For Those Who Are or Have Been Homeschooled...
Thank you, Trista, this made me laugh :)
"How do you learn to get on a bus if we're homeschooled?"
for all homeschoolers who have been asked if they have any friends. or any other stupid question.
public school kid: "oh! you’re homeschooled? do you have any friends?"
homeschool kid: "you go to public school? do you have an education?"
"Do you get to wear your pajamas during school?"
"Do you ever leave your house?"
"Do you have a life?"
"Are you like really super smart?"
"Can you sleep as long as you want?"
"Do you know what boys are?"
"You don't even have to shower, do you?"
"Do you get to sleep in as late as you want?"
"Do you even have text books/tests/quizzes/report cards/desks/exams?"
"how do you meet people?"
"do you have to take the SAT/ACT?"
"do you play video games all the time?"
"do you get to eat whenever you want?"
"how do you socialize and meet people?"
"do you LIKE being homeschooled? That would be so awesome. My mom would never homeschool me. Actually, I wouldn't want to be homeschooled because I'd want to see all my friends. "
"is your mother is insane?"
"does she needs to have a teaching license?" (sorry cali people)
"Whats 'homeschooled'?"
"Do you know any black people?"
"Are you only allowed to date other homeschoolers?"
"So how many kids do YOU want to have?"
"You don't know many gay people, do you?"
(When they hear you're in college): "Is it really different for you:?"
"Wow. You must be a super genius."
"I would kill myself if I was homeschooled. I can't imagine not being able to see my friends every day."
"Wow, your family must really love each other!"
"you were homeschooled? how long did it take you to adjust to the normal world?"
"oh, you're homeschooled. you must not know anything about the real world."
"What time do you wake up?" "Can you go to college?"
"Does your family have a 15 passenger van?"
"Do you get Grades?"
"does your mom make you sit at a desk in front of a chalkboard in your house?
"Do you take the FCAT?"
"If I was homeschooled I would play video games all day."
Oh your homeschooled right? So you'd be in the special-ed classes right?
since your homeschooled, why don't you just work all day and not go to school?
Teacher: Who is your teacher? Why did she send you down here with phonebooks?
Homeschooler: Oh, I dont go to school.
Why aren't you in school today?
I'm homeschooled.
oh, do you learn anything?
Here's one I thought of the next time some idiot asks me this question;
How do you socialize?
I'm talking to you now aren't I?
when you are at a basketball awards night at a church and they announced that the homeschool group had set up all the chairs the day before(right after they finished their co-op meeting). A friend turns to you, you assume she had forgotten you had been homeschooled, and said "yeah, that's so they can get some socialization so they don't turn into freaks!"
when we wonder why do they make "the face" when you say you are home schooled?
when you get stopped by a policeman (which is nothing rare) and He's says, "What are you guys doing?" so you explain that you’re homeschooled. Then he says, "So you guys are homeschooled?" "Yep." And then the cop says, "Where do you go to school?" "home..."
"Youll never know how to live or function in the 'Real World'."
"How do you learn to get on a bus if we're homeschooled?"
"Are you home schooled because your family are hippies and don't believe in the public school system?"
~ ~ ~
Yes we do get asked these questions.
Once when I was fifteen, my Dad and I were walking down a street in Santa Rosa on our way to Barnes and Noble and a policeman in dark sunglasses stopped us, wanting to know why I wasn't in school. My Dad started to answer, but did a double take and laughed. He started addressing the officer by his first name and I just stood there hoping the man wouldn't arrest us for bribery or something. Up to this point the his face had been stone blank. Finally he grinned, and the two of them went back and forth with stories for a minute or two.
Turns out the officer is the brother of a friend of ours and had known that I was homeschooled before he ever approached us.
I was very happy to finally get into B&N.
In other news, I'm shocked that I've never had a tag for homeschooling before :/ Weird.
"How do you learn to get on a bus if we're homeschooled?"
for all homeschoolers who have been asked if they have any friends. or any other stupid question.
public school kid: "oh! you’re homeschooled? do you have any friends?"
homeschool kid: "you go to public school? do you have an education?"
"Do you get to wear your pajamas during school?"
"Do you ever leave your house?"
"Do you have a life?"
"Are you like really super smart?"
"Can you sleep as long as you want?"
"Do you know what boys are?"
"You don't even have to shower, do you?"
"Do you get to sleep in as late as you want?"
"Do you even have text books/tests/quizzes/report cards/desks/exams?"
"how do you meet people?"
"do you have to take the SAT/ACT?"
"do you play video games all the time?"
"do you get to eat whenever you want?"
"how do you socialize and meet people?"
"do you LIKE being homeschooled? That would be so awesome. My mom would never homeschool me. Actually, I wouldn't want to be homeschooled because I'd want to see all my friends. "
"is your mother is insane?"
"does she needs to have a teaching license?" (sorry cali people)
"Whats 'homeschooled'?"
"Do you know any black people?"
"Are you only allowed to date other homeschoolers?"
"So how many kids do YOU want to have?"
"You don't know many gay people, do you?"
(When they hear you're in college): "Is it really different for you:?"
"Wow. You must be a super genius."
"I would kill myself if I was homeschooled. I can't imagine not being able to see my friends every day."
"Wow, your family must really love each other!"
"you were homeschooled? how long did it take you to adjust to the normal world?"
"oh, you're homeschooled. you must not know anything about the real world."
"What time do you wake up?" "Can you go to college?"
"Does your family have a 15 passenger van?"
"Do you get Grades?"
"does your mom make you sit at a desk in front of a chalkboard in your house?
"Do you take the FCAT?"
"If I was homeschooled I would play video games all day."
Oh your homeschooled right? So you'd be in the special-ed classes right?
since your homeschooled, why don't you just work all day and not go to school?
Teacher: Who is your teacher? Why did she send you down here with phonebooks?
Homeschooler: Oh, I dont go to school.
Why aren't you in school today?
I'm homeschooled.
oh, do you learn anything?
Here's one I thought of the next time some idiot asks me this question;
How do you socialize?
I'm talking to you now aren't I?
when you are at a basketball awards night at a church and they announced that the homeschool group had set up all the chairs the day before(right after they finished their co-op meeting). A friend turns to you, you assume she had forgotten you had been homeschooled, and said "yeah, that's so they can get some socialization so they don't turn into freaks!"
when we wonder why do they make "the face" when you say you are home schooled?
when you get stopped by a policeman (which is nothing rare) and He's says, "What are you guys doing?" so you explain that you’re homeschooled. Then he says, "So you guys are homeschooled?" "Yep." And then the cop says, "Where do you go to school?" "home..."
"Youll never know how to live or function in the 'Real World'."
"How do you learn to get on a bus if we're homeschooled?"
"Are you home schooled because your family are hippies and don't believe in the public school system?"
~ ~ ~
Yes we do get asked these questions.
Once when I was fifteen, my Dad and I were walking down a street in Santa Rosa on our way to Barnes and Noble and a policeman in dark sunglasses stopped us, wanting to know why I wasn't in school. My Dad started to answer, but did a double take and laughed. He started addressing the officer by his first name and I just stood there hoping the man wouldn't arrest us for bribery or something. Up to this point the his face had been stone blank. Finally he grinned, and the two of them went back and forth with stories for a minute or two.
Turns out the officer is the brother of a friend of ours and had known that I was homeschooled before he ever approached us.
I was very happy to finally get into B&N.
In other news, I'm shocked that I've never had a tag for homeschooling before :/ Weird.