i am home taught via oxford open learning, and have been now for 2 years. learning from home is very stressful, and you have to have alot of will power to do it, honestly it sounds easy, and it sounds like you have alot of fun, well you don’t. plus you miss out on alot of courses that you could of done at school, so you only have a few courses to choose from. i hated school, was bullied, and eventually left school in my second year there. when i say willpower, its not just your own that you need to bear in mind. if you imagine, at school your there for 6 hours of the day, well now because your at home for those 6 hours, your parents start to think your not doing enough around the house…so there goes 1-2 hours from that 6 hours of school time. then you have to accompany your parents to go shopping, to go places so they dont think your becoming agraphobic, so at times you miss out on whole days at a time. then you have to have the willpower to actually do the work, and not put it off to a tomorrow that never comes.

home schooling sounds great, but at school you HAVE to sit there, so you do hear most of what the teacher says, but when your at home you have to do everything yourself, and eventually, it dwindles away to nothing, unless you keep beating yourself up over it.

all in all, homeschooling is good, but listen to what i have wrote, so that you can get a clear picture of what i have wrote, then you decide what you want to do.

hope this helps you out!

I graduated high school through a home school program. I have since graduated from a four year college with honors. Homeschooling can be a very viable options for different situations. There are plenty of different programs to meet the needs of our diverse student population. However, with homeschooling there are activities that you miss out on. Without knowing your unique situation, I cannot tell you what would be best for you. However, I can say that in all likelihood your high school will not be helpful in most transitions that involve you leaving their district, because then they lose the funding that they receive for your attendance. Here are some home school programs that I found in a quick internet search-
http://www.nationalhomeschool.com/
http://www.laurelsprings.com/home
http://www.k12.com/cava/ <– free, ran by public schools, but for CA residents only

I suggest that you find a program that will meet your needs and show it to your mom. Good luck.

Yes, you can get a good education at home. However, it takes alot more self discipline than in a regular classroom. I am not sure that you would get more ease in a homeschool setting because of what you wrote as your reasons for wanting to leave public school. Your parents would now be your teachers as well as others, should they chose distance learning. Why is it that you hate learning with others? And why do you hate teachers and working with others? I would get to the bottom of that first. Homeschooling is not the answer to getting rid of getting up early, working with others or having teachers.

I am not sure what grade that you are in, but it is never to early to think about college and a job. All of what you don’t like in school, are major areas that you need to cope with as an adult too. Trust me, it will be here before you know it!

You should sit down with your parents and/or the school counselor to talk about what is really going on. If you are concerned that it will end up in an arguement, just write everything down. Start with what you like about school, then end with EXACTLY what you dont like.

Just like anything, if you walk into a situation thinking it is going to be bad, it will end up that way. Try to find something positive first and focus on that. Like seeing your friends. If you give up now and fail your classes they will go on to the next grade while you spend your summer in summer school. That would just give you more of what you dont want..more time in school.

I hope that you and your parents are able to find some resolution. Best wishes to you.

Hi. I live in the VA area and have done something called “Homebound” learning because I contracted 3 different diseases/syndromes around the same time and that severely limited my ability to go to normal school. I think “distance learning” is the same thing.

Personally, I love it. I have two tutors: one for algebra and chemistry, and one for English and civics. We usually meet at the library, but they can come to my house, too. It’s convenient to do it at the library because at home a parent would need to be home as well, but a library is public and if something happened then there would be other people around and a parent doesn’t need to waste time sitting around for me.
I meet my English/civics tutor for an hour and a half three times a week at the library. I meet my algebra/chemistry tutor for two hours twice a week at the library. It’s very convenient and a stress-free environment for me.

For me, I cannot find any negatives to doing Homebound learning. I love it. I had it for a little while last year (which was when I got sick) and hated my tutors. They were nice, but just annoying. I don’t know. It’s great if you like your tutors and they’re good at their job but it’s really boring if you don’t and they aren’t. = But this year I got two great tutors that explain things well and don’t mind if I have a lot of questions or don’t understand something and need to spend more time than they wanted to on it. I’m actually ahead of the class that I would be in if I actually went to school, and I started twenty days later than they did!

I’m what one would call the “odd girl out”. I’ve never been bullied, but I don’t fit in well with kids my age and don’t have anything in common with them. I do have a very close group of friends whom I keep in contact with, but I don’t need to go to school to see them, anyways. And now with my health deteriorating, going to school is impossible for me.

My tutoring appointments are never earlier than 10 AM for me, so I can rest fully and still be on time for “class”.
During my sessions, all of my tutor’s attention is focused on me. She doesn’t have 25 other kids to worry about. I can ask questions and make mistakes without worrying about humiliation and looking dumb. If I don’t make a deadline, my tutor is okay with it and just asks me to try to bring what was needed the next time we meet. There are no strict rules like in school and I’m not punished for little things like being 5 minutes late. Actually, sometimes my tutor is a few minutes late (traffic) and it’s totally fine, because we can both stretch our schedules a little so that I still get the amount of time on each subject required. We work at a pace that is good for me, and because I don’t have two dozen other kids holding me back, I can get more work done than I would in a classroom. And if I have difficulty with a certain area, I’m not afraid to say so (in school, I would often just let it slide if the rest of the class was moving on, and then not do very well later on in the school year) because I’m not holding anyone back. And like I said, I’m still ahead of my classes because we work at a pace that’s good for me, which happens to be faster. My tutors and I don’t waste time with “class activities” that have never done me any good, but instead if we have to do a project or experiment we do it together and it’s actually pretty fun.

I’m not going to e-mail your mother because I don’t think she’d appreciate it but you can show her my response if you’d like.

Best of luck. =)