Lace, Ribbons, and Pirouettes ...

I’ve recently noticed some people on here saying things about homeschoolers that are not true and I want to clear some things up:

We are not anti-social or quiet
Our parents do not treat us like we’re five
We do have social lives
We don’t spend that much time at home
We don’t do schoolwork on weekends
We have summer break
We also have spring break, fall break, and winter break
We don’t all homeschool for religious reasons. My family and I are Christians, but my parents didn’t start homeschooling me because of that.
We don’t all use Christian curriculum. I am a Christian and I have used Christian curriculum before, but I have also used textbooks from public schools. My Biology book had a whole chapter about evolution in it.
We do have prom, dances, and stuff like that
Most of us aren’t geniuses who spend a lot of time on our education. I’m certainly not. There are some who are, but there really aren’t that many.
We aren’t sheltered
Pretty much any after school activity that there is for public school kids is available for homeschoolers in some way such as sports, theatre, etc.
Most of us don’t spend that much time with our family
We don’t watch G rated movies only. I saw my first R rated movie when I was 14 and have been watching them ever since.
We pretty much watch the same TV shows and listen to the same music as everyone else.
Yes, some of us have been to parties.
We aren’t all religious
We pretty much dress the same way as everyone else. We don’t walk around wearing long skirts and long sleeved shirts. I’ll admit it, some of the outfits that I have worn have gotten pretty close to being slutty. I’m not proud of that, I am just stating a fact.
A lot of homeschool girls do wear make up and dye their hair. This includes myself.
We really aren’t very uptight at all
Most of us are not awkward around the opposite sex. I actually had to dance with a boy last month in my studio’s winter dance performance and it didn’t bother me at all. The guy I danced with was actually homeschooled too and there’s another homeschooled girl in my dance class who also had to dance with a guy. We were all completely comfortable with it.
Most of us are allowed to date. I know other homeschoolers who have dated and the only reason that I haven’t is because no one will ask me out.
Most of us also get our driver’s license

I think that’s pretty much everything I wanted to clear up. I am tired of people trying to act like homeschoolers are a bunch of uptight, awkward, anti-social, awkward weirdos.

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