All in all, I thought this was a fair article.

"The socialization process is important to a child's maturation. A good setting--in school--interacting with children and adults with varying views is very important to the education of a child," he said.

I think we all know what the educrat is trying to say, don't we? Feel free to add your own translation.

"The socialization process is important to a child's maturation. A good setting--in school--interacting with children and adults with varying views is very important to the education of a child," he said.

I laughed when I read this. Last night I took my granddaughter to a company Christmas party...after everyone else had left she and I stayed and played cards with four other people. That was my 9 yr old and five adults over 40....and she fit right in....:) and won her share of the hands too..!!

Eighty percent of home-schoolers live in two-parent households

Perhaps I'm grasping here, but would you say that the same people who criticize homeschooling as the domain of the privileged (two parent households with stay-at-home mom) would be the first to tell you that any loving group situation is a FAMILY and JUST AS GOOD as a traditional one?

Would that "good setting" include guns and drug dealers commonly found in our public schools today. I have toddlers and I plan to homeschool them when the time comes. There are lots of kids and programs at our church for socialization activities. Not to mention activities through the home school associations - and just your regular friends and their children.

Not completely accurate, but I agree that it was fair.

"Those damn Christians are going to brainwash thier children. How will they learn about condoms and sodomy?"

Absolutely.......but they wouldn't tell it to ME more than once....:)

Still, the association has concerns, not so much about curriculum as with socialization and potential difficulties making the transition into a conventional classroom or college. "The socialization process is important to a child's maturation. A good setting--in school--interacting with children and adults with varying views is very important to the education of a child," he said.

The old "socialization" argument. Total crap. What I learned in high school concerning socialization took a while to unlearn once I entered the real world.

"The socialization process is important to a child's maturation. A good setting--in school--interacting with children and adults with varying views is very important to the education of a child," he said.

"The socialization process is important to a worker's brainwashing. A good setting -- in school -- teaching them to only listen to state-approved authority figures, to move from subject to subject when the bell rings, that nothing is worth doing that can't be interrupted by a schedule, that being beat up is a rite of passage, that drugs and crime aren't bad enough to force the removal of criminals from the classroom, that there are few consequences for actions, that individual thought isn't allowed in real life, that what you wear on your shirt is subjectively criticized if it offends the state, that self-defense is not necessarily a basic human right, that being straight is only politically correct if you are sleeping around with the right number of people, that interacting with children and adults with varying views -- other than conservative -- is very important to the moulding of a sheeple.

Unschooling

Hi Dix and Dad; thought this article would be encouraging as you look at the pros and cons of alternative schooling.

Sounds like *my* daughter!

Boy if this doesn't deserve a ping, I don't know what does!

Hi Homeschool mama! I just pinged you to this article, but you beat me to it!

Thank you kindly for the additional ping though. This thread deserves it! ;o)

I'm "with you". My seven home-schooled grandchildren are better "socialized" than any public schooled children of their ages whom I have met recently and certainly moreso than the public school children I taught in years past.

I am proud of and grateful to their parents who are so selflessly seeing to it that these children are brought up in an atmosphere where truth can be the touchstone, devoid of the malinfluence of peer pressure and of liberal ideology.

thanks ... homeschool bump.

It's always the same:

Oh you homeschool? How do they get adequate socialization?

I hate that word, I hear it everywhere I go with my kids as if the questioner even knows what it means. I never hear any other word or phrase, it's eerie. I don't hear, Do they get along with other kids? or How do you prepare them for the real world? (which is a laugher, especially considering the pubelick skewel product), it's always "socialization." What an obviously successful piece of educrat propaganda that is!

Translation: Socialization makes good socialists.

Here is what I do in response, I have the nine-year old explain how Dickens modeled his own life history in segments of his books, or factor a quadratic in her head, or I have the seven-year-old multiply a few algebraic binomials, name three cities on the Danube that start with the letter "B," or I'll have a technical discussion with them about whatever is handy, usually on a high-school level...

Heheheh

You should see that glare of unbridled hate.