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I disagree strongly on this point. Children are being prescribed mind-altering drugs in rapidly increasing numbers, and are being diagnosed more often with emotional and mental health issues that were once almost exclusively diagnosed only in adults. Professionals indicate that the demands and stresses on children is likely a major contributor to this growing problem.
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11-26-2008, 05:11 PM | #43 |
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It is apparent that the two of you (Archaea and Mike) have deep seated prejudices against home schooling that appear to be rooted in experience coupled with a good dose of logical thinking.
I have pretty strong opinions on the subject as well, opinions that run counter to yours. Mine have come because I have been interested in the idea and have researched it quite a bit (far more than the average person on the street, but not enough to be a true expert). That doesn't make me right and you wrong. I actually find Archaea to be one of the people on Cougarguard whose opinions I give more weight to. I don't wish to spend more of my time debating this given the circumstances, since we aren't about to change each other's minds. I've heard these arguments from others before, and I'm not interested in going the rounds further with you, given your responses and obvious attitudes to this point. I feel I could address some of these facts, but it would take far too much of my time, and to what end? Have a happy Thanksgiving. |
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11-26-2008, 06:24 PM | #45 |
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How many homeschooling parents end up working in PTAs? How many end up on school boards?
Yet another example of qualified, talented Americans not contributing to the public good. "I'm happy to benefit from the vaccination of other people's children through herd immunity, but I'll be damned if my kid is going to take on any risk." I lived in a town where professors' kids and kids with moms on welfares attended the same school. |
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With your involvement I have no doubt they will succeed, but I suspect they would have also succeeded within the public system if you had maintained your level of involvement, that's my primary point.
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My son did not go to preschool or daycare. It became more difficult for me to find opportunities for him to interact with children his age once he turned 4 and all his peers were in preschool programs or daycare. I really had to take the initiative to make playdates and get him out to activities where other kids would be so that he would be prepared socially for kindergarten. When do homeschooled children have opportunities to interact with their peers? There are community sports programs, homeschool groups, what else?
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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.
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