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Originally Posted by Pleasurepays
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.
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I would agree with that. All three of the people I know where home schooled came from very religious families that felt that public (and even private) school was too corrupt and evil for their kids.
I also have another friend who's wife tried to home school their daughter for a few years. They too were super religious and felt that God was lacking in the public school curriculum. After two years when she saw just how hard it was she gave up. In a funny moment I called up there one day to talk to them and the daughter, then a 6th grader, answered the phone. I asked her how she was doing and she says, "Great, I finally get to go back to real school!" It made me laugh.