Now I admit it, home schoolers can be a little strange sometimes, but what can you expect when a person spends 8 hours a day with no other social interaction then his math book, and ten siblings. I mean pi is great, but one can only be expected to stay sane for so long, when interacting with endless numbers all day.
Nevertheless, this post is dedicated to the proving that home schoolers are normal human beings, they are just a little different than everyone else.
The number one difference, usually brought up between the home schooled and public/private school goers, is social life. The difference being that pubic and private schoolers actually get one.
Now the myth that home schoolers do not get a social life is not true. We socialize with our family, and any misfortunate pets that happen to witness our sporadic sobbing and wailing for conversation with someone unrelated. The only way to cure these "socially deprived" people is to thrust them into a public school, and hope they survive their first 15 minutes of interaction with other human beings. If they don't, the only side effect is usually an eye twitch that shows up anytime someone brings up, "Josh who liked Betty, who liked Sam, but wasn't sure anymore, who thought he liked Lilly, but broke up with her after Nick said he might go out with Betty, who was jealous of Jenny, who decided she couldn't handle the drama, and ended up being homeschooled." Since usually, a home schooler's only exposure to drama before "normal" school is the cat throwing up on the couch, high school drama might come as a bit of a shock. The eye twitch usually goes away before death, but I can't guarantee anything.
To accompany this post I am making a list of the most common questions home schoolers are asked, when they are thrown into the life of drama, communication, and the lack of poor pets who break out in a cold sweat and head for the hills anytime they see a sobbing homeschooler.
anyways the questions.
1. what do you do for social interaction?
2. do you know what the Internet is?
3. I bet your from one of those families with 12 kids.
4. does your family drive a bus?(to accommodate the 12 billion kids)
5. do you know what Utube is?
6. what do you do for prom (gasp), how can you live without prom??
7. how many languages do you speak?
8. do you get to sleep in to whenever you want?
9. do you even do school?
10. are you one of those persons who just wears skirts?
11. do you even own a pair of pants?
12. do you go to class in you pajamas?
13. so are you a nerd?
14. do you have finals?
15. do you get snow days?
16. so, are you going to college, or are you going to get married, have 14 kids, and home school them all?
Along with this list of questions, I am also adding a list of ways to spot a homeschooler from near, or far. Though I would suggest far since you might not want to get too close to them.
1. A bus is parked in the lot with an assortment of items all the way from diapers to SAT study guides, and handy little books on interacting with "the other people"(known as public schoolers)
2. A family is shopping at the store and has 5 carts, all the girls are wearing homemade skirts.
3. Any family anywhere with more then three people with hand made clothing.
4. When you are conversing with a two year old and he is explaining the difference between deism, evolution, and creation.
5. When the two year old corrects you on your use of grammar.
6 When the two year old's 5 sisters come along and offer to knit you a sweater.
7. When a seemingly normal teenager asks you, "what's that black thing your holding up to your ear and talking into?"
8. When you see a sobbing teenager on the floor thanking a lady for saying hi to him.
9. The moment when you are visiting a college campus and there is a 12 year old who has her masters in Microbiology.
10. When you are visiting a church who's congregation is mostly made up of the pastor's 18 kids and... the pastor's 18 kids.
11. When you see parents, and the mother looks like she hasn't slept in 48 hours, and has an apron on.
12. When socializing for teenagers means standing around debating about evolution and world politics with adults.
13. When you meet a kid who knows Arminisnism, the five points of Calvinism, and can debate both sides.
14. When the above happens, and they are debating it in Greek and Hebrew.
15. When a parent goes through all 15 names of the kids, before actually naming the kid's real name.
Just warn you guys I wrote this at 2:30 A.M, and at that time of the morning, all normal brain function has stopped for me. So if I wrote something weird, I blame it on the lack of sleep. And just clarifying, I used to be home schooled, and I really enjoyed it :)
