Which socialization is the NEA most concerned about? That which occurs on the scool bus or that which occurs on the playground?
Children able to make friends with adults? Scandalous!
The NEA has their head in the sand when it comes to home schooling.
To the NEA "socialization" means mainly preparing kids for socialism.
When it refers to social skills, on the other hand, socialization means getting kids to learn about:
* what it's like to be bullied by bigger kids;
* what extortion of your lunch money is like;
* what being ridiculed by your fellow "students" feels like;
* how to learn to "hold your water" so you don't have to risk going to the bathroom and being beaten up;
* how to receive ridicule and condescension from teachers;
* how to obey authority and how to comply with their wishes, even if your rights or well-being or even sanity is being violated as a result;
* how to accept Ritalin when the brain-dead environment of school makes you act out, out of sheer desperation;
* which new hate words to use to replace the old hate words (e.g., how to call low IQ kids "speds" instead of "retards" -- same difference);
* how to hate whites, regardless of which race you are!
* how useless manners are;
* how to accept perversions of all kinds as "normal"; and the corrolary, of how to accept that moral behavior is to be considered unusual and deviant.
Well, there's more, but this is the main kind of socialization that a kid really learns in school.
No, they don't. They know that home-schooled kids are outscoring "their" kids on standardized tests. They know exactly what's going on. They are being threatened.
Actually, the NEA has its head up its...