.. so actually learning and being surrounding by family and friends is bad because...?
Posted on 04/12/2002 11:17:07 AM PDT by hsmomx3
You have been observed uttering slanderous lies about the Good Things and GoodThinkers which make up the very fabric of America.
Please report for arraignment before the People's Democratic Court.
If you ignore this directive, you will be declared an enemy of the state.
cc Directorate of Crimethink Control.
there is also German in me, so that should be quite enough "cultural diversity"
ROTFLMAO
PS: You needed to add a gag alert to this. (GRIN)
"State-approved curricula?" In other words, pro homo propaganda, multiculturalist, Christian bashing, anti-American, feminist, DemonRAT-socialist junk!
And no one with knowledge of the NEA believes that the NEA really wants parental involvement. What the NEA desires is parents paying higher and higher taxes to keep the "public school" monstrosity afloat.
Let's Help Nail the Teachers Unions -- It is National FReep Time (replies 14, 18 and 23)
For those without the knowledge of the NEA:
"Teacher Unions and Parent Involvement" (http://www.educationpolicy.org/EPIseries/parent-bklt.htm)
"Grading the NEA - What Every Teacher Needs to Know About The National Education Association: A Special Report" (http://www.family.org/gradingthenea/news/a0012243.html)
The myth of socialization: Kyle Williams debunks lies about home-schooling
To: JohnHuang2
In 1994, the US Department of Education conducted a review of the available studies concerned with the socialization of homeschooled children. For the purposes of their review, they defined 'socialization' in the context of interpersonal and communications skills. While they admit that further research is needed (realize this report is from 1994), their conclusions shatter the myth. Remember, this is from the US DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION!
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Another socialization-related accusation faced by home educators is that of overprotecting their children from the real world. If this is true, however, at least one researcher (Bliss, 1989) does not consider this to be a serious problem. She argues that "Protection during early, developmental years for purposes of nurturing and growth is evident in many arenas: plant, animal, and aquatic. Why should it be considered wrong or bad in the most vital arena, human development?"Stough (1992),looking particularly at socialization, compared 30 home-schooling families and 32 conventionally schooling families, families with children 7-14 years of age. According to the findings, children who were schooled at home "gained the necessary skills, knowledge, and attitudes needed to function in society...at a rate similar to that of conventionally schooled children." The researcher found no difference in the self concept of children in the two groups. Stough maintains that "insofar as self concept is a reflector of socialization, it would appear that few home-schooled children are socially deprived, and that there may be sufficient evidence to indicate that some home-schooled children have a higher self concept than conventionally schooled children."
This echoes the findings of Taylor (1987). Using one of the best validated self-concept scales available, Taylor's random sampling of home-schooled children (45,000) found that half of these children scored at or above the 91st percentile--47% higher than the average, conventionally schooled child. He concludes: "Since self concept is considered to be a basic dynamic of positive sociability, this answers the often heard skepticism suggesting that home schoolers are inferior in socialization" (Taylor, 1987).
From the findings of these two studies, it would appear that the concerns expressed by teachers, administrators, and legislators about socialization and home schooling might be unfounded. Indeed, Bliss (1989) contends that it is in the formal educational system's setting that children first experience negative socialization, conformity, and peer pressure. According to her, "This is a setting of large groups, segmented by age, with a variation of authority figures...the individual, with his/her developmental needs, becomes overpowered by the expectations and demand of others--equal in age and equally developmentally needy."
Webb (1989), one of the few researchers who has examined aspects of the adult lives of wholly or partly home-educated people, found that all who had attempted higher education were successful and that their socialization was often better than that of their schooled peers.
------------------------------The bottom line is this: Problems with 'socialization' was a myth create and spread by groups like the NEA who have an economic and political incentive to discredit homeschooling. Since 1994, the Department of Education has had pursuasive evidence that homeschooled children are equally or better socialized than their public school peers - yet, the myth continues.
88 posted on 4/29/02 11:13 AM Pacific by Pete
Well, Bob Chase -- care to comment?
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