In the past year of my homeschooling, I've been presented with many opportunities that I would have never gotten at public school.
For one thing, I got to study more classic literature than I ever could have at Citrus High. Last year the only play we studied was Romeo and Juliet and the project took nine weeks. This year I've read six of shakespeare's works and twenty four other plays and I understand them all a lot better than I ever undeerstood Romeo and Juliet the way Mrs Alverado taught it.
Aside from the plays, I've read several books and essays on economics and sociology, two subjects that I'm pretty sure aren't offered at Citrus. I had time to familiarize myself with writing by Malcom Gladwell, Tobias Wolff, Tom Stoppard and even Christopher Guest.
I'm not going to tell about my total lack of skills for working in groups or interacting with other people because you asked me not to. I mean it's not like human are pack animals or anything , I'll be perfectly fine in college as a withering wallflower.
I have been to some of Jack's classes though, and he has taught me outside of CHS so I know a little bit of spanish.
Homeschool gave me one really good advantage though, time.
To cover everything we learned about in a public class would take at least four years, seriously. And even then, not everyone in the class would understand it.
I also have time in the sense of going places. If I want to go on a trip with dad, I don't have to work it around school, I'll work school around it. I also have a chance to sit in a coffee shop and read the newspaper in the morning if I so choose some days. We can study in the park instead of a flourecent classroom and I don't have to sit around while the not-quite-STOOPID kids in the class have the assignment explained to them for the fourth time. This is how I can read through over twenty novels with a full understanding of them and still have time for watching classic (or just really interesting) movies and basic life things like yoga or knitting or cooking.
As you can see, homeschooling has presented me with an entirely new possibility for my life. At home I am able to show my full potential without having to worry about disrupting the system. A year of home-studying has been just what I needed to get back on track.
For one thing, I got to study more classic literature than I ever could have at Citrus High. Last year the only play we studied was Romeo and Juliet and the project took nine weeks. This year I've read six of shakespeare's works and twenty four other plays and I understand them all a lot better than I ever undeerstood Romeo and Juliet the way Mrs Alverado taught it.
Aside from the plays, I've read several books and essays on economics and sociology, two subjects that I'm pretty sure aren't offered at Citrus. I had time to familiarize myself with writing by Malcom Gladwell, Tobias Wolff, Tom Stoppard and even Christopher Guest.
I'm not going to tell about my total lack of skills for working in groups or interacting with other people because you asked me not to. I mean it's not like human are pack animals or anything , I'll be perfectly fine in college as a withering wallflower.
I have been to some of Jack's classes though, and he has taught me outside of CHS so I know a little bit of spanish.
Homeschool gave me one really good advantage though, time.
To cover everything we learned about in a public class would take at least four years, seriously. And even then, not everyone in the class would understand it.
I also have time in the sense of going places. If I want to go on a trip with dad, I don't have to work it around school, I'll work school around it. I also have a chance to sit in a coffee shop and read the newspaper in the morning if I so choose some days. We can study in the park instead of a flourecent classroom and I don't have to sit around while the not-quite-STOOPID kids in the class have the assignment explained to them for the fourth time. This is how I can read through over twenty novels with a full understanding of them and still have time for watching classic (or just really interesting) movies and basic life things like yoga or knitting or cooking.
As you can see, homeschooling has presented me with an entirely new possibility for my life. At home I am able to show my full potential without having to worry about disrupting the system. A year of home-studying has been just what I needed to get back on track.
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