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To: Diva Betsy Ross

A little off topic: I don't know your plans for your kids, but what if the home schooling background carries with it a stigma in the larger world?


280 posted on 06/19/2005 10:27:28 AM PDT by durasell (Friends are so alarming, My lover's never charming...)
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To: durasell
oThis is an honest answer, I don't want you to think I am being snarky.

Throughout my life I have never been concerned with judgment of other upon my beliefs or my actions, and I raise my children to feel the same way. IF they start to show me that is not something they are capable of doing RE:homeschooling I will re-evaluate it at that point.

As it stands now my children are happy with the choices we have made and I am happy with the choices we have made.

I don't know of one successful person in history who has been shaped or driven by society's stigmas. I know my kids will be successful in life no matter where they learn.

BTW- if those stigmas are out there, I have not experienced one of them- other than from my ultra liberal out of touch in laws.

We treat people with respect, no matter their choices- and we almost always get the same in return.

As far as Stigma goes, if for example my boys can not "rock the world" of an employer, or a lady they may be interested in dating, or a person they wish to be friends with, who may place a stigma upon my children for being homeschooled... then I have not done my job, and I think I do my job very well.

283 posted on 06/19/2005 10:44:05 AM PDT by Diva Betsy Ross (Code pink stinks!)
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