Homeschooled Kids: Difference between revisions

 

Usually when homeschooling does come up, it is either by having a stereotypical homeschooling character introduced or by having the main characters attempt homeschooling themselves. Usually, neither turns out well. Occasionally the [[Moral Guardians]] will be pro-homeschooling.

 

 

* Son Gohan from ''[[Dragonball Z]]''. [[Hilarity Ensued]] when he went to a normal school.

* Alex from the OEL ''[[Nightschool]]'' is homeschooled by her older sister, [[Promotion to Parent|Sarah,]] for [[Dark and Troubled Past|very good reason.]] Sarah frequently tries to convince Alex to enroll in the titular [[All-Ghouls School|nightschool]] so she can socialize with kids her age, though.

 

 

* In ''[[Kick-Ass]]'' (both the comic and the movie), Mindy AKA Hit-Girl didn't go to school and was raised as a [[Tyke Bomb]] by her dad. {{spoiler|She does join a school at the end of the film, after her father bites the dust and her nemesis is defeated}}.

* James-Michael in ''[[Omega the Unknown]]'' is raised in the mountains by his parents, who are secretly {{spoiler|[[Robotic Reveal|robots]]}}, and we are then treated to his experiences moving to NYC's Hell's Kitchen where he attends a rather terrifying [[Inner-City School]].

 

 

* Homeschooling is forbidden by law in ''[[Aeon Entelechy Evangelion]]'', as it will only give the cultists a legal bonus when converting new members.

* In ''[[Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality]]'', [[Harry Potter]] had to be homeschooled through his pre-Hogwarts for being unable to stay awake during regular classes.

 

 

* In ''RV'', The kids of the other family that [[Robin Williams]]' family keeps running into are homeschooled, heading for university within the foreseeable future.

* Bethany Hamilton in [[Soul Surfer]].

 

 

* In ''[[Harry Potter (novel)|Harry Potter]],'' [[Word of God]] says that many Wizard families homeschool their children before they can attend Hogwarts, including the Weasleys. Most of the usual factors of this trope are [[Averted Trope|averted]], however.

 

 

* Very extreme example in ''[[Law and Order Special Victims Unit|Law & Order SVU]]'', where the kid ends up killing his own brother.

** There were a couple of more realistic home schooled kids (indeed one of the antagonists of the episode was a lawyer who automatically decided that the villain was being persecuted because of this trope).

* When Bill turned Jessica into a vampire on [[True Blood]], one of her first reactions was: "No more homeschool?" When assured that this was the case, vampirism didn't seem like such a bad thing to her.

 

 

* In ''[[Transhuman Space]]'', homeschooling (by means of an AI tutor) is the norm. It's mentioned that (most) parents are aware of the importance of socialisation, and there are various places and events for kids to do so. The supplement ''Personnel Files: School Days 2100'' is set in a "normal" (by 20th century standards) school, and specifically notes that this is an unusual situation.

 

 

* In the [[Web Comic]] ''Li'l Mell'', a kid called Homeschool Joe appears in two storylines: "The Horror of Rukavina Caverns" and "Homeschool Joe Goes to School" (in which Mell brings him to school as a Show and Tell exhibit). He's depicted as a bright but nerdy kid who speaks mostly in factoids about his current field of study: bats in the first storyline, George Washington in the second. The same character, much older, appears in college in ''Smithson'', another comic by the same writer.

* ''[[Dumbing of Age]],'' the latest addition to the [[Walkyverse]], has Joyce, who describes herself as the most-socialized member of her homeschool group. She very much fits the 'fundamentalist' stereotype, though she's also a protagonist and treated sympathetically.

 

 

* ''[[South Park]]'': two homeschoolers enter the South Park Elementary spelling bee and win. The older brother then decides he wants to go to public school. [[Hilarity Ensues]], of course, along with [[An Aesop]] ([[Family-Unfriendly Aesop|Family unfriendly?]]

 

 

 

* An episode of ''[[My Parents Are Aliens]]'' had Brian try to do this with Josh after falling foul with his teacher. It didn't last very long as Josh found Brian's Biology lesson stupid.

 

 

 

* A recent story arc in ''[[Baby Blues]]'' had the kids requesting to be homeschooled.

* ''Curtis'' was homeschooled for a short period of time during a suspension from school.

 

 

* Marge tried this in ''[[The Simpsons]]'' when Bart gets expelled ([[Not Me This Time|ironically for something he didn't do]]). She even converted the garage into a classroom (which resulted in Homer almost running over Bart ''twice''). Actually sort of a strange example: Bart started doing much better academically, but a [[Reset Button Ending]] allows him to go back to school, and for [[Status Quo Is God|some reason]] Marge decides to send him back instead of continuing to teach him.