What's not true? Everyone I know that has been homeschooled has said it's way harder.
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What's not true? Everyone I know that has been homeschooled has said it's way harder.
Yeah they may tend to take it less seriously if it's not physical generally-speaking but I think if it's to the severity that you feel like being homeschooled instead then they definitely have a responsibility to address the issue. Verbal harassment is just as much bullying as physical abuse. They have staff for things like this because it is so common
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Stevey Queen
The Queen of Mimosas
You'll miss out on proms and hot boys and no one will know you and you'll become a recluse and you'll have to be teached by your mom.
Don't do it
Don't do it
You can't run away from school because you don't like getting up early and you don't like the teachers. In the real world, you're going to have to get up early even when you don't want to. You're going to have to deal with sour people at jobs. I was bullied all throughout elementary & middle school. You can't run from bullies and things that bother you, you need to face them head-on and conquer them. I learned that the hard way and I'm a stronger person now because of my past. I chose--no, begged--to be homeschooled in 8th grade. I thought that would solve my problems. I'd have time for others things, and it'd be great.
I hated it.
I was so bored. My old friends were in school and busy while I sat at home, finishing my work on my own because my mom took too long. I went to a "homeschool school" for math & science and I didn't like it. I did extracurricular activities nearly every day which was nice, but ultimately, I wasn't happy. I ended up going back to normal school for high school, and I was glad I did. It's nice and all having more free time than usual, but it gets old real quick.
Reconsider why you want to be homeschooled. If it's solely for those reasons, I don't think you're making a wise decision.
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I disagree with almost everyone here lol.
Although I've never been homeschooled, I do have a couple of friends who are (they come back for electives). They love it. It's completely fine.
Sure try it for a bit. If you already have permission from your faculty and parents then give it a whirl.
Small schools suck. Especially if you're stuck with the same people every year. I also go to a small school, and it sucks. I really don't see this as a problem. If you wanna do it then go ahead!! Also I don't think this is a stupid question. It's completely logical ~
Although I've never been homeschooled, I do have a couple of friends who are (they come back for electives). They love it. It's completely fine.
Sure try it for a bit. If you already have permission from your faculty and parents then give it a whirl.
Small schools suck. Especially if you're stuck with the same people every year. I also go to a small school, and it sucks. I really don't see this as a problem. If you wanna do it then go ahead!! Also I don't think this is a stupid question. It's completely logical ~
i went to a big school for 1 day lol
it was horrible omg xD
and thanks, I want to be homeschooled,
i have before, it's fun
Unless you plan on being homeschooled for the rest of your life, your cons are a natural way of life. Having a bad teacher is a life-lesson that cannot be taught if you are homeschooled. Excessive homework is an experience that isn't worth missing. If you plan on going to college, you'll have not experienced these cons; therefore, you wont be prepared for it. Granted, you will adapt to the college environment, but you're premature nature will be a disadvantage as your fellow peers will have already adapted. I would never be homeschooled as that will destroy the experience and truly shape you for the "outside" world.
i was homeschooled throughout middle school and it isn't really as easy and breezy as you (seem to) make it out to be. i stayed on a schedule akin to that of my local middle school, which meant i woke up early and school "stayed in session" until late afternoon. i guess whether or not you do your work virtually or otherwise is up to you/your parents/whoever, but i did a lot of my work out of books. and tbqh, i lost contact with a lot of my old friends despite hanging out with them on weekends or over breaks. i've since been attending a public high school since homeschooling and college don't mix too well, and while i don't think being homeschooled put me at a disadvantage (in fact i feel that from an educational standpoint i'm better off in various subjects), it's not a way to cope with school...sucking. some teachers are mean and some are nice, some people are mean and some are nice, and a lot of things in life require you to wake up early, that's just how it works. you're there first and foremost to learn, the people are an annoying secondary component. all in all: school just kind of steels you up for all the **** that will inevitably get thrown at you in the real world, and that's not something to run away from.
It's not that education is getting worse, it's that teachers are being required to "teach to the test" and adhere to certain specific standards for curriculum which doesn't allow much leeway for creativity and meaningful experiences. Homeschoolers' curriculum is most likely the same, if not a bit better since it's individualized. However, that doesn't mean that one should just run to homeschooling. There's plenty of good teachers out there that will find loopholes and ways to cover required curriculum while educating their students the "right" way. I've experienced it first-hand plenty of times throughout my college career since I'm majoring in education.
