As yall probably know, I was homeschooled from birth to the end of 'high school', and cut off from most secular culture - except for 3 months, when I attended public school at the age of 14, and ran into a lot of public school norms that shocked and confused me (cont).
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2. The impersonalness of the teachers; it was disheartening when the teachers treated my work like it was just another thing on an assembly line of grades (which it was). It didn't feel like I was 'being taught by someone', but like I was pressing buttons in a teaching computer.
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3. The maturity level of the other kids. I'm not sure how 'legit' I'd view it today, but I remember distinctly thinking that the kids in public school felt approximately two years 'younger' - in jokes and mannerisms - than the other homeschooled kids I knew of the same age.
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4. The lack of community. Maybe this was partially me-specific because I was weird and religious, but it seemed true even beyond me - that you couldn't trust kids that weren't your friends. I was used to near-total trust in all the other kids I met in my life.
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Again, not sure how much my school experience was warped cause I was the weird religious kid - but overall it felt more fearful, more impersonal, and more useless than homeschooling did, by a significant margin. If I ever have kids I'm 100% keeping them away from public school.
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correction: the work of a whole *school* day inside 1-2 hours at home.
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I used to do my homework for the day, in the class while the teacher was giving the lesson. Never did ‘homework’.
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Me to. School was too easy for me in some ways. I never had to study. The downside is that I never learned disciplined study habits, until much later.
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I was homeschooled all my life except 16-18. I was raised atheist, in a large city, around both leftists and libertarians. My experience in school was *identical* to what you’ve written here.
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Same. Tried school (6th form college) for few months when 16. A couple years before, I was experimenting with doing a maths GCSE (
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Oh the math experience is a great example. Homeschooled: worked through the textbooks with family friend, unlimited question-asking Schooled: excruciatingly slow pace, but only 2-3 questions before prof got annoyed so also super rushed as we moved on while I still had questions
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