Posted on 12/19/2019 1:28:27 PM PST by SeekAndFind
My problem with home schooling is kids need to be exposed to other kids. And learn how to deal with them.
Well...I think you’re ignorant of home schooling....MOST homeschoolers ARE exposed to other kids. Plus, where do you think kids go to learn to be belligerent and unruly?
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RE: My problem with home schooling is kids need to be exposed to other kids. And learn how to deal with them.
Here in my area ( Long Island ), we have a home school association where Home Schooled kids socialize, play sports and do all sorts of cultural activities with other home schooled kids.
Says someone who obviously doesn’t know homeschoolers much.
I homeschooled my kids and between the neighborhood thugs, the kids on the *Y* swim team, and the other public school kids at church, the store, the library, camp, etc, , not to mention the other homeschool kids, not all of whom are little angels by any means, they got plenty of exposure to human nature and experience in dealing with it.
And you think homeschool kids don’t have the usual sibling rivalry problems?
What homeschooling does is prevents them from becoming little brainwashed, sexually messed up, socialist, public school drones.
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Homeschooled three here, and not only did they socialize with kids their own age better, they socialized with people of all ages better.
My kids went on to West Point, Drexel and Virginia Tech. Now in the reserves (a Captain and the youngest a 2nd Lt, while the middle kid is working on her PHd in biomedical engineering after 2 years at a research lab).
Best decision we ever made.
Can’t have the kiddies learning reading, writing AND reasoning too.
Of course the truth is that home schooled children actually send less time on school related activities then traditionally schooled children. When you add up the time spent going to school and back you get a total of ten hours a day for TSC's and that is without adding in the "homework" that seems to be given out at younger and younger ages and in larger amounts.
This leaves the TSC's no time to actually interact and deal with other children. Even their lunch time is often a "no talking" time. The only interaction many of them have is in the bathrooms and those are not exactly the kind of social interactions that are healthy for them.
On the other hand most HSC's spend less then four hours a day on school related activities. This leaves a great deal of time for them to interact with other children. Home Schooling organizations often have sports team and other ECA and some simply meet at church or public play grounds to let them play together.
The HSC also has time to interact with his patents and family in a way the TSC does not.
My utopian vision is for a world without utopians. They are murderous.
I don’t know why this idea of homescoolers live in a bubble won’t die it’s death, but nobody does.
And besides, there’s always the unspoken presumption that homemeschool parents are not being good parents because ALLEGEDLY their kids don’t socialize with other kids their own age and *won’t learn to get along with other kids their own age* as if the public school parents are better parents for sending their kids to public schools to be socially handicapped from being able to relate to ALL people of ALL age groups as virtually ALL homeschoolers I know can do.
Like how is learning to socialize with one narrowly defined age group going to be a necessary life skill as an adult? Or even useful?
Honestly, do ADULTS only socialize with people their exact own age?
Research has proven that false.
I went to a catholic parochial school. We were terrible. Had fights. Started trouble. But not in school. Or more correctly when we did we paid a stiff penalty including corporal punishment. As a boy I can tell you we were allowed to do boy things.
The answer isn’t home school but private schooling where kids get an education and learn to be responsible respectful citizens.
I sent my kids to public school but monitored what they were being taught and told them when the schools were WRONG. I told them not to be disrespectful of their ‘wrong’ teachers but to understand the right thing.
What makes you think homeschool kids don’t communicate and work with other children?
The other posters here said it best....
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