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I mean wider social values as opposed to only being exposed to their immediate nuclear family members. Amish people have high expectations of being community minded within their community and not insular within their household.

Edited, Mar 12th 2008 5:07pm by Annabella

I think that many of them are fundamentalists; I think you are right about what you are saying. But some aren't plugged into small communities and some fundamentalist families overvalue their privacy. There are alot of weirdo survivalist types out there too who hate government institutions and don't want their child educated in a public school system. I was also contending that I don't get people's contention about the benefits of parents who want to have total control over their child. I think kids and families are already too isolated and it just exacerbates it.

I love how you toss your assumptions out there and insist that I must disprove them all, while never actually checking your own position.

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Maybe *you* should have spent some time on google first? Just a thought...

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When do these start?

The quotes were from a study. Where else am I to look? I haven't yet found any sites even claiming anything other then that homeschooled students outperform public school students. And yeah, most are going to be advocacy sites, but that's because homeschooling is actually better...

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I just don't know how anyone can argue against homeschooling in terms of student performance and education quality. Every number runs in the exact opposite direction...

I just don't know how anyone can argue against homeschooling in terms of student performance and education quality. Every number runs in the exact opposite direction...

Wait a minute, you mean every study conducted by an advocacy group with a self selected sample set ends up scoring above the mean of the entire range of public school scores including children with brain injuries and Down's Syndrome?? The hell you say!

My children grew up in a city known for it's poor schools with very low expectations that anything can improve them. Instead of looking at moving into a area I couldn't afford or home school my girls, I sent them to public school and then spent as much time as I could at their schools helping out in any way I could.

Biggest reason I didn't consider home schooling or a private school over the local school system was that I knew I couldn't provide the services they would need with language skills. Few private school have the level of reading and speech specialists, I knew they would need. Those that do around here expect the state had agree that the local system is unable to provide the level of service a child needs, so will cover their costs and charged $30.000 a year back 15 years ago.

On top of spending time in the schools, I also made sure my children had access to as many books, music, the public library, museums and any other cultural experience I could expose them too. Nothing was censored or made pretty just because they were young. Instead we talked about what we saw and how it made us feel. This was how my parents raised me with an expectation that I learn to think for myself. If I was worry about what they were reading, or the music they listen to, I took the time to read and listen also. Since I watch news and science shows and dislike most sitcoms they know more about the world around them then most people in the USA. Note that I didn't say America since I didn't want to lump the rest of the countries with our lack of education.

Today my girls each will tell you, that they learn far more at home then in school. Sure it would have been nice to have a lot of the material things their friends had, if I had instead put my time into having a career and rarely had time for them. Instead they have something that money couldn't buy them, love and care from a mother who taught them the love of learning and thinking for themselves. Plus how many moms can say their kids actually enjoy taking them to a club or concert with their friends. I can also say many of their stranger friends are folks, that I had met years before, they ever introduce them to me.

edit due to fact I expect to make language and spelling errors and proud of fact that Dyslexic people are know to be smarter then kids that do well in normal classroom.

Edited, Mar 12th 2008 8:15pm by ElneClare

He could at least use google scholar for @#%^'s sake, it's one extra click. Even if what you're linking does relate in a round about way to an actual peer reviewed study, when you're linking to a freshman sociology class project that uses home schooling advocacy groups as one of a whole six works cited, it doesn't exactly lend credibility to your point of view.


Don't be silly, it has equal weight as anything else. "One study says this, one says that, the truth must be in the middle".

Ahahahahahaha. I need 100 delicious cigarettes.

since it's been shown in numerous studies that home schooled children are disproportionately more active in a civic sense, a much larger percentage vote, volunteer, etc.

More active than whom? Because unless it's more active than kids with stay at home parents who go to public schools it's pretty ******* useless. Gee, home schooled kids are more likely to volunteer than kids who get bused to empty houses? Useful.

Sorry, I meant later in life, after graduation. Previously home schooled adults have been shown to volunteer, be active politically, etc, than previously publicly schooled adults. Most other things are about the same. Of course, this is of those surveyed, which, as I've mentioned in my concern before, are going to be the ones that aren't being schooled by crazy shut ins (who are surely the minority, but there you have it).

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I could not find a single site that supports your argument. Every single one that mentioned the relative performance of kids said that homeschooled kids statistically outperformed public school kids.


Wow, I'm shocked. You only found sites that supported your argument, how shocking.


Do your own damn research if you think I'm wrong. C'mon. You know I'm right. Smash knows I'm right. Every single person reading this thread knows I'm right. Yet you still refuse to acknowledge it...

Haha. No. I'm sure in Gbajidreamland it seems that way, but really, the fact that homeschooling is popular on the internet doesn't make you right any more than it makes Ron Paul the GOP nominee.

As usual, you've made an unfounded assertion based on nothing, it's not other people's responsibility to prove it wrong somehow. It's your job to support it.

The default position is that you're lying. It's become that way based on years of your behavior. It's not my fault.