[Belial]

Your answers please?

1 - Homeschooled children usually get their point of view from a limited number of instructors. This can result in a diminished perspective.

2 - Homeschooled children can be socially awkward or effeminate, due to less peer exposure than other children.

[Brian Kopp DPM]

These are the typical and oft unproven and now disproven mantras of the government education establishment. Care to provide sources to prove your 2 points? (Anecdotal evidence is not proof.)

[Wordsmith]

Homeschooled children usually get their point of view from a limited number of instructors. This can result in a diminished perspective.

The study of literature, not to mention history, religion, philosophy, and so on, guarantees that children will be exposed to a wide range of points of view.

[Fred Mertz]

2 - Homeschooled children can be socially awkward or effeminate, due to less peer exposure than other children.

Homeschooled children don't get the opportunity to join the Trench Coat Mafia.

What's up with effeminate comment?

[Mensch]

1 - Homeschooled children usually get their point of view from a limited number of instructors. This can result in a diminished perspective.

So for that matter do traditionally schooled kids, the difference being traditionally schooled kids are gaining their perspectives from faculty which don't give a stoats bottom about them, and whose own perspectives are skewed by the State and self-interest.

2 - Homeschooled children can be socially awkward or effeminate, due to less peer exposure than other children.

What, no kids in your neighborhood? My kids get plenty of peer exposure through sports.

I'm curious, from whence did you gain your perspective on homeschoolers?

[jwh_Denver]

This can result in a diminished perspective.

Can result? Like as in maybe? Sounds to me you've already got it.

[pbear8]

Homeschooled children can be socially awkward or effeminate

Tell that to our big strapping 16 year old friend who is home schooled. HA! Quite manly and a great help to us working with at risk youth.

[Dec31,1999]

2 - Homeschooled children can be socially awkward or effeminate, due to less peer exposure than other children.

Being socially awkward can be an advantage in this society. I would hope my daughter turns out effeminate. :)

[RightOnline]

"1 - Homeschooled children usually get their point of view from a limited number of instructors. This can result in a diminished perspective.

2 - Homeschooled children can be socially awkward or effeminate, due to less peer exposure than other children."

As a dad of 7...........including 5 boys.............and head of a household that has been homeschooling for over 18 years, all I can say to this drivel is:

You CAN'T be serious. If you are, just say you aren't. While you're at it, tell my 6'1, 200 lb. oldest son who's about to take his commission in the Army (Army ROTC & National Guard simultaneously) how "effeminate" he is to his face. I'll pop some corn and watch.

[savedbygrace]

Prove your factless assertions. Show us the studies and statistics to back up your wild claims.

If you don't, we'll understand. We'll understand you are wrong, as well as wrong-headed. You public school education is showing for the whole world to see, and it ain't a pretty sight.

(As Will Rogers said, "A lot of people who ain't sayin' ain't, ain't eatin' as well as I am.")

[TxBec]

1 - Homeschooled children usually get their point of view from a limited number of instructors. This can result in a diminished perspective. I guess you haven't heard of co-ops and private instruction. My kids are taking piano from a neighbor who has been teaching privately for 20+ years and taking Taekwando from a former special forces soldier. Not to mention our co-op and the Boy Scouts. No isolation here. Most importantly, we have a closer relationship with them now and they are so much closer to each other. This will stay with them all their life.

2 - Homeschooled children can be socially awkward or effeminate, due to less peer exposure than other children.

The keyword here is CAN. So CAN those who attend PS or private schools, even with more peer exposure. I remember lots of "loners" at my huge school. It all depends on the individual child. One of my sons is very outgoing and one is more reserved and they both attended the same schools until we began homeschooling.

[jrherreid]

1 - Homeschooled children usually get their point of view from a limited number of instructors. This can result in a diminished perspective.

2 - Homeschooled children can be socially awkward or effeminate, due to less peer exposure than other children.

I was homeschooled. Just because I sometimes scream when I don't get my own way doesn't mean I'm antisocial. And if you don't see things my way, I'll scream, too.

As for effeminate... want to come over to my place?

[Spiff]

1 - Homeschooled children usually get their point of view from a limited number of instructors. This can result in a diminished perspective.

You're right! They need more exposure to marxist, homosexual, and atheist teachers. They need to be taught by big government-loving, anti-Christian red diaper doper babies grown up. They need to sit next to kids from broken, abusive homes and learn to share unnecessarily in their rebellion, anger, and disrespect. They need to mingle among drug-using, promiscuous, unparented peers. They need to learn the outright lies taught in schools under the guise of science, history, and social studies. They need access to in-school health clinics where they can receive, without parental knowledge or consent, birth control pills and/or condoms, instructions on how to masturbate, perform oral sex, or have anal sex with a same-sex partner, or receive a referral to an abortion clinic so that they can kill their unwanted child.

Yes, we certainly would never want to condemn our children to a "diminished perspective" by attempting to keep them away from these things.

[glory]

Homeschooled children can be socially awkward or effeminate, due to less peer exposure than other children

Well, I suppose if being socially awkward equals being able to relate to real life situations because you have been exposed to a wide variety of ages of folks instead of pigeonholed with people your own age, than I'll take it over the "social sophistication" of government schooled children anyday!

I suppose you consider most people throughout history socially awkward as well? After all, herding children with people of the EXACT same age is not exactly an age old tradition. Children were schooled together oftentimes, but it was with a wide range of ages of children and *gasp* they all usually only had ONE instructor(either a parent or a teacher hired by the community or a tutor).

[ijk]

1 - Homeschooled children usually get their point of view from a limited number of instructors. This can result in a diminished perspective.

Hmmmm, who says a 'broad perspective' is necessarily a good thing? A reasonably intelligent person can rigorously examine other perspectives from a distance and determine their efficacy, without immersing themselves in it. This is typical weakling talk void of any semblance of dignity and self-reliance. You don't need 'others' perspectives to THINK.

2 - Homeschooled children can be socially awkward or effeminate, due to less peer exposure than other children.

Show me the data (hint: you can't 'cause it ain't there).