I’m a homeschooler, which basically means I get to stay home all day every day.=-)
BUT… I do have to take the same classes at home that you would do at school, some homschooler’s parents hire a touter to come teach the kids for them, but my mom teaches me and my three brothers herself. School IS fun because you can see your friends every day, but you can in homeschooling also, because you can join a homeschooling group, which is a large group of all the homeschoolers in a certain area. You don’t take many classes in a homeschooling group, you’d do that at home, and the classes that you do take are things like drama class, sewing class, cooking class, and book club, things that would be after school activates for a schooler. One of the cool things about homeschooling groups is that the different aged kids don’t get separated in to different small groups like they do in school, all of the kids stay together in homeschool groups, so I have a lot of friends that are much older than me, and a lot that are much younger. Some of the homeschoolers in my homeschooling group have a scouting group like boy scouting and girl scouting, but it’s for both genders, for all ages, and only for homeschoolers, we call it the Spiral Scouts. And all of the homeschooler’s parents teach the homeschooling group together instead of teachers like in school, for example my mom teaches Spiral Scouts and cooking class, and my dad teaches camera class. Oh, and I almost forgot, homeschooling groups have names just like schools, my group’s name is a little random-LIGHT. Maybe theirs a reason someone named it that, what do I know? Well, one of the things I rely like about my group is that there’s a LIGHT kid’s e-mailing group, which is a e-mailing group on Yahoo, were all the kids in LIGHT can post their photos and virtually talk to each other.
Also, homeschooling groups go on field trips like schools do, just in h-schooling you go on field trips like 65% more of the the time than you take classes, and also my h-schooling group goes to some rely cool places, once we went to the botanical gardens in Brooklyn, we go ice skating and roller blading all the time, once we even got TO BE EXTAS IN A MOVIE!!!, and we’ve gone to many, many other places.
Another thing I like is that when we have h-schooling group classes we never have them all in the same place, the parents usually rent a room in a library, or a room at the park, and sometimes we have classes at one of the h-schooler’s house.
I think homeschooling is great because you can learn just as much as you do in school, but wile your learning in homeschooling, your also having lots of fun. Give h-schooling a try, ask your parents to look for a homeschooling group near you.