[anniegetyourgun]

I can't believe my eyes. A journalist who has broken through all the myths of homeschooling. Will wonders never cease?

[B Knotts]

"Socialization is a non-issue. Kids aren't born in a litter. Why do we have to raise them that way?" Schurke said.

Exactly!

I don't see why some people can't understand that there is nothing natural or necessary about herding a child with several thousand others of the same chronological age.

[IronJack]

Once again, the market speaks. Freed from the coerced monopoly of public schools, the educational system may finally be free to actually teach children, instead of serving as collection agencies for NEA union money.

And once again, that pesky Constitution subverts the cultural cancer of the Left.

[avg_freeper]

When I worked at a wind tunnel research laboratory I often conducted tours for homeschooled and high school kids.

The homeschooled kids were the only group that ever seemed engaged in the tour. Polite, intelligent, and obviously sociable kids.

[Greeklawyer]

The socialization argument is a case of the tail wagging the dog.
It arrives out of day care "socializing".

The people who put their children in day care need to
justify their decision.
It is an excuse also used to justify absentee parenting.
Remember when latchkey kids were good because they learned responsibility?
The academics who publish such studies, (publish or perish),
are able to sell their conclusions to a receptice audience.
(ie I would like a gov grant to show the benefits of daycare.
vs a grant to show harm of day care)

I see parental involvment as the seperating factor between home and public schooling.
If taken to its revolutionary extreme, if public school parents
start getting involved in public school curicula
the teacher's unions are in trouble for encouraging mediocre performance.

By the way: "socializing" for what?

[TxBec]

ping

[GuillermoX]

Why would one want to have their kids "socialized" among the amoral anyways...

[PatrioticAmerican]

Bump to real education!

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[DennisR]

I even heard Michael Savage last night putting homeschoolers down because they are, in his mind, not socially adjusted. Okay, Michael, so are you saying that putting kids into government schools is better for them? You cannot have it both ways. And how did humanity survive before government schools? There was a time--not that long ago--when kids grew up on farms in this country and had nowhere near the social activity they have today. And I dare say that those with less social activity were a lot healthier than what we see today.

[glockmeister40]

I think community colleges are helping to put more nails in the coffin of the NEA/public education system. They are offering college level courses for homeschooled students who are ready for the coursework at age 14-15.

Of course community colleges also offer remedial courses for the NEA-educated public high school graduates.

[FreedomPoster]

"Socialization is a non-issue. Kids aren't born in a litter. Why do we have to raise them that way?"

ROFLOL bump! That needs to go into a counter-arguments list somewhere, to be used every time the goobermint skool idjuts bring out the "homeschoolers miss out on socialization" argument. That is great!

[VOA]

bump!

[parsifal]

Yes. But do they know the words to Rob Zombie songs? parsy.