Posted on 07/11/2013 8:27:58 AM PDT by Sopater
We home-schooled our eight long before it was cool or acceptable - starting in ‘82.
All are stellar in their fields, noted for maturity and hard work, good character. And their ability to deal with others in both the business and social realm. Oldest got 4 degrees at one time (5 yr. full ride), Summa Cum Laude.....
Yeah, socialization is a real problem.......they are all anti-socialists....
When homeschooling opponents say “weird” they mean “out of touch with the latest progressive social orthodoxies.”
Socialization = Indoctrination, in today’s school system.
We home schooled (she did go to public high school for 3 years). 9 years out of college she has better social skills than most people of any age. And her societal “survival skills” are way above most people’s. Matter of fact, regarding the aforementioned skills, she was ahead of most adults at age 16 when she left home for college.
She’s better educated and (gasp) has superior reasoning ability and (double gasp) thinks for herself. When she and I disagree, it’s very tough for me to win the discussion. Yet if I clearly do, she will concede graciously.
Congrats. These liberals don’t understand education starts and foremost, at home. One of our new employees was home-schooled.
For “socialization”, he just joined the neighborhood sports teams. When the other kids asked him which school he went to and he replied, their answer was mostly “Cool! At least you don’t have show up at school like we do.”
srbfl
A very accomplished teacher in the family tells me that the biggest problem he’s seen in homeschooled kids over the years is that they don’t deal well with deadlines.
Presumably because Mom will always let you slide on a deadline. Aside from that he’s been very impressed.
Early socialization is important. If it weren’t for preschool, where would kids learn to bite, scratch, and pull hair?
Our kids understand deadlines - put away your clothes before suppertime or no dessert!
Public school “social activities”:
- Drinking
- Cigarettes
- Sex/sharing STD’s
- Pot/Cocaine/LSD/etc
- Fighting/bullying
- Swearing
- Disrespecting authority
- Destruction of property
- Cheating
Now, how many of these would happen when homeschooling? Yeah...public schools, what could possibly go wrong? What amazes me is that I know parents that make this “socializing” argument. A kid *can* do well in public school but it is still mostly influenced by parents. Kids don’t care if the parents don’t, if the kids and parents don’t care then why would a teacher? Now realize why some schools should just be shutdown, they’re a waste of everyone’s time and money.
Other interaction activities:
- All sports (soccer, baseball, etc.)
- Scouting (yeah yeah)
- Work (!)
- Martial arts
- Church
- Hunting
There are some people that seem to think that these should be secondary to the first list. Amazing.
Our youngest was home schooled for a couple of years and then went to a private Christian school. He just graduated from NIU with a degree in Electrical Engineering. (Summa Cum Laude also). He got a really good job 2 weeks before he graduated.
I concur on the deadlines. The other is that none of them know how to stand in lines like good little sheep.
I am a homeschool dad of 4, Scoutmaster to a whole slew of homeschooled kids, coach on a robotics team that is home, private and public schooled.
EXACTLY! We homeschooled our daughter from second grade through high school. During that time she was involved in our church, dance classes, and was on FR as “Cowgirlcutie” during her high school years. She has since graduated from Baylor University on the Dean’s List, married a bio-chemist, and now does a lot of charity work with kids. If more kids were “weird” like her, the world would be a MUCH better place.
My seven grandchildren are definitely “weird†All of the 6 that has either graduated or still going had/have 4.0 GPA. The all go to church regularly, don’t do drugs make agood living even while still in school. Not one penny to pay back in student loans.......
Oh no! They’ll grow up to be ‘weird’. AKA - they’ll have moral standards.
You can’t! I copyrighted it 25 years ago.
Oh alright. I guess you can...
If parents do all that they get arrested and charged with child abuse. If some punks do it in highschool everyone (who wasn’t homeschooled) says it was a valuable growing up experience and the victim is a better person for it.
Survivorship bias.
I can’t say I have every met anyone I thought was ‘good with deadlines.’ Particularly authors and engineers.
That is the observation I kept hearing about my (now adult) son - at things like scouts, he was the only one there that was comfortable talking with the adults. He would interact with anyone, from infant to older adult, with equal ease. It always freaked out the adults to all of the sudden realize that they were conversing normally with a young teen.
What’s weird about Tim Tebow?
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