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  • From: rayzentz AT aim.com
  • To: homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [Homestead] Schools
  • Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2006 01:39:29 -0500


If it was merely a typo, I apologize for the presumption.

Also, I have had, on many occasions, people comment on the good behavior of
our children. I don't credit this to school, but rather our expectations as
active and involved parents. Which leads me to the original reply I made on
this thread in the first place. Education of children, whether or not it is
public, private, home, or un, is dependent on active, involved parents. If
parents abdicate their responsibility to the public school, their children
will not experience success. If parents abdicate their responsibility at
home, there will be no success. My whole point is the PARENTS MUST BE
ACTIVELY INVOLVED. If you are, then you have my great respect and support.
If you aren't, then you have no business being parents at all.

Ray

-----Original Message-----
From: Clansgian AT wmconnect.com
To: homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org
Sent: Tue, 28 Nov 2006 5:50 PM
Subject: Re: [Homestead] Schools




> 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.



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