Homeschooling

I'm really looking into this...because honestly, I'm not really learning much from school. The English I know like the back of my hand, and the rest is just a little too easy. I need something more challenging, and I think homeschooling might do it. Plus, I think the parental units are getting worried about my whole I-hate-high-school-as-well-as-the-social-life-associated-with-it thing.

Does anyone know any really good programs that I could suggest to my parentals...and possibly how I can present it to them in a way that will convince them? I've tried it before, but they usually say something along the lines of, "Oh, you're just going through a stage. You'll get over it. Now go read or something." The thing is, I've wanted to homeschool for about two years now...so I don't think it's a stage...

You're contributions will be much obliged.

 

I suggest asking

Chuck (he's homeschooled)
George (He shares your desires and knows about it)

Loveflower is homeschooled as well.

Those people could help you more than I... I don't know a thing about it. Sorry hon.

 

Well, Chuck and George (soulrebel and orsino) are both in JMHS, there's a thread about it in the higher ed forum. That's where I'd like to be enrolled soon, they send you your work and you can complete it however fast you want (I know chuck finishes pretty damn fast) That's a great way to graduate early and get ahead of everyone!



"Oh, you're just going through a stage"


With my mom, everything is a phase. Everything!

 

Yeah... I could understand. My mom is a lot like your mom or so it seems... (she's rather conservative, growing up under a dictator's rule) and my dad supports me... so I'm starting in two weeks wether she likes it or not.

 

Really, they can't do anything about it. I knew that after I learned I could refuse to go to school

 

I have three friends who homeschool. Two of them are total geniuses, and one is a cokehead who's been living in germany for the last year. So the way I see it, there's a 1/3 chance you might become a german cokehead. Do you really want to take that chance?

 

Well... seeing that I don't live in Germany and I don't do coke and never would, why the hell not, eh?

 

yup yup. Just watch out for that crazy german cocain, it'll get to ya!

 

lol german coke. i'll remember that. along with potassium cyanide. yea ive brought up homeschooling a few times back in the day, but my family..is...well...not cool. so that didn't work. today i wrote an essay criticizing my school. so tommorow. im going to get hit by the plastic fist of the dean of students, then my parents, but all in all. it was worth it. viva la resistance.

 

On a serious note, I think it really depends on the person. Some people are really self motivated and want to succeed and do better, and homeschooling is the thing for them. Then there are the people who do it because nobody is watching them and it's the only way to really get out of doing anything

 

http://www.jmhs.com "The greatest thing since sliced bread "... This morning, I missed the bus. The bus driver passed me... and I was standing there. So, I was like "Fuck it" and I went home and recalled talking to Chuck about JMHS. So, I go on and look up the address for JMHS and read up on it, once again. This was at about 8:00am... so I apply for info (to convince my mom... as I knew she wouldn't want to go for it) and I registered myself on there. I had a few technical problems so I was like "oh well, let me look up keystone and phoenix" and I did, then I talked to Chuck and he said he called them and it was easy. I waited till they opened and my dad had some bills to pay and he had to cash his check so I stayed on the computer for a bit then played guitar. Then when he came home, we started working on restoring some furniture and then I was like "oh snap" and called JMHS and handed the phone to him and by about 12:30 I was enrolled... now my mom is getting into one of her childish temper tantrums... guess she's at terrible fourty-two. Either way, I enrolled and if she refuses, It's homeschooling or nothing.

And to quote my mom, "Why can't you be like a normal kid and go to a normal school and listen to normal music like blink-182 or Britney Spears and go to the mall for clothes"

And to quote my dad, "Fuck it, ::gulps down shot of E&J V.S.O.P brandy::, we should stop arguing about it, I really want to be at home in peace... let him try, it's for his own good and it's his education"

That was so fucking hilarious.

 

lol, sounds like my mom when she was 42. Now at 47, I just get a weird look and an "aw fuck it".

 

So it's that easy, huh George? How quickly do you think you'll finish your work? I hope I can get into there too!

 

I don't know yet... I'll see... if being home is that much of a distraction, I can always just go to the library since I live right off of main street and it's only a mile or two down the street.

 

I love the library

Lots of people hanging out and reading

 

Barnes and Noble is like a library on acid.

 

The thing is, my dad is gone during the week, and my mom is never home. Does JMHS recquire a lot of parent-teaching crap? If not, then I am so signing up for it this weekend and having my dad enroll me.

My mom isn't exactly telling me to be normal, but I think sometimes my eccentricity makes her feel stupid or inferior or something. And, to me, it's a plausible reason, so I try to tone my craziness down when I'm around her. I always learn better when I read the textbook or work it out on my own. I don't learn visually, and I don't learn auditorially (or whatever with hearing), and if I ever have trouble I usually just call my dad. I'm basically homeschooled already, but I have to put up with the complete idiots that are in my freshman class.

The difference between myself and the rest of my freshman class: I aspire to actually be something other than a housewife, and therefore I am more awesome.

 

What exactly are you saying?

 

No parent teaching at all. It fucking rules, you'll learn more that way if you try then you ever will in public school.

 

or private