History Main / HomeschooledKids

* In ''Literature/DiaryOfAWimpyKid'', a kid named Fregley shows signs of being on the autism spectrum (odd ways of expressing himself, no concept of societal norms, supposedly very smart but unable to cope with a school environment), and was put in home schooling after first grade. Every once in a while he gets taken to school functions and creeps the other kids out.

* In ''Literature/DiaryOfAWimpyKid'', a kid named Fregley. He clearly suffers from some sort of AmbiguousDisorder on the autism spectrum (odd ways of expressing himself, no concept of societal norms, supposedly very smart but unable to cope with a school environment), and was put in home schooling after first grade. Every once in a while he gets taken to school functions and creeps the other kids out.

* Lola Loud of ''WesternAnimation/TheLoudHouse'' downplays this. While she does attend Royal Woods Middle School with her siblings, it's revealed in "No Place Like Homeschool" that she only gets homeschooled during the main competition season for the beauty pageants that she regularly competes in, so the homeschooling allows for her to have more time to practice and get ready for them. Her parents are also pretty strict about her schoolwork during the time that she's homeschooled, because the deal they made with Lola is that even if she fails so much as one test, she has to go back to attending a regular school (pageant season or not).

* Parodied in an event of ''VideoGame/SixtySeconds'' where Dolores considers to homeschool Mary Jane in the fallout shelter simply because she can't spell "antidisestablishmentarianism" right, with the player being given the option to allow Dolores to proceed. For some reason, the player has a rare chance of getting a random item for choosing "yes", despite the correspondent journal entry not even mentioning such a thing to happen.

* Erich Frühling from ''Manga/TheHeartOfThomas'' has spent his childhood at home with private tutors. As the NewTransferStudent at a boy's boarding school, his classmates find him spoiled, rude, and [[OedipusComplex overly attached to his mother]]. Another student has to intervene when Erich's first encounter with CorporalPunishment ends with him ''attacking the teacher''.

* A downplayed example in ''WesternAnimation/TheLoudHouse'' is that Lola Loud, one of Lincoln's many sisters, is only partially homeschooled rather than fully homeschooled, hence why previous episodes showed her attending a regular school alongside her siblings. Lola's homeschooled during the main competition season for the beauty pageants that she regularly competes in, so the homeschooling allows for her to have more time to practice and get ready for them--her parents are also pretty strict about her schoolwork during the time that she's homeschooled, because the deal they made with Lola is that even if she fails so much as one test, she has to go back to attending a regular school (pageant season or not).

* PlayedWith in ''WesternAnimation/HortonHearsAWho,'' where [[BigBad Jane Kangaroo]] "pouch-schooling" Rudy is meant to paint her as MyBelovedSmother, though Rudy himself is sympathetic and curious.

** In "The PTA Disbands", Bart tricked the teachers into declaring a strike. Milhouse's parents hired a tutor to continue educating him. Once again it seemed to work really well, but didn't last beyond the episode.

* ''VideoGame/SixtySeconds'':

Homeschooled kids do not show up in media very often, but when they do, they are usually shown as either [[NoSocialSkills socially inept]] {{nerd}}s or [[TheFundamentalist religious fundamentalists]] (as of 2007, 72% of American parents who homeschool list a religious motivation) who have been sheltered by their paranoid parents. While some homeschooled kids fit these stereotypes (the term "homeschoolers" in some parts of the homeschooled community refer solely to children fitting this stereotype; in other parts of the homeschooled community "homeschooler" is a self-identity for anyone homeschooled), not all do. In RealLife, there actually are homeschooling-parent-led networks of homeschooled kids who get together with other homeschooled kids for events just to offset this sort of social issue, though each homeschooling family's involvement in that sort of thing varies.

* An intense example in ''Series/LawAndOrderSpecialVictimsUnit'', where two brothers are homeschooled because their obsessive, possessive and controlling mother wants them under her complete control. She winds up manipulating the older boy into killing his own brother to keep social services from taking him away.
** The episode did include one normal homeschooled girl to pay lip service to how this trope doesn't portray reality entirely accurately (indeed one of the antagonists of the episode was a lawyer who automatically decided that the villain was being persecuted because of this trope).
** ...At the same time, the episode also went on a short tirade for how homeschooling is dangerous since the state can't check up on what parents teach their children or hold them up to any educational standards, so they're not being guaranteed a quality education.

* Tucker from ''{{Machinima/Anon}}'' is homeschooled after being forced to take the blame for his twin brother's sextape.

* The children on the series ''Series/PromisedLand'' were homeschooled by the mother, though not out of personal or religious reasons--the family traveled around the country helping people and therefore never settled anywhere long enough for them to be properly enrolled in school. Once the family permanently settles in a community, this changes.

* The children on the series ''Promised Land'' were homeschooled by the mother, though not out of personal or religious reasons--the family traveled around the country helping people and therefore never settled anywhere long enough for them to be properly enrolled in school. Once the family permanently settles in a community, this changes.

* A downplayed example in ''WesternAnimation/TheLoudHouse'' is that Lola Loud, one of Lincoln Loud's many sisters, is only partially homeschooled rather than fully homeschooled, hence why previous episodes showed her attending a regular school alongside her siblings. Lola's homeschooled during the main competition season for the beauty pageants that she regularly competes in, so the homeschooling allows for her to have more time to practice and get ready for them--her parents are also pretty strict about her schoolwork during the time that she's homeschooled, because the deal they made with Lola is that even if she fails so much as one test, she has to go back to attending a regular school (pageant season or not).

* ''WesternAnimation/MyDadTheRockStar'': Willy and his sister Serenity were homeschooled until the beginning of the series, when their parents stopped living on the move and decided to enroll them in a regular school. The two adjust pretty well to their new lives and are able to interact with their fellow teens as normal kids would.

* In the above-mentioned episode from ''WesternAnimation/TheLoudHouse'', Lola's siblings get jealous of her being homeschooled, noting how they all have busy schedules as well but still have to go to regular school--they convince their parents to let them be homeschooled like Lola is, but Lincoln and the rest of his sisters discover that being homeschooled isn't really what they imagined it to be[[note]]1.) While they may have more free time on their hands they still have to do actual schoolwork, 2.) Lola points out that they have to go back to attending regular school if they fail the weekly test on Friday and [[AttentionDeficitOohShiny 3.) Lincoln and his sisters (minus Lola) are unable to get any work done without getting distracted.]][[/note]]. They end up going to Lola for help on their weekly test, but this costs her the sleep she needs and she ends up failing her test (while all of her siblings pass), forcing her to go back to regular school as punishment. But in the end, feeling guilty about what happened, Lincoln and the rest of his sisters (after explaining to their parents about what caused Lola to fail her test) go back to attending regular school while Lola can continue being homeschooled without getting distracted by the rest of them.

* ''Film/GodzillaKingOfTheMonsters2019'': It's hinted in the movie, and confirmed by supplementary materials and the {{novelization}}, that [[Characters/MonsterVerseHumans Madison Russell]] has been educated mainly by her mother and Monarch field tutors in the years leading up to the movie whilst traveling the world as part of her mother's work.

* ''Literature/TheBoyWhoDrewMonsters'': For the last three years, Jack Peter's severe agoraphobia has prevented him to go to school. At the start of the novel, his father has homeschooled him through second, third, fourth, and half of fifth grade.