When a Homeschooler Goes To Public High School

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[viktoravarkonyi]

Honestly thats so true. Most days we could get all the work done in like 2-3 hours, but we're there for 5-9 hours just wasting time.

[terraelizabeth]

“Because I made a commitment and wanted to see it through”. I WISH more people in my generation thought this way.

[Are.Baires]

Let’s be honest… public school is basically free babysitting.

[obi-wankenoli]

I was homeschooled until 6th grade and when my parents forced me to go public literally only because my sister, who was two years older than me, wanted to try it. During homeschool I would work from 9-1 with like 20 minute breaks every hour or I could get it all done in one swoop. When I went to public I was bored out of my mind. They gave me 8th grade work to do and had me take multiple high school classes online and it didn’t help. I skipped a grade while having hs courses and it was still boring and a big time waste as most days I would just zone out until they gave us the worksheet, which I would always finish fairly quickly. The entire time I begged my parents to get me back in homeschooling and to this day I believe that not sticking with homeschooling set me back greatly. If I had stuck with it I could have had the knowledge and “intelligence” of a hs senior and been able to graduate by my freshman year. Basically I’m just saying public school is a big waste of time and resources and the way that they are run and taught is incredibly flawed

[Alyrulz]

I remember going from homeschooling to public school in 5th grade and immediately realizing “they’re just babysitting us, the school work is like 30% of the day the rest is just nothing”

[jeremypayne]

Public shool made me overwhelmingly tired because of all the time spent sitting in silence, trying to focus. My senior year, I switched to online school, and could listen to music, focus, and get my work done in 2-3 hours because I created the structure.

[lovetolovefairytales]

This is so true. In sixth grade I had an injury from falling off a stool. Because sixth grade classes were on the top floor, I couldn't do all those stairs, so I was allowed to do all my work in the library on the first floor. Without the kids bullying me and having to physically go from class to class, I would finish in 2 to four hours tops. My mom started coming to pick me up early because she didn't see the point in my sitting around until three without anything to do. Rather than be impressed with my improvement, the school had the cops call my house to ask why I left school early every day. That was my last year of public school. I didn't much see the point after that.

[Duke_of_Prunes]

That's what happened to my daughter when she went to a mathematics and science high-school. She ran circles around 90% of the children, then had so much leftover time that she began joining clubs and sports to occupy herself -- she even created two new clubs that didn't exist before.

[Libyinth]

Being a fellow homeschooler, I felt this deeply. I could finish a years worth of history in one months times. When I went into homeschooling at 6th grade I had the reading level of a 3rd grader. When I graduated I was two years into college at 15.

[jjgems]

Honestly almost every homeschooler I’ve met is very well spoken and confident. I know not all and I know that some people have had bad experiences with Homeschool but I haven’t met any personally. Everyone I’ve met loved being homeschooled. And they seem more secure in themselves whether they are more introverted or not they are least are secure in who they are. Which I really admire in a lot of homeschoolers. At least in the adults that I know that we’re homeschooled as kids

[jakey.]

As someone who lives an hour from Atlanta, the second I heard “public school” and “Atlanta in the same sentence I knew this would be bad😂

[Knowledge_is_freedom]

It’s true. My son gets all of his 7th grade work AND JavaScript AND Spanish completed within about 3-4 hours. He’s excelling with Homeschooling where he was failing terribly in the public school setting.

By 5th grade we recognized he was struggling, pulled him out immediately and he’s been thriving with homeschooling ever since.

[Aunt-B]

Being homeschooled and then trying public school it's such a switch, it was a very controlled environment, a lot different from what I was used to. It honestly felt like 8ish hours of prison every day. It also felt like they *wanted* to take 12 years of every kids life, I had completed 2 years of math in half a year but they dragged out everything idk how anyone can remember it. Im so grateful my family could afford to homeschool.

[Amber-dwop]

I'm amazed by how much work my kids can get done in so little time and how they retain MUCH more when working in shorter spurts with more breaks outside. It's like a HITT workout for the brain. My eldest motivates herself sometimes by waking up a little early so she can finish all her schoolwork before her friends go to public school (9am in our area). Then she has the rest of the day to play and pursue other interests or go on a field trip

[emoliravioli]

Dude it's so true. Public school wasted SO MUCH of my time and I didn't realize at all until I met my bf who grew up homeschooled. He has so many interesting skills and stories of cool things he did growing up and it just made me realize he just had more time in his day to do the things he enjoyed. My mom regrets not homeschooling me and my sibs but she didn't really know better back then, both of my parents grew up in public school

[sl]

I was homeschooled for my last 2 years in high school. Could not believe the amount of ease I had just working from home, getting my schoolwork done in no more than 2-3 hours (that was if I had a project or paper to write, most days took an hour tops), and then I could either work or if I didn’t just go back to sleep once I got everything done. If you have the chance and at the rate of how the public school system is failing, I wouldn’t be surprised if we eventually lean on this as the main form of education.

[scottibrown]

When I was in 8th grade, we had this new girl named Emily. She was homeschooled before her parents put her in our private school. In middle school, if your math grades were high enough, you could take high school level math courses; at least half of us our 8th grade year were taking Algebra 1 which was a freshman level course and only four students were taking Geometry, which was a sophomore level course. Emily and maybe three other guys were the only ones in Geometry. Emily was acing all of her classes and after a couple of months being in 8th grade, they moved her up to 9th grade because everything was too easy for her. She was really nice, haven’t heard from her since, but I honestly would not be surprised if she became a doctor or an engineer.

[spikefishnetwork]

I remember going to summer school and they managed to fit about 2-3 months of work and condensed it into about a week and half to 2 weeks. The amount of fluff and poor time management in public schools pacifically high-school is terrible.

[broderman]

Let's just admit it, homeschooling gives you an education that cannot be paralleled in public schools, I was homeschooled up until 6th grade, when I finally did join public schools I was mocked not only by my fellow peers but also by my teachers for being homeschooled, then once I showed them that I was smarter than the rest of my grade I humbled their asses

[conradleffman]

What is interesting is that I massively struggle to do independent work during study periods at school/at home because it is unstructured and I know I can be doing something more enjoyable. Whereas during lessons I find it easy to do work and to complete tasks in time. I definitely think the education system can make it very hard to adjust autonomous work/study when you leave school.