My experience has been that people who make such sweeping generalizations on children based on a their educational background actually don’t understand children, or education, at all.

I am hoping that you are a student and not an instructor. If not, you’ve just made one more case in point for home schooling in the debate.

There certainly are some social misfits in our group, I’ll give you that, but they are seldom the rule. More like the exception. On the other hand, have you taken a walk through a high school lately?

Kids are kids. Teens are teens. Adults are adults. Some of us are shy, some are serial killers. Some are gifted, others slow.

Misfits can grow up to be gifted writers or inventors. The social butterfly can grow up to be a teen mom or life-long welfare recipient. It makes no difference and serves no purpose to judge another, other than for puffery and posturing.

Debate it as you may, many home schooled kids turn out to be social misfits. In my experience, the majority do.

I’ll never support homeschooling when a public school is available…..especially when you’re already living in the country without many others around. Most people are indeed not evil.

jess