Spelling Bee Champ, home-schooled Options

[jonathan83]

http://youtube.com/watch?v=3qojjSr2S7k

I'm sure that being home schooled hasn't had any effect on his people skills.

[cupcake]

Me, I had tons of extracurricular activities that were completely separate from the homeschooling groups in town (piano lessons, girl scouts, dance lessons, etc.)and my mom took me along to various workshops and conferences she went to, like Adopt-a-Wetland programs and the annual Science & Technology symposium held at A&M, so I got a lot of social exposure.

well there you go...

sounds like you had a pretty rad life growing up.

I went to public school in the ghetto. like 2nd and Q...Guadalupe Elem.

in the 80's some pseudo-intellectual hippiefuck decided to hijack the LBK school system.

I grew up in that area over by the southplains mall and the school there (nat williams) was an "open concept" school where the whole goddamn school had zero walls. grades K-6 were all in the same frickin room. they did it to promote "an open atomosphere and unchained ability to grow and prosper in a free environment" or some such granola drivel.

what actually happened was some kids were totally distracted by the lack of structure acted like freakshows on crack and made terrible grades...that would be me.

so in their infinite wisdom, they decided those who couldn't assimilate to the open concept, needed exposure to other cultures and bussed us across town to the worst school in LBK. 5th graders that were huge black dudes that were like 16 or some shit. school surrounded by barbed wire fence.

nowadays they would have just diagnosed me as ADD, which is really neat-o as well.

my parents provided a good life for us so that I could get mugged and beaten for my walkman. awesome.

what social skills did I learn in elementary? that hippies are fucked, and the only way to not be a subsurvient underling is to fight.

/rant

homeschooling would have ruled.