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* 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
== Film ==
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* 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 ==
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* 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.
* [[The Fancy Adventures of Jack Cannon]] begin with the titular hero's first day of public school after having been home schooled his whole life.
* ''[[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-Unfriendly Aesop|Family unfriendly?]]
* ''[[Total Drama Island]]'': One of the contestants is Ezekiel, who was home-schooled, depicted as a non-social and a sexist. He was the first to be kicked off. [[It Got Worse|And don't even ask about season three]].
** [[Ensemble Darkhorse|He's got a lot of fans, at least]].
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== 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.
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