rachel46 wrote:
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want to try to avoid homeschooling her just so she can have more experience out in the world
As the mom of a homeschooled 10 year old boy (our 2nd year of homeschooling btw after 4 years of public school) I am compelled to go off topic here because comments like this make me crazy. The perception that homeschooled kids don't "Experience the world" is ludicruous. I would argue that maybe some of them get a chance to experience more of the world than kids who sit in a school building for 6 hours a day. If the perception that many misinformed people have of homeschooling is ever going to change then blanket statements like homeschooled kids aren't socialized or don't experience the world need to end.
I have a son who is HFA and has been homeschooled since day 1. Unfortunately, he does not have much experience in the outside world. He doesn't want it and I don't force it. I am (self-diagnosed) AS and I too have very little interest in the outside world. Homeschool coops and get-togethers are a form of torture for me. So in our case, putting my daughter in school would indeed yield more experience in the outside world.
I am well aware that there are homeschooled children who are heavily socialized. My "blanket statement" was in fact an individualized statement about my family and my experience.
03 Jan 2008, 1:29 pm
