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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]That's why I homeschool. I don't want my kid in a box.[/quote]

But they will be in a box. The "home-school-ed" box.[/quote]

Yes, but the "home schooled box" is whatever you want it to be. Since the guidance counselor and instructors are the parents (plus any teachers selected by the student/parents), the parents define the expectations. This may make a student less socially mobile, or more so, depending on the parent's goals and the initiative they take.

Some people are going to be haters or make assumptions about home schoolers, but they are easy to avoid and don't matter. The only audience that matters is the colleges, who will have test scores, essays, portfolios, and so on.

I will never know for sure, but when my blue collar parents pulled me from school and encouraged me to consider college and a professional career, they may well have set my expectations far higher than they otherwise would have been. I was a working class kid with decent grades among a sea of professionals' kids. People make assumptions, which I avoided by going entirely off the map.

(Side-note: I am not PP.)

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