I have a question...

[conuly]

Occasionally, with a wide and varied range of people, the subject of homeschooling comes up. And somebody inevitably pops up to say they're against homeschooling because "they want their children to learn to socialize". And yet, if they sent their kid to school, and the kid spent time with his/her friends in class, the teacher invariably says "you're not here to socialize, you're here to learn". Which is true. If you want to socialize, aside from HUGE homeschooling groups, there's other places like the playground and structured "after school" activities. But some people just keep missing the point, I think.

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[wakasplat.livejournal.com]

Thing is, school doesn't really give you a chance to associate with lots of different people in the way that unschooling and/or homeschooling can. School forces you to associate with people in a very narrow age bracket, and also often income bracket if you're in an area where the rich kids mostly get funneled off to specific schools and the non-rich kids mostly don't. The most actual *opportunity* for socializing with people of a wide variety of backgrounds is outside of school. If a parent doesn't allow that, then they're probably also the kind of parent who would try to keep their kid from associating with other kids at school anyway.