Yo parents: how to mess up your kids with "good parenting"

[katmai]

I was home schooled from 7th grade(age 12) till college at 16.
I didn't miss out on socialization as I played sports and kept in touch with former classmates.

[ulmont]

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Sure, but if the overall rate is less than 3%, I bet my demographic rate is half that or less - which means that the odds of someone I know well enough to chat about that kind of thing being home schooled are pretty low. So far, I have not stumbled across any.

Apparently you're 0-2 on observation.

[ulmont]

I was home schooled from 7th grade(age 12) till college at 16.
I didn't miss out on socialization as I played sports and kept in touch with former classmates.

5th grade through 9th grade.  I did some sports, but decline to mention which on the grounds that I don't want Grallon jerking off to images of my younger self.

[Jaron]

I was home schooled from 7th grade(age 12) till college at 16.
I didn't miss out on socialization as I played sports and kept in touch with former classmates.

5th grade through 9th grade.  I did some sports, but decline to mention which on the grounds that I don't want Grallon jerking off to images of my younger self.

Wrasslin'?

[dps]

I'm guessing that ulmont was a catcher.   

[Admiral Yi]

I was home schooled from 7th grade(age 12) till college at 16.
I didn't miss out on socialization as I played sports and kept in touch with former classmates.

Well shit.  Never woulda guessed.

[katmai]

Is that sarcasm? All my time in homeschooling has made it impossible to tell!

[Admiral Yi]

No sarcasm.

For one thing I think of homeschooling as a haole thing. (Even though my sister homeschools and she's half Korean.)

[Monoriu]

In Hong Kong, the school year starts in September each year.  That means September is a cutoff point in deciding which year a student is admitted into school. 

I was born in November.  So I had to wait for 10 months. 

Funny thing was, my wife was born in December in the same year as me.  And she was admitted into school one year earlier than me. 

Because her parents fought the system to the hilt.  Because my parents didn't. 

I lost one year of salary because of them. 

[Eddie Teach]

I lost one year of salary because of them.

My parents opted not to let me skip a grade in elementary school. OTOH, I was born right before the cut-off, so already was usually the youngest student in my class.

[Caliga]

Same.  My brother did two years of kindergarten, but I only did one.

[merithyn]

I was home schooled from 7th grade(age 12) till college at 16.
I didn't miss out on socialization as I played sports and kept in touch with former classmates.

I have noticed that for those kids who are homeschooled later, it's not much different than going to a regular classroom, except that they're further ahead and usually a good bit brighter. The wee ones who started school for the first time after 5th grade really seemed to struggle, comparatively.

[Caliga]

I was home schooled from 7th grade(age 12) till college at 16.
I didn't miss out on socialization as I played sports and kept in touch with former classmates.

Why were you homeschooled?  Just wondering.

[DontSayBanana]

As far as forcing "normal" social relations goes, I'd say I'm pretty messed up as a result.  I was always the odd kid out in class, yet my parents refused to homeschool me or even to accept the school's recommendation of skipping grades because they were afraid I would "miss out" on social development.  And look how much good it did me.

[katmai]

I was home schooled from 7th grade(age 12) till college at 16.
I didn't miss out on socialization as I played sports and kept in touch with former classmates.

Why were you homeschooled?  Just wondering.

Moved to Seattle right before 7th grade and from being a straight a student and in the gifted programs at previous schools, went to a public school lacking such, got bored with classes and was getting in fights with a few select students in the 1st half of school year, so at spring break while I was on vacation, my mother decided to pull me out and put me into home schooling.

She had made sure to get me tutors for math and sciences areas where she was deficent.