Originally Posted by SoCalCoug (Post 296389)

I can say that at least in Orange County, there's a very organized homeschool program that's actually administered through the county. There is a credentialed teacher overseeing each student (meets once a month). Curricula are provided through the program. There are also frequent (almost overwhelming) workshops, classes, and field trips that are provided through the program. If a homeschool student participates in this program, they will receive virtually as much social interaction with other children their age as they would at the public school.

I agree, however, that many of parents who home school do so to shelter their children from the world, and under those circumstances, it's often detrimental to the children.

But to make a blanket statement that home schooled children don't have equal opportunity to interact with their peers, I disagree with that, because if the parents participate in the type of program they have here in OC, they have plenty of opportunity.

Originally Posted by SoCalCoug (Post 296380)

Yeah - look what homeschooling got him:

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Originally Posted by BarbaraGordon (Post 296397)

Speaking of socially awkward, wouldn't any normal 20-year-old guy know exactly what to do in that situation? (Note to TT: it doesn't involve leaning away from the goods while grinning like a dope into the camera.)