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Originally Posted by njbchbum
senior - Do you not know anyone who currently home schools their children and provides them with a real life orientation to same rather than to the one that mandates how they learn and limits what they learn? My niece home schools and her son is HARDLY a carbon copy and unaware of the thinking and actions of others! Matter of fact, as a challenged individual - he is even more aware of the narrow mindedness and slings and arrows of many in our society! He says he has more compassion for those folks than he does for kids challenged as he is! Whaddya think about that for a home schooled 14 yr old?
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""Well, we all did send our children to learn to think for themselves, didn't we?""
""If the idea was just to have a carbon copy of ourself""......
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I believe I was responding to the first part of the message; not necessarily the home schooling part..........
Overly strict parents can still send their kids to public school while raising them in a "vacuum" at home.......
Actually, I've only known one family that home schooled their five children........who all turned out beautifully......however, not sure if they are truly prepared for college........as music was the primary focus. They were devout Catholics, lived a rural existence and probably wanted to shelter them from the public school system. Very polite nice teenagers now. Very helpful.
Again, not that familiar with home schooling......
Your niece's son sounds like a remarkable young man.
In all fairness to us, when our two kids were at the university, both in their junior years.......they each wrote a letter to myself and my husband, thanking us for the way we raised them, saying that everything they achieved they owed to us.........and then again, similar notes were given to us at their weddings, thanking us for all the love and support we gave them growing up.......and for "staying together" when many of their friends came from broken homes. Both have achieved success in their careers and with their own families...........so I guess public schools were fine, even though they learned to "think for themselves".........let's put it that way. They knew they had a stable home life growing up, but we also gave them "wings" to fly..........a balancing act.