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Originally Posted by Calgaryborn
How is it you see sending your child to public school with the limited involvement you will have in that situation is better risk management than homeschooling your children. Most parents who homeschool do it to better manage the risks associated with growing up.
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No, they don't manage risk, they avoid it by not exposing their children to as many social experiences. That's their 'risk management' plan, avoidance. The 'risks' are a legitimate tradeoff for the social benefits gained. Also who said anything about limited parental involvement in the lives of their children. I would hope that part of being a good parent would be to be involved in their child's schooling and social life (by helping with homework, and encouraging their friendships, it's not like by sending them to a public school you're sending away your child to be raised 24/7 by ignorant teachers and Television.
The part I'm trying to get through is that lacking the social experiences denies them immense opportunities that cannot be simulated in a home environment, all because some parents are hypersensitive of the perils of the social environment present in public education. In my opinion you over-discount the benefits and create a giant hyperbole of the 'risks.' The points we differ on are the magnitude of the risk-return relationship.
I was mocking you not on the point that a child's brain is less developed but rather the assertation that some of the social 'perils' you described earlier were beyond the capacity of the adolescent mind who has been raised by and has the support of a caring and attentive family. A lot of the problems mentioned can be mitigated by good parenting and not sheltering.