What Is Homeschooling?
By Sun Kyu Bae |
Published April 29, 2009 |
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Socialization
Ah, the "S" word - no worthy article about homeschooling would be complete without a comment on this topic. I would venture that there was a time in the early homeschooling era when socialization was an issue. But this issue is one that is part of the past, thanks to the Internet and other advances in communication that allow like-minded communities such as homeschoolers to get together during the week to do activities together. For further insight, see my article, "Will My Child Turn Antisocial Because of Homeschool?"
One aspect I would like to highlight that most non-homeschoolers don’t realize is that homeschooling offers more socialization in regards to exposing your children (with your supervision) to people that are much older than them and getting used to interacting with these people at a much earlier age than their public school peers. It’s kind of ironic that public school officials would even bring up socialization today as a critique on homeschooling when in fact, during all of the public school years, the public school students are mostly confined to their peers with ages ranging within a narrow 3-4 years of each other, throughout 12 years of their lives. It is only in college when the exposure to wider range of ages is experienced. In fact, I would argue that homeschool prepares the students to interact in college significantly better than what public schools offer since homeschool kids are already used to interacting with people in a wider age range years before they enroll in college.
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