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Ask HN: Anyone homeschooling their kids?
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#12I was a camp counselor in my late teens and early 20s, and we could always tell which kids were homeschooled. Always.
I couch youth sports, and same experience. It's getting better now that the kids are getting older (10-11). But when they were in 1st or 2nd grade, the home schooled kids were so far behind their teammates in social skills.
I only had one on my baseball team in the spring, while he was definitely not on the same level as the rest of the team socially, it could have just been that he is a shy kid by nature.
Re: Ask HN: Anyone homeschooling their kids?
#13I was a camp counselor in my late teens and early 20s, and we could always tell which kids were homeschooled. Always.
I couch youth sports, and same experience. It's getting better now that the kids are getting older (10-11). But when they were in 1st or 2nd grade, the home schooled kids were so far behind their teammates in social skills. I only had one on my baseball team in the spring, while he was definitely not on the same level as the rest of the team socially, it could have just been that he is a shy kid by nature.
I've had the complete opposite experience, where adults often tell us they feel like our kids seem much older than their ages.
We lived in different countries where people speak a different language, during their earlier years, though, so maybe that also contributes to it.
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#14Earlier quoted context omitted.
I couch youth sports, and same experience. It's getting better now that the kids are getting older (10-11). But when they were in 1st or 2nd grade, the home schooled kids were so far behind their teammates in social skills. I only had one on my baseball team in the spring, while he was definitely not on the same level as the rest of the team socially, it could have just been that he is a shy kid by nature.
I've had the complete opposite experience, where adults often tell us they feel like our kids seem much older than their ages. We lived in different countries where people speak a different language, during their earlier years, though, so maybe that also contributes to it.
It really comes down to the parents, like most things. If parents are heavily engaged, then the kids turn out more well rounded, regardless of where they go to school, public, private, or home.
I can also usually tell just based on the kids if their parents will be helpful or not. If I ask for a parent to help with setting up at the beginning of practice, or if an assistant coach can't make it and I need a hand, the way a kid acts is a pretty good indicator if their parent will get out of their chair on sidelines and come help.
There are outliers, but its a pretty good rule of thumb.
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#15I was a camp counselor in my late teens and early 20s, and we could always tell which kids were homeschooled. Always.
Could you expand on this please? In a positive or negative way?
In a negative way. They weren't bad children, just undersocialized.
The benefits of school go beyond what the teachers teach.
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#17I was homeschooled and will be homeschooling our kids (first one coming early January 2027!). Game-changers for me growing up, that I think my parents did really well: - change the curriculum to match the kid (i.e. learning styles, difficulty, pace) - use the public schools for electives, sports, drama, etc (my siblings took music classes for 1 period each day, we all did school sports still, etc) - have strict (or a…
and didn't get lunch until our school work was done
I am not surprised this is a salient childhood memory.
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#19I was homeschooled and will be homeschooling our kids (first one coming early January 2027!). Game-changers for me growing up, that I think my parents did really well: - change the curriculum to match the kid (i.e. learning styles, difficulty, pace) - use the public schools for electives, sports, drama, etc (my siblings took music classes for 1 period each day, we all did school sports still, etc) - have strict (or a…
and didn't get lunch until our school work was done I am not surprised this is a salient childhood memory.
It sounds like you're interpreting that in a way I didn't say or intend. In fact, the exact opposite. It was the culmination of my list of things I think my parents did really well.
It wasn't oppressive. It was disciplined. I learned more in 3 hours at home than I did my senior year going to public high school for 8 hours a day.
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#20Have you thought about homeschooling up to a certain age/grade? There is a category of socialization skills that only a lot of direct, in-person, peer-to-peer time builds.