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RE: Some Thoughts on Homeschooling
As someone who has been homeschooling for 10 years, I love this post. You are right on so many counts. Yes, kids need autonomy and if you don't give them that, they will be weird. I recently put my oldest into the public school system for high school and can tell you he is more socially adjusted than many peers. Hovering parents in the public school sector are a reality. Also, I am appalled at the lack of homework. He works harder for his extra-curricular activities than for his academics. (He is at a very highly rated public school.) He is having fun. Learning? Not so much.
There's some retarded no-homework movement prompted by loudmouth morons who either couldn't help their kids with the homework or projected their own incompetent anxieties onto their kids. Some parents are such idiotic pieces of crap that it amazes me how they managed to reproduce with anything other than their pillow. They tell the kids what to feel, what to say, where to look. We see both homeschooling and regular schooling parents at various places. Only those with special needs kids are sane or at least try to raise their kids in a sane manner. That's just my observation.