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8 Differences Between Public Schooled Kids And Homeschooled Kids
Babylon Bee ^ | January 5, 2024 | Staff

Posted on 01/06/2024 9:52:44 AM PST by Twotone

With school choice being such a hot topic these days, it can be helpful for parents to learn more about what the experiences are like in different learning environments. Though there may be pros and cons to each option, the differences may surprise you.

The Babylon Bee is proud to help parents make more well-informed decisions with the following list of differences between public school kids and homeschooled kids:

Homeschooled Kids: Learn how to manufacture paste using complex chemical processes. Their mother then sells the paste as a side hustle.

Public Schooled Kids: Eat paste.

Homeschooled Kids: Read War and Peace. In Kindergarten. For fun.

Public Schooled Kids: Read The Big Gay Sex Book.

Homeschooled Kids: Reading at a college level in 2nd grade.

Public Schooled Kids: Exploring alternative sexualities at a college level in 2nd grade.

Homeschooled Kids: A full day of lessons packed into two hours.

Public Schooled Kids: Two hours of lessons stretched into a full day.

Homeschooled Kids: Kill and butcher wild game and eat eggs provided by the backyard chickens.

Public Schooled Kids: Eat processed, genetically modified food provided by the government.

Homeschooled Kids: Tuesday afternoon is "Range Day" with Dad.

Public Schooled Kids: Get arrested for picking up a gun-shaped stick and saying "pew pew!"

Homeschooled Kids: Educational field trip to the local zoo.

Public Schooled Kids: The classroom is a zoo.

Homeschooled Kids: Think public schoolers are weird and are right.

Public Schooled Kids: Think homeschoolers are weird and are right.

We hope this valuable information helps you make the best decision for your child!


TOPICS: Humor; Society
KEYWORDS: arth; babylonbee; education; frhf; homeschool; publicschool; satire
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To: OKSooner

This Mom always did! :)

Church. Lunch. Range. :)


21 posted on 01/06/2024 12:37:44 PM PST by Diana in Wisconsin (I don't have, 'Hobbies.' I'm developing a robust Post-Apocalyptic skill set. )
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To: Twotone

22 posted on 01/06/2024 2:11:13 PM PST by mabarker1 ( (Congress- the opposite of PROGRESS!!! A fraud, a hypocrite, a liar. I'm a member of Congress!!!)
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To: Twotone

Also - if dad is self employed, homeschooled kids might even learn a trade by the time they graduate.


23 posted on 01/06/2024 2:18:53 PM PST by Tuscaloosa Goldfinch (Abortion is just a new spin on human sacrifice by worshipers of self and selfishness. )
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To: Twotone
Funny...as usual...

Homeschooled Kids: Loving America's Freedoms!

Public School Kids: Loves American Government and their growth...

24 posted on 01/06/2024 2:42:42 PM PST by Deplorable American1776 (Guns don't kill people, LIBERALS DO!! Support the Second Amendment...)
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To: higgmeister

Rooster Cogburn is a special petting zoo in Arizona, just outside Tuscon. That is why I put it in the zoo entry.

https://www.roostercogburn.com/


25 posted on 01/06/2024 3:20:43 PM PST by wbarmy (Trying to do better.)
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To: metmom
Thanks for the PING.

You only get one shot at parenting, why trust it to someone with purple hair who doesn't know which bathroom to use?

26 posted on 01/07/2024 2:44:54 AM PST by Psalm 73 ("You'll never hear surf music again" - J. Hendrix)
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To: Psalm 73

Exactly.....


27 posted on 01/07/2024 4:12:32 AM PST by metmom (He who testifies to these things says, “Surely I am coming soon.” Amen. Come, Lord Jesus…)
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To: cyclotic

Mine went to Thomas More in NH. Just as good until a few years later TM started accepting GI Bill and loans. Still a good school but with some trimming.


28 posted on 01/07/2024 10:39:32 AM PST by arthurus (W covfefe Z)
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To: stars & stripes forever

New to me. I love it! It should be advertised everywgere.


29 posted on 01/07/2024 10:42:48 AM PST by arthurus (N covfefe Z)
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To: stars & stripes forever

New to me. I love it! It should be advertised everywhere.


30 posted on 01/07/2024 10:43:00 AM PST by arthurus (N covfefe Z)
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To: Tennessee Nana

My 3 homeschooled grandsons, ages 4, 8, 12, read stuff I read as a teenager reading lots of History and entomology and SciFi. Well the 4 yr old is still reading about tractors and airplanes.


