turned out fine, a lot of kids are homeschooled up until high school and then given the choice. If my children want to be homeschooled I won’t deny them that, but if they want to go to public school thats fine too, but they’ll be given the choice.</p>
<p>^ At what age do you give them the choice? Do you expose them to both and then let them decide? At what point do you pull them out of public school to homeschool them to expose them to both?</p>