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To: Jaysun; 2Jedismom; SpookBrat; Fidgit; Carry_Okie
**The article brings up the valid point that children who are home schooled aren't always exposed to other boys or men **

I strongly disagree. It has been my experience parents who home educate do NOT isolate their children from others or the community as a whole. Quite the opposite.

I've home educated for almost 9 years and am administrator for a private school *for* home schoolers...not a charter. Private home schoolers are active in their community and actually have fathers involved in their everyday life, instruction and character molding.

While at an Art Museum field trip a few months ago (with a few mothers and children - 5 of which were teen boys), a gentleman (I use that term loosely) came up to the boys and shared how sorry he was they were home schooled, that being with their mommies all day was akin to abuse and they'd turn out weird.

His comments were made in total ignorance, as are the comments made by the psychobabble 'professional' in this article, imo.

116 posted on 02/27/2004 6:47:42 AM PST by mrs tiggywinkle
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To: mrs tiggywinkle
From what I can tell, the experience of this professional has been colored by the fact that he has had a disproportionate interest in his services from home schooling parents.

This indicates contributing factors having nothing to do with the relative propensity for a home educated child to exhibit homosexual behavior (and I note that there was NO mention of lesbian children at all). Home schooling parents are much more likely to notice potentially aberrant behavior and act upon it early. Home schooling parents are also competing with Catholic schools (I pulled my kids out of a church school because of the same liberal stupidity that is rampant in public schools). Finally, psychologists have very little experience with children whose social interactions are across a wide age spectrum and tend to view the massive chronological stratification practiced in the mass-production education system as "normal," (which is a weird idea on the face of it).

129 posted on 02/27/2004 7:51:01 AM PST by Carry_Okie (There are people in power who are truly evil.)
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