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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]mimitabby
(1,832 posts)14. home schooling is not for everyone who WANTS IT
Unfortunately, in my family several members are home schooling. At this point, for some of them the jury is out. But i can already see that people who did not learn math in school (because they didn't go!!) shouldn't be teaching kids math.
People who hate school shouldn't be home schooling.
So it came to the point where the 19 year old son was still somewhere about 10th grade level. so he quit. he actually found a job.
None of the other kids are old enough yet, that's why the jury is still out. But these are the kind of women who tell their little kids to shut up when they say "why is the sky blue mommy? " "what is this what is that?"
they are growing up ignorant and naive. and being taught by a person who HATES to be their teacher.
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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