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Um... this article is insanely depressing, IMO. This is basically the stereotype I've been fighting for years... the girls I know who fit this little pattern are married or engaged. I'm the one who doesn't fit in - in homeschool circles because I was too into science, fantasy, that sort of thing.
I'm with you.
We homeschool and my boys have lots of friends. Isolation is something we have purposely avoided.
We are enrolled in classes outside the home, play sports, and are very active in our communities, families and church.
I can't express the happiness I felt when, a couple of months ago, my grown son (who's VERY social, very balanced, and a wonderful young man - can you tell I'm proud of him?) gave me a hug and said, "Mom, I'm really glad you homeschooled me."
I'm very pro-homeschooling, but I don't agree with isolating the kids.
Clare is different, but it's not because she is homeschooled. We decided to homeschool precisely BECAUSE she was different. She never had friends in school because she was never into the stupid silliness of the girls in her class. She wasn't into the clothes, hair, music, boys and stuff like that when she was in 5th 6th and 7th grades, so she felt like a real outcast. When we started homeschooling, she met other kids and they all developed a similar interest Japanese Anime and things like that, so she felt more 'at home'.
I found it depressing and uplifting at the same time. Depressing because it touts only the home schooling Christian. Uplifting because home schooled kids are magnificently different.
I have home schooled for 12 years. My eldest at home wanted to go to public high school. We let her. She’s an honor roll student and different—she thinks her peers are idiots. We don’t go to church. I believe in God and her father is an agnostic.