ALL HOMESCHOOLERS ARE EMO!

[bcgd1000]

I'm going to be home schooled next year and i've been emo for a year but I'm not following the stereotype think I've been emo in school.

[sweetiep32]

I've hear "Oh so you can't go to the mall?" I don't know why that would be O_o Also they'v said "Ohhh, so your a lesbian?" haha i'm like noo. Sorry, I like boys..

[JesusGirl87]

So... why aren't you wearing a skirt?

[givebirthathome]

Funny, creative and intelligent, just like a typical homeschooler.

[PurpleIncognito]

Being Emo is soooo much more than just having emo hair and makeup!!!

Technically, being Emo is about the muuuuusssiiiccc!!!!

SO listen to some Circle Takes the Square, Man With Robot Hands, Sky Eats Airplane, or any Screamo/Emotive Hardcore Punk bands you can find, then call me up and we can have an Emo Homeschooler party!

(I wouldn't call myself Emo perse, but I wouldn't call myself NOT emo. Also I'm homeschooled!!! INVITE ALL YOUR FRIENDS TO THE PARTAY!!! Imma stop typing now.....bye!)

[givebirthathome]

@PurpleIncognito LOL..I'm from a generation before the idea of emo was invented, but my daughter explained it to me, and I was thinking maybe some Nine Inch Nails, "Now I'm nothing" might be the ticket.

[ChistianChick]

I'm the farthest thing from emo and I've been homeschooled my entire life! All my friends tell me I'm the preppiest person they've EVER MET!! lol

[XxmychemheartxX]

I'm emo/goth and I'm homeschooled. But I went to high school for a year. Worst experence of my life!

[mistyfur514]

Thats strange your friend said that. When I went into homeschool i was emoish (kind of emobut not a true emo).Past the first 2 days i diddn't feel like an emo anymore it was very strange. o.o

[3daysAnd2nights]

lol i am homeschooled and I've heard all of the stereotypical things that you said at the beginning (well... not the baby thing, I'm a guy :) ) And I've never heard someone say that homeschoolers are emo. I only know one homeschooled person who is even close to emo, and she's not, she just likes black and dark stuff, but not in the emo way.

[blupheonix44]

LMFAO... EMO... We didn't have that label when I was in school...

As far as I can figure, it is a put down, with the meaning that the person it is directed at is "emotional"... I will never understand that... Everyone has emotions, even have different ones at different times! Or does EMO mean depressed? explain....

[pojejse95]

Awesomee videoo !!  Ur Funny

[wantan11]

NO IM NOT EMO AND YOU CANT MAKE ME!!!!!!!!!!!!!! NOOOOOOOOO! well do i have to be emo to be home schooled? cuz if so i am willing to make the sacrifice to remain a homeschooler

[vannalilys]

Hey I'm homeschool'd and I'm not emo I love being homeschool'd it's pretty cool really it is , o and kaite sub to me on YouTube pelase kaite sub, o pelase o pelase o pelase , and love the video keep makeing video's :D

[Frostedcatsandjbrofn]

omgsss I go to pavcs! o:

[Godslilredhed]

hahaha this is was awesome,

[4stinkydogs100]

Watch Astra Taylor's (a film director) lecture (uploaded) on her experience as an unschooler and how it affected her life. It is hosted by the Walker Art Center for a lecture series "Raising the Creative Child". It is about an hour long and her views are consistent with WHY homeschoolers choose to opt out of the public school. It is about an hour long. Before you criticize the homeschooling movement, please watch this video - IF your public school education hasn't ruined your attention span.

[myheadhurtsnow]

homeschoolers are bisexual.

[xXxSiLEncErXx]

@myheadhurtsnow no im not.

[MissRedeemed]

@myheadhurtsnow Oh really now? It's amazing how much you know about the personal lives of thousands of homeschoolers across the nation.

