They say that the big disadvantage of Home Schooling is that the kid will miss out on the "socialization" that is available at government schools. Who really thinks that's a loss?
Public school socialization consists of primarily two things:
1)Learning how to avoid bullies or accept being their punching bag because you are not allowed to defend yourself.
2)Learning how to march in lock step with socialist mediocrity and get a diploma for reading at a 6th grade level.
If you can’t learn to do these, here’s your prescription for Ritalin.
We home schooled and are damn proud of it. The kid did go to 5th grade. When one of Obama’s daughters was bullying her I told her to wait until no one could see it and then wallop the crap out of the girl. She did, problem solved.
I had a lengthy discussion with a teacher about our homeschooling our son. Her only retort that she was able to defend was that he would not be exposed to bullies, and therefore not know how to deal with one.
“The best they’ve come up with is to pile on and persecute the innocent kids while the Bullies laugh and wait their turn to get more licks in.”
Actually the goal of bullying in school is to replace the physical bullies with ideological bullies.
-—Schools have been trying to get a handle on the Bully thing forever
I’d say its been since the 60s when the ACLU attacked school discipline. When they say bullying is a problem, where are the teachers? You are right about government schools
The line for a long time has been, that if you want to simulate the public school socialization experience as a homeschooler, take your kid to the bathroom, swear, blow smoke in his face, beat him up, and steal his lunch money.