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In reply to the discussion: Salon: Home-schooled and illiterate - for some kids it means isolation with little education [View all]sinkingfeeling
(51,457 posts)12. I worry more about the social 'isolation' that so many of the religiously
home schooled live in. It seems to me that some fundamentalist churches even seek to limit all contact to those within the church. The mega-churches want to furnish everything and provide all socialization to their members.
So if, say, a group like the Duggar family, decides that girls above the age of 13 need no futher education in math, history, languages, etc., and they have no 'outside' contact, the whole belief structure is just passed on and on. Of course th Duggars aren't 'isolated' because they're big TV stars and have a ton of outside contact with the real world.
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Salon: Home-schooled and illiterate - for some kids it means isolation with little education [View all]
Amerigo Vespucci
Mar 2012
OP
My problem is my client is being punished for homeschooling (to the best of her ability).
no_hypocrisy
Mar 2012
#22
This isn't so much a home schooling issue as it is a religious fanaticism issue.
teewrex
Mar 2012
#8
I worry more about the social 'isolation' that so many of the religiously
sinkingfeeling
Mar 2012
#12