Is this enough proof to those who throw around stereotypes about homeschoolers?

I'm sure that there are some people out there who fit the stereotype, otherwise it wouldn't have become one. However, I believe that stereotypes are usually untrue and unfair. I've recently discovered homeschooling, and no one that I've met fits into any of the regular stereotypes.

Honestly, I doubt one article is going to change everyone's mind. I've never met a home schooled kid who fits the stereotypes any more than any other kid could. I know some very religious people who home school, but I also have some neighbors whose kids go to school who give uninvited opinions about us not going to church. What would change schooled people's minds is knowing more home schooled kids and their parents and interacting with them. The kids need to hang out together and have friendships, not just see each other for one dance class or martial arts class a week. Often there isn't much interaction happening between the kids there. Being part of a little league team or community swim team where they practice together a lot would make those friendships happen, They can do things like go to the team parties and hang out together, invite kids over on the weekends who do or don't go to school, that's how kids get to know each other. Parents need to feel that the other parents aren't judging their decisions or opinions. They need to feel that their kids aren't being compared. I've heard too much unfair judgment coming from adults on both sides, and either way it doesn't help.

My wife and I are Christians who home school our children. To say we home school for religious reasons would not be accurate. We initially were drawn to home schooling before we even had children because of the examples of some of our friends. We wanted to me more involved the educational experiences of our children. We were both public schooled and had no qualms about it. We enjoy home schooling our children and will continue to do so, God willing.

Wow, bob, so you would rather make generalizations about the entire population of homeschoolers because of your experience with exactly two homeschooled children than pay attention to the evidence presented in that article or by others on this forum? That's...brilliant. Anyway no, I don't think anything is ever going to be good enough for most of the people who toss around stereotypes. For the people who are genuinely curious, the article might help, but I think it won't have even the tiniest influence on most people.

not really 2 kids at my church are home schooled they have barely any friends always go out with their parents only play very weridly and they act weird and annoying they once came to my house for a bible study and the girl took everything in my room and put it in a different room cuz she wanted to play with it and the boy was watching me play video games and he was like spazzing out and shaking and screaming and i had to yell at him to be quit so they also dont listen very well

The stereotypes serve a purpose for the people quoting them so I'm afraid no amount of evidence is going to make them stop. If you have an anti-HS agenda you really only have stereotypes and individual cases where it didn't work out to support your case.

I have homeschooled my two boys and sure do not fit into the profiling. But on the other side profiling is done for a reason. It is true for a lot of people. rd

I didn't read all of the article, but... I think for some, homeschooling can ge a great thing... For me, it hasn't...I can only talk from my experience. These last four years (My high school years) have been the loneliest, and depressing years... I can honestly say, if I didn't have a hope of my life being different by going to college, and having friends and a everyday life, not having to go do a godamn bullshit church to have friends... I would have killed myself by now... I'm not kidding either...Literally...Trust me, I've already contemplated the thought... So, I hope other people don't have as a lonely, and depressed homeschool (For high school) as I've had... And I KNOW my life would have been different, I was in a ******* # 2 box office movie...I've been on the tonight show with Jay Leno three times...I've been in 5+ tv shows... These years, I should have been going to parties, having girlfriends, everything! Instead, I'm a washed up child actor (Now I am) with hardly any friends, no life, and very little social skills, and no memories from the times I should have had them... But anyway, sorry for the rant... But I live up to alot of the stereotype, so to me...It's just a simple fact...

No, I've resigned that I will be defending my wonderful, smart, healthy, and VERY social kids with my last breath!! It makes me angry that my kids are stereotyped.