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Originally Posted by njbchbum
Is that really what you think home schooling is?
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It's a large part of it. There were many, many home schoolers in west MI. It was all in large part about isolating the children from society and the things they might pick up from other kids at school. Parts of the area (Holland, MI, for example) had entire neighborhoods of the same religion. If you weren't part of that, their kids were not allowed to play with you. Realtors warned us and others away from certain areas when we moved there in the late '80s. They were almost all Christian Reformed or other extremely conservative religions in that area.
I used to go to buy sheet music from a store that sold home-schooling materials. Frequently there would be mothers there with all of their children. It was like you just let your dog free on the beach. They didn't know how to act in public. And I knew adults who grew up in such social isolation and were raising their children in the same manner. Carbon copies.
IMO the only good thing that comes out of home schooling is possibly a better education.
OK, ready for the storm of protest... But this is my opinion from having lived in the midst of the situation.