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Originally Posted by speede5
I'm slightly offended at the brush home schoolers are being painted with, I have one kid in school and one at home, and both are doing well. I know several outstanding people who home school and I know lots of kids who have been successfully home schooled.
When you get rid of all the wasted time spent in a day at a public school, and have focus on only a few students rather than 30, plus have the ability to spend as much time as required to work through problems, it can be done much more efficiently. Some kids get lost in the system in a classroom setting.
Don't get me wrong though, I'm not anti public school system.
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I don't discount homeschooling as all the things you mentioned are definitely advantages.
The problems tend to arise on the social end of the spectrum, not the intelligence end. If they don't get immersed with new people, in their own age group, and learn how to interact with them, how to make friends, what is/isn't OK in general society. Those things are either absent in homeschooling, or warped to the parents' experience. Not that the parents' experience is always bad, but it will almost always be outdated.