[Sonny M]

One of my friends is a teacher. He was talking about socialization with home schooled kids, and trying to spit out the Union garnage. I simply asked him if kids could get the social skills if they were, entered into the boy scouts, in little league, girl scouts, pee-wee football, altar boys or church choir (no pedophile jokes here), community service, a job, youth hockey, the Y.M.C.A. gym, youth sports leagues, becoming a memeber of Free Republic (okay just kidding about the last one), etc. At the point he just addmitted that the Union told him to always condemn home schooling, and to talk about socialization since there can't be any effective studies to measure it and people usually assume that home schooled kids will be worse off anyway.

[TxBec]

becoming a memeber of Free Republic (okay just kidding about the last one), etc.

Hey, don't knock it. My son wants to register and I think I will let him in the next couple of weeks (with me monitoring of course). We should start a forum for homeschooled kids : )

[homeschool mama]

Socialization, huh?

Hmmm...I'd rather my child be civilized than socialized.

[TomSmedley]

and to talk about socialization since there can't be any effective studies to measure it and people usually assume that home schooled kids will be worse off anyway.

My MS Thesis Social Maturity of Home School Children: A Communication Approach used to be posted at http://members.aol.com/tomsmedley but AOL lost my web site. The paper survived review, and has been quoted in several books, radio interviews, etc.