Wow, you have one serious problem. Well try this:

“Mom, dad I think it’s wrong for you to pull me out of school. I have friends there and I can experience life to the fullest.School is part of me and who I am, and if you that away I you’ll be taking a part of me away. Dad, you out of all people should know that school builds ones character and is a road to success.Character, builds a person’s thinks and creates individuality and people who are home schooled, I think, cannot learn to be independent. Look i know this sounds cheesy…but please don’t take away my friends,my sports and basically my life.Please try and understand I’ll still be your girl but just please don’t take away this part of me.I hope you understand how I feel about all of this.”

I hope that does the trick. It’s gonna be okay just tell your parents how you’ll truly feel if they ask you questions.GOOD LUCK 🙂

By your *shiver* comment, it sounds as though they are making the right decision. Your parents are not just parents. They are people. Thinking, feeling people, and if their presence makes you *shiver*, there are problems.

Addressing some of the “advice” from above:

It is not at all difficult to get into college after (or even during) homeschooling. Many colleges today will take a transcript from a parent. If not, community college is a good bridge to a university. There are also high school correspondence courses that offer an official transcript if desired/needed.

Information, and other people and their knowledge, is readily available so if your parents do not speak a foreign language or cannot do trig, it’s not the end of the world.

And, you do not need to leave your friends! I have a 15 year old who has several friends.. and they are all in public school (plus a few homeschooled friends). Are they planing to move you to another town and lock you in a cave or something? 😉 If not, your friends will still be there. Plus you will have access to a whole new community via local support groups: homeschoolers! 🙂

You don’t have to leave all your friends. Actually, homeschooling takes less time – there aren’t 30 kids in a class – and may leave you more time for a social life. It also leaves you more time for lots of other stuff…

My son is homeschooled and sees his friends – public, private and homeschooled – on a very regular basis. Homeschooling does not mean that you’re home all day…it’s just centered out of the home, rather than in a classroom. Honestly, we’re rarely at home! You get to choose your curriculum, your subject matter (to a large degree), and you get more say in what you learn and how.

My honest advice, give it a shot for a bit – a semester, a year. If you really, truly don’t like it, talk with your folks and let them know you’d like to go back to school. But – give it an honest try. If you want your parents to honor your wishes at the end of the year, you need to show them that you approached it in a mature way.

Oh, and by the way, to the first poster…good luck at finding stats that show that homeschoolers aren’t prepped for college. On average, by 8th grade homeschooled kids are 3-4 years ahead of their public and private school counterparts, and many colleges are courting homeschoolers – even offering grants available only to homeschoolers – because on average they turn out to be more motivated and independent students. You’ll find a whole bunch of research to back that up.

Wow! That’s really scary! Getting close to your parents is just too weird! Do you think they will also lock you in your room and never let you outside? Maybe all your friends will be jealous when they find out you sleep in , get all your school work done by lunch time and get to go on trips while they sit in school. Maybe you will join a homeschool group and will meet a really neat group of kids who are not focused on peer pressure issues. Maybe you should look at this as an adventure. You’ll still see your buddies, you’re not moving to Pangnertung. Give it a shot for a year. It might be fun.

I’m assuming from the tone of your post that you are somewhere around 11 – 13 years old. I homeschool both my daughters, and my 13yo niece had the same attitude towards homeschooling – until she saw what a typical day was like for my kids. Then, she was begging her mom to homeschool her.

Many of my daughters’ public school friends ask their parents to homeschool them after they find out what the girls’ days are like. Most kids love field trips. How many field trips do you go on? My girls average 2 -3 a month, during holiday season a lot more. Are you able to go for a swim when you finish your work in school? My girls routinely go for a swim during lunch. We have friends that travel all over and the only reason the kids are able to do this is because they are homeschooled.

Due to the fact that it takes us a lot less time to do the work, my girls are able to do a lot more activities than public school kids – as do most of their homeschool friends. The girls both take piano, they are both involved in Girl Scouts (I’m sure you consider that passe), FIRST Lego League, a book club, play soccer (eldest is on a Select Soccer team), swim, and one is now going for a scuba certification. If they were in a public school, they would not be able to do any near this amount of activities. One of their friends is involved in a professional dance company. She probably would not be able to that if she were in public school.

There are a lot of positives to homeschooling that you may not have considered. Give it an honest shot. You may find you like it after all.

And your complaining about being closer to your family? What some kids wouldn’t do to get more time with their parents. That is what wrong with half of our kids is that they don’t get enough family time. I say you should try it out. Atleast give it a try before you knock it. If it becomes to unbearable for you then you can discuss it then. I think you need to be a little more mature about this situation. You can’t see it now, but someday you will look back and thank your parents for wanting to be closer and spending more time on your education. Kids are given way too many freedoms when it comes to not having to spend good quality family time. How are you ever gonna learn how to have a good close family when you get older. I feel very very sorry for those that don’t get the opportunity to spend quality family time.

You might want to give it a try. You can still see your friends, plus have more time for outside activities. Statistically you are just as likely to get into college.

If you shiver at the thought of being close to your parents, that’s probably WHY they see the need to draw you closer. Its not a healthy attitude to be repelled at the idea of family togetherness, they are probably trying their best to rebuild relationship with you. If that is the case, maybe seeing you enjoying time with them will cause them to be more open to your point of view on homeschooling.

Its a thought…

Haha! I have to laugh at some of the answers on here. I agree with the person who says for you to give it a shot. I was “pulled out of school” for 7th grade. I was a bit leary and guess what?!?! I loved it! I loved it so much I am now homeschooling my own children.

suggest to your parents that home schooling may be too much closness for all of you and that you guys should do more things together in your off time like a family game nite, or sit down to a meal together twice on weekdays and on weekends offer to cook on some of those nites or cook together make sure you spend one weekend day doing something as just you and your family like go to a zoo or a movie and talk about on the way home or at dinner that nite

tell them how you really DONT wanna be home schooled. convinced them that you have friends & if you left them, they(your parents) would ruin you social life. how you just wanna be a regular kid. if they want to bond. you can go somewhere on the weekend. like to the movies, or to a park, just spend the whole day together. they’ll feel closer to you & you wont have to be homeschooled

Maybe you could give it the “ole college try” before you decide that you’ll be leaving all your friends. Who knows, you may even make *more* friends.