Public School: Prison for patriots. (drug, military, high school, education)
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I've yet to meet a homeschooler who wasn't "off" in some way or other. It does not produce socially well-adjusted people.
I agree, homeschoolers are always just a little weird. They make me think of the movie Blast from the Past with Brendan Frasier where he played the character that had been locked in the bomb shelter with his parents for a long time. I have also found that they don't have the skills to deal with the diversity of thought they will find in the real world. You don't get a good result when you shelter a child away from everyone that doesn't agree 100% with the parent's worldview during their critical formative years.
These same reasons are why many employers have a policy against hiring anybody that was homeschooled.
I have also found that they don't have the skills to deal with the diversity of thought they will find in the real world. You don't get a good result when you shelter a child away from everyone that doesn't agree 100% with the parent's worldview during their critical formative years.
Yeah the school I went to for undergrad was pretty popular with homeschoolers and most of them wound up not being able to handle the sudden freedom. Several I know developed real bad drug problems, a couple I spent considerable time and resources trying to help. It's probably fine for someone who's going to go from the home environment to somewhere where your life is going to be as tightly managed such as the military, but just dumping kids out in the real world all willy-nilly and forcing them to develop a new support structure without the skills to do so is just setting them up for failure.
I know alot of home schooled kids organize various trips and other activities for each other where I live, and then most of these more structured home schooled kids go on to private, or otherwise top notch public schools, to gain the extra curricular activities and social development in high school and preparation for college.
Of course, there is no guarantee you will get a better education when home schooled, and during those formative teen years, enrollment in high school is what the better parents opt for for their children.
Public schools in America (with FEW exceptions) have become breeding grounds for degeneracy, drug use, gang initiations, disrespect and increasingly ignorant kids
Proceed carefully
As breakup of the family continues in earnest, a parent increasingly looks to the public school as a tool to raise the child.... it ain't working
I don't have many complaints about the public schools I attended. I certainly don't think they were hostile to religious or patriotic kids - at least a couple of the extracurricular groups were religious in nature, and we had a JROTC chapter.
Public schools tend to be reflections of the communities around them. No more and no less.
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