how do people act when you tell them you homeschool??

The reaction we get is very mixed. Some people applaud what we are doing and think it is great. Other people will tell us we are being irresponsible and doing our kids some great disservice. Most people in the latter group are extremely misinformed about homeschooling. Studies have shown the most common objections to homeschooling simply are not true. Homeschoolers in general have better social skills than their peers. Homeschoolers in general score better in national testing than their peers. Homeschoolers in general do better in the working world than their peers. Why would anyone object to that? My favorite was someone here on mylot commenting that they felt most homeschooling parents were somehow lazy not wanting to go the extra mile by keeping the kids home and schooling them themselves. That is just too funny. I have never met a homeschooling parent that did not deeply love their children and want to go above and beyond and provide their children with the best. If we wanted to go the easy route we'd just send them to regular school let the government teach them. If the government does not succeed then it isn't our fault and we'll have someone to blame. Either the government did a lousy job or our kid really is stupid. My wife and I decided to homeschool from the very start. We wanted our kids to have the best. We just don't think public school is the best choice. Our oldest has his highschool diploma.

I'm late getting to this duscussion, but I also have encountered many mixed reactions to my homeschooling over the past 12 years that I've been doing so. Some are all for it.....some have no idea what it's all about and think it's just totally bad for children. Those are the ones that bother me.....and those that don't like it for the simple fact that they kids "aren't being socialized with children of their own age in a classroom" blah! they don't go to school to socialize. My kids socialize well, and do so with people of all ages. Marsha

I think too often people who make rude comments about home schooling don't understand it. Too often i think people think homeschooling is a radical decision and is meant to keep kids out of public schools. My best friend was home schooled and she is the most intelligent person I know and she was able to help take care of her ailing grandmother. I have thought about homeschooling as well. That woman must have just not understood homeschooling.

I get mixed reactions.I get people that say "good for you".Then I get people including my adult son's say that I should not homeschool my daughter because it keeps her from socializing and learning properly because I do not know everything.I just ignore them and do what we want to do.My late husband did not like the idea either.Now my late husband,both my son's and myself all went to public schools and never graduated.What does that tell you.Don't get me wrong I know people that went to public school and graduated.Some of them went to college as well and then ended up getting minimum wage jobs or was unemployed for a long time.Mater of fact right now I have a friend from high school that graduated from college.Went back to college to get a specialty degree.He worked in his field that he studied for for about 20 years and now now cannot find a job in that field that will pay him a reasonable salary. People can be really rude especially when it is none of their business.

I homeschooled my 3 boys when I had a bad problem at the middle school. I took them out of school in the middle of the year and homeschooled them for 2 years after that. The only problem I had was from my ex and his new in-laws. When the kids would go to his house for their every other weekend visit they hated it because they would always end up at the new in-laws and the mother-in-law always had 20 questions for them. I would have been rather rude myself right back to her. I finally got fed up with the m-i-l in our business and I let my ex have it. I think he had a problem with it also but he was never a big part of their life. He was out of my youngest son's life up until that time and he was around the age of 7 so he really did not have a leg to stand on. I have full custody and he had visitation. After griping at him about it they laid off.