You must've skimmed my posts. I was referring to observations of many of them being odd, weird, etc. I'm actually a proponent for homeschooling. I'm just not a freak about it being the perfect way to go like some seem to believe. Also, I was making an observation. I've also seen some very wonderful homeschooled children. We had a young man come speak before my D.A.R. group (a homeschooled young man)and he was so articulate, eloquent, etc. I loved the kid.
The only reason I even posted comments on this is I USED to be all gung ho about homeschooling and the truth is if my son was small now, I'd probably go that route (okay, here's my but monkey), but....... all these people I know who have been homeschooling their kids now have older kids and I started noticing a little trend with many of them (note the key word here - "many")and that is why I mentioned it.
For whatever it's worth.
Just so you know where I stand.
Oh, no, I understand completely. There are a lot of people here who "support homeschooling, but..."
The other guy said he was "worried" about his nieces and nephews and that he "fears" for them so much that he cannot even bring himself to discuss it in detail. In the end, it turns out he just thinks they're "odd".
As neither of you can specifically tell us what you mean by "odd", I can only guess it's the same way the unpopular kids in school are seen as "odd". The kids who, back in my day, were called "nerds".
For example, homeschooled kids don't always wear the latest fads in clothes or haircuts, and generally they don't seem to care what the other kids are wearing, either. And usually they don't have the same mannerisms as schoolkids do - that's a given. I have yet to see a homeschool teen greet another with, "Yo, yo, whazzup," for example.
So I'm sure other people do see those things as "odd". That's all I can figure out.