Who is home schooled here

[Luke1]

i suppose i will miss a few people!

today was crap...a good example of bullies, they stole our ball and ran of with it and broke it then every time we got it back they would get it back! and of course when i got it i got 3 blows to the head (jaw) and then i lost it completely and then hurt the guy pretty bad! and yea! but he left me alone!

 

[ryanharvey1993]

sounds like a fun day luke lol

 

[Luke1]

LOL!!! totally!!!

 

[reptilegirl_jordan]

I do year 10 from home,through a place called oten.Pretty fun,just gotta keep your mind on the work and not play around on aps all day!!! hehehe.

 

[LullabyLizard]

Today was good! Me and my friend got busted for "doing graffiti with chalk " and spent ages washing it off. It was fun! You never know how many times you write poetry on walls until you have to wash it off lol. I missed out on maths! . I didn't even know that chalk was considered as graffiti!

 

[liedra]

I used to get bullied at school cos I was kinda smarter than most of the kids in primary school, and then I was the first person to get braces in like year 6, but then I went to high school and it was so much better because there were other people like me! And even though I was in the kinda uncool group, I still really enjoyed high school (probably being an all-girls school was good for me too). And I'm pretty well-adjusted now, well, I think I am. I'm pretty social and have good friends and a long term boyfriend and I've almost finished my PhD so I musta done something right

So my point is that there's life after school, and while it kinda sucks at the time you'll have some fond memories of it too, and changing schools can also be really helpful for a fresh start if you've had problems with nasty people elsewhere

 

[Renagade]

i would loved to have been home skooled, would have rocked not having to to be instirtutionalised with all the tall poppy loosers, i didnt even know it was an option. there is no way we could have be able to afford it i guess. I always thought at the end of it (school) that it would make me stonger, and i reckon i was right. also rate the social development. a computer is not even close to the comunity development that is healthy.

 

[MMAnne]

there is no way we could have be able to afford it i guess.

It's cheaper. You buy the books, that's it. No school fees, blah.

 

[alex_c]

i did it for about a month but got sick of it and got distracted way too much :lol:

 

[Untouchable_Jodz]

Another mum/ uni student studying education

As a kid i had a mixed school experience, some good some horriifying but overall i stuck with it, my mum was too busy working to homeschool me.

When my daughter reached school age (this year was her first year) we had a couple of rough trots and ended up changing her school, it crossed my mind to homeschool but like like lozza said i worried about the social aspect of being an only child and having no other interaction with kids in the area, and no family with children. That being said i cried my eyes out on her first day lol

For me, whilst i love having her home and spending time learning with her, the social side of things (she is very social) was important, to learn the "pecking order" of things - i am dead against bullying it was the reason we changed schools in the first term, but i believe if you have the right teacher/principal and parental involvement you can find a good school its just a shame all in all there arent that many around - this was infact what has lead me to do an extra year to incorporate teaching (maybe just living in a fantasy world thinking i'll make a difference).

Im just interested to know.. For those of you who left school due to issues/problems within the school eg bullying, teachers and so forth, looking back how would you like to have had it handled, eg was the teachers involved enough, your parents, the principal.. just overall how you would of preffered it done and what do you think the school lacked in helping you stay there? IF you dont mind answering that ofcourse!

 

[alex_c]

Another mum/ uni student studying education

As a kid i had a mixed school experience, some good some horriifying but overall i stuck with it, my mum was too busy working to homeschool me.

When my daughter reached school age (this year was her first year) we had a couple of rough trots and ended up changing her school, it crossed my mind to homeschool but like like lozza said i worried about the social aspect of being an only child and having no other interaction with kids in the area, and no family with children. That being said i cried my eyes out on her first day lol

For me, whilst i love having her home and spending time learning with her, the social side of things (she is very social) was important, to learn the "pecking order" of things - i am dead against bullying it was the reason we changed schools in the first term, but i believe if you have the right teacher/principal and parental involvement you can find a good school its just a shame all in all there arent that many around - this was infact what has lead me to do an extra year to incorporate teaching (maybe just living in a fantasy world thinking i'll make a difference).

Im just interested to know.. For those of you who left school due to issues/problems within the school eg bullying, teachers and so forth, looking back how would you like to have had it handled, eg was the teachers involved enough, your parents, the principal.. just overall how you would of preffered it done and what do you think the school lacked in helping you stay there? IF you dont mind answering that ofcourse!

Me personally i left halfway through year 11 mainly because the school i was at was pretty much full of idiots who were mainly into drugs etc whereas i was not. It wasnt anything to do with bullying etc just me getting sick of being surrounded by complete stupidity, there was also a certain teacher who i absolutely despised and i dont even know why lol. But in my opinion teachers should be understanding and actually tailor the work to suit individual kids as much as possible. and deal with idiots more harshly to get the message across to them and keep them on track. and as for the social aspect that is extremely important without it a kid can end up with poor social and communication skills.

 

[weet-bix]

After suffering severe bullying, getting into trouble with the wrong crowds and generally messing up at school my oldest daughter is now being homeschooled for year 9. My youngest 3 go to a small rural primary school where they are the only students (its the schools last year in existance) the social arguement to me is rubbish. All my kids have gone through their entire school life in this very small school. The most students enrolled were 12. It is the parents responsibility if they chose home schooling or small school to ensure that the kids are involved in other activities that give them the social outlet.i.e sports, dance, ect ect. My kids all handle themselves really well in all social situations and have the skills and confidence to cope well. My oldests problems are due to other circumstances and if if wasnt for the education and life skills she learnt in the small school her problems would be far greater than they are.

