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I am homeschooled ask me anything!

As the statment above says I am homeschooled and over the couse of my life so far, it seems that hundereds of people have questions about homeschooling and socialisation , the practicality and what homeschool groups are like so ask away and I will try and answer to the best of my ability!(and yes I can do school work in my pj's:smile:)
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Original post by Homeschooler757
As the statment above says I am homeschooled and over the couse of my life so far, it seems that hundereds of people have questions about homeschooling and socialisation , the practicality and what homeschool groups are like so ask away and I will try and answer to the best of my ability!(and yes I can do school work in my pj's:smile:)


How do exams work and how easy or difficult do you find them?
Original post by Kevin De Bruyne
How do exams work and how easy or difficult do you find them?


the obvious first question is why

why home school op
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What made you want to be homeschooled?

Do you get lonely?

Thanks :smile:
1) Don't you question why teaching requires at least one university degree and typically another in their specialised fields for A secondary level school but you're family have decided that isn't necessary and you don't need individual subject teachers?

2) Is homeschooling the only thing in your life? hence why its also your username? People probably ask lots of questions about it because you seek them :smile:
How expensive is it roughly if you don't mind me asking.
Original post by Kevin De Bruyne
How do exams work and how easy or difficult do you find them?

I take my exams though a private school as an external candidate because the schools have to have charitable status in the community . I personally find exams hard but that is just because I tend to panic.
Original post by x_captaindank_x
the obvious first question is why

why home school op
I have been homeschooled my whole life and I really like it so yeah(plus the schools in my area are not the best) and when I got to secondary school age I got to choose between school and home I decided home was the place for me.
Original post by Cod3tte
What made you want to be homeschooled?

Do you get lonely?

Thanks :smile:

I have been homeschooled my whole life so that is just the way it has been I guess. I do get lonely sometimes but not because I'm homeschooled but because I moved recently quite a long away from my friends. But I'm ok because I have an amazing big sister.
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Original post by Oneiropólos
How expensive is it roughly if you don't mind me asking.
I am not exactly sure about the cost of primary school but 1 igcse course from a homeschool collage (they do mark your work, provide you with a tutor and give you the course martial) costs about £475-£500 not including exam fee which can be about £200 for 2 papers. I hope this answers your question:smile:.
Original post by VMD100
1) Don't you question why teaching requires at least one university degree and typically another in their specialised fields for A secondary level school but you're family have decided that isn't necessary and you don't need individual subject teachers?

2) Is homeschooling the only thing in your life? hence why its also your username? People probably ask lots of questions about it because you seek them :smile:
1) Both of my parents do have at least one university degree and my mother has another in her chosen field which is science. Since I became of secondary school age I have worked with a homeschool collage that I do the majority of my igcse courses with. They provide me with tutors and course material (also just to clarify I have no problem at all with the public school system I just find that working from home works for me:redface:).

2)Homeschooling really is not the only thing in my life I like being homeschooled and since the main purpose of this forum is school related stuff I figured that it made a nice username. I really don't mind people asking questions about homeschooling I think it is really important that people understand homeschooling there are a lot of misconceptions about the whole homeschool subject. Also thanks for the very interesting questions it seams you have put a lot of thought in to this so.:smile:
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Sorry, but homeschooling is rubbish. I genuinely believe you've missed out on a huge amount. The experience of school from moving around classes to the fights and the drama to all the momentous stuff that happens, for a lot of people the idea of a fun childhood comes from homeschooling.

Do you feel like you've missed out?
What do you plan to do when you are older?
Original post by minionmarley1234
How do you make friends and socialise?
Just like every one I guess. I go to a lot of groups and classes where I meet people that I have thing in common with and I go to a homeschool group where we all just hang out with other homeschool kids. So basically I just talk to people and hang out. It's not really that hard to make friends when you're homeschooled.
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Original post by girl_in_black
What do you plan to do when you are older?
I'm not really sure what exactly I would like to do but I would love to do something with theater and or sociology or potentially criminology but I'm not so certain on that one(It could just be that I like detective shows:smile:).
Original post by rhaegar442
Sorry, but homeschooling is rubbish. I genuinely believe you've missed out on a huge amount. The experience of school from moving around classes to the fights and the drama to all the momentous stuff that happens, for a lot of people the idea of a fun childhood comes from homeschooling.

Do you feel like you've missed out?

I do love me some drama but believe it or not homeschoolers provide plenty of that they are all such drama queens. But as for fights I really don't do well with violence I'm not a pacifist but still. Also what country do you live in cause here high school is really just yobs bulling all the quiet kids(who will one day rule the world) and then having to try learn stuff you don't understand at everyone else pace ( I know this stuff because my older sibling went and so do a lot of my friends) as for the momentous stuff I did really used to feel I missed out because school kids got to have dances and sports days and you know field trips but actually I get to do all that stuff we have end of year dances with other homeschoolers and we party till like dawn and we used to go on loads of field trips all across the country and we have sports days so really I have a kind of high school experience just with out the school part.
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Original post by Homeschooler757
As the statment above says I am homeschooled and over the couse of my life so far, it seems that hundereds of people have questions about homeschooling and socialisation , the practicality and what homeschool groups are like so ask away and I will try and answer to the best of my ability!(and yes I can do school work in my pj's:smile:)


Im honeschooled too and eash are you right! Just felt like giving a bit if moral support (joke)
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Original post by VMD100
1) Don't you question why teaching requires at least one university degree and typically another in their specialised fields for A secondary level school but you're family have decided that isn't necessary and you don't need individual subject teachers?

2) Is homeschooling the only thing in your life? hence why its also your username? People probably ask lots of questions about it because you seek them :smile:


when I was in grade 3 I was in public school, my teacher thought I was a slow child and had learning difficulties. I was taken out of school at the end of the year. By the time I was 10 (2 years later) I could build relatively simple computer chips (my dad is an electronic engineer who used to do factory automation) When I returned to regular school in grade 7 I wrote a Nationwide maths exam and came 2nd, infact I had already done everything we did that year when I was homeschooled so I can top that year without any studying.
My the time I was in grade 10 my maths mark had dropped from 97% to just over 60% (my other subjects had dropped alot too). So I left school again and a year later got 3A*, 2A and a B (I always sucked at English). I was self tought that time round, and have done the same for my a levels in Maths, Further maths and physics.

You can do far better at home because you are allowed to reach your full potential, and you can self study if you're in highschool. When you're younger you will need help from your parents but you don't need a degree to teach grade 5 maths, even though both my parents do.
is you tutor male or female
Original post by Jono*
when I was in grade 3 I was in public school, my teacher thought I was a slow child and had learning difficulties. I was taken out of school at the end of the year. By the time I was 10 (2 years later) I could build relatively simple computer chips (my dad is an electronic engineer who used to do factory automation) When I returned to regular school in grade 7 I wrote a Nationwide maths exam and came 2nd, infact I had already done everything we did that year when I was homeschooled so I can top that year without any studying.
My the time I was in grade 10 my maths mark had dropped from 97% to just over 60% (my other subjects had dropped alot too). So I left school again and a year later got 3A*, 2A and a B (I always sucked at English). I was self tought that time round, and have done the same for my a levels in Maths, Further maths and physics.

You can do far better at home because you are allowed to reach your full potential, and you can self study if you're in highschool. When you're younger you will need help from your parents but you don't need a degree to teach grade 5 maths, even though both my parents do.
Well said. And also congrats your hard work certainly seems to have payed off :smile:. I think that schools these days are far to quick to give up on children and write them off if they think that the child is "slow" or special needs.

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