When people IRL find out that you were homeschooled, how do they normally react?
Sometimes I'll get a comment that I turned out "normal". I'm sure some people here are disappointed that we can't play the "where did you go to highschool?" game. In general though, its fairly common in my area, so I'm not seen as an oddity.
It wasn't the whole reason, but the private school was very small, like 8 students for a k-12 school. The church affiliated with the school was what we call "old time Pentecostal", think skirt wearing, stuck in the 1960s type people. All very nice, but our believes didn't totally match up on those little things.
I got more socialization from being homeschooled and it made our lives much more flexible. My dad travels for work sometimes, so we could go with him. Our extended family all lived far and we would go visit them a few times a year and not be tied to a school schedule.
It sounds like we went to the same type of school. ACE?
BTW, none of my teachers had graduated from college, so I could have been homeschooled with no change on that front. In your situation, I agree that homeschooling was the better option.
Yes, I haven't ever met anyone else who used that curriculum. My mom used different things for my sisters.
Was there a big divide between the "no evolution or people of color" homeschoolers and everybody else?
I'm not sure what you mean by this. Are you asking about diversity? If so, there wasn't a lot of diversity, but there isn't a ton of diversity in city. People didn't divide themself as homeschool vs public school any more than they would for north highschool vs west highschool.
I was being kind of snarky. There is an article somewhere (HuffPo? I tried to find it but couldn't) from a kid who was homeschooled in GA (where I grew up) about his interactions with other homeschoolers kids growing up. He described a divide between the kids whose parents were trying to get their kids ready for college and the ones who were trying to keep their kids from learning about evolution or homosexuality etc. The "Homeschooling lobby" described in the CEP article primarily represents the second group even if it is a minority of homeschoolers. Historically the "Christian Homeschooling Lobby" has been tied up with white flight in very ugly ways (see also Christian private schools in the South), but I'm sure most homeschoolers now would say that race is not a motivating factor, or at least not the primary motivation.
Do you think you will do any sort of homeschooling advocacy, either in local politics or just raising awareness?