Most kids are weird any way. Our kids are great kids but like all kids they do weird things. We were all weird as kids. It doesn’t matter if they’re home schooled or not.

The boy down the street from us goes to public school and he’s always threatening 2 specific girls with rape and murder. He’s a fourth grader.

The girl 3 houses down also attends public schools, she picks up cats in her mouth and thinks she’s a cat and then suddenly tosses the cats from her mouth to across the room.

The other boy, refusing to share with other kids, goes to public schools, he attacks other children for touching his toys or toys that he likes at school.

Our children are home schooled, but they don’t bully, hurt animals, and they definitely share. They are not perfect, but socialization isn’t always a good thing. There’s weird everywhere.

I guarantee our children get a better education than a public school kid. We teach aspects of history, geography, and philosophy that other schools cannot teach. Public schools also cannot guarantee the safety of children.

No.

Statistically based on UNIVERSITY STUDIES

Homeschoolers as a whole are 2-3 grade ahead of Public Schoolers and 1-2 grade ahead of Private and Paraochial schoolers.

They are more socialize

More self-assured

Most communicative

National the BRICK AND MORTAR PUBLIC SCHOOLS have a failure rate of 40%

Homeschoolers is more like 20-25%

Brink and Mortar Public Schools have an honor acheivers of 10%

Home schoolers have more like 25%

50% of homeschoolers are above average

20% of brick and mortar schoolers are above average.

Most homeschoolers are college ready by age 16 or 17

Most brick and mortar schoolers are no where near college ready by 18

Two or three years ago NY state almost threw out the Regents Math exam because ALMOST NO ONE PASSED IT

I know a NY graduate who can’t solve what is

0.10 of 10 (answer is 1)

And thinks Denmark is a CITY (It’s a country)

In Los Angeles the upper 10% is mostly Asians, Arabs and PErsions.

Whites make up the middle 40-60%

Blacks make up the middle 30-50%

Hispanics make up the lower 20-40%

Go look at the Stanford Test scores in each school to verity what I just said!

They are on the Public Record

Despite you probably being a troll, there are others who read.

“Weird” depends on what you mean by that. I have found that most homeschooled teens are different than public schooled kids: they tend to be more natural, tend to be more mature, less focused on material items (iPods, certain clothes, etc.), less inclined to party, etc. Many public schooled individuals would find this more adult-like behaviour “weird”, but most adults find it rather refreshing and desirable; after all, childhood is a time for training to be an adult. By the time someone is high school age, they should be rather adult-like.

At the elementary level, I find I do know some “weird” kids, but these are gifted kids or kids on the autistic spectrum. In general, there is just something about their behaviour that I would prefer to be with a group of homeschooled kids rather than public schooled kids. And I say this as a former elementary teacher.

Sure some home schooled kids turn out “weird”, if by weird, you mean not a carbon copy of everyone else.

I went all 12 years to public school and still turned out weird, so it’s not the home schooling that makes the kids unique. It’s that in home schooling, they’re allowed to be who they are and not manipulated and pressured into becoming what someone else thinks they should be.

Well, I think this is an unfair question that is basic profiling. Home schooled kids are often said to not be socialized, or are withdrawn, not true! First, our kids are home schooled by their/our choice. The reason we personally opted for home schooling is that now days, school is a very different place than it was when we were kids. It’s dangerous because of gangs, bullying, and more terroristic type threats. I feel children should learn how to socialize from home first…good manners, sharing, good attitude, being kind to others/animals, and how to be a responsible person. Many home schooled children have outside activities as well, like sports, music, scouts, and art. The possibilites are pretty endless since as the parent you’re in control. Most importantly they tend to learn more because of personal attention during EVERY school day. If having a child learn about cussing, rude behavior, sex, and drugs is what was necessary for them to be socialized, then public school would definitely be best for that. Maybe if more parents took a bit more responsibility for their children’s behavior and knew more about what’s going on in their child’s life, public school would be a better place, but in this day and age, NO WAY! Weird? No, I mean think about the school shootings that have taken place….by attending students, I’d say they were the ones that ended up having social troubles, and being weird. Home schooled children end up being more well adjusted, and more productive young adults on the average. Different, maybe, but in a very good way!

Acourse they do, butlook how some public schooled kids turn out. Like me.

All jokes aside. My neeses were home-schooled and they are down right wierd. I’ll define wierd for your readers, too. They are extremely shy and anti-social. Very clingy to only their mama, too. They now attend high school, but when they started one of them cried for weeks on end about having to go. They also didn’t believe in immunizations and their mom played hell for that. What a mess that situation was. On the better hand though, a lot of people from my old church were home schoolers and they turned out fine. Ya, a little wierd only because of not being exposed to the garbage that goes on out there in the schools.

My final answer is this. I used to be against home schooling until I’ve worked in the public schools system for over 5 years and see what goes on. Public schools expose some kids to some over-rated activities that is just totally un-nessasary in a childs development. So, maybe some of them are a little wierd, but at least most of them don’t end up dropping out, pregnant or in gangs. I really believe that wierd just comes from the religious aspects that are taught by the home-schooled instructors (parents). Most home-schooled are taught religious based studies and it makes them not as “wordly”. So, they just seem “weird” to the rest of society.

Well, I see you’ve managed to spark the intrest of many, including myself, with your question. I guess I more or less wanted to see the answers that everyone else was giving, but sometimes curiosity kills the cat I guess.

Anyway, haha, sad as it sounds, I can’t find a proper way to answer your question. Alright, here’s what I’m going to try to explain. I’m a homeschool student, but previously a public school high school student. I think the proper answer is, no. Yes, you see your occasional “odd ball” that you can tell just hasn’t been informed of the lastest “in”, but hey maybe they have and just want to be different. Honestly though, on most occasions you can’t pick a homeschooler out of a crowd. They fit in just as well as any other. I do think that we homeschoolers have a unique way of expressing ourselves. Like the “in” things, we know what they are, but often tweek them to add our own style.

I do think I will stress the point though that if I lined up 20 kids, and only a couple were homeschooled, you’d probably find it difficult to pick the homeschoolers out.

No. Most home schooled kids do not turn out weird.

That’s not even a logical question.

How is one to answer you?

What statistics do we have at hand to give you a scientifically proved answer?

What sort of testing would any child, whether schooled at home or in the public sector, be able to take that could prove definitively that they were, indeed, “weird”?

And a definition of “Weird” is so subjective. (That means “placing excessive emphasis on one’s own moods, attitudes, opinions, etc.; unduly egocentric.) so who would be making the distinction between “weird” and “normal”?

So, really, it would take more data than we have at hand to answer your question with any degree of certainty.

I realize that I have treated your question with much more gravity than it deserves, but, none the less, felt compelled to point out the flaw in the structure, nay, the sense, of your question.

We should all cut you some slack anyway. We can pick out you public “scholars” from a mile away.

Define weird? Do you mean, do they grow up not needing to conform? If that is your definition of weird, then I suppose the answer is yes.

It amazes me that people assume just because a child is homeschooled the child never leaves his home, never meets other people, never gets to socialize. I assure you, that is usually not the case.

Now, around the corner from my home is a high school. Every day I see these kids walking home like zombies, their eyes glazed over, never smiling, with pants hanging to their ankles, messy shaggy greasy hair, all with iPods dangling from ears and yacking on their cell phones about the latest rap song or who-broke-up-with-who-today drama… news flash: none of this will matter in the real world. In the real world, what matters is self-confidence and character.