when i was younger i was bullied a lot. like an every day thing i grew up really poor and went the wealthier based schools ( i say that in the sense that the majority of the school children were well above the poverty / middle-class line. the bullying didnt really affect my schooling until i was in 6th grade for the first year which is when i started to get bigger and be able to defend myself i got into a lot of fights. over and over id get expelled and sent to what we called the bad kids school (which funny enough is where i got along with people the most) anyway at this school theyd send you too after being expelled. they literally didnt care about you or if you showed up or anything so i just did what i wanted this happened literally 5 years in a row.

6th grade 5 times (pretty shameful) it got so bad that they eventually just pushed me into 8th grade and told me if i did well on the tests theyd bump me up to 9th grade swhich sounded like a good deal except for the fact that book wise im an actual degenerate. i knew nothing while im not completely illiterate or incapable of intelligent conversation i just cant take any tests. so at 16 i dropped out. with no more than a 6th grade education.

now all i do is sit at home with a panic disorder play video games and waste away. but id like to take some steps to change that i want to get my GED but im not going to mess with it until i have a basic understanding for general math/history/grammar and whatever other essential things i need to know to be a normal functioning human being. so basically im looking for any and all free tools i can use to learn on my PC while keeping me motivated (my biggest problem is motivation) i want to set aside atleast 2 hours a day dedicated to just learning i figure at 2 hours a day ill be doing alright ( i hope atleast ) anyway, thanks for taking the time to look through my long drawn out post for a simple short point i just feel like people dont think of you as bad when you explain to them what all happened to lead up to you being a shitty human. <3

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I frequently hear that the worst years of school are middle school, but most of what I heard from there has to do with terrible teachers/livelihood/bullies. Middle school had the best school years for me, despite that it was the era of puberty and “cringy” stuff. I didn’t love every single day, but I wish that I could relive the experience again. I’m not denying the terrible things other middle school students went through, but I’m not the one among the group that hates middle school.

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I was home schooled all the way until college. I had a formal curriculum for the first half and somewhere in my teenage years my parents transitioned to a more un-schooling approach, so I ended up teaching myself everything.

It worked out really well for me since I did really well in college and I’ve been successful since then. I’ve always had a really positive attitude towards home schooling because I felt that it prepared me well for college, even though I was frustrated that my parents had such a hands-off approach.

Looking back on it though, my siblings had a really bad time. None of them have been successful academically like I have. There were four of us, so numerically I don’t think a 1 out of 4 success rate is very good.

Approaching it from a more quantitative perspective, research seems to show that home schooled students have higher than average test scores: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/15582159.2017.1395638. I’m always worried by these, however, because home schooling parents tend to be 1. wealthier than average and 2. more likely to be involved in their children’s education (not automatic, since un-schooling is a thing). Since socio-economic level and parental involvement are the strongest indicators of children’s academic success, would these children do just as well in a public school?

Since I never went to school, I don’t know how bad bullying is. But two of my siblings ended up in public school for some time and they were bullied horribly, including by teachers (my sister was verbally abused by a teacher during detention). I would be willing to accept a worse education to avoid what comes down to abuse — and if bullying is as bad nationwide as it appears to be, then it looks like most children are suffering abuse.

From a societal perspective, abuse can be a problem within home schooled households as well. The more isolated a household is, the more likely family abuse is. Should home schooling be banned or regulated to avoid this in some way? How does the abuse compare to what students experience from teachers and students at school?

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