1. You never had to get a doctor’s note for school cause your mom was the one making your appointment anyways
2. librarian was a close family friend
3. Your stacks of books to check out was taller than the librarian.
4. Your PE came from chasing little toddlers around.
5. Your school bus was a 9 passenger van.
6. You considered school work after lunch to be cruel and unusual punishment.
7. Your father ever told the check-out lady at Wal-Mart, "We're on a field trip."
8. Your social life was viewed by some to be one rung lower than that of a Benedictine monk.
9. Your teacher ever wrote your report card on a napkin.
10. You had to move dirty laundry off your desk before you could start school.
11. The signatures on your diploma all end with the same last name.
12. You have ever done schoolwork all day so you could have a day off
13. Your Mother's wardrobe consisted primarily of denim jumpers.
15. The word 'homework' sounded like a foreign language.
16. Your yearbook was also your babybook.
17. A snow day meant that you had to shovel the driveway after you finished your school work.
18. You enjoyed the pastime of watching public school kids walk home from school.
19. You had to look at the clock to see if you could call your public school friends yet.
20. You thought that "public-school-kid" was an insult of the highest degree.
21. Health class consisted of eating breakfast.
22. You had to decide what year you wanted to graduate.
23. Home-Ec was your mom making you cook dinner
24. You can remember nearly every single day you went to public school.
25. The teacher could kiss the principal, and no one thought it was unusual.
26. You got to school and the teacher asked you if you've done all your chores.
27. Semesters were non-existent, when you finished the book & tests the course was done, simple as that.
28. Your friends talked about waiting in line for seven hours to try out the new roller coaster in town, so you went and waited five minutes on a school day.
29. Your school lunches contained any food item easily identifiable to a person without a microscope and extensive scientific knowledge.
30.You didn’t have to raise your hand in class
31. Gym class was actually a fun activity like swimming.
32. You're on a first-name basis with the clerks at the local bookstore.
33. The closest thing to a bully in your school was your slightly strange two-year-old sister.
34. Your friends complained about a hard day at school, and you had to keep yourself from giving them "that homeschooling smile."
35. You heard the phrase "socialization" and laughed because you had more friends and knew more people than your public school friends.
36. you were asked if you could go to school in your pajamas
37. you were asked if you went to real school
38. You were firmly convinced that high school causes brain damage
39. You slept in till 9 am on weekdays but got up at 7 am on Sundays
40. people asked how you socialized/knew people/had any friends
41. You knew what a 'Park Day' is
42. you have been asked why you weren't in school- during the so called "school hours"- when you were at the store shopping w/ your mom!
43. You have ever suffered through Saxon Math
44. All birthdays were school holidays
45. You have ever finished your schoolwork before breakfast
46. You taunted high schooled friends during finals week
47. You spent more than 2 hours each day reading and writing....voluntarily
48. You are 18 years of age or older and still have never been on a date
49. You knew what "Unit Studies" were
50. You had more than 2 science experiments going on in your room
51. people asume that you can eat any and everything when ever you want to....
52. people assume you watch tv all day long
53. people assume that you get all As because your parents are lenient....
54. You considered sled riding phys ed
55. Your IQ is greater than your weight
56. You checked out more than 10 books each time you visited the library
57. You have ever attempted to teach yourself physics
58. When asked about your GPA, you said, "Oh, probably 4.0."
59. you dont understand why "normal" kids don't know things you've learned/known since you were 5
60. You believed that you were the most intelligent human in your age bracket within a ten mile radius.
61. You actually wanted to receive books on your birthday
62. Cleaning your room counted as Phys-Ed.
63. You've been asked if your mom is your teacher or if you go to someone else's house for school.
64. Shop class included watching your brother fix his car.
65. Your track meet was riding into town to race bikes with a friend.
66. Your mom wished you'd stop reading and do something else for a change.
67. Your bedroom was your classroom and your bed or floor was the desk.
68. You stayed up till whenever, and not because you were doing homework.
69. You could get days ahead in almost any subject.
70. You recorded, planned and graded your own school work.
71. You forgot about the minor holidays until you saw your dad sitting home in sweats or your public school friends asked you over the weekend what you did on your day off.
72. You didn't know what spring break was.
73. Your mom counted watching a war movie as history and playing out in the snow as PE.
74. You had more friends way older and younger than you than ones your actual age.
75. You read for fun
76. you have ever done schoolwork when you couldn’t sleep
77. after telling someone your homeschooled you have gotten the response “so what do you DO all day?”
