For home school families: what are some funny or off the wall people have said to or asked you?
August 28th, 2009 | by |Several years ago, one lady actually thought the only reason I was home schooling my daughter was because I just didn't know there was a public school in town.
Any interesting stories?
By Kitty Whitlock on Aug 28, 2009
A lady asked me where I went to school, I said that I was home schooled. She said, "I’m sorry, dear."
By BraxOwl on Aug 28, 2009
More than once, during separate seasons, we have been grilled at the baseball field about how our children socialize. Mind you, now, that I have two children who have played baseball at this same field for the past four years-we are there ATLEAST three nights a week between games and practices and occasionally go on our off nights to watch frirends play. For a couple of years, they were on different leagues which put us there even more often. While one child is playing baseball, the other is running around with friends.
Also during baseball season, some parents were discussing upcoming breaks and tests at school. We live in a community where some are homeschooled, some go to the local public school, some go to a variety of private schools and some go to public schools in other parts of town so the schedules vary a lot. They started discussing how much they hated testing and how useless it was, then when they remembered we do not go to school they asked if I was worrierd about the children not being tested. LOL If they hate it and think it is useless, wh y would I worry about my children not being tested?
I love when people try to tell me how much my children are missing out on, so they think. They do not realize the resources and opportunities homeschooled children have!
By sha_lyn68 on Aug 28, 2009
DH’s family in Michigan insist that homeschooling is illegal in MI and that it is "just a southern thing."
I’ve had one person insist online several times that the only job homeschoolers are qualified for is asking "would you like fries with that."
Probably the saddest is I had to end of DD’s friendships because of the mother. The mother insisted that the only reason people homeschool was that the homeschool parents were too lazy to get up in time to put their kids on the school bus.
ETA:Not said directly to me but a GA politician used to insist that the only reason parents in GA homeschool is to use their children as slave labor on family farms.
Then of course we have Y!A’s own CW that insist that the only reason to homeschool is to hide physical and sexual abuse
By hsmomlovinit on Aug 28, 2009
My 7th grade son was helping with a blood drive at church this Sunday, to fulfill a service requirement for a Boy Scout badge. One of the workers asked him where he went to school, and when he said he was homeschooled, she apparently launched into this whole long thing – telling him that of course he gets to sleep till 10 (only if he’s been up late working on an astronomy project the night before), how he has no friends (uhhh…whatever), and how he’s probably completely spoiled because he’s just at home with mom all day (yeah, right).
He just kind of sat there and stared at her, trying to figure out if she was serious. I mean, even if you think that stuff is true, why light into an 11yo for it, especially one who’s there to help you?
A friend of mine had this lady at the grocery store grill her, in front of her kids, about how they probably never get out of the house (funny, she probably wasn’t aware that the checkout line wasn’t in her living room, right?) and her kids nearly fell over snickering. On the way home, her daughter was all over it. "Did you tell her that, sometimes, if we’re all done with school early, you let us sit out in the car, roll down the windows, and *pretend* we’re going to go somewhere?? Or that every morning when I see that pretty yellow bus go by, I press my face up against the glass and think, ‘oh, I *wish* it would come get *me*!!!"
The ignorance of some people really just astounds me. It really does.
By Melissa on Aug 28, 2009
We knew a girl who asked us if we were Amish. Of course we said no, but she insisted, that yes, we must be Amish.
She would not believe me, even when I told her Amish people don’t even homeschool their kids!!!
By Doom Diva on Aug 28, 2009
I had a really strange one a little while back…
Someone (a parent) who seemed rather supportive of homeschooling said something that just sounded so ridiculous I couldn’t even believe I was just having a deep conversation with him five minutes prior:
"Well, if I was homeschooling, I’d just throw out all A’s at my kids when they were ten and declare them geniuses. It would save a lot of work."
*eyeroll* *facepalm* *headdesk*
I said this to even the other HSing parents I chat with, including the radical unschoolers I know, and they too thought that was the most ignorant comment EVER. You don’t just metaphorically throw your kids out on the streets and let them fend for themselves because you’re too lazy to guide them. It’s no different than people who sign 2000% interest contracts on title loans without reading them.
"Yeah, yeah, yeah. Whatever. Sounds good. Now where’s my money?"