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Truth be told, the majority of homeschooled children are no different from those who attend public and private schools. And while some are pulled from other schools due to learning disabilities, a good number of their parents simply think their educational needs will be better met at home. Homeschooling can come in many forms, from literally being taught by a parent to a co-op that hires teachers for their kids.
Homeschooled kids do not show up in media very often, but when they do, they are usually shown as either [[No Social Skills|socially inept]] [[
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.
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== Anime and Manga ==▼
▲=== Anime and Manga ===
* 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
=== Comic Books ===
* 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
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* Homeschooling is forbidden by law in ''[[
* In ''[[Harry Potter and
=== Film ===
* In ''RV'', The kids of the other family that [[Robin Williams]]' family keeps running into are homeschooled, heading for university within the foreseeable future.
* At the beginning of ''[[Mean Girls]]'', Cady has a voiceover talking about how she knows people think all homeschooled kids are nerds (illustrated by a girl with mega-braces at a spelling bee spelling "[[Perfectly Cromulent Word|xylocarp]]") or religious nuts (a family of redneck boys, one of whom explains how [[God]] created guns "[[Somewhere a Paleontologist Is Crying|so that man could fight the dinosaurs]], [[Heteronormative Crusader|and the homosexuals]]"), but she is neither of these things.
* Bethany Hamilton in [[Soul Surfer]].
=== Literature ===
* In ''[[Harry Potter (
** In ''[[Harry Potter and
=== Live-Action TV ===
* ''[[Saturday Night Live]]'': The TV show "Quiz Bowl" pitted a group of public school kids against some homeschoolers. [https://web.archive.org/web/20171207060146/http://snltranscripts.jt.org/08/08aquiz.phtml
* 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).
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* 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.
=== Tabletop Games ===
* 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.
=== Web Comics ===
* 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.
=== Western Animation ===
* ''[[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
* ''[[
** [[Ensemble Darkhorse|He's got a lot of fans, at least]].
* Ted from ''[[Daria]],'' who served as the title character's [[Girl of the Week|Boy Of The Week]] in the episode "The New Kid." His odd quirks made everyone think he was in a cult at first, though ironically made him (somewhat) popular by the end of the episode.
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=== Live-Action TV ===▼
▲=== Examples of attempts at homeschooling: ===
▲== Live-Action TV ==
* 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.
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=== Newspaper Comics ===
* 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.
=== Western Animation ===
* 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.
** In another episode, Bart tricked the teachers into declaring a strike. Milhouse's parents hired a tutor to educate him.
* After the [[Channel Hop]] to ABC Saturday Mornings, ''[[Doug]]'' had [[Love Interests|Patti Mayonaise]] being homeschooled by her Dad for half of the day. Unlike most examples this was actually portrayed as successful.
* In the ''[[Family Guy]]'' episode "E. Peterbus Unum", Lois tried to teach Meg and Chris after the U.S. army blockaded "Petoria." Chris got sent to his room for passing a note saying that [[Parental Incest|Ms. Griffin was hot]].
** In "Foreign Affairs" Peter tries to homeschool them again, but sends them back when it turns out that Chris had learned nothing from the experience. Of course, this isn't so much because of homeschooling per se as the fact that it's one [[The Ditz|ditz]] trying to teach another.
* In an episode of ''[[My Life
* ''[[Angela Anaconda]]'' once claimed to have ''caught'' agoraphobia so she'd never have to go to school ever again. Being homeschooled and having less time with her friends made her confess and accept punishment for having lied.
* ''[[South Park]]'': Eric Cartman once tried to enjoy the perks of homeschooling (namely not having to go to school).
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