[HTROXURSOX]

@myheadhurtsnow I can assure you, as a former homeschooler, that I am not bisexual. I am, in fact, a lesbian, but this was most certainly not a result of homeschooling, as I discovered my sexuality after entering a school environment, voluntarily for experimental purposes (I was keen to discover what the typical teenagers life entailed.).

[SuperLynXe]

I'm home schooled too, and I get all the same questions!

P.S Your hair is amazing O__O

[TheBooglinator]

I guess i'm emo then. :P

[xXxSiLEncErXx]

@TheBooglinator me to :p

[MovieStarJr1300]

Lol! I'm homeschooled and have been all my life, and yes I've heard everything!

[curlygirlbecky]

all the questions are SO true :) I SO love my PA cyber schooling.

[alisawatson17]

i go to pavcs too

[xwoahxitsxannax]

Haha thats because she doesnt know wtf emo is, all stupid kids who go around saying emo is pretty much mentally retarded and imature(:

[romanstwelvetwogirl]

nice! i am homeschooled too! through abecka academy and i am so far from being emo... lol! thanks for shareing! i enjoyed it (i hope you didnt burn your self to much)

[pattycov]

Great job! And what really makes me laugh is the (mostly) correct usage of language, punctuation and spelling. VERY unlike your public schooled peers, who probably know the correct usage but choose not to use it.

[pattycov]

"And what really makes me laugh is the (mostly) correct usage of language, punctuation and spelling" - I meant that according to the comments that have been left here by homeschoolers..

[KittyStarlight]

pattycov,

As far as I can tell, large numbers of public schooled teenagers DON'T know the correct usage of most of the parts of what is, for most of them, supposedly their first language (or is their first language netspeak, these days? ^_~). Then again...of course, it's not always possible to know for sure which, or how many, simply prefer not to use any of the correct forms if they can help it. ^_~ (It's popular [with one's "peers"] not to be able to use language correctly. ^_~)

[KittyStarlight]

(continued) (to pattycov)

Of course, there ARE some homeschoolers (and some privately schooled kids) who can't and/or won't read, spell, write, type, punctuate, use grammar even semi-correctly, or in any other way present themselves as people with a good grasp of at least one language. (But they tend to be fewer and farther between than other people with the same problem.)

Hmmm. I think I've just started a new rumor...homeschooled kids grow up to be people who talk/write/type too much! ^_~

[KittyStarlight]

Giggle..."do you have to wear clothes when you do school?" (No, not necessarily. Oh...unless your parents are embarrassed by nudity. ^_~)

"Oh, my god! I didn't know you could leave the house!" (Um...*homeschooled*...not incarcerated, or under house arrest. ^_~)

(There is actually a term "homebound" but it usually [in a school context] means receiving instruction provided by the public schools, and receiving it at home because you can't go to school due to illness or injury.)

[MamaSamIAm]

Hahaha!- thanks for giving a homeschooling mama a laugh! Believe me, us parents get just as many -um- interesting questions.

[KittyStarlight]

MamaSamIAm,

You would probably enjoy something I read about "what homeschoolers really want to say in reply to questions about homeschooling" or something along that line...one of my favorite things in it was the one about "please stop interrupting my child during her acting class, dancing class, Girl Scout meeting, 4-H meeting etc. to ask her if she feels she is getting enough social interaction!" ^_~

[orcaslug]

hahaha dont worry, dont conform, i'm not emo either =P

[sevenbabies]

LOL!

[nikkimier]

are there homeschooled college kids?

[xoKRaZyy]

There's online college courses, so in a way, yes.

[nikkimier]

cool!

is it more expensive than a private school?

[xoKRaZyy]

I'm not sure how much it is exactly, but I can pretty much guarantee it's cheaper than a private college. My online high school classes are free, but that's high school.

[LATabbytail]

@nikkimier no it is not you don't pay alot sometimes not at all, definetely not as expensive as actual public school

[dancingruth]

but lots of homeschooled kids also go to regular colleges.

