homeschooling?

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Hey everyone! I was just wondering what your position is on homeschooling and how it can contribute to an autistics success in his/her schooling career.

I wish my mother had homeschooled me. I homeschooled my three boys for a total of 14 years. Only the kid with Asperger's appreciated it.

I wish that I would have had the opportunity to be homeschooled. Public school was pure hell for me both socially and academically. Homeschool offers a superior education, in less time than public schools AND freedom from the torture that is the public school social life. Do the children a huge favor and homeschool them. In addition to the formal education it would be a big help to find one or more adults who are not family members, teachers, or pastors who can act as mentors. These people might change over time to match the child's interests and future goals.

I wish I was home-schooled. One of the families at my church that home-schools has a 16 yo aspie. He loves it because there is no social pressure and his electives can be what he chooses, and in the summer he wants to and gets to take extra courses in areas he likes (math and physics).

I plan on homeschooling when I have kids. Plus now days home-schooled children can still take band/choir/sports with the local public school while being home-schooled in everything else.

I have mixed feelings about homeschooling. My parents homeschooled me because we had recently moved back to the US from Germany and the school here wanted to put me back a grade. It's true that my education was accelerated (I enrolled in college at 16) but was it worth not developing adequate social skills? I'm not sure. Socializing wasn't important to my parents so they didn't think it'd be important to me, I guess. If someone is considering homeschooling their children, it seems like a good idea to also account for ways to develop their social learning, too.

I wish I had been home schooled. Then maybe I would have actually had an education instead of many years where I did little or no work. Maybe I would have graduated instead of quitting at 16. Then I wouldn't have been sent away twice for truancy.

"Learning social skills" is one of the reasons some of my relatives think homeschooling is bad but I never learned social skills in school anyways. Most of the time I was bullied and shunned and had no friends.

No one ever suggested homeschooling to my mother and I don't think I knew about it or I would have demanded it. I quit in 1991 so I suppose that these days it's easier now that so many people have computers and internet.

My schooling is a mix of homeschooling and "typical" schooling.
During elementary school I mostly learned English grammar stuff and Math at home because I understood nothing about English grammar and Math in school. During middle school I learned Spanish and natural Sciences through homeschooling and at the moment I am trying to learn French and Japanese through homeschooling.
I am glad that my schooling is partially homeschooling and partially "typical" schooling. My parents made the right choice. Most of the things I know I have learned them on my own/through homeschooling but there are some subjects I just can't understand on my own. Like geometry. I would have never been able to learn geometry on my own. Same goes with history, philosophy, chemistry. So yeah, the mix of homeschooling and typical schooling is the perfect one for me. I am glad my parents are intelligent and have understood it in time.
About the "social skills" part, I have never learned social skills in school. If I gained some social skills, it was thanks to the activities I took part in out of school and my parents' help.

I was home schooled a lot by my mother during my preschool years, right after a teacher suspected that I might have Autism.

They wanted to switch and put me in a different class, but my mother didn't want that. So she chose to home school me.

My daughter refused to go to school from the age of 13, due to her having social anxiety.

She got the general qualifications, but she says that if she could have fought through her anxieties at the time, she would have much preferred to have gone to school for the social side of things more than anything else.

Personally I am neither for or against home schooling, I think it can work for some and if it does then that is fantastic.

Everyone is different.

So what happened? Did you do home schooling?

I was 12 when I started refusing to go to school frequently but no one ever suggested home schooling to my mother and I had many family court visits, probation, and got sent away twice over it. Later on after I quit I even heard about some places putting parents in jail if their kids missed too much school.

Home schooling would have been way better than what I went through. Of course it's easy to say that now looking back and knowing how things turned out but I do remember not being completely against learning. Once I took home a science workbook when I wasn't going and finished the whole thing in a month. It was not getting along with the other kids and not wanting to be away from home in school all day that was the problem.

She had teachers who came round to the house. She did maths, science, art and English.

When it came to exam time she went to do them at a unit somewhere near home.

My parents decided to homeschool me partially because I didn't get anything of some subjects in school.
In 1st grade I got nothing of English grammar and writing was terrible (one of the mistakes I remember making the most was writing "goat" instead of "got"), my parents understood the English class was useless for me and homeschooled me for English.
Same was with science, math and Spanish later on.
In 7th and 8th grade I skipped so many classes that I think I passed my 8th grade exam to enter HS just thanks to what I had learned at home (I already knew most of the science program, history and geography were the only real issues but I managed to pass the exam anyway because the questions were mostly about Spanish, literature, art and science).