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Point is: at unie, you won't get a chance to learn at your own pace.

Proof? + Which country are you talking about?

Again, kids here learn that at the age of 10. You wouldn't even get to high school if you couldn't add that.

... I think having friends is very important in life (plus, it's so much more fun :)). It's even healthier to have lots of friends!

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I would think that a balance of street-smartness (common sense) and intelligence outweights little street-smartness and tons of intelligence.

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Lets face it if you are in regular school you will have more friends. Home schoolers are quiet shy kids, like me. I really don’t get along with people I don’t know (offline). That is one reason I don’t really want to go to public school now, I’m already ruined. I have 2 good friends, but they go to school and I only see them about 1 time a month.
My final say:
I envy kids my age having parties and playing tricks on teachers. Mabry that isn’t what is important in life, maybe the future is more important. Which is better, A shy unsocial yet very smart kid that grows up to be a engineer or a social fun kid with lots of friends that is not as smart and grows up to be a pizza deliver. I have only seen 1 side. I really don’t know. I have the choice to stay home schooled or go to school now, but im just can’t decide. Just like I can’t decide to ask a girl I like out. I probly wont, ill just watch and do nothing.
The pros I have are being able to have a flexible schedule. I can stay up all night watching X-files or stargate as long as I do enough work the next day. Sometimes I will just not do school on a day my friends are in town and do it on a weekend instead.
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I don't think that people who go to school (college for exampel) will be a pizza delivery guy :uhm:.

You will learn all the neccary things in public schools, although you can tell you teacher where you want to specialise in. although even this can be done by people who go to a public school: they can learn extra stuff at home.

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How often are these 'Home school camps'? Once a week, for a full day? That would be pushing the limits. Any less than that isn't sufficient at all, so far as I can see.

And as for a grasp on reality, putting aside for a second Ged's assumption that he needs a quick getaway plan so he can disappear in case anyone comes after him, even people who HAVE been to school never get what they expect when they enter the real world. But at least they have dealt with people long enough to get by while they learn. And they go out into a miniature recreation of the real world, with all the inter-personal politics that go with it, every weekday of their lives without the help of their parents, so they have at least some backing.

Working at your own pace? Tell that to your boss in ten years time when you're three days late for a deadline. He/she'll laugh at you, then probably proceed to fire you if you keep doing so. Working at your own pace is the WORST habbit you could possibly get into so far as a job is concerned. Well, that is, if you have enough confidence around strangers to get past an interviewin the first place.

Even bullying has its place! If you get bullied, you generally won't tell anyone. You have to deal with it on your own. That means learning to put up with the mockeries and insults thrown your way.
Given the fact that there are usually one or two bullies per class, you can guarentee that most kids have at least received glancing verbal blows from one at one point or another. I have. I've even been in a defensive fight. It's far from fun, and not something you look back on fondly, but it teaches you some things. Like standing up for yourself, and not rising to provocation.

It's just one of those things. Wherever you go, you will encounter someone with a superiority and/or hostility complex. They will belittle you and insult you. You can do one of two things in school. Learn to shrug off the blows. Or learn the confidence to shrug off the bully. Fail to do either, you won't survive the real world anyway. It's not a nice place. Nowhere near as nice as your cosy house.
Claim to know as much about the 'real world' as you like, but you really don't know as much as you think you do. I admit to not knowing as much as I thought I did before I was shoved into it! And I went to school! I'm sure most people will claim the same. It's a shock to the system, and the more preparation you go through before hand, the better.

And as for home schooled kids being cleverer than us'es dum pple, please don't force me into saying something I'll regret. You learn what you WANT to learn. Teachers just teach you what you need to pass exams. You want more, you learn by yourself anyway. Those who don't want to learn wouldn't want to learn whether they were at school or home. The endless reams of facts that you are forced into memorising isn't what's important about school anyway. NOBODY is ready for the real world, but it is possible to prepare somewhat. I don't think that people schooled at home are prepared at all.

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I just think that public education provides a better education..and you get social skills by being with other kids.

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Interesting story about specialising in a profession at school, my friend, from a long time back, wanted to be a constructional engineer, after going through the public school system, he has become a brick layer. Now I know he could have done what he wanted to, he?s not stupid, he?s rather smart and yet what has let him down? My only conclusion is that it must be the public school system, they were entrusted by his parents to educate him and they failed.

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He may be smart, but has he applied himself? You can be a genius, but if one doesn't apply him/herself...then it doesn't matter how smart he/she is.

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Indeed. You can't blame public schools for such things and public schools alone. There are many, many people who have done exceedingly well even having attended public schools to start off with. If you want something, you have to reach out and take it. If you don't feel you're learning enough in public school, what do you do? Learn it in your own time. The only person you have to blame for not achieving what you wanted to achieve is yourself. Firing blame at other people is easy but generally misguided.

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Difficult to say really how it averages out, but I think it probably works out a bit more than that.

You have more time to learn it if not shackled by a school system and national curriculum

And that is the extent of their teaching. You see the problem?

Exactly the point if you want to learn then you will do better away from people who dont want to learn

Then let them stay at school where they belong.

And the social contact is I suppose?

How are you more prepared?
You think because you went to school you have a better knowledge of the, unsavory aspects of human nature?
People change after they leave school, this sort of invalidates you're argument that you are learning to deal with people, as all the rules will change, true it?s the same game but it?s a game we all know how to play anyway and I would say home-schooled children work by rules closer to the final set, so we have the advantage in that particular arena.