No thank you....we don't believe in "socialization"

Lisa Russell

[SouthCarolinaKit]

Doesn't sex education, condom application, and asking for the 'morning after pill' all fall within the 'socialization' programs required in public schools? No Thank you! Have they added the fact that safe sex is NOT guaranteed by the use of condoms yet? I'd rather keep my children home and healthy than let the 'soft' communist educrats destroy them.

[Freakazoid]

We spent a week in France on a very educational field trip (they quickly surrendered to my youngest.)

I used to call the French "Socialist Surrender Monkeys", now I can add "Socialized Surrender Monkeys". LOL!

[father of three sons and a homeschooler]

[Carry_Okie]

A statistically-large fraction of home schoolers are kids with developmental or behavioral disabilities. Not a few of the latter acquired those "challenges" via the "socialization" process at pubelick skewels (and the all-too-common use of pharmaceutical behavior modification). Parents of such kids found a system unable or unwilling to challenge and develop those kids or making the situation worse and therefore chose to home school out of desperation. It is especially telling, that the homeschool population out-preforms public and private school children, even with this statistical handicap.

[headsonpikes]

Great post!

Too bad that socialism is apparently the new, improved, 'American Way of Life'.

[Carry_Okie]

Here's my standard home-schooling pitch:

I am home-schooling two kids while I write and market a book. One of whom is old enough to have taken standardized tests, FReeper NattieShea, age 8. Her Stanford Achievement test scores last year indicated that she is a perfectly normal 10th grader. She scored Post High School in mathematics and algebra :-). She is completing a self-taught course in high school geometry now and will begin trigonometry, analytic geometry, and calculus this summer! THIS is an example of her literary work at that time. Her current term paper analyzes five works by Dickens for how his perspective of the Industrial Revolution was biased by his childhood experience.

Her sister is now barely 8. She is completing her work in fractions and can multiply binomials in her head. Her term paper is on five books by Jules Verne. She is the athlete, NattieShea is the dancer.

Here is the really damning piece of information insofar as public schools are concerned:

I spend less time teaching these kids than it would take me to drive them to school and back plus help them with their homework. I have no doubt that, if they were in pubelick schools I would spend MORE time dealing with the behavioral problems arising therefrom than I do now while achieving excellent results and producing kids that are a pleasure to have. Parents beg us to loan them out hoping that they might be a positive influence on their kids. Home schooling is the best thing ever to happen in our family. It has brought us together like nothing else ever could have done.

[Lizavetta]

If there's a shred of meaning to the notion of "socialization," it would be that children, who have not yet mastered the courtesies and internalized the self-restraints that allow us to get along with one another, must learn them -- and the best place to do this is in a social setting that requires and enforces them. A classroom in which there is one adult and many children -- and the adult often dismissive of the social norms herself! -- is obviously not the right setting for it.

Quote of the day.

[Lizavetta]

I love reading your posts.

[Diva Betsy Ross]

I always say that I don't want my child socialized by socialists. ( They have even taken over my local private schools) Homeschool is my only choice.

[conservatism_IS_compassion]

Fran,

#25 contains a link to a year-old piece that you might have missed--but which certainly will reward a read!

--Lynn

[Tailgunner Joe]

bttt

[verdi545]

This article is a thorough illustration of the flaws in the claim that “School is necessary for the socialization of childern.” Good luck with countering this argument school teachers, officials, and dutifully incarcerated (or previously incarcerated) traditional school students (public or private). You can’t.

The only complaint that can be made is “Not all children are so well taken care of.” However, our democracy is founded on rational people who are FREE.

Thank you for this well written assault on the dangerously broken socialization model in traditional schools.