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> Your crassness(spelled correctly) is forgiven,

You might have noticed, Ray, that I spelled 'positive' as 'posiive' just 
below that which I would assume a reasonable person to pass off as a typo.  
There 
are those who think informal blather on a list should be proofread as if it 
were being submitted for publication.  Obviously  I am not one of those 
people.

> > In general, the only problem I have with homeschooled children is the 
> lack of social skills demonstrated by many (not all) I have known.   I have 
> voiced this before, and have had many of you tell me that this is 
> irrelevant.  

Not irrelevant.  I don't know of many if any homeschoolers who say it is 
irrelvelant, just the opposite.  Our family physician whose nine children 
were 
homeschooled is wont to tell how when people bring up the objection about 
'socialization', his reply is "My point exactly."

In general, in fact in just about all cases, homeschoolers are known for 
their quiet, polite, adultlike demeanor.  In public they are in sharp 
contrast to 
the shove and compete mentality of the government schooled.  Many, many, many 
times people have approached us in public and said, "Your children are 
homeschooled, aren;t they, we could tell because they are so well behaved."

What usually passes for 'lack of socialization' is in reality a lack of 
schooling operant conditioning.  Sure, homeschooled children don't socialize 
on the 
same terms as children do in schooling situations, thank God.  The only 
institutions that operate on the same social mores as government schools are 
prisons.  No thanks.