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[rayzentz AT aim.com]

 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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