Ask HN: If you’ve considered homeschooling, what’s stopping you?

Re:Ask HN: If you’ve considered homeschooling, what’s stoppi... by kube-system on Friday July 01, 2022 @06:35PM (#31953896)

A lot of child comments are pointing out that school kids are often terrible peers and experiences there are not great, and I have had my share of similar experiences, but.. that is part of social growth too.

Making social mistakes, learning the consequences of those mistakes, and experiencing hurt when others make mistakes in interacting with you are all important life lessons.

Part of the reason “the real world” after school is so much better is because those people have already made mistakes and learned their lessons earlier in life. Of course, school isn’t the only way to learn these lessons, and many well adjusted homeschooled kids are those who are exposed to social situations in other ways.

There are many social situations that would never happen in the home, and kids have to learn about them somehow. i.e developing new relationships, dealing with unexpected conflict, meeting someone new, romance, etc.

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Re:Ask HN: If you’ve considered homeschooling, what’s stoppi... by xupybd on Friday July 01, 2022 @10:33PM (#31955547)

Have you met many people from homeschooling backgrounds?

I live in a community full of them. Social interaction has not been a problem for them. As adults they're some of the most well adjusted I know. As teens some of the happiest I've ever met.

Academically they vary but I'd say it works better than school for most.

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Re:Ask HN: If you’ve considered homeschooling, what’s stoppi... by kube-system on Friday July 01, 2022 @11:07PM (#31955777)

I have. My comment wasn’t a criticism of homeschooling. As I said:

> many well adjusted homeschooled kids are those who are exposed to social situations in other ways.

I was criticizing the idea the school is a bad place to learn socialization.

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Re:Ask HN: If you’ve considered homeschooling, what’s stoppi... by camjohnson26 on Friday July 01, 2022 @07:30PM (#31954399)

If you jump off a building you’ll learn not to do that again, but there’s easier and safer ways to learn.

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Re:Ask HN: If you’ve considered homeschooling, what’s stoppi... by kube-system on Friday July 01, 2022 @08:19PM (#31954726)

I know not to jump off a building because I’ve fallen smaller distances as a child and I understand the consequences.

You would be negligent to let a child experience their first steps on the roof of a building.

A couple of hurt feelings in elementary school is likewise a low risk introduction to the world of social interaction.

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