(I have met homeschooled children, and their social skills flat out suck.)
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I come in contact with a lot of homeschooled kids as a teacher. They are as diverse in their social skills as any kid. Some are painfully shy and some are flashy extroverts. Homeschooling means nothing as far as social skills go, it all depends on how the parents handle the situation.
"You are full of it."I've read your stuff before, CRASH, and I know you're full of it.
"Public school students typically stammer and stare at the floor when spoken to."
This is patently false. That means I'm calling you a liar, CRASH. Some students of public, private, religious and home schools stammer and/or stare at the floor, but it is not typical of any of those groups.
"I've met hundreds of homeschool kids over the years and have yet to see the supposed problem with social skills."
Some of them are probably just fine, but some of them suffer from the lack of interaction with a large number of peers and teachers. They also tend to be culturally isolated.
"Unless you mean they don't know how to put a condemn on a banana, roll a joint or work a bong."
I recommend such knowledge to all. Knowing HOW to do something doesn't mean one has to DO it.
"If those are the social skills you are referring to then yes, homeschoolers are deficient in those skills."
Not really, I'm mostly concerned that they may be socially inept, miss out on activities that require a larger, better funded school, and be deficient in the subjects their parent/teacher is deficient in.
Good points all around, folks; however, Papabear, I would contend that learning how to roll a joint or work a bong hardly constitutes a good or valuable skill, social or otherwise, so I cannot agree with your endorsement of it as recommended knowledge.
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To be fair, I've went to public school and I've been home schooled. If anything, public school has been nothing short of disasterous for my social skills.
I knew a homeschooled kid. Nothing too out of the ordinary; he was nice, easygoing, and loved to socialize. He was teased for not knowing some of the local lingo, though.
David D.G. said: "I would contend that learning how to roll a joint or work a bong hardly constitutes a good or valuable skill, social or otherwise"
"Unless you mean they don't know how to put a condemn on a banana, roll a joint or work a bong."
Public school students typically stammer and stare at the floor when spoken to.
I've met hundreds of homeschool kids over the years and have yet to see the supposed problem with social skills.
The statistics have to catagorize home-schooled results for acedemic, location, medical, specialized, working children and religion reasons.
Then we'll see a batshit insane, socially retarded bunch of dots in Fundieland
One of my best friends was homeschooled and she's vivacious and completely sweet. However, her parents are both college professors whom when she wasn't learning her "school stuff" had her involved in community theatre, dance- you name it she was in it. However, her parents are hippie agnostics.
I know someone else who was homeschooled by fundamentalist parents. I'm not even going to go there. It goes beyond a lack of social skills, its more like they are living in a different solar system.
What schools,
Does ANY method of school teach those things?
Where is the most possible place to learn
A) At school?
I agree with the general sentiment by posters here that homeschooled children have varying degrees of social skills depending on the individual's homeschooling situation.
When I was in High School, a former homeschooling student transferred to our school sophomore year halfway through. He was bright, and seemed to segue into the new social environment effortlessly.
In a different example, my high school girlfriend had fundie relatives who homeschooled their children for solely religious reasons. The stories my girlfriend told me were unsettling to say the least. Her 16 year old cousin hadn't even known how humans reproduced and why we have navels until she explained it to her when she was staying at her place for the weekend.
"Unless you mean they don't know how to put a CONDEMN on a banana" (Caps my emphasis. LOL)
Sure, man, I can condemn a banana, "damn you! Damn you for looking like a penis, for being so filthy and tempting me to sex! And for tasting so good! Damn you for that, too!"
Yup, I do that on a regular basis, gets out some of that Fundie rage that builds up whenever I have to force myself to believe something fucktarded.
As for the homeschooling, thing- this twit is talking out his hat- on both assertions. Social skills are contingent on one thing: being exposed to society. If the home-schooled kid has been isolated from segments of society that don't believe as the parents do, kept from associating with other human beings, then yeah, I think they're going to lack some basic social-skills. But isolate a public-school kid, say by ostracizing them for being "different", same result. In other words, STFU, you don't know shit.
What a fucking idiot.
In Sweden we have compulsory school attendance. You need to have some serious reasons to be able to home-school your kid.
I didn't go to kindergarten before school, as my mum was studying or working from home when I was little. My three siblings all went to kindergarten. They all have excellent social skills, but I'm rather shy and awkward.
I don't know how to put a "condemn" on a banana, but I do know how to put a condom on a penis. To my knowledge I have never seen a joint or a bong. But what do I know, I only went to secular leftist public schools. Perhaps the Christian right-wing public schools you have in the US teaches other skills than our schools.
The statistics show Homeschooled children to be as socially capable and academically equal to public school children.
This is skewed by the fact that many homeschooled are such because of Remote location, Special Needs, Academically Superior Parents,Children in Specialized early Careers, Continuously relocating families and other reasons.
In all these cases social interaction and freedom to persue intrests are present in their lives. Many of these Homeschooled are also put into the school system after elementery grades as most parents can't teach all courses above grade 8 say and realize the children NEED that peer contact to develop into society.
Fundie Homeschooling means more then seperation from the school system. It means segregation from society in it's entirity and a distrust fostered of the community and world. They become frightened little rabbits like their parents of every stranger or different culture or lifestyle.
> Public school students typically stammer and stare at the floor when spoken to.
You mean Hollywood has been faking all those valedictorian speeches in teen movies? All those persuasive debates, all those dramatic spelling bees, all the clever backchat in class? Noooo.....!!!
My vision of the American Dream has been shattered. Leave me be, USA. I have abandoned my lifelong desire to visit your distant shores.
I just finished eating a condemned banana! No, y'see, you're supposed to take the peel OFF, not put the condom ON. I like my bananas bareback.
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