“My public schooled kids shrug off your insult...”
I didn't say anything about your public-schooled children.
I spoke about public schoolchildren in the aggregate. Although having you as a parent likely badly handicaps them, it's possible that they are above average for publicly-schooled children.
If you cannot distinguish between statistics that apply to large groups and the facts of individual persons, then your public-schooled children are fortunate that you don't homeschool them, as they would not go far.
“suggest
that perhaps your kids are weenies who get beat up and can't cut it in the real world.”
My homeschooled children do well enough in the “real world.”
My eighth grade son is currently taking one course - sophomore-level Honors Latin II - at a local Catholic high school at the invitation of the school's administration, to persuade him to attend full-time next year (it worked - he'll be starting full-time in the fall). He's in a class with about 15 10th graders. There was some initial teasing and such at the beginning of the school year. This was aggravated in part by the fact that he's one of the top three students in the class, and I guess it made some of the 10th graders uncomfortable being shown up by an eighth grader. But he deftly handled it with his usual humor and charm, and is well-liked by his fellow students - all two years older than him. They accept him as a peer.
Academically, he just completed the National Latin Exam, and was one of the three students in the class to score at the highest level nationwide. Ironically, the other two of the top three were also both homeschooled through eighth grade.
But I guess that's a comparatively easy place to make it - most of the young men at this high school came from Catholic schools, and there aren't too many thugs among them.
For that experience, my son was in baseball camp during the summer, mostly with a public-schooled crowd. Except for a couple of stupid little public school morons, he got along well with his peers. The little morons, well, they stopped giving him a bad time after he gave them a little taste of what they could look forward to if they'd have persisted.
“See how that works both ways?”
Yes, my son can kick the snot out of most kids both academically and physically. And has done both.
“When you learn to praise your kids without slamming mine, we can talk.”
When you learn to distinguish between statistical comparisons of groups and insults aimed at particular individuals, you'll be worth talking to.
Until then, don't go away mad, just go away.
sitetest
Sure you did, just today. Remember?
homeschooled children do better than public school students
That was you, Zippy.
Except for a couple of stupid little public school morons
There you go again, proving my point.
You have to bad-mouth normally educated kids to make yours look good.
We laugh at your hot-house pansies.