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bvar22

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30. I expected Home Schoolers to disagree.

Reply to laundry_queen (Reply #29)

Fri Mar 16, 2012, 09:52 PM

Mar 2012

Do you see any negatives at all with Home Schooling?
Can you see any potential gray areas at all in developing individuation, self-confidence, self-reliance, internal validation, or self-actualization?

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Salon: Home-schooled and illiterate - for some kids it means isolation with little education [View all] Amerigo Vespucci Mar 2012 OP

US Christian Madrassas - n/t lapfog_1 Mar 2012 #1

Absolutely get the red out Mar 2012 #6

Consequences of "home schooling". no_hypocrisy Mar 2012 #2

The other side Skelly Mar 2012 #7

When it works well, it works very well spinbaby Mar 2012 #13

My problem is my client is being punished for homeschooling (to the best of her ability). no_hypocrisy Mar 2012 #22

Home Schooling has its good and bad points fasttense Mar 2012 #3

A lot of it depends upon the child Alcibiades Mar 2012 #9

I've seen this a few times. Igel Mar 2012 #23

Isolation is what it is all about when religion is the issue. n/t Bonhomme Richard Mar 2012 #4

Faux Newz and Rush will take up the slack and turn them into good little... freshwest Mar 2012 #5

This isn't so much a home schooling issue as it is a religious fanaticism issue. teewrex Mar 2012 #8

There are good and bad homeschoolers, private schools, public schools, etc. jhasp Mar 2012 #10

quality of the teacher d_r Mar 2012 #11

Still a state issue? Skelly Mar 2012 #16

Oversight is the issue. Igel Mar 2012 #24

I worry more about the social 'isolation' that so many of the religiously sinkingfeeling Mar 2012 #12

Anything that teaches a kid to function in a bubble is a bad thing. Amerigo Vespucci Mar 2012 #19

I'd say anything that ultimately fails to teach kids to function outside their bubble is a bad thing Igel Mar 2012 #25

home schooling is not for everyone who WANTS IT mimitabby Mar 2012 #14

When I was in college Skelly Mar 2012 #21

True. I met illiterate home-schooled kids. shcrane71 Mar 2012 #15

I don't understand how/why Myrina Mar 2012 #17

Because the teams aren't academics. Igel Mar 2012 #26

We were partial home schoolers ProgressiveProfessor Mar 2012 #18

It is NOT just the narrow "Education Spectrum" that is important. bvar22 Mar 2012 #20

"Cannot"? Igel Mar 2012 #27

90% of your list Skelly Mar 2012 #28

I vehemently disagree. laundry_queen Mar 2012 #29

I expected Home Schoolers to disagree. bvar22 Mar 2012 #30

I am an avid homeschool parent and I see potential negatives with homeschooling jhasp Mar 2012 #31

All in all, bvar22 Mar 2012 #33

How many homeschoolers do you know? jhasp Mar 2012 #34

Homeschooling can be a reflection of control freak parents Lydia Leftcoast Mar 2012 #32

Being President of the PTA Skelly Mar 2012 #40

Many homeschool parents have a low level of education in the first place. Kablooie Mar 2012 #35

The magical age jhasp Mar 2012 #36

Do you have any statistics to back this up? jhasp Mar 2012 #37

It varies nxylas Mar 2012 #38

I used to volunteer in the library in my small California town. MineralMan Mar 2012 #39