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It's not much about how teachers teach. It's about how students behave and other conditions. Bullying is getting much worse, which is why I wouldn't advocate going to public school. This is my main issue. Bullies are very dangerous people, and schools aren't punishing them enough. And sometimes, they even punish the victim for opposing bullying.
The Hidden Owl
hm?
Tbh, I love homeschooling. I've been doing it for all my life and it's been really great. If it's just you and not your siblings (if you have any) then I would so go for it. Me and my 2 sisters do it, only downside really is that I'm with them almost all day and every little thing they do gets on my nerves. I have plenty of social interaction and lots of friends, both home schooled and public schooled, so unless you live in the middle of no where and don't have an outlet for social interaction (I go to a LARGE youth group) then you probably won't have any problems. If the friends you have in PS right now won't be your friend if you HS, then they aren't true friends and aren't worth your time. I would suggest at least trying it for one year. But... if it's all about bullying then you shouldn't use home schooling to run away.
Some pros and cons:
Pros - Extreme schedule flexibility, you (or your parents/teachers) get to choose your curriculum, peace, YOU CAN DO SCHOOL IN BED FOR CRYING OUT LOUD.
Cons - You don't have a set schedule so you might drag behind if you don't keep up, terrible if you hate your parents (you shouldn't hate your parents unless they are abusive), and that's it.
So yeah. Hope this helps. c:
Some pros and cons:
Pros - Extreme schedule flexibility, you (or your parents/teachers) get to choose your curriculum, peace, YOU CAN DO SCHOOL IN BED FOR CRYING OUT LOUD.
Cons - You don't have a set schedule so you might drag behind if you don't keep up, terrible if you hate your parents (you shouldn't hate your parents unless they are abusive), and that's it.
So yeah. Hope this helps. c:
I wouldn't say that, honestly, it's been the same. I found some stats here. It's mostly cyberbullying nowadays with the whole age of technology thing. I think that bullying incidents are just being covered more in news outlets. I have never witnessed a kid bullying another besides the typical name calling like "dummy" with younger kids, but honestly, that's not a big deal (don't get me wrong though, it's still not okay. I have a zero tolerance for bullying).
You're advocating for kids to run away from bullies instead of learning how to stand up for themselves and report them, which I don't agree with. I don't like the idea that kids and people need to be coddled and have their eyes shielded to problems they will encounter in life. Unless there's a major problem in the school such as death threats, kids beating each other to a pulp, or anything of that nature, I don't think it's wise to teach kids "well, bad people exist in this world that might be mean to you, so you should run away from it and cover your ears instead." How will they know how to deal with issues later in life?
Schools actually have been trying harder to implement programs that will decrease bullying and take action against it. It's not exactly easy to have all eyes on every student to observe whether or not they are being subject to bullying/doing the bullying. Many kids never report to administration that they are being bullied out of fear or embarrassment, so how do you expect them to do something about what they aren't aware of? I've also never heard of the victim of bullying being punished. If that's ever happened, it's certainly not a common practice.
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I think you should take steps to maybe anonymously report the bullies, you said you had 3 friends but you dislike them most of the time? I think it's you that is having the problem and needs to confront it. It's not just them. Running from your problems won't solve it either.
edit: also tbh its better to be a loner and get the year over with and just ignore all the haters. or like meet new people & join a club or activity. if you want to go to college and spend your last year home schooled i'm not sure how well that will go..
edit: also tbh its better to be a loner and get the year over with and just ignore all the haters. or like meet new people & join a club or activity. if you want to go to college and spend your last year home schooled i'm not sure how well that will go..
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Mega_Cabbage
Meh
I wouldn't choose homeschool. You'll miss out on a lot of enjoyable classes such as PE, band, drama, art, choir, clubs and etc. because you are limited to whatever people and materials you have in your house. Without them, life would just be a bore. Your homeschool teacher probably wouldn't be able to do class experiments either, so all you are going to do is just listen and not actually apply what you are learning.
