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I don't think homeschooling is usually like you're describing. Most of the people I have met who were homeschooled were not social adjusted or developed and didn't seem 'normal' by most standards. Most of them had parents who were either extremely religious or some other ideological tendency (survivalist, etc).

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My nephews kids are homeschooled. They have a rigorous curriculum, specific goals, etc. They also have regular socialization activity with other homeschoolers. They just choose to not settle for the mediocrity, nor accept the indoctrination pushed by the education system.

No offense, but this is where it starts getting weird and into the whole "society is bad!" that seems pretty extreme:

>They just choose to not settle for the mediocrity, nor accept the indoctrination pushed by the education system.

Most people I know who went to public schools came out fairly well. I refuse to share this elitist/ideological attitude towards them. What indoctrination? Don't you think that's a rather general and blanket statement considering how varied each school district is? Maybe that's more of a criticism of how schools are run in your area.

> Most people I know who went to public schools came out fairly well. I refuse to share this elitist/ideological attitude towards them. What indoctrination? Don't you think that's a rather general and blanket statement considering how varied each school district is? Maybe that's more of a criticism of how schools are run in your area.

That's exactly what someone who has been indoctrinated at a public school would say!

What indoctrination?

Is the Pledge Of Allegiance still a thing at schools?

> Most of the people I have met who were homeschooled

The people you have met are probably not a representative sample of the population you would like to generalize to from your experience.

The same can be said of those on the other side too.

One anecdote counters another.

The ideology is the common-causal variable.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Correlation_does_not_imply_cau...

If you as a parent are grappling with the idea of homeschooling, know that you don’t have to do it the way those parents did. What you saw is not an indictment of homeschooling, but of those parents that decided to do it that way.

I took the GRE in 9th grade and started taking classes at a community college. There are alternative paths out there where you can still socialize. There are more MOOCs and online schools, but I still think learning to deal with others is a real skill that you have to develop and is immensely important in life.

How many people have you met that were homeschooled but you just didn't know it? Hard to really quantify something unless you ask the question of every person you've met.

See my other reply [0] for more. I think the word homeschooling groups together to many different things. Something like "distributed schooling" feels better for my experience, and the people in my community.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23874714

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