Relocating Family to Argentina

[gbflyer]

What does a homeschooled person being awkward as an adult or homeschooled kids being “different” have to do with our local public school system being “fantastic”???!

It most definitely is not fantastic in any way shape or form! I can tell you though that like most home schooling proponents say “you get out of it what you put into it” the exact same thing can be said of public schools.

My wife and i are VERY involved and proactive with our sons school. I spend i bet 2hrs on average a night working with him to make sure he is understanding and actually learning what is being taught to him in school. His grades are excellent and i have no doubt he will be well prepared going into adulthood.

If you’re a parent that doesn’t make time for your kids because you’re busy “living your best life” for yourself your kids will not reach their full potential. Being a parent makes things not just about you and your desires anymore. Sadly a ton of parents nowadays would disagree with that sentiment.

You absolutely need to put in extra time with kids in public schools. Where kids fall behind nowadays is when the parents leave it all to be done by the schools. Home time is largely everyone staring at their preferred devices all evening, phones, social media, video games, etc. Kids from those homes are destined to fall behind.

All that being said socialization in a child’s early years is critically important. It will dictate how they carry themselves their entire lives. It’s just as important part of school as the grades are.

Amen


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[Mojave]

My nephew is Autistic, so is my grand niece and her brother my other grand nephew. None of them were homeschooled, all of them have social problems. My grand niece would slit your throat while you sleep with zero remorse. I don't know how she isn't locked up.

My own children have been both homeschooled and not depending on the needs of our family. My wife is a k-12 school certified school teacher in 4 states. She is currently working and they are in school.

Of my four daughters two get a long with everyone and two are awkward. They make friends, it just takes them a while.

Is this a product of living all over the world and having to move, being homeschooled partially or is it just them? I think it is just them.

A lot of things can make people cagey, or weird or socially awkward.

I have a guy that works for me that was a H-64 Apache pilot for 18 years in the Army. He is about as socially awkward as they come.

Of the 8 people on my team, he is not the only weird one. Everyone went to public school. Including immigrants from Costa Rica and everyone one but me and another guy were officers in the US Army or Air force. Both the other guy and I had careers as enlisted people.

I am publiclly friendly, but sometimes awkward and I prefer to be alone. The gal that works for me was a LTCOL. She was a bio-med science officer in the Air Force and she is also sociallly awkward. Mid 50's good looking and never been married. She says she never figured out men, then she got too old.

A lot of people are weird. You don't have to go to home school to be weird.

I think a lot of homeschoolers get a bad wrap for being weird because they are not tainted. They have not slept with 20 people by the time they graduated high school.

The neighbor ranch kids on both sides of our place in Montana growing up had home school kids. Out of the three neighbor boys the oldest was awkward but went on to work his way into owning his own logging company before he retired.

The other side had a Jehovah's witness family, and they had a daughter that I was never allowed to talk to. So I would go ride my horse up against her fence and she would come out and talk to me in the mornings. She married the first boy she knew after graduation and could get out of there.

 

[RockAndSage]

You obviously home school. Wish your kids the best of luck in life - they have a tough road ahead.

This is horsesh*t. About half of the highest performing kids I know are homeschooled to varying degrees, and they are a genuine delight and joy to be around. The awkward ones generally come from awkward parents, but they're a distinct minority - and are certainly not greater percentage-wise than what you'd find for awkward kids in any public school.

 

[PredatorSlayer]

This is horsesh*t. About half of the highest performing kids I know are homeschooled to varying degrees, and they are a genuine delight and joy to be around. The awkward ones generally come from awkward parents, but they're a distinct minority - and are certainly not greater percentage-wise than what you'd find for awkward kids in any public school.

How do you know they are high performing if they are homeschooled?

 

[RockAndSage]

How do you know they are high performing if they are homeschooled?

Because they are getting into Ivy League schools, Oxford, the US service academies, getting books published as teenagers, operating in the SOF community at every level, and a number of them started their own successful businesses before they even turned 18. And those are just the ones I know. There's also homeschooled Olympians, and professional athletes.

 

[PredatorSlayer]

Because they are getting into Ivy League schools, Oxford, the US service academies, getting books published as teenagers, operating in the SOF community at every level, and a number of them started their own successful businesses before they even turned 18. And those are just the ones I know. There's also homeschooled Olympians, and professional athletes.

You are talking about exceptions to the homeschooling rule. Two of my sisters homeschool and I have been around dozens of others. Maybe some will go on to do great things, but they are still weird as hell. I know high demand religions like mormonism and Jehovah’s Witnesses have trended towards homeschooling to isolate their kids from the world.

 

[RockAndSage]

You are talking about exceptions to the homeschooling rule. Two of my sisters homeschool and I have been around dozens of others. Maybe some will go on to do great things, but they are still weird as hell. I know high demand religions like mormonism and Jehovah’s Witnesses have trended towards homeschooling to isolate their kids from the world.

It's fascinating reading what you keep writing about homeschooling - it's like watching someone barf up every negative stereotype they've ever heard about it, while ignoring all the benefits and anything positive about it that someone offers.

I made a statement about "half the highest performing kids I know", not half the kids I know. Their outcomes are quite clearly high performing - and I guarantee that you won't find that level of success per capita out of a random public school. The homeschoolers I know are, as a population, better educated, less toxic, better thinking, and more interesting as people than most of the public school kids I meet (and many of those are awesome kids). And every one of their parents care immensely about their kids success, and education. That matters too. It's not a pool of feral "unschoolers". It's high performers.

Homeschooling is what you make of it. So if all you see are morons and weirdos in your pool, that says more about your pool than it does homeschooling.