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?
Exactly! Parents, you're raising your kids to be adults, not perpetual children, so what is the best way to do that? If you want your children to be mature, then most of their time should be spent with mature people whom you would want them to emulate. When my daughter babysits, she can always tell the days that the kids have been in preschool, because they are cranky, rebellious, and mean to their younger siblings. Kids in herds sink to the level of the worst kid in the group. The society of schools resemble those of maximum security prisons.
Of all the reasons to homeschool, socialization is at the top.
Why, for spending their entire day in a social group of people born the same year they were, that's what.
Socializing for accepting the NEA's agenda as regards sexuality, politics, and general world view. Socializing that will help them understand how stupid and out-of-date their parents are. Socializing that will allow them to make fool use (excuse me, I meant full use!) of their NEA-approved lessons on how to put on a condom.
Socializing to encourage them they must always do their best to be like their peers, and to emulate really deep personalities -- like Britney Spears. Conform to the same kinds of dress, same kinds of behavior, etc.
Socializing that will accustom them to accept groupthink, foolishness and disdain for learning as normal and natural.
Socializing in how to have your self-esteem assaulted by a$$h0l#s on a daily basis and accept that as normal. Socializing in how we ought to punish people for "violating" the stupidest of zero-tolerance rules -- such as throwing an honor student out of high school for talking a fellow student out of a suicide attempt and retrieving her knife to take home to give to mom and dad.
After all, what better preparation could we give them for, say, political leadership? Or for service on the local school bored?
"Socializing" is an NEA codeword for "being indoctrinated to accept current politically-correct viewpoints regarding race, gender, and the role of the almighty Government in solving all life's little problems"
The NEA knows they can't compete with homeschooling on classic academic grounds, yet cannot allow any children to completely escape indoctrination if they want to achieve their goals of bringing Socialism to America. Leftist doctrine cannot stand being subjected to reasoned argument, which means they cannot allow a pool of young people who might be able to point out the extent to which the emperor has no clothes