I was jealous of Heather because she was tall. She was a preacher’s daughter, a good girl.
When her parents started homeschooling her, I wasn’t jealous anymore.
This tiny story was written for the Sammi Cox Weekend Writing Prompt, Heather. I knew a girl named Heather in elementary school, and I guess this counts as an IRL story because it did mostly happen (though this condensed form conveys none of the nuances regarding what homeschool in America is often about and why it can change the game in a bad way).
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Ha! It’s not that much fun being the home schooler either, H. I now have first hand experience.
Haha – I didn’t get homeschooled only because my mom knew she’d be too tempted to just do trips or fun things rather than school. Where I grew up, a lot of people homeschooled because they wanted more Jesus in their kids diet. While that’s all well and good, it often caused these people’s education and growth to suffer.
That is why I would never home school, it would be all English, Geography, Maths and History and no Science or second language.
Mine would have been “helping your dad’s business and cleaning house”
What a sinister picture of jealousy! Not a few public schoolers I’ve met are jealous of their home school counterparts too, LOL.
I can see it going both ways. Where I grew up, homeschool usually meant the parents thought the school wasn’t shooting enough Jesus into your veins. The kids would often suffer educationally or developmentally once they were sheltered away at homeschool.
I agree it can happen though I haven’t seen what you undoubtedly have, but I can tell you what I have seen, and that’s home schooled, socially well-adjusted, educationally high-achieving children who have grown into mature, independent, and responsible adults, Christian and non-Christian. Home schooling seems to have caught on in cities across the country.
Yeah. Hopefully it’s better in other places!
Hmm … well then … I have me a feeling there would’a been another person homeschooling if it weren’t for the fact that only one would ‘show’ … 😉
Haha, that I wouldn’t have done homeschool? I don’t know. I was always a bit of a nerd.
🙂 I think there are distinct benefits to some kids for homeschooling as long as there is sufficient social interaction outside of the home outside school hours. 🙂
Oh, definitely. I was 85% sure “sufficient exposure” thing wasn’t going on in Heather’s case. We were all too rural.
Yeah … Hmm … I just hope that the ‘reason’ had gotten there with consent … (for sadly, we know of too many times when that was not the case).
Every form of refuge has its price. Well stated.
Thank you. As I’ve heard somewhere, there’s a thin line between “protection” and “prison”.
As someone who was homeschooled, yeah nothing to be jealous of, it was awful.
Yeah. It probably depends on who homeschools you and if you get social interaction through sports or something. I imagine, though, that the typical reason kids are pulled out of public school is because of parental disapproval from some sort of subject. The kids I’ve known who were homeschooled because their public school didn’t have the tools and manpower available to help a kid with specific disabilities are the ones I think benefit the most.