[orcaslug]

well once we are in college, we arent homeschooled anymore....but yes, i'm a senior at University of California, Santa Cruz, 18 and was homeschooled

[KittyStarlight]

orcaslug,

Once a homeschooler, always a homeschooler, I say. ^_^

(I don't call it "being homeschooled"...I think that kids are homeschoolers too...also, that you don't have to stop being a homeschooler just because you go to school/college...it'll always be a part of who you are. ^_^)

College graduate/homeschooler

(Self Edu Cat =^__^=)

[orcaslug]

always a homeschoolER but not still homeschoolED. i feel like i've evolved from homeschooling to go show the coolness of my past education and use my unique insight from homeschool experience to new, more public circumstances...(sorry if this is only semi-coherent, not working on much sleep atm XD)

[KittyStarlight]

orcaslug,

Exactly! Same here! Only, I didn't actually believe that I "was homeschooled" even when I was a kid. I already knew I was a homeschooler/unschooler. Well, not totally, since my mom did sometimes somewhat "school" me, but personally I've always been a believer in the unschooling version of homeschooling...like interstitialofficial...even back when I was just a little kid in school and didn't yet know the words "homeschooling" and "unschooling" I already knew what I believed in. ^_^

[KittyStarlight]

(continued) I mean, I knew I believed in *natural growing and learning* (even if I didn't yet know the words for it). (Parents can tell their kids a lot of stuff, help their kids with a lot of stuff, etc. and it can still be unschooling. I don't believe in "lessons" and "homework" but it's okay if some people do...or as Sandra Dodd said at an unschooling website, "if you 'make your kids do work', just don't talk about it here". ^_~)

[KittyStarlight]

(continued)

Anyway, most non-homeschool people, and even some homeschool people, don't seem to realize that *kids can be homeschoolers too*...most people seem to believe that "homeschooler" (always) means "home teacher" and refers to the idea that the parents "home school" the kids, who "are home schooled". Well, SOMEtimes...but not ALways...some of us do see it a bit differently...because we're weird...and unusual...and freethinkers...^___^

[KittyStarlight]

orcaslug,

Well, you can always be what some folks call "a product of homeschooling" (although personally I think there must be some other, less formal-sounding thing to call it..."product" just sounds much too "manufactured" for homeschoolers! ^_~). But anyway...yeah. A *homeschooler* is anyone who comes from homeschooling, participates in homeschooling, believes in homeschooling, etc. Doesn't mean only the parents and doesn't have to mean being still a kid either. Right/write on! ^_^

[daisynet19]

I'm so offended!! naw jkin.just a lil.but haha! lmao! it is kinda true..I'm homeschooled..not really emo more of the "scene" type..and i know a few ppl that aare home schooled and there emo haha!..

[hunterabess]

I'm homeschooled too. I don't go to school because I wasn't learning much there. I quit in first grade. I think homeschooling is much better, and I never get sick XD

As of people who bash homeschooling:

We have friends, and get better educations than most of you, because you're under peer pressure. If we don't like public schools, then so what? We're more polite than you, and you.....calm down with the bad words, buddy. Go do something else with your time.

[KittyStarlight]

hunterabess,

I know, it's great hardly ever getting sick, isn't it? ^_^ (On the other hand...I think every kid who ever disliked school knows what getting sick from all the germs there does for you...gives you a chance to stay home! ^__^) (Most homeschoolers do eventually get enough germ exposure to keep them/us from being too delicate. Oh, maybe not as soon or as often, but we get exposed enough. We're just less likely to have to suffer through things like having a cold all winter! ^_~)

[ejayarts]

home schooled! hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahh­AHAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHhahahahahah­ahahahahahaahaha

[interstitialofficial]

This made me laugh. I'm going to show this vid on my facebook page.

Commonest stereotype: h.s. kids don't have a social life. My repy: parents are not sending their kids to school precisely because of school socialization.