 

[FAY]

I am as short as.....always gave back as good as I got

 

[Emzie]

Dave I know your problem. I was born 11 weeks premature so you can imagine the troubles I had (still have) growing. Being born early I also had a hearing impairment - have to wear things to help me hear, but don't usually anymore. Through primary school I got picked on like hell, and hated every minute of it. I actually have barely any memories of life until year 7, because I didn't want to remember it.

Went through anorexia from 2000 to about half-way through 2001. Still pretty skinny from it, 17 and weigh just over 50.

In high school I copped so much , and was still short (still have my PD/Health booklet) i was 142cm tall in year 7. To this date I am still only about 165cm or so, barely that. I realized when people got older they under-stood and if you were different from them they didn't seem to care anymore, as they had "matured".

I hated school, both my parents got UAIs in the 90s, but due to my absolute hate of school in my younger years, I don't think I developed their brains.. But still got some.

i dont think you should let being little bother you
im tiny (4foot 11) and weigh 43kg have always been the smallest and have never found it a problem yeah i got the occassion smart a** comments but when your at school no matter what you look like how small/big you are theres always something someone finds to pick on just dont let what people say get to you plus everyone love's the little ones no matter what they say

 

[carpetmuncher]

Someone told me most home schoolers end up being smarter and having better jobs

probably someone that was home-schooled

 

[Lozza]

It is the parents responsibility if they chose home schooling or small school to ensure that the kids are involved in other activities that give them the social outlet.i.e sports, dance, ect ect.

While this is true, in small isolated low socio-economic areas this usually never happens. I work in a school such as this and it certainly is the case. We make sure we organise activities and days out with other small schools and even some larger ones - combined schools days, sports days etc so that they do get interaction with other children from other areas, cultures etc.
Small schools in NSW are actually the best resourced by far, per capita, and often provide much more social opportunites in this way.
Now that the Connected Classroom initiative has come in, all schools in the state will also be able to be linked via video conferencing.

 

[Sturdy]

Was never home schooled but did goto a private school in brisbane........

from grade 1 - 3 i was never tought (sp) how to read / write / spell.
the teachers said i was too dumb to teach an too lazy.

got moved into a public school an things picked up... still a runty dumb **** but having a teacher do there job was alot better than being sat in the corner with out a desk or told to go sit in the hall way.

at 15 i was given the opp to become a plumber..... quit at 16 an went back to high school,

yeah 11 was awarded a cert of distiction for year 11 having excelled in 4 out of 5 core subjects in school

being
english communications
Social an community studies
Marine Studies
Math B
Industral Skills.

went to tafe to do network engineering
graduated with a distiction.

now i'm sub contracting to education queensland as a MOE tech an next year im possiably being awarded a promotion to being head of all the school techs under EQ -

 

[weet-bix]

While this is true, in small isolated low socio-economic areas this usually never happens. I work in a school such as this and it certainly is the case. We make sure we organise activities and days out with other small schools and even some larger ones - combined schools days, sports days etc so that they do get interaction with other children from other areas, cultures etc.
Small schools in NSW are actually the best resourced by far, per capita, and often provide much more social opportunites in this way.
Now that the Connected Classroom initiative has come in, all schools in the state will also be able to be linked via video conferencing.

Our little school is the same......but parents do need to take some responsibility. Its a pity that more people put "socialisation" as the big priority and not the high quality of education that all kids get in small schools no matter what their abilities. We we able to put aprox $50000 into one student with severe learning disabilities that would otherwise be in a special school or left for dead in in the large school situation. This child reached levels that no one thought possible.

 

[Lozza]

Our little school is the same......but parents do need to take some responsibility. Its a pity that more people put "socialisation" as the big priority and not the high quality of education that all kids get in small schools no matter what their abilities. We we able to put aprox $50000 into one student with severe learning disabilities that would otherwise be in a special school or left for dead in in the large school situation. This child reached levels that no one thought possible.

I totally agree with you there! Small schools are great schools. Our local high school is rather small too (around 200 students) and regularly outperforms large schools (and private schools) in our region in HSC results.
The one-on-one/small class size environment is very beneficial to learning.

 

[Untouchable_Jodz]

Quote:
Originally Posted by weet-bix
Our little school is the same......but parents do need to take some responsibility. Its a pity that more people put "socialisation" as the big priority and not the high quality of education that all kids get in small schools no matter what their abilities. We we able to put aprox $50000 into one student with severe learning disabilities that would otherwise be in a special school or left for dead in in the large school situation. This child reached levels that no one thought possible.

I totally agree with you there! Small schools are great schools. Our local high school is rather small too (around 200 students) and regularly outperforms large schools (and private schools) in our region in HSC results.
The one-on-one/small class size environment is very beneficial to learning.

Agree completely, though I was one of the ones who admitted that the social aspect kept me away from homeschooling.

I believe the larger classes that "metro" areas are given in schools is just unrealistic. There is no way in which any body would be able to give the amount of individual care that is needed to the average 28 kid classroom.

My daughters school as 23 children per class, this is deemed "small" to the area yet her teacher struggles to keep and eye on them and teach them, many students who don't get it right the first time aren't shown the right way until a parent helping out approaches the teacher and brings it to her attention. Now, i dont think she is the greatest of teachers, but she tries hard she is just purely under the pump - i dread to think of the stress levels of those teachers with 28+ children in their class, its simple math that there are going to be children who miss out.