Re: home schooling | <– Date –> <– Thread –> |
From: Jennifer S. Stevens (jstevensccsi.com) | |
Date: Sun, 7 Mar 1999 15:15:31 -0600 |
On Sat, 6 Mar 1999, Virginia Moreland wrote: > > Incidentally, home-schooling families are NOT always right-wing > conservative fundamentalists and the like. At least here in the Southeast, > they are often highly educated, progressive, liberal folks who just are not > satisfied with the education they can get for their kids in the public > schools. The same goes for the parents of kids in the independent schools > that I mentioned in my earlier note. I'd like to second this. My husband and his sister were homeschooled for several years out in the boonies of southern Utah, and their parents were certainly not conservative. His father and stepmother are now sending their kids to a Waldorf school. While I don't know if I would do that myself (money is a big factor), I respect their decision, and the kids seem quite happy and well adjusted. Personally, I'm dubious as to how much socialization public schools (or schools at all) are good for. On one hand, there is brutal reality (ie society at large). On the other hand, adults have a fair amount of how much or which sorts of brutal reality they wish to endure. I hated middle school, and barely tolerated high school. Several of my friends feel the same way; we didn't find people that were on our wavelength until college and graduate school. Maybe some of that is also just the maturation process. But I think there could be much worse things than for kids to become socialized through a co-housing community that includes people of all ages.. jen stevens
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