When a Homeschooler Goes To Public High School

Full Vid: https://youtu.be/OLkmJ8hVaa8

Honestly thats so true. Most days we could get all the work done in like 2-3 hours, but we're there for 5-9 hours just wasting time.

“Because I made a commitment and wanted to see it through”. I WISH more people in my generation thought this way.

Let’s be honest… public school is basically free babysitting.

That's what happened to my daughter when she went to a mathematics and science high-school. She ran circles around 90% of the children, then had so much leftover time that she began joining clubs and sports to occupy herself -- she even created two new clubs that didn't exist before.

I was homeschooled until 6th grade and when my parents forced me to go public literally only because my sister, who was two years older than me, wanted to try it. During homeschool I would work from 9-1 with like 20 minute breaks every hour or I could get it all done in one swoop. When I went to public I was bored out of my mind. They gave me 8th grade work to do and had me take multiple high school classes online and it didn’t help. I skipped a grade while having hs courses and it was still boring and a big time waste as most days I would just zone out until they gave us the worksheet, which I would always finish fairly quickly. The entire time I begged my parents to get me back in homeschooling and to this day I believe that not sticking with homeschooling set me back greatly. If I had stuck with it I could have had the knowledge and “intelligence” of a hs senior and been able to graduate by my freshman year. Basically I’m just saying public school is a big waste of time and resources and the way that they are run and taught is incredibly flawed

Public shool made me overwhelmingly tired because of all the time spent sitting in silence, trying to focus. My senior year, I switched to online school, and could listen to music, focus, and get my work done in 2-3 hours because I created the structure.

Reading these homeschooling stories, I'm an outlier. I was home schooled for a year and it was awful for me because my mother was my teacher. Turns out I need repetition to learn and she hates repeating herself

I remember going from homeschooling to public school in 5th grade and immediately realizing “they’re just babysitting us, the school work is like 30% of the day the rest is just nothing”

This is so true. In sixth grade I had an injury from falling off a stool. Because sixth grade classes were on the top floor, I couldn't do all those stairs, so I was allowed to do all my work in the library on the first floor. Without the kids bullying me and having to physically go from class to class, I would finish in 2 to four hours tops. My mom started coming to pick me up early because she didn't see the point in my sitting around until three without anything to do. Rather than be impressed with my improvement, the school had the cops call my house to ask why I left school early every day. That was my last year of public school. I didn't much see the point after that.

As someone who lives an hour from Atlanta, the second I heard “public school” and “Atlanta in the same sentence I knew this would be bad😂

Honestly almost every homeschooler I’ve met is very well spoken and confident. I know not all and I know that some people have had bad experiences with Homeschool but I haven’t met any personally. Everyone I’ve met loved being homeschooled. And they seem more secure in themselves whether they are more introverted or not they are least are secure in who they are. Which I really admire in a lot of homeschoolers. At least in the adults that I know that we’re homeschooled as kids

Being a fellow homeschooler, I felt this deeply. I could finish a years worth of history in one months times. When I went into homeschooling at 6th grade I had the reading level of a 3rd grader. When I graduated I was two years into college at 15.

Being homeschooled and then trying public school it's such a switch, it was a very controlled environment, a lot different from what I was used to. It honestly felt like 8ish hours of prison every day. It also felt like they wanted to take 12 years of every kids life, I had completed 2 years of math in half a year but they dragged out everything idk how anyone can remember it. Im so grateful my family could afford to homeschool.

It’s true. My son gets all of his 7th grade work AND JavaScript AND Spanish completed within about 3-4 hours. He’s excelling with Homeschooling where he was failing terribly in the public school setting. By 5th grade we recognized he was struggling, pulled him out immediately and he’s been thriving with homeschooling ever since.

I remember going to summer school and they managed to fit about 2-3 months of work and condensed it into about a week and half to 2 weeks. The amount of fluff and poor time management in public schools pacifically high-school is terrible.

Your time is always dictated whether you like it or not. That’s life. Sometimes you have to do stuff you don’t want to do when you don’t want to do it.

Let's just admit it, homeschooling gives you an education that cannot be paralleled in public schools, I was homeschooled up until 6th grade, when I finally did join public schools I was mocked not only by my fellow peers but also by my teachers for being homeschooled, then once I showed them that I was smarter than the rest of my grade I humbled their asses

I'm amazed by how much work my kids can get done in so little time and how they retain MUCH more when working in shorter spurts with more breaks outside. It's like a HITT workout for the brain. My eldest motivates herself sometimes by waking up a little early so she can finish all her schoolwork before her friends go to public school (9am in our area). Then she has the rest of the day to play and pursue other interests or go on a field trip

What is interesting is that I massively struggle to do independent work during study periods at school/at home because it is unstructured and I know I can be doing something more enjoyable. Whereas during lessons I find it easy to do work and to complete tasks in time. I definitely think the education system can make it very hard to adjust autonomous work/study when you leave school.