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Originally Posted by Cowboy89
I think you way overestimate how bad being in a public/public catholic school is. Not to say there are not bad negative influences out there, but its not like whether or not your child ends up succoming to said influences is completely out of a parents control. Having well adjusted older siblings and parents to look up to doesn't only exist in a home-schooled environment (I suppose under your definition I wasn't well adjusted enough to serve as a good role model for my younger brother because I wasn't forced into a group-think education scheme by my parents, who obviously due to their Christian roots must be infalable!). Sometimes actually being able to see the compare/contrast between peers who are not the best role models and older siblings and parents who are could reinforce to a child as to actually why their family members make good role models. Growing up I've also seen a number of people 'making up for lost time' at age 18 and ended up far worse than those who were 'badasses' back in junior high.
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I'm not overstating anything. A thirteen year old girl almost certainly will know a bully and a drug dealer if she is in public school. Her physical development will probably determine the kind of attention she gets from older boys. Sure she could make all the right choices, never get targeted by a bully, and find a good peer group. The homeschooled child won't have those temtations and trials until she is more mature. A teenagers brain is still developing you know. At 13 abstract and critical thinking is just in its infancy for most. Yes some kids make bad choices just as soon as they've got the opportunity to but, an 18 year old has a lot better chance of coping with the results of those choices than the same kid at 13. Some girls who go off to college and find themselves out of parental control for the first time become quit loose for a time. I'm sure you don't think her parents would have been better off to let run around all night in a miniskirt when she was 13 years old.