Our form of homeschooling is unschooling. The only thing anyone, child or adult, needs to grow and learn is a supportive adult in the vicinity. That some parents can even manage that much must be why they board their rug rats on the school bus every day.

[xoKRaZyy]

Thanks!

The whole "lack of social life" stereotype drives me crazy. For some reason it's always the first excuse people jump to, as if it's the only reason they're against homeschool. That's a great rebuttal... I'll have to use it someday, lol. :)

[KittyStarlight]

interstitialofficial: Some years ago there was a comic-strip-style drawing that appeared in a homeschooling newsletter, showing a mom being asked, "Aren't you worried about socialization?" And she looks outside, sees her kid with some undesirable-looking kids who presumably go to school, and says, "Yes". (She worries that he may be getting *too much* or *too bizarre* socialization.) (And, YES, bizarre school-type "socialization" [learning how to be a bully, etc.] is a GREAT reason to stay home.)

[KittyStarlight]

interstitialofficial again: What *some* people are, apparently, *actually* worried about is that hs kids will learn *to be nice* and to want people to be nice to them, instead of always expecting the opposite. Supposedly, this means that they'll grow up to be wimps and let everyone walk all over them. Personally, I think it means that a lot of them will grow up to take a strong stand FOR world peace and AGAINST bullying and other cruelty!

"Not Might IS Right...Might FOR Right."

--- T.H. White

[KittyStarlight]

interstitialofficial,

Actually why they board their rugrats on the school bus every day is (mostly) because they (the parents) (and sometimes even the kids too!) just ASSUME THAT'S THE ONLY OKAY THING TO DO. (Which, to me, is even sadder.)

The average family *will never find out* if a supportive/educated/etc. adult in the vicinity would've been enough...because they'll never even *try* any way of life that doesn't include school. That, to me, is sad.

[musicluva812]

Oh, but you couldn't possibly have a Facebook if you're homeschooled! (That's one I've heard.)

[cowboylover1995]

I have been homeschooled for forever!!And I had a person say I lived on anartica cause I was homeschooled!Stupid IDIOTS!!!!People just don't understand!Wow I like this vid!!

[xoKRaZyy]

wow, that's a new one! haha

thanks! :)

[KittyStarlight]

cowboylover1995,

The person who thought you must live in Antarctica...probably also thinks that all Hawaiians wear grass skirts (all the time, every day) and that all Alaskans always live in igloos or on icebergs. ^_~

(Or as C.S. Lewis had his Professor character say: "What DO they teach them at these schools?" ^_~)

[Luvbug89470]

yeah I'm online schooled too. And no we don't sleep all day. We have friends ppl!!!! We make friends online IN our schools. It's not like we are the ONLY ones in the school. Not everyone is 'emo' that name is stupid. I like to dress 'scene' so what!? Trust me all 'types' of kids are homeschooled yes even 'preps'. Why? because we like it better. We can graduate like a year eairlier. Some are homeschooled cause of drama, bullys and the number 1 reason, the fear of someone bringing a gun.

[AliceCullen211]

very good points!!!!!!! I totally agree with you!

[KittyStarlight]

Luvbug89470,

Well, the fear of someone bringing a gun...is what (famously) has made some people (in recent years) get interested in homeschooling who previously never liked it, cared about it, approved of it or even wanted to know anything about it (much less get involved in it in any way, shape or form). But...for the real diehard homeschoolers, guns are hardly "the number one reason". The general atmosphere of school itself tends to be a much bigger (or at least more frequent) issue.

[KittyStarlight]

(continued) (to Luvbug89470)

What homeschoolers tend to worry about a lot more than shootings/violence/etc. is just the general atmosphere of too many people, too little caring, etc. AND the risk that their kids could wind up thinking of that as the only way of life. The people for whom fear of school shootings is a HUGE issue...are usually the ones for whom the more common homeschooling reasons AREN'T a big issue. The ones who think that schools would be safe if there were no guns there.

