Home Schooled or Athiest, who is more ostracized?

[Smurof]

There are a great many of each, and maybe some who are in the category of both, but which are most people more intolerant of? From my lifetime of experience, I've found home-schooled adults to be less friendly toward others, while non-believers tend to mostly keep their non-religious agenda to themselves.

[+ poolboy48220]

I don't know many homeschooled people, at least not that I know of. I worked with one for a few months and found him kind of awkward, socially, but a sample size of one isn't anything to go on.

 

I'm an atheist but most wouldn't know it unless they ask.

 

Curious why you don't list vegans or vegetarians, they can really get on your nerves

[+ nycman]

I've had a few homeschooled employees over the years.

I've found them all to be socially awkward and their skills

are generally slower to develop than their peers.

 

If I had two equal candidates and one was homeschooled

and one wasn't, I would hire the non-homeschooled one

every time.

 

Over the years I've also hired everything from Bible thumping

born again Southern Baptists to raging punk atheists. While

I identify more strongly with the atheists....religious people

make better employees....after all they're used to being sheep

and in fact they find comfort in it.

 

Now to answer the question, I think the homeschooled people

are more ostracized. It's not that anyone cares, it just that they're

too socially awkward to fit in.

[longtime lurker]

I have cousins home schooled in Texas. Yet they turned out fine, partly because they went to college later and you can usually find more "like" personalities you get along with there than in junior or senior high school. Also a lot depends on the community the parents live in. If there is a lot of socialization with others of similar ages, and these would be associated with a church since most home schooled tend to come from religious backgrounds, it isn't all that bad. However one characteristic of two boys is that they rebelled once they were in their late teens and, thus, got some tattoos, sampled some drugs and went "gothic".

 

A lot of these conversations remind me of the kind we have in "Politics, Religion & War Issues". None of us are pressed from cookie dough by the same cutter. I am careful not judging ALL Trump supporters as alike. Also I doubt "where you went to school" pops up all that frequently in everyday conversation. I am likely "socially awkward" to a degree and I went to school the normal route.

[+ poolboy48220]

While I identify more strongly with the atheists....religious people make better employees....after all they're used to being sheep and in fact they find comfort in it.

one of my longtime friends said, back when we were in high school, that he would raise his children religious because they'd be easier to control.

 

As an adult, he's FAR from that statement. His kids WERE raised religiously but more due to his wife's family's influence, and I think "easier to control" was the farthest thing from his mind once he actually started raising children.

[+ sniper]

Some people are socially awkward because they were home schooled, but some people are home schooled because they are socially awkward and their vicious classmates would have eaten them alive.

[Rudynate]

My youngest sister is religious and she home-schooled her children, a son and two daughters. Her husband insisted that the son start in public school at junior-high age. He got into some very serious trouble in high school and with the help of a very good lawyer, just ended up on probation. He's now in the military and seems to be doing well.

 

Both of the daughters were completely home-schooled. The oldest is attending a well-known design school. She applied there a first time. When they reviewed her portfolio, they were very critical of it, and told her they didn't think she had a future in design. It pissed her off so much that she went home, spent a year redoing her portfolio and reapplied. They admitted her on a full scholarship.

 

Don't know about the youngest.

[Epigonos]

As I have said on this site, many time, I taught in an upscale public high school for 36 years. Not all but most of the home schooled students who entered my high school classes had difficult adjusting to the public school environment.

They were accustomed to being the center of their school environment where they had the total attention of their parent/teacher. In the public school that was, of course, not possible as they shared the classroom with twenty of more other students. Over the years I spent a lot of time trying to explain to irate parents (usually mothers) that because of the number of students in my classes I was unable to spent an entire hour working solely with their child.

Additionally many of these home taught students were not as socially adept as their public school peers. As a rule the girls had fewer problem than the boys who were often viewed as mamas boys. Thus they came in for more than a little scorn and ridicule from the fellow students. Under NO circumstances would I allow that to happen, in my presence, and therefor I found myself intervening many time to protect these home taught student from bullying.

[JayCeeKy]

I realize that anecdotal evidence is often dubious, but my experience with home-schooled adults was that they were socially awkward, not because they were home-schooled, but b/c they came from super strict religious families that often made their kids rigid and uncompromising when dealing with others. Here in Kentucky, our current leader, Goober-nor Bevis, is touting homeschooling and charter schools as an alternative to public schools - Bevis being a teabagger and born-again Evangelical (and BFF of the current Vice Prez).