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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This is why I find the entire concept of homeschooling phony. Instead of being in class with other kids, that 3rd grader was hanging around in someone else's house, demanding to play in someone else's rooms and then giving you the attitude about not wanting to 'go shopping'. WTF??

I don't think you did anything wrong, OP. Homeschooling issues aside, if your friend said the three of you were going shopping, the three of you should have done just so, right from the start.
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OP, my apologies for going off on a small tangent, but after so many slams against homeschooling, I feel compelled to point out a couple of fallacies:

Several PPs have cited your friend's daughter's bad behavior as somehow linked to her homeschooling.  I would just like to point out that her bad behavior is independent of the method of schooling, and seems to be more related to lax discipline, and perhaps a certain temperament.  After all, the kind of indulgent, rude, entitled, and rather obnoxious behavior you've described has been detailed on DCUM regarding publicly and privately schooled children many times, with the schools escaping blame.

I hope my home schooled kids are weird, relative to their peers.  I revel in it.  Now, I would never tolerate such poor manners as those from your story.  But manners, sadly, do not always correlate with intelligence or academic commitment.

The fact that so few people can think outside the box long enough to realize that education outside an institution does not need to look like education inside an institution is depressing...at least as depressing as the poor parenting on display in OP's story.[/quote]

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