[RoosterFish54]

i've gotten:

um do you get recess?

you get eat out for lunch right??

you're homeschooled? but.... but your normal.

i really dig the "allhomeschooledkidsarefundame­ntalistchristians" thing too.

thanks alot jesus-lovers, ruin it for the rest of us...

[xoKRaZyy]

haha yeah - the whole "normal" one. It used to bug me, but now I just laugh.

And that last one seems to be a big stereotype, too. Either we're hardcore christians, or got kicked out of all other schools. :P

[KittyStarlight]

xoKRaZyy and RoosterFish54,

Well, I'm grown up and a college graduate, and I STILL occasionally run into assumptions that I must be either a dropout or an extreme Christian. And if I talk to extreme Christian homeschoolers, they start thinking I'm one of them if I don't explicitly say otherwise. @__@

(Whenever anybody asks, what are the disadvantages of homeschooling, I *want* to say, "None, except your prejudice". ^_~ But I don't actually say it. Out loud. To them. ^_~)

[KittyStarlight]

Oh, another stereotype that people need to get over...

...a person can like/love/follow Jesus just fine WITHOUT being a Bible-toting constantly-preaching Jesus-lover...but...some people think you can't. ~_~

(My [Baptist] grandma gave [to the homeschool group my parents and I were in] what my mom called great Christian witness...*by being nice and polite and saying nothing about being a Christian*. [Being obnoxious isn't REALLY required for being a Christian. ^_~ Thank God/goodness. ^_^])

[KittyStarlight]

RoosterFish54,

Oh, that was cute. ^_^ Perfect. ^_~ "But...but you're normal!" (Yeah, and I bet you've probably heard the one about, "Oh, wow, you're so SOCIAL considering you're homeschooled!!!") (Or, "Well, maybe homeschooling is okay for SOME people, but the rest of us need/want to learn from people besides our parents." Homeschoolers usually learn from EVERYTHING and EVERYONE around them. [Actually so do other people, they just don't always KNOW that yet. ^_~])

[KittyStarlight]

There's an alternative school (for anyone who wants/likes a different kind of school) near my parents' house. One time on the bus to/from my college, there was somebody asking what an alternative school was, and somebody else said it was for bad kids, kids who got kicked out or almost got kicked out, etc. (what used to be called a reform school, for instance). I quickly explained that the alternative school we were riding past was NOT like THAT, it was *just for anyone who wants an alternative*.

[hoboinmyard]

And by the way.

Im not emo.

People think i am because i have a strip of Blue hair.

??

Yeah people are just very mean.

In general.

Not always.

But all the people i meet are mean to me about being homeschooled unless they are too.

[xoKRaZyy]

Ugh, I know! Some people are just so... ignorant. :P

[hoboinmyard]

You so make a point.

I had someone tell me.

The only reason your homeschooled is because your parents think your better than everyone...

NO WAY!

And i also got.

So when your homeschooled do you get to eat all day.

I mean if im hungry i can eat but whatever.

[xoKRaZyy]

Oh wow, I never got that first one. That's awful.

I have gotten the food one, though. One's like that are easy to laugh at. :)

[dancingruth]

and you can go to the bathroom whenever you want too!

[KittyStarlight]

dancingruth...yes, exactly, you can go to the bathroom whenever you want to! ^_^ (There's a short story set in the future that's about a school ao informal that the kids in it can hardly believe that long ago, in the twentieth century and around that time, kids actually had to ASK to go to the bathroom. [Sounds like my kind of school! ^_^])

[KittyStarlight]

"The only reason you're homeschooled is because your parents think you're better than everyone"...one of the few really sensible things I ever heard Bill Clinton say (er...my apologies to anyone if you like him...I am not, in general, very keen on him) was that why he and Hillary sent Chelsea to private school was NOT that they are stuck-up people or something but that they just *believed private school was the best option for their daughter*. (I'm glad Bill Clinton has SOME sense. ^_^)

[KittyStarlight]

Well, actually a lot of homeschoolers do tend to be NICER than a lot of other people...but I guess to some people that *sounds like* "better than everyone" or something. (I think part of the problem is, some people are just so used to EXPECTING people to brag or be stuck up or whatever that they THINK you're acting like that even if you're not. Also maybe "lots of homeschoolers do act nicer" is better to say mostly just to one's fellow homeschoolers [like-minded people].)

