Comments on: Homeschooling or state schooling? http://bellagerens.com/2009/03/14/homeschooling-or-state-schooling/ inde vides agilem bella gerentem Tue, 07 Feb 2012 12:01:37 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: _Felix http://bellagerens.com/2009/03/14/homeschooling-or-state-schooling/comment-page-1/#comment-220 _Felix Sun, 15 Mar 2009 19:45:22 +0000 http://bellagerens.wordpress.com/?p=163#comment-220 Haha, "on the one hand ... on the other hand". Yep. Dennis is wrong about socialization. I was home educated, and the parents form networks and organize meetings and holidays and visits so that their kids can hang out with the other kids. One of my good home-ed friends is from a huge family under a fundamentalist Christian patriarch, but is an atheist, I suspect as a result of growing up around another one of my home-ed friends, whose dad is a socialist anarchist. "What about the socialization" is what everybody always says, and it preys on the minds of home-ed parents. I might have been happier with a bit less of it sometimes. Oh, but I enjoyed the peer-pressure and corruption. Haha, “on the one hand … on the other hand”. Yep.

Dennis is wrong about socialization. I was home educated, and the parents form networks and organize meetings and holidays and visits so that their kids can hang out with the other kids. One of my good home-ed friends is from a huge family under a fundamentalist Christian patriarch, but is an atheist, I suspect as a result of growing up around another one of my home-ed friends, whose dad is a socialist anarchist.

“What about the socialization” is what everybody always says, and it preys on the minds of home-ed parents. I might have been happier with a bit less of it sometimes. Oh, but I enjoyed the peer-pressure and corruption.

]]> By: Dennis http://bellagerens.com/2009/03/14/homeschooling-or-state-schooling/comment-page-1/#comment-219 Dennis Sun, 15 Mar 2009 09:48:52 +0000 http://bellagerens.wordpress.com/?p=163#comment-219 "On the one hand, I see the dangers inherent in filling children with dogma they’re discouraged from questioning. On the other hand, I see the dangers inherent in filling children with dogma they’re discouraged from questioning." Bloody right, too! The only thing that bothers me about home schooling is the reduced opportunity for socialization; but that must be countered with the reduced exposure to all sorts of vile peer-pressure and corruption. A neighbour has home-schooled her two and they're super kids, well balanced and educated, much nicer than the little monsters on the school bus. BTW you should see if you can find an email address for this fuckwitted hypocrite and send him the link. “On the one hand, I see the dangers inherent in filling children with dogma they’re discouraged from questioning. On the other hand, I see the dangers inherent in filling children with dogma they’re discouraged from questioning.”

Bloody right, too!

The only thing that bothers me about home schooling is the reduced opportunity for socialization; but that must be countered with the reduced exposure to all sorts of vile peer-pressure and corruption. A neighbour has home-schooled her two and they’re super kids, well balanced and educated, much nicer than the little monsters on the school bus.

BTW you should see if you can find an email address for this fuckwitted hypocrite and send him the link.

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