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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[nighteshade.livejournal.com]

Homeschooling can be done a right way and a wrong way, like... just about everything, I guess. ;) I've met some homeschooled kids who were just as socially adapted as anyone else, but I've met others who were from the opposite end of the spectrum... such as the ones who went with my French class to our trip to Paris.

They were absolutely horrible to us, looking down upon us because we went to "regular" school and talking about us in French about how stupid we were and how we wouldn't understand what they were saying anyway because we didn't know any French (Guess what? We DID.), etc.

The conversation I had with one of their mothers made me laugh- she remarked that she chose to homeschool her children because she felt they would become better people, learn better values, etc. outside of the school system. Obviously they didn't- but that's the fault of the parents. Homeschooling is right for some, wrong for others. *shrug*

[conuly]

Homeschooling is right for some, wrong for others. *shrug*

Definitely. In this case, though, the mother's attitude says it all. SHE looked down on public school, and she passed that view on to her kids, that they were better for not being in school, and smarter, and so on.