31 posted on 01/07/2024 10:46:41 AM PST by arthurus (N covfefe D)
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To: Psalm 73
>>>!<<<
32 posted on 01/07/2024 10:50:30 AM PST by arthurus (N covfefe D)
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To: arthurus

When I discovered Rush in 1990 I added one hour of listening and a quiz to my daughters lessons...

We listened together to the first hour.. It was called Current Events

When I was in middle school on Fridays for 15 minutes there would be a special radio broadcast to schools with 4 different news items for that week...

We had to take notes and then we would have a quiz...

It was called Current Events...


33 posted on 01/07/2024 1:58:34 PM PST by Tennessee Nana
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To: Tennessee Nana

My dad was career Navy and I had the benefit of a private school for my primary years. It was Calvert System curriculum
and in Istanbul for American progeny of American diplomatic, business, and military families so I was way ahead of the kids in public school when we got back to Virginia. I got more actual History in 2-4th grade than I got through 12th grade in American public schools. My favorite TV was the News. Daddy liked to talk to us about the places he had been
stationed and I had had a Geography class in Istanbul so I was pretty much aware of the world from an early age.


34 posted on 01/07/2024 4:04:58 PM PST by arthurus (N covfefe I)
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To: aMorePerfectUnion
Home school kids: science, dad teaching how to build a still and turn corn into liquid!

Back in the 90s I was taking care of my nieces and Number One Niece was asked to do a diorama of a post-Revolution farm and write a little paper about it.

So I helped her (don't judge me all the parents were helping their kids it was second grade) I wanted her project to stand out so I decided the Whiskey Rebellion would be a good topic.

The teacher disagreed and we had to remove the still.

But she did get an A.

35 posted on 01/07/2024 4:17:53 PM PST by Harmless Teddy Bear ( In a quaint alleyway, they graciously signaled for a vehicle on the main road to lead the way. )
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To: Harmless Teddy Bear

Idve given her extra credit


36 posted on 01/07/2024 4:40:52 PM PST by aMorePerfectUnion (I didn't come here to guide lambs, but to awaken lions 🦅 MAGADONIAN ⚔️)
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To: aMorePerfectUnion
She should have gotten it.

But on the bright side she is home schooling her son. I teased her by asking if he was going to make dioramas and she said, "On any subject he likes!" It is amazing how some things still sting after decades.

37 posted on 01/07/2024 5:12:14 PM PST by Harmless Teddy Bear ( In a quaint alleyway, they graciously signaled for a vehicle on the main road to lead the way. )
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To: arthurus

I think I was about 7 when we were given a Geography book of world maps called the Kiwi Atlas ...

It had a red cover and the outline in black a kiwi on the front with the title Kiwi Atlas...We used that same book for several years...

Inside all the British Commonwealth countries were in a deep pink and other countries were other colors...

Much of South Africa was that pink in those days and had different names..

We learnt the capitals of many of the major countries and the geographies and histories of most of the pink ones..

We had to be able to draw freehand from memory the outlines of Canada and other British countries and name the provinces and their capitals...

How many young children can tell you where the Yukon is or the history of Hudson Bay or who Wolf and Montcalm were ???

For The United States we would draw the borders and knew that Washington was the capital and could identify the ‘corn belt’ and the ‘wheat belt” and a few of the eastern states but little history other than the Civil War and WWII...

My British teachers must have been still mad about something the Yanks had done... :)

When we were about 3rd Grade, we had scrap books in which we pasted photos of our assigned countries and articles from newspapers and magazines...I remember my group had the Antarctic and Australia...Aussie bored me, but I loved working on the Antarctic...

When I was about 10 I drew a line through Europe following the highways and showed my mother telling her I was going to visit all those countries one day...She pointed to Russia and said that I could not go there but she couldnt explain why to my satisfaction...How do you fully explain Communism to a young child who has only known freedom ???

I count myself very fortunate to have gone to school in a place and during a time when children were actually taught patriotism and the history of their own country and much of the world...

Ive been to Istanbul...The Hagia Sophia and the underground cisterns are amazing...


38 posted on 01/07/2024 6:24:28 PM PST by Tennessee Nana
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To: arthurus

When I was 8 I found a book in the public library called The Kremlin .. It was a history of Russia through all the Czars etc I read the whole book...

Years later I found a copy of that same book and was amazed at my ability to read and understand such an adult level book.. It was college level stuff...

But thats the type of education we received when I was a child...

We were taught to think and a hunger for knowledge was a given...


39 posted on 01/07/2024 6:35:29 PM PST by Tennessee Nana
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To: Twotone

ENJOY :)
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40 posted on 02/12/2024 8:22:45 AM PST by UMCRevMom@aol.com (Pray for God's intervention to stop Putin's invasion of Ukraine 🇺🇸 )
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