Reply #46: Unbelievable.

[The Minus World]

Similarly, my girlfriend's mother decided to pull her 10-year old daughter out of school for a year of homeschooling. This woman is a professor of communications at a local community college, so she is by no means an uneducated lout.

Long story short, most of their time was spent vacationing. Any education that actually did occur happened on a "I don't wanna"/"Well, okay" basis. The daughter developed terrible habits like staying up until 1 or 2am online. When she finally made it back to public school, she was overwhelmed with how far ahead other kids were, and developed an inferiority complex. It's been a year now and the poor girl is still recovering from that gaping rift in her education.

These are all anecdotes, though. The readers' mileage may vary.