Menewsha Avatar Community - Aggggghhhh! Thread is closed fml!

So I came up with a really long and in my opinion insightful response to that one thread about homeschooling. And it took FOREVER to write. Then by the time I finally submitted it, "Sorry! This thread is closed!"
AAAAAAAARRRRRGHGALSDKJFALKDJALK!!!!!!11!!!#L$^!#L% ^
I was all excited like "Dude this post is so long, I'm gonna get so much gold!"
And then...*sigh*

I honestly don't care about what I wrote now, but just the fact that it took so long...it deserves to go up anyways:

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I'll be honest, though. I only fully read that post and the one below it. It started to get off topic, so I got bored =/

I was cyber schooled for about half a year at the end of 8th grade, and didn't like it. But a lot of my friends are home schooled, and while it helps some students who are not safe at school because of problems with another kid or can't go to school for some reason or another, lots of people who have been homeschooled for the majority of their childhood, especially during elementary school, develop an attachment and later on a co-dependence with their parent(s). For example, in Elementary school a friend of mine named Lexi who transferred in from home-school used to break down in class crying because she missed her mother. She would cry so long, she would make herself sick, and they would have to call her mom to take her home. If you balance home-school with regular outside groups and activities, then the child can still grow socially comfortable. The thing is-this isn't known by a lot of parents, and it's not like anyone is going to check to make sure they're doing just that. All they check is the child's academic abilities, and the parent's teaching abilities.
In the case of cyber school, sometimes they offer 'online classrooms' where multiple students work together with other students and a teacher via the internet on one specific subject. This helps students work together and allows them to become mindful and respectful of another's presence, but ultimately does nothing to develop social skills and pick up on social cues from others IN a learning environment, which, unless they go to extra study school or cram schools, they don't see all day. They do, however, have field trips and special excursions during which the children are given an opportunity to meet face to face with peers and work together to solve academic problems. However, these meetings are usually spaced out too far, and are not frequent enough for students form bonds with other students their age. These meetings are also optional, and far out from many people, so a lot of families simply choose not to attend.
Another key issue is fitness and health. I am not familiar with this part of home schooling or how it is measured, so please forgive my lack of knowledge there. However, in cyber schools, physical activity is logged by hours of physical activity a day. They have no organized units, and unless they go over a health unit in science, health isn't taught at all (which isn't much worse than our school text books though, which are mainly propaganda). Because PE is graded based solely on the student's exercise logs, it is very easy to make a mistake or sugar coat information on the table.
I will be honest, I have met most of my home/cyber-schooled friends through Nutrition and Exercise class (colloquially known as 'fat class') at our school, which is for kids who have handicaps when it comes to gym, such as being excessively overweight, mentally challenged, or who have failed gym do to problems getting along with other students. If you didn't guess, most of the cyber-school kids were in there from being overweight.
My friends are all very unique. For some of them, being home-schooled has made them become so socially attached to their parents, they are uncomfortable with going on overnight excursions such as camping trips or sleep-overs. Some have developed their own very unique and lifestyles and thought processes on people and how the world works. Sometimes, it's a good thing, and they aren't tainted by the outside world's craftiness and stupidity. Other times, they are unhealthy, and exhibit behavior similar to someone's crazy brainwashed uncle who spends all of his time watching yellow journalism in his underwear and a superman cape.

Public school sucks, don't get me wrong, and private school is terrible in its own unique ways, too, but home/cyber-school isn't the perfect solution in response to trouble in Public school. It is like Public school, in that it varies depending on who is in charge, and has good and bad points. It isn't an escape from a teacher you don't like, or an excuse for parents to never let go of their children. It is a system, one that effects your entire school life, and should be thought over very carefully with the student and parents in mind before making a decision.

"And that's all I have to say about that..." as Forest Gump would say. :P

Good thing I hit copy/paste :P
And please don't comment on my actual opinion in the post itself. I don't know how the other thread got closed, but I don't want this one to be, too.