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Originally Posted by kane
I have only known thee home schooled kids in my life and I didn't know them until adulthood, but they all told me the same thing. The one thing they struggled with (and the three were all home school all the way through high school) was that when they got out into the world (one of them went college, one a trade school and the third just got a job) was that they had some trust issues. They tell me one of the problems with home schooling is that when your teachers are your parents (or people you know really well) there is no dealing with people who don't like you. When you go to regular school you will have people you don't like, teachers you don't like and people and teachers who don't like you and part of the process is learning how to deal with them because in life you will be encountering the same. When you are home schooled you might get in trouble, but in the end you know pretty much everyone that surrounds you loves you unconditionally so you never have to deal with people that really don't like you.
So these people told me they were having to learn how to deal with that type of drama and conflict resolution at 18 when most of us learn how to deal with it at 12.
Anyway, I'm sure that doesn't apply to every home schooled kid, but the three people I have known in my life that were fully home schooled all told me that.
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i would think there is a strong connection between the personality type and lifestyle of the parents who would opt to home school their kids that has a larger impact on the child's development than being at school or not. i grew up in Alaska surrounded by weirdos where this was very common and usually the parents were total, anti social, socially retarded nut jobs to begin with.
personally, i would prefer my child had all the opportunities to socialize as any other children do. isolating a child from all other children and the general experience of school which is just as much about learning about people, to deal with people, with groups, with bullies, with girls/boys etc etc etc as anything else, to me is not the best choice. particularly in remote areas where school is their single greatest chance to interact with others, play sports etc.