If I said that I was homeschooled just a couple of months ago, people will certainly ask me: “Homeschooling? How do you study? How do you socialize?”
Well, jokes on them; now, everyone is homeschooling. I now often ask the people who constantly asked me questions about homeschooling the same questions they asked me just to mildly annoy them.
Homeschooling used to be considered weird to some and I was considered strange to them. When I started homeschooling, people thought that it was weird and it was for kids who can’t socialize, have subpar academic skills; but now, homeschooling is known for popular people or artists who don’t have enough time to go to public schools.
Myth
Did you know that the word school derives from the Greek word σχολή (scholē)? Its original definition was “leisure” and “that in which leisure is employed”?
A myth of homeschooled kids that is we have problems with our social life. However, that isn’t true.
I have many people I can socialize with comfortably, ranging from people in my age group to people in their thirties.
I have no problem striking up a conversation with somebody ten years older than me and I am also comfortable socializing with people my age, or even younger than me.
Some people still consider homeschooling as hiring a private tutor(s) and continuing to study using a curriculum. That is just moving school to your house. That’s not homeschooling, but flexi-schooling.