From the way my brother gets/got bullied, it's pretty much just as bad as years ago when I was being bullied in school. It's not got worse as much as the media is reporting it on it more as well as social media spreading cases of it like the plague.
Schools are also not really 'equipped' to deal with most bullies with overprotective parents being the reason why. Teachers are allowed to do next to nothing to punish them and have more and more power stripped away from them all the time as people constantly look for more ways to unnecessarily shelter children. The only sure fire way of stopping a bully these days is expulsion and its far from a perfect method as you're just passing the problem off to somebody else, as well as the high possibility of this somehow coming back to bite you on the a** as parents complain about their little devil child being expelled for being an a***hole.
Hell, only a decade ago teachers were better able to handle bullying than they are now, simply because they were actually allowed to do more about it without fear of being attacked by the media and angry parents who think that "detention because he was kicking another student" was an outrageous abuse of power against their perfect little 'Damian'.
The bully victim being suspended for beating the c**p out of their bully? Do I think that's right? No, I don't. I prefer to call that 'justice' in the same way Batman excuses his violence as "I'm Batman".
Again, there's not much a school can do even if they know it was in self defense because people are going to start complaining and pointing fingers that the school condones violence etc. and jobs are going to start getting lost. It overall comes back to stupid people complaining that these children aren't constantly wearing full safety gear and receiving cuddles 24/7.
And parents are really the worst part of all this. I accept they want to keep their child safe, that's obvious. They're going WAY too far with it though.
I got suspended from school for two weeks once in school for kicking the c**p out of somebody who was bullying me. I got through the front door and told my mum and do you know what she did? Cry? Buy me a set of steel plate armor to keep me safe? No, she said "well done!", gave me a hug and made sure I was okay, called the school to ask why the hell I had been 'punished' for it and bought me Banjo-Tooie for the N64 so I would have something to do for the next two weeks.
Avoiding this by homeschooling is also going to stop the kid from learning certain social skills as well as how to deal with problems like this in the future. Whether or not bullying is okay (it isn't), these are situations you're going to run into all the time when you're an adult whether it's right or wrong. You learn how to deal with this when you're in school either through first hand experience or observation.
Your kid is going to be in a much worse situation when they hit that age where they're thrown into the real world with absolutely no idea how to cope with these situations outside of terrible children's TV shows that advertise "tell that bully 'stop, I do not like this'" as a legitimate way of stopping a bully (seriously, I've actually seen that on TV)
Seriously, it's getting to the point where we may as well start wrapping children in bubble wrap when they're born and keeping them in a padded cage until they're an adult.
As a victim of quite severe bullying, I can honestly say that children these days are soft. I obviously don't condone bullying but I also don't condone people being so overprotective.
Pietro:)100
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I agree with this!^^ Most people have that problem!
but we manage to live with it. Also being homeschooled isnt just visiting friends during the day. Won't they be at school? And won't you be doing work? (Unless you mean after school time!)That's just my honest opinion. Just because your at home, that doesn't mean you don't have to work hard.
sorry if I was offensive
I was thinking this. I honestly think you should just stick to a public school! In the real world, things are more difficult than these problems. I used to be bullied too. I've been diagnosed with anxiety which relates to the bullying. Of course I will never forget the afflictions throughout my life but I learn to grow from it. What helped me got through the BS high school years were my true friends and the counselling/support from my social worker. I tried my best to ignore the bullies and made my education a first priority above anything else. I studied hard and till this day will continue to do so. My suggestion is it would be helpful if you could talk about these problems to anyone you trust. Whether it is ranting or crying... Don't be scared. Many people experienced it. Being bullied for so long has taught me valuable lessons in life. I set on achieving higher significant goals, and to always look for ways in which I can make my life better and weed out toxic people. I know I can comfortably embrace my personality yet be cherished by my loved ones for who I truly am. I wanted to treat people exactly in the way I wished I was treated and of course in life, that isn't guaranteed... As for the teachers, even if they suck; I was more dedicated to my studies. It pays off well in the end, I managed to learn more then they taught me and achieved my As. When you face more difficulties and challenges for as long as you live, a door will always open for new opportunities, discoveries, and experiences. If you do choose to do home-schooling, I wish you the best. Good luck!
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