"Home schooling is an OK solution though at some point the socialization needs to occur; albeit a socialization where the group is based on understanding the correct foundation vs. the pseudo utopian crap they are being indoctrinated with now in the government schools."
We've been concentrating on the threee Rs but will be expanding this year. They are lacking in socialization yet we get nothing but compliments about how polite and well behaved they are around other people when we do get out. They actually say May I and Thank You. They're not shy or awkward. They're just not hyper and unruly, until they start playing with the other kids maybe. They do have the ability to swap into kid mode.
We've been using the Robinson Curriculum which requires minimal financial and time input on the parents part and the book list is the classics. We've been mixing in newer stuff because they were starting to talk funny. (who actually says "I shan't" LOL)
I think we're going to finish out the school year with some history, government, elections, socialism and maybe a little Critical Theory; the origins of and current useage. I'm sure they've learned quite a bit already because I get my news from the internet and relay it verbally to my wife and the kids ask about whatever they don't understand.
“...are lacking in socialization...”
You are one hundred percent correct that having “failed” to absorb the current horrendous rude zeitgeist that currently passes for socialization in this day and age is far from a “lacking”, it is an asset!
You are to be commended highly!!
However, I think I was trying to picture that wouldn’t it be nice if there was a way that enough like minded families could allow them to have social/academic experiences in small amounts outside of the home setting when they are a bit older because it can be fun for tweens to be together when learning, preferably gender separated, of course outside the immediate “nest”. This probably already does occur in homeschooling groups.
Just a thought on an ideal because (having raised 4) pre teens and teens inherently crave a bit of healthy separate from Mom and Dad time in the right setting that hardly exists anymore.
Again, the homeschoolers are NOT missing out on what is considered “socialization”. I call it the Disney clones ‘tween rudeness. My daughters were not allowed to watch the then “Lizzie” McGuire type shows - then the Miley Cyrus one and it does help some - mine were not rude and did not have the practically universal ‘tude.
Then they all copy the gestures, facial expressions in real life and lose their individual identities. Observe the pre teens and see that this does happen. It is even worse now that they all copy each other via instagram.
I also think the hyper is due to Disney - my granddaughter (soon 3) is allowed to watch sparingly the Disney shows geared for the young toddlers and it disturbing to watch with her how fast the scenes change in seconds increments. There is no doubt in my mind that absorbing this day in and day out blows their little minds into a hyper mess.
Again your approach sounds awesome! Lucky kids! Classics!
I heard someone say (Dobson? MacArthur?) that we're not raising children, we're raising adults. (Too many in our society are raising children, which is why they continue to live in mom's basement, play video games all night , and sleep all day.) If you want kids to learn to become adults, it helps for them to spend more time around adults and less around large masses of feral brats.