Here are a few more questions that people have. By the way, see if you can tell which one is from a guy, and which one is from a girl. It's funny how different our brains work.
Friend #1
"Um, definitely how you schedule your day." This has changed over my life. Before my senior year, my Mom, being the orginizational expert/fanatic that she is, made and printed out my day-by-day schedule using some computer software, where I would check off things once I did them. This year is a little different. I know when things are due for my college and co-op courses, and I have to plan when to do the homework myself. For the three courses outside of home, I have to follow their schedule, and plan accordingly. For the courses at home, my Mom has given my deadlines for modules/decades in physics and history.
"Also how those state test things work." - Well, don't mean to make you jealous, but I did not have to take any taks tests. However, I have taken the stanford test twice, to get an idea on how I stack up against everyone else. Most of my homeschooled friends do take a test like this at sometime.
"Um, maybe just your everyday workings and how you structure units and stuff like that" - As far as structuring units goes, I am ignorant. My Mom is the expert planner. Basically she justs looks at the curriculum that we are using, and plans it out equally throughout the year/semester.
Friend #2
1.) "Do you feel a seclusion from others, or missing out on things such as sports or dances, etc?" - Well, as far as sports, I have always been a low-key player. By that I mean, I have played recreationally, and I am competitve, but not competitive enough to go really far distances and work super hard to get really good at a sport. Sometimes I think I might have played school sports if I went to public school, but I am sort of glad I played recreationally. Ok, now to dances. In the modern sense of the word, I have only been to one dance, and that was at Mo-Ranch, and quite possibly one of the most awkward moments in my life. I can't say that I miss out on dances. In the broader sense of the word, I have had more than my fair share of dances. For those of you that don't know, I swing dance and English Country Dance (ECD). I haven't done as many this year, but in the past I have been to a ECD practice about once a month, and recently swing dancing once every couple of months. I have also been to several balls for ECD, and they are lots of fun. The main difference between these dances and your modern dances is that the ones I go to are a lot more social. At your typical school dance most people are paired off with another person, and you dance with them almost exclusively, while at the ones I mentioned, you try to dance with many people, and you focus on friendship and fun more than romance.
One thing many people do not realize is that homeschoolers aren't necessarily secluded from others, per se, but just do their socializing in different situations. On fridays I get together with a bunch of homeschoolers to hang out and do whatever. I am not in constant social contact with others like I would be at a public school, but I do not necessarily feel secluded.
2.) "Do you feel that being home school affects your family dynamics, like in has it brought your family together?" - I would definitely say that it has brought our family closer than we would have been otherwise. It definitely does help to be around your parents more. This is a big reason why we homeschool. That being said, I will say this. Not all homeschoolers have really close families. From what I have observed, the people I have asked questions to have closer families than many homeschooled families. Like anything, just doing one thing different, like homeschooling, doesn't automatically make every aspect of your life better. you still have to work at it. But I think homeschooling absolutely gives families a better oppurtunity to be closer.
3.) "Do you feel you are a step ahead of those who attended public school?" - In some ways, yes, in other ways no. Because of the way homeschooling works, I have had the advantage of being to go more or less at my own pace. In many ways, I have been able to spend more time on the things I enjoy and will need more later in life, and less on things that would not be as important. There isn't a certain number of English or Math or science or language classes that I need to take. Of course, I can't just slack off, as I need to pick courses that makes sense on my transcript. On the other hand, there are certain general knowledge things that I am not aware of. But I think that happens with most people so I am really not that much different that someone else.
4.) "Do you feel it will harder for you to acclimate in college?" Good question. Many times I have wondered about that, and I thought that it might be harder for me to accmilate. Actually, the other night, we were talking a little about it, and my Dad stated something I hadn't thought of before. This year, I am taking my fourth and fifth dual-credit college classes at Quad C (technically, Collin College, but I'll always think of it as Quad C). So as far as handling a college workload, I may have a little of a head start because of the college courses I have taken.
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