Homeschool World Forum

None of my lesson plans include bomb making.
To imply maybe it was lack of socialization is silly!
Remember Columbine? Those were PS kids that hated their classmates because they had been mistreated by their peers, if I remember correctly.
There is an example of poor social skills!
It does not matter who or where you are, there will always be tragedy from every niche in America.

Interesting. So without independent moral standards for right and wrong, the only way you can do the "right" thing is as part of the group? Only majority rule can decide what's right and wrong.

I would have loved the option to be homeschooled. The treatment I got at school for not "conforming" totally was horrendous. The funny thing was that there were very few other students who actually disliked me. They would get along fabulously with me, as long as one of the main bullies couldn't see. And, in the spirit of conformity, whenever I was being made fun of, or pushed around, everyone else joined in. Even the teachers stood back, although I got great report cards from behaviour to academic achievements.

This treatment still plays on me more than 20 years later, even though I now have a fabulous life. If I could have had an alternative to going to school then, and still learning, I would have jumped at it.

University, however, was fantastic. I was a self-motivated learner, and people were drawn to me for the very same reasons that I was given such a hard time for in my previous schools (primary and secondary).

When I was at school, my mother actually used to have me involved in camps and other extra-curricular activities to show me that I could have friends and it was not my fault that I was bullied. So I was being "socialised" to counteract the "socialisation" that public school gave me.

this is one thing that homeschoolers miss out on at school:

learning how to cope with overrated situations like fundraisers and programs and projects.

know what it feels like to be constantly warehoused

and learning how to cope with utter perversity which is really not what real life is.

trust me i am there right now, i am the smartest freshman in high school and will hopefully return to a more reasonable and advanced lifestyle soon.