Friday, August 08, 2008

"You might have been homeschooled if..."?

...your social life is viewed by others to be one rung below that of a Benedictine monk.
...all the signatures on your high school diploma end with the same last name.
...you still consider school work after lunch to be cruel and unusual punishment.
...your roommate is appalled you find it normal to move dirty laundry off your desk before you study.
...you're surprised your professors don't write your report cards on napkins.
...you are shocked to discover professors lecture on a textbook's contents and don't expect you to just read it for yourself
...you have to explain to friends that your first real date will be on your honeymoon.
...you don't understand why Bill Gothard's birthday is not a school holiday in college.
...you occasionally have nightmares that Teaching Home magazine decides to feature your family on its cover.
...you identify "Anglo Saxon" as a math text book on your Western Civilization test.
...your school planner still has a column entitled "chores."
...you are the only one unperturbed at a professor attending class in her pajamas.
...you ask your roommate if she wants to get matching clothes.
...you make a science out of clandestinely identifying the high school background of your college friends and are quite shocked when a former-homeschooler slips by unidentified.
...the sight of jean jumpers turns your stomach.
...when a friend says they had their first girlfriend in sixth grade, you have to ask "What age is that again?"?
...your siblings are the same age as your college classmates' children and you have more brothers than your roommate has cousins.
...you spot a large hairbow on your campus and know you should rescue the poor homeschooler from her fashion ignorance
...you have been thrilled when college friends said, "YOU were homeschooled?!"?
...you consider yourself part of an elite group allowed to mock and joke about homeschoolers and are only offended if outsiders chime in.


Member Addendums:

...you are overjoyed to finally be able to have a summer break like the rest of student civilization.

...you have an entire shelf of Creation Science books that your mother packed to ward off evolutionist lies.

...when you get a good grade report, your mother rushes to tell the suspicious neighbors.

...your mother checks to see if you can help out with a curriculum fair during your spring break.

...it took you three semesters to understand the concept of curved grades.

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