[Jemian]

Perhaps it is an excellent article. I need to continue reading, but when analogies or descriptions employed to illustrate points are not factual, I become disgusted. For example, it was written...

check to see if I have acquired dengue fever without knowing it.

Dengue fever is not at all communicable directly from patient to patient and requires a specific type of mosquito to pass it.

I hope the author has his facts about home schooling straight. I'll force myself to continue reading.

[Jemian]

A basically good article. I would have liked to see more empirical evidence supporting his contentions. The author uses "most" when speaking of government school results. I am not disputing the numbers of home schooling SATs vs. public school SATs. My kids scored off the percentiles themselves. It would have made a stronger article if he had similar data to support his socialization charge. We have a long road ahead of us. We need facts and figures to support what we know is correct.

[rmh47]

Perhaps it is an excellent article. I need to continue reading, but when analogies or descriptions employed to illustrate points are not factual, I become disgusted. For example, it was written...

"...check to see if I have acquired dengue fever without knowing it."

Dengue fever is not at all communicable directly from patient to patient and requires a specific type of mosquito to pass it.

I hope the author has his facts about home schooling straight. I'll force myself to continue reading.

Good gracious, Jemian! Your post is the worst case of nit-picking I have seen in quite a while.

I didn't know dengue fever needed a mosquito vector. Who cares? It's totally irrelevant to the subject at hand.

[Future Snake Eater]

So what? This person communicates many important, salient points about the supposed "lack of socialization" in home schooling, and all you can say is the author incorrectly stated how dengue fever is contracted?

Not only is your obsevation pointless, but it's also totally incorrect. The author never says HOW the contraction "might" have occurred, just did it occur.

A Former Home School Student