Don’t forget the fact that most people who say stuff like “all the homeschoolers I met are weird” are usually drawing from a pool of their crazy sister-in-law and that weird lady down the street. Contrary to popular belief, homeschool graduates do not have a big red H tattooed on their forehead.
If you met me, or my husband, or my homeschooled coworker, in a business setting you would probably not guess we had been homeschooled. If you took your dog to my homeschooled sister-in-law for treatment or had my homeschooled sister teaching your freshman kid World History 101, you probably wouldn’t know.
Sure I was a little weird as a kid - way into reading and science fiction, not too interested in clothes or boys, but I attribute that to my personality. Being homeschooled allowed me to indulge my likes rather than hiding them. School is an unfriendly place to be the chubby girl who doesn’t wear makeup and reads Heinlein and wrecks the math curve. I’m glad my parents made the sacrifices to ensure that didn’t happen to me.
Sure I was a little weird as a kid - way into reading and science fiction, not too interested in clothes or boys, but I attribute that to my personality. Being homeschooled allowed me to indulge my likes rather than hiding them. School is an unfriendly place to be the chubby girl who doesn’t wear makeup and reads Heinlein and wrecks the math curve. I’m glad my parents made the sacrifices to ensure that didn’t happen to me.
That's not weird; that's you being all that God made you to be, and walking tall with that, JenB! :)
Excellent points—and they need repeating as long as the stigma is applied.
No class, race, or gender, has a monopoly on weirdness or social deficiency. It occurs across the board. Social misfits abound in public school. To single out a class for a deficiency is uncivil brutality calculated to demean.