zephyr6257
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Well. Some of you know I've been homeschooled all my life.
After elementary, I was given a choice whether to go to a regular school like my other homeschooled friends, or stay homeschooled.
Well, I thought about it, real hard.
I decided that, I wasn't sure yet, but I'd like to take a few entrance exams from different schools.
I took one in one of the most expensive private schools in the country, and a public school, known for creating successful individuals, and a well-known private school near my area.
I passed all three.
Now, it was the point where I had to decide.
It helped me, that some of my friends who were homeschooled before, but transferred to regular school, school started early this year. In fact, two of them went to that public school I said earlier.
And there, I pretty much made my decision quite quickly. Although I'd do anything to be with those old friends of mine, I saw how they changed pretty fast
My first thoughts, were that they were being bullied. Apparently, no. They've become quite popular in their respective sections. Both were quite good academically, but not only that, they were good at sports.
But because they became popular, they joined the popular cliques. And being with popular people in school has a side-effect. In my country, we call rich-popular kids conyo, which in spanish means something quite vulgar, but in our language it means brat.
So these conyo kids sort of influenced them a lot.
Next, I started noticing that their grades were sort of flunking. But they didn't anymore seem to care. There was this one friend of mine who actually made me do her homework on several occasions.
They also seemed to ignore me a lot.
So that cleared all my hesitations, and decided to join a homeschool provider for high school.
It's pretty fun being able to sleep 14 hours a day every day, except on wednesday when the entire school had to go to our physical school and study together.
Our subjects are pretty much the same thing as with regular schooled students, math, english, science, history, etc. We have lab too, but it's way more fun than regular lab, because our science teachers are trained to simply make us have fun (there was this one time when we were supposed to set plants on fire and record what happened to the variables). The rest of the days, we study at home, when we like it. We're given weekly schedules which we have to accomplish. Best of all, if we fail our tests, our teachers give us second-shots at it.
Because of a huge amount of free time, I can do a lot of things. I'm part of an an orchestra, a rock band, I do digital art/drawing, coding, blogging, writing, and a whole lot of stuff.(Including pokecommunity ;) )
If we ever need help at the stuff we're doing at home, our teachers are a skype call away.
In the end, I think I made a pretty good choice.
Now to the discussion part. Do you think regular school is overrated? Is homeschooling actually a good alternative to regular school, or are there other alternatives? Does the regular education system totally suck?
What is your opinion on this?
After elementary, I was given a choice whether to go to a regular school like my other homeschooled friends, or stay homeschooled.
Well, I thought about it, real hard.
I decided that, I wasn't sure yet, but I'd like to take a few entrance exams from different schools.
I took one in one of the most expensive private schools in the country, and a public school, known for creating successful individuals, and a well-known private school near my area.
I passed all three.
Now, it was the point where I had to decide.
It helped me, that some of my friends who were homeschooled before, but transferred to regular school, school started early this year. In fact, two of them went to that public school I said earlier.
And there, I pretty much made my decision quite quickly. Although I'd do anything to be with those old friends of mine, I saw how they changed pretty fast
My first thoughts, were that they were being bullied. Apparently, no. They've become quite popular in their respective sections. Both were quite good academically, but not only that, they were good at sports.
But because they became popular, they joined the popular cliques. And being with popular people in school has a side-effect. In my country, we call rich-popular kids conyo, which in spanish means something quite vulgar, but in our language it means brat.
So these conyo kids sort of influenced them a lot.
Next, I started noticing that their grades were sort of flunking. But they didn't anymore seem to care. There was this one friend of mine who actually made me do her homework on several occasions.
They also seemed to ignore me a lot.
So that cleared all my hesitations, and decided to join a homeschool provider for high school.
It's pretty fun being able to sleep 14 hours a day every day, except on wednesday when the entire school had to go to our physical school and study together.
Our subjects are pretty much the same thing as with regular schooled students, math, english, science, history, etc. We have lab too, but it's way more fun than regular lab, because our science teachers are trained to simply make us have fun (there was this one time when we were supposed to set plants on fire and record what happened to the variables). The rest of the days, we study at home, when we like it. We're given weekly schedules which we have to accomplish. Best of all, if we fail our tests, our teachers give us second-shots at it.
Because of a huge amount of free time, I can do a lot of things. I'm part of an an orchestra, a rock band, I do digital art/drawing, coding, blogging, writing, and a whole lot of stuff.
If we ever need help at the stuff we're doing at home, our teachers are a skype call away.
In the end, I think I made a pretty good choice.
Now to the discussion part. Do you think regular school is overrated? Is homeschooling actually a good alternative to regular school, or are there other alternatives? Does the regular education system totally suck?
What is your opinion on this?