The Daily Planet - Incorrectly Labeled

Published on September 24, 2007 at 8:56 PM
Incorrectly Labeled

This Article was published in Homeschooling Articles

    "Perhaps we've been icorrectly labeled." -Edmund, The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe.

    A couple years ago, people would have labeled me "preppy". I hung with the cool kids, I wore cool clothes, I had a cool hairstyle. I was a cool kid. Not that I am not now, but it was different cool. A worldy cool. I was labeled as a prep. I constructed my life, my attitudes, and my whole demeanor to be cool and therefor preppy. Now, I have found I don't have a label.
    I have found that there are not any of those kinds of labels in homeschooling. They are different. There isn't the dividing that there is in public schools. You aren't preppy, or nerdy, or a cheerleader, a jock, etc. You are you. You aren't stuck in the world's grouping. In homeschooling you can be yourself and not be put down on.
    I don't want to be labeled by the world. I want to be labeled by ME. I want people to know me by me. That includes how I act, how I speak, how I present myself, how I dress. It includes everything about me.
    I go into to town everyday, and everyday I see kids that come out of school. They are all the same. There is no diversity. They all act the same. It is very easy to know what their label is, and that is the way they want it.
    Why do they fall into getting labeled?? People say that the biggest pressure is your peers, but I think that this what the pressure is: being in a group or being labeled.
    Homeschooling gives us the opportunity to be ourselves. We don't have a mold that we have to fit into, so that teachers have an easy job to do. There is no label you have to live up too.
    Our mothers or whoever teaches us gives us a great service when they keep us home to teach us. We have the freedom to be who we were meant to be.
    I am so happy my Mom stays home with us, so I don't have to go to school and be labeled by some teenagers who don't have a clue about reality.
    I am proud of who I am. I am me. I don't have a label anymore. I have a little bit of everything.
    When we label people we are limiting them to whatever we have labeled them as. We stifle them from becoming who they are. I don't want to be stifled from being who I need to be. I don't want to be stuck in a group and not grow out of it.
    I saw this one Cold Case once it was about some girl who was murdered for not staying in the "cool" crowd and they killed her because she left them. But years later, everyone was still the same as they were in high school. No one had changed. It was sad because most people stay the same for the rest of their lives as they were in high school. I don't want to be the same person I am today years from now. I have kinks to work out. I want to grow and mature.
    Homeschooling is helping me do that. I don't have a mold to be squeezed into or a label.
    That is why homeschooling is great, because there are NO labels. I sure don't want to be incorrectly labeled. Do you??

As Always,

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©AmandaDixon2007

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September 24, 2007 at 10:32 PM...Untitled Comment

Commented by quietcajun

Once again, my dear, you are so right!
Besides, who wants to be tucked neatly into a little labeled box! I love being free to be me and I hated the tiny box of public education! (Still do!)
Love,
Auntie Christina