Fortunately, my son NEVER had a teacher with the arrogance/attitude of meandog. If he had, I would have found a way to pull him back out and homeschool again.
As I stated in a previous post, I'm very proud of how my son has turned out. He's very successful - been in management positions since his early 20's, happily married for over 15 years and is a joy to know. He's hardly the "social-misfit" that meandog constantly spouts about! I just wish that his Dad were still alive to see what a wonderful man he's grown up to be.
Dear 2nd amendment mama,
Congratulations on the wonderful way in which you fulfilled your vocation as a mother! I'm sorry for the difficulties you encountered, but it seems that they made you and your son better folks.
"And, oh yeah, I was told by the school psychologist who had to evaluate him that she'd never met a more well-adjusted boy that age, especially since he'd lost his father in the previous year!"
Having met a couple of hundred homeschoolers so far in the last seven or eight years since we began to research the idea, I can say that your son was just a typical homeschooler.
Homeschooled children are almost invariably a joy to be around. Not segregated off with 20 or 30 or 40 kids of precisely the same age, they get along well with folks of any age. They're helpful and kind to younger children, enjoy their peers, mix easily with older children, and are respectful of adults and obedient to proper authority.
In our circle, it's a real joy when a few homeschool families get together, and you see six or ten of twenty children or mixed ages all having a great time together. I'm the "chess coach," and today was chess club. We had eight children (it varies from about six to 20), ages 7 to 14. A very good, happy, trouble-free, raucous time was had by all (yes, our chess club gatherings can get a little... boisterous, LOL).
"Fortunately, my son NEVER had a teacher with the arrogance/attitude of meandog."
Fortunately, I think that total misanthropes like meandog are rare, even among public school teachers. I spent three years in public schools as a child, and only remember two teachers as mean and abusive as meandog. Most of the rest were lazy, stupid, jaded, condescending, ill-educated, fearful of intelligent students, burned-out, or otherwise wrecked, but only two where truly abusive. And I had two teachers who were genuinely good teachers.
I really think that meandog is the exception.
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