Will My Child Turn Antisocial Because Of HomeSchool?
By Sun Kyu Bae |
Published April 15, 2009 |
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Why this is no longer an issue!
Bringing It Home
If a child is lucky enough in public school, she will have a great experience developing her social skills; making several great friends in the process. But unfortunately, all school districts aren’t created equal and some districts have serious issues not only with academic teaching quality, but also with other issues such as drugs, violence, and sex. The tragedy here is that these public school students don’t have a choice not to interact with their peers because not interacting basically means not attending school, leading to truancy. My point here is that public school students confine themselves to a fixed social environment for better or worse, throughout the next 12 years of their lives.
On the other hand, social interaction in homeschooling is more fluid – the parent and child can choose who to interact with and to what extent – a much better alternative than being stuck with public school social issues such as drugs and gangs and not having much choice but to endure that environment (we won’t even go into how these issues can then lead to poor performance in academics).
So you see, the social skills that homeschool children develop from interaction with both their peers and people of all ages results in the homeschool child being actually more socially developed and better ready for college than her public school peers. So no, your child happily will not turn antisocial because she attends homeschool. Finally, in light of our points above, the common argument attacking socialization of homeschool children is really just a dusty and irrelevant afterthought in today’s homeschool environment.
- Sun
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