Who is home schooled here

[sej66]

I am a teacher in the nsw state system and used to work in a small bush school. A few of the kids were home schooled and didn't do all that well at all. How a home schooled student performs depends upon the attidude of the parents and on the drive of the kid(s). It would be no walk in the park. No kids or few anyway really listen to their parents. How do home schooled high school students deal with maths for example if the kid is a genius and is into 3 or 4 unit maths? 2 unit is hard enough. Nah enjoy your days parents. Send them to school where they can socialise and learn to cope with what the real world will hurl at them. Support Public Education becuase the govts sure as hell don't.

 

[Lozza]

I am a teacher in the nsw state system and used to work in a small bush school. A few of the kids were home schooled and didn't do all that well at all. How a home schooled student performs depends upon the attidude of the parents and on the drive of the kid(s). It would be no walk in the park. No kids or few anyway really listen to their parents. How do home schooled high school students deal with maths for example if the kid is a genius and is into 3 or 4 unit maths? 2 unit is hard enough. Nah enjoy your days parents. Send them to school where they can socialise and learn to cope with what the real world will hurl at them. Support Public Education becuase the govts sure as hell don't.

Hahaha well said!

 

[sc1010]

I was homeschooled for half of year 9, for a couple of reasons. For starters, the school I went to prior to being homeschooled was private and single sex. If anyone's been to an all-girls school you'll know how incredibly bitchy it is. I was one of the few girls who didn't fit in because I was "too nice". People take advantage of your niceness and pick on you, just because you're an "easy target", or so one girl once called me. I moved school for this reason, then a couple months later my mum caught my dad cheating and when given a choice between his family or his mistress he chose his mistress. That just did it for me, I spent the next 6 months being homeschooled and in therapy. I was back to normal after that though and started a new school.

I've just finished school and went from yr 5 to year 12 at an all girls school. and yes it can be bitchy, but being incredibly bitchy is an overexageration (maybe not at your school, but definately at my school). There were alot of really nice girls there too. During years 8 and 9 there were problems, but there are problems like that at all schools, all girls or not (i have friends that tell me about their problems who go to co-ed schools). Once you hit years 10 and 11 really good friendships were formed and by year 12 our whole year (which is quite large) were all good friends with very little nastiness at all. I dont think its a characteristic of an all-girls school, just girls in general. I'm much like you, dont dislike many and dont want to talk about people and stir up trouble, just happy being me but i have never once been picked on or targeted for it, and im sorry that was the case for you.

I'm glad that you are back to normal now though, and hopefully enjoying your new school.

Sophie

 

[salebrosus]

I'm not taking anything away from those who have been bullied, i understand it's probably very traumatising but seriously..............HARDEN UP CHILDREN.

I went to all girl schools for high school, there was bitchiness and people spreading rumours that i was gay because i had some friends who were but i never let it get the better of me, and neither did the other girls who copped the odd teasing comments.

After belting the first girl that tried to knock me over the rest of the school learnt pretty quick not to push their luck with me. I made sure there were plenty of people around to see me deck her and no one was game to step in. You will always get your do-gooders that come the garbage of "two wrongs don't make it right" but it certainly stops you from being the easy target. The "weak" bullies will then try and find another target. I know it might not be easy but toughen up you guys. Crying over being bullied only gives the grubs doing the teasing the satisfaction they want.

I have now gotten back in touch with some friends from school through facebook, how's this for irony? One of the girls who use to scream "lesbian" from the train at me is now going through a "togetherness" ceremony with another one of my gay female friends and they are planning a family together. I'm planning a life with my male partner.

One girl who use to call me chubs as i wasn't as slim as she was is now close to 150kg, divorced with 3 kids. Husband left her for slim best friend. All by the time she is 30..........hmmmmmmmmmm karma hey!

And 4 of the bitchiest girls in school who thought they were all that are now 6 feet under from drug overdoses. Who's the clever bugger now?

Don't let teasing get the better of you.

 

[mebebrian]

i would have loved to be home schooled, though i seriously doubt my mothers ability to teach (long story)
i went to a high school with aprox 800 students with prodably 70% of the students from ethnic backgrounds. Mostly middle eastern and asian. I was the only one from my primary school. I got along with most but a few of the arabs took an instant dislike to me so i coped a beating a few times a week from a poor excuse for a human being (whos now serving 55 years, oh how i laughed) and his bum chums. i changed schools midway through year 9 due the beatings. I went from the bottom to near the top of the class in half a year!

Sometimes its hard to ignore 3-4 ****ers throwing punches your way

 

[salebrosus]

i would have loved to be home schooled, though i seriously doubt my mothers ability to teach (long story)
i went to a high school with aprox 800 students with prodably 70% of the students from ethnic backgrounds. Mostly middle eastern and asian. I was the only one from my primary school. I got along with most but a few of the arabs took an instant dislike to me so i coped a beating a few times a week from a poor excuse for a human being (whos now serving 55 years, oh how i laughed) and his bum chums. i changed schools midway through year 9 due the beatings. I went from the bottom to near the top of the class in half a year!

Sometimes its hard to ignore 3-4 ****ers throwing punches your way

Schooled in Bankstown/ Yagoona huh? You poor bugger. It was bad enough in East Hills.

 

[stripe]

I go to a fairly large highschool and i actually think its better than a more one-on-one learning situation. you don't get baby-sat, you have to CHOOSE to do the work. it tests out the determination level of students. if they want to get a good score, they have the opportunity to get it, by listening and doing the assigned homework. if they're not willing to work for what they want, they'll fail. just like everything else in life.

 

[mebebrian]

Schooled in Bankstown/ Yagoona huh? You poor bugger. It was bad enough in East Hills.

Lol, not exactly but only a few k's away.