how do homeschooled kids get diversity in people?

Since the word is diverse and has white, black, Chinese, Hispanic and other races that is how home school kids get diversity. We are out in the real world every day, not locked away in a building segregated by age and neighborhood. The real question is how do those poor public school kids get diversity and socialization locked away from the real world?

Pretty much the same way kids in public schools do. It really depends on where you live. The area I live in isn't very segregated, so the schools are a good mixture of kids but not all areas are like that. Public schooled or home schooled, if you live in a mostly white, black, latino, asian community, that's who you will hang out with. In my area there are two big home school support groups. One is more diverse than the other. The less diverse group is part of a church community that is mostly white. The other is a large, inclusive group. Just like those two home school groups, some public schools are a lot more mixed than others. The charter school in my town is much less diverse than the public schools.

Remember that when home schooled kids take part in activities outside the home, they are involved with other kids from their community. Dance, martial arts, scouting, music lessons, community sports teams, all that, they aren't just for home schooled kids or schooled kids! All the kids there are getting exposure to other kids outside the home. Both groups take part in outside activities. The public schooled kids I know aren't limited to just school activities by their parents and neither are the home schooled kids I know. But the funny thing each group thinks the other is locked away, Silly really, considering they participate in a lot of the same activities. It's like this: if a home school family is white, but their child goes to scouting with schooled or home schooled kids who aren't white, that's how they get that diversity. Dance schools, scouting groups, and martial arts studios, community sports teams, they're open to kids - all kids. If you look at non-school activities, they are a mixture of kids and school choices.

You assume that all homeschoolers are white, which is just a generic term for someone who has been in this country long enough to lose most of their ancestral background to become American, oh and you think their skin is white. Well that is not the case! My kids are half Mexican, part Italian, German, Irish, and two different Native American heritages. We are more diverse than most people you know probably! WE also have relatives that we get together with often that are black, bi-racial, Thai, Vietnamese, Colombian and more. Public schools are not the only place a child meets people of other nationalities or heritage, in fact, our local school is over 90 % white, not much diversity there so where will those kids get to know about other people?? My family also hosts different families from parts of Africa annually, do you?

First of all, homeschooled children run the gamut as does the rest of the world. You'll find children of all races, ethnicity and every other "category" that are homeschooled.

Second, the answer is easy: Homeschooled kids live in the real world. A diversity of people live in the world. Homeschooled kids interact with a diverse set of people as they lead their regular lives. They're not cooped up in one classroom or building all day; instead, they're out in the world going to the store, meeting people at the library, interacting with neighbors, making friends at the playground, etc. They don't just sit at home. My homeschooled children interact with lots of other people. They're involved in 4-H, soccer, church, and so on.

First, consider that not all public schools have that much diversity. It varies regionally.

Second, to address your question, most homeschool families involve their kids in city sports, homeschool groups (there is diversity among homeschoolers, too), meeting kids at the park, playing with neighbors, etc. Some homeschoolers attend once or twice a week a "regular" school building that is strictly for homeschooled kids. Many also attend a public school for extracurricular activities or for electives that their home cannot offer.

There are some exceptions in families, but you have to keep in mind that not all kids who attend public school are socially involved either. It totally depends on the parents and kids in question, regardless of schooling.

Homeschooling is really a misnomer...most homeschooled kids (like ones that are truly homeschooled) are rarely at home. They are at classes, lessons, volunteer opps, out in society...

They're not limited by the walls of a classroom - they're only limited by their geographic location. If their area has ethnic diversity, they're around it.

first of all home schoolers do not end up living at home with mommy and daddy forever. most home schoolers are actually ahead acacademically home schoolers get diversity in whatever else we do (we don't do school all day! we do sports and things like that too!) school isn't the only place you get diversity.

Actually, not all public schools do. In many counties, you are required to attend a certain school based on your location, or "zone" in that county. This menas that you will be attending school with only other students from that area and maybe a few who were allowed to transfer for certain reasons. If you're in an area of town populated by mostly black people, you will be with mostly black people in school. If you're in a lower income part of town, you're with mostly students from low income families. If you're in a mostly spanish speaking part of town, or a high income part of town where everyone lives in a big house with a two car garage... you get the idea. Not a whole lot of diversity there, although there is still some, and there are still counties that don't follow this trend.

Home schoolers are not told by the county where they have to spend their schooling hours or any of their day for that matter. Contrary to popular belief, home schoolers also do not spend all their schooling hours or all their time in the house with mom and dad. The typical homeschooler (yes, there are always exceptions) actually spends more time out and about i. n the community doing various things than the average public schooler (again, there are exceptions) has time for after their mandatory 6 to 8 hour day in the classroom (which is in fact much smaller and more sheltered than the community at large). There are city and county wide homeschool support groups all across the nation. Yes, some of these groups have a religious affiliation, but more and more secular groups are popping up all the time. My local group in particular has about 400 members. Among those 400 are black people, Asian people, hispanic people, white people, christians, catholics, atheists, jews, at least two muslims that I know of off the top of my head, wealthy families, not so wealthy families, only-children, kids with lots of siblings, adopted kids, disabled kids, highly gifted kids, single-parent families, kids being raised by grandparents... you get the idea. And among that diversity, there is also a very wide age range (3 to 18, last I checked). Groups like this meet very often, several times a week for a wide variety of activities, clubs, sports, social events, dances, field trips, group classes, performances, curriculum fairs (like science fair), competitions, outings, field days, parties, and more, so naturally members of home school groups not only get to interact with a wide variety of people, but also with people of all different ages... something you'll need to be comfortable doing later in life when you aren't constantly grouped with 30 or so kids your age like you are in school.

Outside of homeschool support groups, there are also community activities that home schoolers often take advantage of. Sports teams, music classes, art classes, programs at museums, zoos and libraries, volunteer opportunities, internships, clubs, organizations, duel enrollment at a college, camps, youth centers, scouts, Boys and Girls clubs, and a lot more. Most homeschoolers are involved in at least three or so community activities outside of the home and outside of the homeschool community, thus interacting with people from different neighborhoods, different backgrounds, different schools on a regular basis.

And finally there is the effort made at home by the parent or other educator to teach about other cultures, other religions, other people and tolerance and acceptance of other people in general. True, there's always that bigot that doesn't teach and foster this, or does it in the wrong way, but you find people like that teaching in public schools and people who send their kids to public school but successfully teach racism and intolerance at home too. There is an exception to every rule, but for the the most part, home schoolers handle diversity very well and may even be exposed to more of it than the average public schooler.

Not around here they don't kid! My daughter meets a greater mix of races and religions being home educated than she would at the local school by a long way.

Home school groups tend to be more diverse than public schools.

Think about it. In school you are segregated by neighborhood, age and ability. In home school groups, no such segregation exist.