While I was growing up I ended up going from school to school. Not because I got kicked out of any of the schools or anything like that, but my parents decided it was a good idea. I started off going to a Lutheran day school for my first grade year. It has a socialization effect on me, because in that kind of school there is a lot more religious based activities. I remember everyday having a picture of a bible story on the board, and having the teacher talk about it for over an hour. I would participate in a service every week where the pastor would talk for a couple of hours about morals he thought were right. This would shape the way I saw morals, because at that age as a child I was taught that every adult had more wisdom then I did. This led to me being more into talking about Christian topics more often. I acted like someone that was going to a private Christian school. I would not be wearing whatever I felt like wearing, but rather I would just learn to wear what the dress code was like.
After
the first grade my mom pulled me out of the Lutheran school and decided to home
school me. This began to have a different socialization effect on me. I learned
at a faster rate, so I was doing middle school level material in second grade. This
would make my social skills a little more awkward, because I wasn’t talking
about the same information other children my age were talking about. I would be
a part of a lot of home school run events, where you would get together with a
lot of the other home school children and parents in the area I lived in. This affected the way I thought socialization
with other children should be had. That we were always going to be going to a
place to hang out with other children, and not hang out with them at the place
of schooling. This also allowed my mom to instill as many of her morals, and
how I should behave in me. This led to me being very socialized by my mother in
not only parent activities, but also as a teacher and my studying activities.
After my
third grade we moved and my mom started working, so I was sent to the local
public school. This was a lot different than anything else I had ever
experienced. There were actual cliques of people on the playground, and you had
to associate with one of them in order to have someone to hang out with. Since
I have always liked video games, I naturally started to hang out with the
people who were geekier. This led to me being socialized more by my group of
friends, and the idea that I had to fit into a clique in order to have fun
during my school day.
Socialization
comes in many forms, from your peers, from your parents, from your school. When
you are getting homeschooled the roles are sort of intertwined for the parent,
and you end up not getting a good counterbalance of socialization from someone
not your parent. When you go to private school you get taught how to act, and
behave based on the ways of the religion. When you go to a public school, you
really only learn and act based on what you find interesting.
http://www.nvtutoring.com/pdfs/Socialization.pdf
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