Because I've done both, I think I could come at it with a pretty good view point, without being too biased, merely stating what I've noted from my experiences.
We'll start with homeschool.
Home Schooled
Pros:
- When you get your work done, you're done, whether it's 1 PM, midnight, noon, or actually at 3:30.
- You can think outside the box better.
- Much less, if not no peer pressure, negative or positive
- You have a lot more time.
- You get to tell people that you're the only person in your grade, and the person with the highest scores, and the lowest scores in your class, and make them very confused while they try to figure it out.
- No annoying fundraisers to worry about!
- People think that you're socially awkward.
- You don't get to have school events such as dances.
- Your public and private schooled friends can't hang out with you a lot, because they're so busy with school.
- People either expect you to be stupid, and a major slacker, or they expect you to be a rocket scientist
- If there's a subject that both you and your parents struggle with you can't get very good help with it.
- Sometimes your friends think that just because you have more time, and you spend it on the computer all you do at home instead of school is laze around on the computer.
Pros:
- You get to hang out with your private schooled friends more.
- You have another chance to make more friends.
- You get to take classes that if you were homeschooled would be difficult to take. ie, Shop, Journalism, Choir.
- If you're a formerly homeschooled author you get ideas of things to put in your stories.
- You can get better help if you struggle in a subject. ie, math...
- You get a chance to learn things different ways.
- Your time gets cut quite a bit!
- You have less time to spend with your family.
- You can get bullied.
- You are opened up to jokes, and sayings that you wouldn't have known before. (Bad as well as good, so this kind of goes under the pros too)
- If you have to eat the school lunch then you're dead...
- People get more dirt to blackmail you with.
~Katie :)
Another pro to homeschooling: When you're a senior, sometimes your mom lets you arrange your own school schedule (with certain requirements of course)
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