78. you got more babysitting jobs than your friends cause your schedule was more flexible
79. when applying for college you had to actually check if they accepted homeschoolers
80. you looked for ANY reason for things to be “educational”

The Homeschooler's List of Misconceptions...

1. It’s not illegal to be educated in the same building you sleep in. Please stop asking us if it's legal. It's insulting.
2. Learn what the words "socialize" and "socialization" mean, and use the one you really mean instead of mixing them up the way you do now. Socializing means hanging out with other people for fun. Socialization means having acquired the skills necessary to do so successfully and pleasantly. If I am talking to you than there is a pretty good chance that I have a bit of socialization skills under my belt. I do in fact leave my house and talk to other humans now and again just like you so its safe to assume that we've got a decent grasp of both concepts.
3. Quit interrupting me at random times to ask if a homeschooler ever gets to socialize.
4. Don't assume that every homeschooler you meet is homeschooling for the same reasons and in the same way as that one homeschooler you know.
5. If that homeschooler you know is actually someone you saw on TV, either on the news or on a "reality" show, the above goes double.
6. Please stop telling us horror stories about the homeschoolers you know, know of, or think you might know who ruined their lives by homeschooling. You don’t go running up to pregnant women and induce premature labor by telling them every ghastly birth story you've ever heard. Its just as rude, so stop.
7. We don't look horrified and start quizzing your kids when we hear they're in public school. Please stop drilling us like potential oil fields to see if we're doing what you consider an adequate job of homeschooling.
8. Homeschoolers are not all religious.
9. Stop assuming that if we're religious, we must be homeschooling for religious reasons.
10. We didn't go through all the reading, learning, thinking, weighing of options, experimenting, and worrying that goes into homeschooling just to annoy you. Really. This was a deeply personal decision, tailored to the specifics of our family. Stop taking the bare fact of our being homeschoolers as either an affront or a judgment about your own educational decisions.
11. Please stop questioning my competency and demanding to see my credentials. I didn't have to complete a course in catering to successfully cook dinner for my family; I don't need a degree in teaching to educate my children. If spending at least twelve years in a public school left me with so little information in my memory banks that I can't teach the basics of an elementary education to my nearest and dearest, maybe there's a reason I'm so reluctant to send my child to the public school.
12. If my kid's only six and you ask me with a straight face how I can possibly teach him what he'd learn in school, you need to relize that you're calling me an idiot.
13. Stop assuming that because the word "home" is right there in "homeschool," we never leave the house. We're the ones who go to the amusement parks, museums, and zoos in the middle of the week and in the off-season and laugh at you because you have to go on weekends and holidays when it's crowded and more expensive.
14. Stop assuming that because the word "school" is right there in homeschool, we must sit around at a desk for six or eight hours every day, just like your kid does. Even if we're into the "school" side of education — and many of us prefer a more organic approach — we can burn through a lot of material a lot more efficiently, because we don't have to gear our lessons to the lowest common denominator, nor wait for 20-30 other students to finish tests and reading.
15. "But what about the Prom?" Are you all serious? So we don’t all go to a dance with tons of kids who hormones are going crazy, are dancing so close they might as well be fused together, and afterwards wonder why so much time and money was spent on it. Life really goes on, and fyi not everyone in public school goes to the prom and those people are still successful afterwards.
16. Don't ask me if I wouldn't rather go to school unless you don't mind if I ask your kid if they wouldn't rather stay home and get some sleep now and then.
17. Stop saying, "Oh, I could never homeschool!" Even if you think it's some kind of compliment, it sounds more like you're horrified. One of these days, I won't bother disagreeing with you any more.
18. If you can remember anything from chemistry or calculus class, you're allowed to ask how we'll teach these subjects to our kids. If you can't, thank you for the reassurance that we couldn't possibly do a worse job than your teachers did, and might even do a better one.
19. No its not hard to have my teacher me my parent. They give me assignments academically and assignments aka chores around the house. I don’t see a difference or a problem.
20. Stop saying that I’m shy, outgoing, aggressive, anxious, quiet, boisterous, argumentative, pouty, fidgety, chatty, whiny, or loud because I’m homeschooled. It's not fair that all the kids who go to school can be as annoying as they want to without being branded as representative of anything but childhood.
21. Quit assuming that I must be some kind of prodigy because I’m homeschooled.
22. Stop talking about all the great childhood memories I won't get because I don't go to school, unless you want me to start asking about all the not-so-great childhood memories you have because you went to school.