[KittyStarlight]

Personally I loved getting to sleep/eat/go to the bathroom/whatever when *I needed to* and not *when someone else said it was time to*. (Then again, I guess a lot of kids who go to school don't get to eat and sleep whenever they want/need to *when they're home* either. Sigh.)

If you're (at least some kinds of) homeschooled/homeschooling, you can READ all day if you want to!!! ^_^ (Although occasionally your mom or dad might ask you to do something else and not always read all the time. ^_~)

[PanicattheFOBDisco]

LOL that's awesome!

[musiciangurl3]

ya ive never heard that one.

just that they are sheltered & arent social.

& get to sleep in.

[xoKRaZyy]

haha, yeah I've heard those ones too.. :)

[KittyStarlight]

musiciangurl3,

Well, lots of homeschoolers (not all) do get to sleep in (more often than "schoolers" anyway ^_~). Which, personally, I think is a good thing. ^_^ (One mom once wrote, I think it was in a letter to Growing Without Schooling [homeschooling newsletter], she could hardly believe how much her kids slept when they weren't in school. [The implication was that they NEEDED SLEEP, not were lazy or something. Lots of kids who go to school seem to hardly ever get any sleep. Seriously.])

[KellyD1997]

IM NOT EMO!

AND IM HOMESCHOOLED!

[jordanally93]

haha!!! thats AWESOME!!! love it! i lol'd when u put ur tongue to the iron! yeah, m a home schooler too and they weirdest one i have gotten was "do u socialize?" haha and btw you should check this vid out Steriotypical homeschooler! lol!!!

[xoKRaZyy]

Haha, I know! I get that one a lot, too..

I like giving stupid answers, though. The reactions can be pretty funny. :)

Oh, I'll have to check it out, thanks!

[KittyStarlight]

To xoKRaZyy:

Ever heard of "ask a silly question, get a silly answer"?

Perfect for homeschooling. ^_~

(If someone asks a very silly question, just give them a very silly answer. ^_~)

(Which was also something Maria Trapp used to do [the real-life person who wrote the autobiography that The Sound of Music is based on]. She and her family would tell people crazy things like, turtles eat babies' toes, so be very careful of allowing a turtle in the hospital maternity ward. ^_~)

[KittyStarlight]

(continued) And when someone asked the Trapp family, "How do you get the sap out of the trees?" (to make maple syrup), they replied, "We don't. We cut the trees down, carry them to the house and put them in our living room. Then, when we want some maple syrup, we just get it from one of the trees in the house." (Actually "how do you get the sap out of the trees" is not such a silly question...lots of people don't know...but I think it was probably more *how* the person asked...too innocently.)

[xsmileyxcandyx]

Loved the video its funny and I don't take it rude. x] Im homeschooled and 14 lol..

Hey if you want you can add me on myspace.

[xoKRaZyy]

Thanks! x)

I would, but I don't have a myspace. :/

& thanks for subbing! :D

[caitbobait393]

ahahahha ow... it's supposed to hurt... your so funny!

[xoKRaZyy]

aww thanks! :)

[LisaNova]

Very funny!

[Dilibee6735]

omgg! thats soo sad. i mean emo?? you?? i actually think its pretty cool being homeschooled.  :-D

[xoKRaZyy]

haha, thanks!

And I do really like it. I've learned to just laugh at all the dumb questions. ;)