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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]I've known a lot of homeschooled kids and most of them are at least as well educated as their, um, school-schooled counterparts. But there are exceptions. My wife is a piano teacher and one of her students is supposedly homeschooled, but in reality, doesn't appear to be receiving any education at all. He is 9 years old and barely able to read and write. The mother is a middle-class bohemian type who thinks that actually teaching him stuff would stifle her little darling's creativity, and his father is no longer in the picture. He is a bright kid, and I think what she is doing is a form of abuse.
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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