[Pete]

Given that the socialization myth continues today, I offer this study review done in 1994.

[moyden]

An oddly unbiased report from the Department of Education.

[TxBec]

ping

[Pete]

Here are some other interesting studies funded by the Department of Education.

The Scholastic Achievement of Home School Students

Home Schooling. ERIC Digest, Number 95.

Home Schooling. ERIC Digest, Number Fifteen. - This one was written in 1986 when HS was still under the radar. I think this excerpt is extremely telling and would never show up in a report today.

Many state officials recognize that the trend toward home schooling will siphon off students and thus enrollment-based state aid from public schools. Because of this threat of diminished state aid, some superintendents engage parents in lawsuits in an attempt to stop the flow of students from their school districts.

[Carolina]

PING))))

[codder too]

Many took their children out because they had no desire to raise a "SOCIALIST".

[FourPeas]

Homeschooling bump....

[aruanan]

...that there may be sufficient evidence to indicate that some home-schooled children have a higher self concept than conventionally schooled children."

May be sufficient evidence? Year by year grouping with large numbers of kids of the same age, loosely tended by a few adults, is not socialization but the educational equivalent of a cattle drive.

[HungarianGypsy]

It took me a while to figure out but I did notice (even though some will say otherwise) that there is something a bit different in homeschooled children's behavior in some social situations. It wasn't until recently that I realized there are quite a few that don't realize the concept of personal space. This is something I thought was just my own children, but there have been a few other events where I have had homeschooled children just come up and plop themselves in my lap.