You’re exactly why I “unschool” my children. You couldn’t have possibly met homeschooled kids. My children are wonderful human beings and far from idiots. It wouldn’t even occur to them to call someone an idiot regardless of the method of education. The name calling speaks volumes on your character and shows your ignorance.

I’ve met people that lack social skills and not one of them was homeschooled. Lacking social skills certainly isn’t the worse thing that could befall an individual anyway. I would much rather meet an individual with little social skills who is kind than one who gets on a public forum and calls a group of individuals he/she doesn’t even know a bunch of idiots.

There is not one negative thing you can say about homeschooled children that you couldn’t find in the public educated child.

Please back up your silly 99.9% stat that you espouse too. Since you won’t be able to do that, it means anything else you have to say isn’t credible.

As a single mom, home schooling is tough but also very rewarding for all of us. My kids love it because they don’t have to sit up until midnight doing homework like all of their public school friends.
My daughter is also enrolled in Virtual School the public school offers. She is doing well in it and this gives her the discipline she needs to learn about deadlines and structure.

My youngest is 12 and does high school level work. ( except math)
We concentrate heavily on math because that is his least favorite and weakest subject.

We also belong to a home school group and we meet often so the children can interact.

We co-op teaching subjects so the children can enjoy structured learning in a stress free environment.

My children has the free time to read, play , learn musical instruments and other things they enjoy.

My kids have common sense, they volunteer and has earned a Presidential Award for their efforts and they love to learn new subjects and looks forward to going to college to take the courses they want and plans on taking online or vocational training for a certificate to fall back on while they continue with their education.

My daughter is planning to take a Medical Coding and Billing course at a local health care training center so that she can be certified by the time she turns 18. She then plans to get a part time job and go to school for things she wants to learn. She also plans to CLEP out most of the subjects she is confident with.

Home schooling taught all of us alternative learning and not just going to school to get a piece of paper without really retaining like I did as a student.

I wish I had been home schooled as a child. I would have made better choices in life instead of doing what the society told me to do is the right thing.

Home schooling gives my children control of their life choices and the paths they wan to lead, while still being a responsible citizen contributing as much as possible to make everyone around them happy.

I am glad that I am able to give them the best start I know for my children.

Homeschooling is great, you let your child learn whats necessary. No clutter or junk.

But, public school is great too. The social interaction. Making friends, girlfriend/boyfriends. Experiences in life.

In homeschool you don’t get that. You get a lonely life, or some “hook”ups from your family. A play mate.

It’s understood, that public school is a “bad” place. Bad influences, Bad people (kids), and bad atmosphere.

But, if you discipline your child correctly, he/she should have no problem.

Highschool is a one time deal. Your homecoming dances, your senior pranks, and your prom.. It’s something a kid can dream to.

Later in life, a young child needs to learn how to interact with other people. Their parents or the computer won’t be their business partner. I’ve seen several home schooled kids struggle to make friends. They struggle to interact with other humans… And it makes me sad.

So, let it be up to your child. List then the pros and cons, and don’t you dare forget something important. Because it’s their future.

Not yours.

As a result, in addition to lacking basic sciences & maths literacy they also lack basic critical thinking skills.

They’re ones one who believe in pseudo-science crap like astrology, accupuncture or homeopathy.

They’re the one’s who’ve fallen for Jenny McCarthy’s anti-vaccination nonsense.

They’re the ones who think that the 2nd law of thermodynamics means evolution can’t happen even though their misundersanding would also mean that refrigerators wouldn’t work either.

They’re the ones who think a single cold winter invalidates decades of climate trending and thus they “know” that global warming is bogus.

They’re the ones that believe conspiracy theories like the moon hoax and they’re the ones who forward those stupid Internet chain-emails to you when all it would take is a quick check at snopes.com to see that it’s simply not true.

Now perhaps I’ve only met the stupid high school home-schoolers, but I’m in my late 30s and you’d think that I’d have met one by now. I’ve never met one yet that went to university fro anything other than a liberal arts degree.

Where are the smart, science literate home-schoolers?

It shouldn’t be hard to replicate or exceed the traditional curriculum.

My limited personal experience with home schoolers is they lack the normative social skills one would expect.

Home schooling is superior In my opinion. You can cut out all the Government Crap and focus on actual needful skills and knowledges.