Tiers of homeschooled shelterness

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I have spent days on this. Please feel free to add your own thoughts and details.

Tier 1 is the least detailed because for obvious reasons I never had close encounters with a tier 1.

Tier 1: This is the prairie dress or denim skirt tier. There is an unlimited amount of children in your family. The ENTIRETY of your social life is church three times a week. Your main vacation, if you took one, was probably the Creation Museum. Most of the books you read are faith-based or classics, and if you've seen a movie, it was probably a PureFlix or The Sound of Music. You might not even visit the library. You probably avoid all types of fantasy unless it's a Christian allegory. You're a double-digit age before you learn that Halloween is a thing. You most definitely attend a homechurch or a super conservative church with 30 members, and a fellowship dinner in the basement is a wild night out for you. You don't have TV or Internet access but you're a pro at Paint or Microsoft Word. Your school curriculum is probably Abeka or Bob Jones.

Tier 2: You probably wear pants or LONG shorts, unless you prefer skirts. Your family has at least five kids. You probably still want to go to the Creation Museum and your favorite movie is still probably Seven Brides for Seven Brothers. You use the Internet, but it's monitored and you mostly use it to listen to instrumental music or watch Blimey Cow. You still probably don't have TV, and if you do, there are a lot of shows you're not allowed to watch. You *might* have a secondhand Wii for family game nights. C.S. Lewis and Tolkien are staples in your house, but Harry Potter is a no-go. You belong to a co-op group and see friends from all kinds of lifestyles one morning a week, but you only have playdates with your friends from your Independent or Southern Baptist church. You dress up in a non-scary costume for the fall festival at your church. You might do Abeka but you might do something like Sonlight (the older version) or Beautiful Feet. You've read a LOT of older, classic books and historical fiction, and you for sure use the library but you skip over the new releases and the Babysitter's Club in favor of a 1950s horse girl book.

Tier 3: Your clothing is the same as any other kid, except you may not be able to wear shorts that are too short or shirts that are too tight, and your swimsuit is one-piece. There are probably three or four kids in your family. You use the Internet to play all the popular games, and you can watch Disney Channel but Nickelodeon is a little iffy. You got your own handheld game system for your birthday. You own Barbies and play unsupervised with the kids next door. You read the books and see the movies that other kids are talking about, but your mom is wary of violence and cursing. Your social life is varied with park days, library events, and whatever block party your neighborhood hosts, and you go out into the neighborhood for trick-or-treating. You use almost any homeschool curriculum under the sun (the history and science is faith-based, though), and you may have attended public school for a few grades. You could go to any type of church but it's probably more politically conservative. You relate to a lot of Blimey Cow's homeschooling content, but some of it feels sheltered and silly.

Tier 4: You are utterly indistinguishable from a non-homeschooler. You might be an only child or have just a sibling or two. You wear whatever you want and might have multiple ear piercings. Your mom took you to the Twilight movie premiere and you wear tee shirts of pop stars. You have never heard of Blimey Cow. You're the first at your homeschool co-op to get an iPod or a phone with Internet. Your brother plays video games with strangers on xBox Live. Your house is where everyone wants to have sleepovers because you have a TV room and can stay up as late as you could possibly want. You start reading YA when you're twelve. Your church might have a liberal or female pastor and your youth group has lock-ins and beach trips. You keep up with fads and fashionable clothes. Your homeschool curriculum probably has a Bible element but other aspects of it might be secular. Much like a tier 1 but for opposite reasons, it can be hard to fit into the majority homeschool crowd. A lot of your friends go to public school.

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