Personal Experiences Of Education : My Experience For High School Education

Before college, I was homeschooled for the entirety of my life. When I tell people this, their initial reactions vary from shock to raw curiosity. “Do you feel like you missed out?” is always the first question, or some variation of it. No, I always reply, without hesitation. My parents gave me the gift of owning my education. It was not spoon fed to me. It was mine to shape and explore, and I did so by pouring through books and scouring the Internet on subjects ranging from classical literature to computer programming. Though a challenge, their gift instilled in me valuable traits, which I feel I would not have acquired otherwise. Though difficult, I learned to become independent, self directed, and curious. If I had to pick out one trait

As a student at USC, one can assume that I’ve always taken schoolwork seriously and may even infer that I partake a considerable degree of enjoyment from it, which is by all means an accurate assumption. However, in my early childhood I was often characterized as unruly, uncooperative and impulsive in nature. At that age I had been more interested in social endeavors more so than anything relating to studying or doing schoolwork. It was always a negative issue when I brought it up in a conversation, and that assumption was reinforced through subsequent agreement amongst my peers. Coupled with negative criticism from my teachers of the purported “attitude” I had in

I grew up in a multi-racial household where neither of my parents graduated high school. School was never discussed nor was I encouraged to attend. It was the norm to begin working as soon as you turned sixteen. Success was based on being able to maintain a job in order to contribute financially to the family. I had to seek guidance from teachers, coaches and friends since there was no academic support at home. I realized early on that school was going to be my way out. An education was going to allow me to become financially independent and allow me to experience the world that I did not know much about.

I never truly did have a high school experience, sure I had a dozen or so friends, but my relationships with them lacked depth. We may have seen each other on the weekends and laughed at each other’s jokes, but in the end it was entirely meaningless. We had almost nothing in common besides the fact that we attended the same school. The only reason I had made friends with them in the first place was simply out of necessity, after all, no one wants to be that kid that sits alone at the lunch table. Had we not become friends, each and every one of us would have been that kid.

My high school education has prepared me for my next steps after graduation. There has been people that have help me get prepared for the next step and some of the education has helped me for the next step. School has prepared me because I known the basic skills needed out in the real world. Like math has help me get prepared for the money troubles and English has helped my right a resume to get a better job.

There was no one pushing me towards excellence, except for me: I did that myself. A major reason as to why my mother overlooked how important school was to me is because in our household being the oldest of her children meant I had almost as many household tasks as her. That did not stop me. I did my responsibilities, and my homework or readings I needed for school. Moreover, when my family saw me at my graduation, they had no idea as to why I was in the front of the class, and not at the back since, my last name starts with an S. They were extremely surprised, and proud of how I had excelled in high school. Even though I have not always had the support of my family, they are my family, and one day I want to be able to help them out. I want to pursue a career as a dentist, and I very much wish to attend the University of Texas to accomplish my goal. Now I can say I even dream about going to school here. It took me awhile to figure out some things, but that is why I believe staying home after I graduated has helped me reevaluate my thoughts about what I want to do with my

Home school had proven to be a waste of my time. I found out about Job Corps through a few friends who had gone, I decided to go to the Brunswick Job Corps. I spent 10 months there. I would like to say that I used all that time wisely, Of course not. It wasn’t till month seven that I started buckling down and finally got my General Education Diploma (GED). My life sort of started to go in the right direction. I came back home. My mother worked for Delta at the time so my mother, father, and I took a trip to Hong Kong, China, a business trip for my mother, an educational trip for me, and for my father it was a stroll down memory lane. My father spent some time in the city of Hong Kong when he was nineteen, and he got to show me around the city when I was nineteen. Of course for myself, once we crossed the International Date Line on the way there I was of age to

Throughout my high school education, there have been many factors that contributed to my performance. Some were out of my control and others were solely my actions. I take full responsibility for not pushing myself to try harder in school. Some circumstances made this difficult, at the time I lived at home with my mother, sister, and brother but then one day it all changed. First, my brother joined the Marines and left home and soon after my sister followed and joined the Air Force and also left. Since my mother is a single parent, my siblings contributed a lot financially and helped her tremendously. For this reason, she began to work even longer hours. To attempt to help my mother, I started working a lot when I turned 16. My mistake was

Looking back at my life I have my parents to thank the most, especially my mother. She devoted her life to homeschooling me and my two siblings from kindergarten through high school. Knowledge was always more important than my grades. Anytime I missed a question I would always re-do it. My parents always pushed me to work for knowledge and comprehension.

I was homeschooled. Up until age sixteen, the primary place of my obtaining an education was my home. Like most people assume about homeschooled children, my parents were my main teachers, I often studied in my pajamas, and recess was not limited to only thirty minutes a day. When I reached the age of a junior in high school, I enrolled in the local community college where, after two years of hard work and severe lack of sleep, I graduated with my Associate degree. Now, I am a BYU student doing the whole thing over again working toward my Bachelors. Throughout these experiences, my philosophy on education has evolved quite tremendously. Growing up, I always assumed that college was a necessary step for everyone. Most people in my family, including

My life has been full of both experiences and individuals which have influenced my education, but among those, the most influential has been my mother, Jean Sargent. Mom started officially homeschooling me (and my sister) when I was four years old, but she began teaching me long before then. Our evenings were frequently spent listening to Mom read aloud, and by age five, I was reading for myself everything I could lay my eyes on. With Mom, there was always something to learn in every situation, whether it was how trees produce fruit, how to calculate sales tax, or how to behave. I was homeschooled from kindergarten through high school, and as the primary instructor, my mother taught me many valuable lessons, both academic

The first 14 years of my life consisted of mostly homeschool, churchgoing, military standard, and an occasional city or church sports team. In this atmosphere, education became personal, I learned self-discipline and

Starting my tenth grade year, I was also beginning my third year of homeschooling. By this time school was my main focus where I was in charge of my own education, my own schedule, and my day to day activities. I was in control of my own person, and yet I was still unsure where this road would lead me. I had not minded homeschooling at first (mostly because

When I was a little girl my parents stressed the importance of education. I was very focused and motivated by their encouragement to always do my best. I was a high achiever and maintained good grades academically. When I became a teenager I rebelled from my parents and made decisions that weren’t the best at the time. I became pregnant at 16 and chose to raise my daughter. I knew by becoming a mom succeeding academically would be a challenge. I was motivated by my goal to show my daughter that education was important no matter the obstacles in the way. I first made it my main goal to finish high school and help my significant other finish high school as well. We were both very determined and we both graduated out of high school early by taking

School has always offered a powerful and entertaining challenge for me, starting with the third grade when Gifted and Talented classes started. These “GT” classes offered a more fast-paced alternative to math and science classes. This accelerated pace forced me from a young age to retain and apply a large amount of information in short amount of time. My teacher showed me how to take notes efficiently and to understand what I was learning, not just memorize it. Transferring from elementary to middle school, I was introduced to honors classes. I continued to work and improve as fast as I could. This allowed me to enter my freshman year of highschool and start with algebra 1 and english one under my belt. My sophomore year of highschool, I doubled