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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]For me, while I love looking at good ones, I tend to associate them with trauma.

I generally assume that people who have a ton of them have been through a ton of trauma. Or are former drug addicts/alcoholics.[/quote]

I have a friend whose son (22) is heavily tattooed.  He's just a spoiled brat who has never had any adversity in life, unless you count being homeschooled and not getting into the college of his first choice.  Definitely no trauma or drugs.[/quote]

Homeschooling counts as trauma.[/quote]

Oh please

Research shows homeschooled students are on average better prepared for college - especially in DMV where they have highly structured classes field trips and ECs.

Only a minority of 25% of homeschoolers do it for  religious reasons. Most want better quality education than what is on offer at their public schools. [/quote]

It's not the education, it is the lack of socialization.[/quote]

Many of them are very well socialized - only a minority are religious extremists. Many are interacting with others in structured ways even more than kids in school.

Not sure I want my teen socialized to vape and do drugs which is the norm in DMV schools according to my teen. [/quote]

You are making my point PP.  "interacting in structured ways" is not the same as socializing and learning how to act and work with others in a normal environment.  [/quote]

What is a “normal” environment? I mean a school is not naturally structured. Children spend the day with same age peers, not with a cross section of society. They are doing activities targeted to their abilities, not solving real world problems that are very likely beyond their current abilities. My kids are in public school, but I don’t have some deep-seated insecurity to make their contrived circumstances seem like the gold standard. My kids do swim team and baseball with some homeschoolers who seem perfectly well-socialized to me.[/quote]

PP, the normal environment for the vast, vast majority of children that grow up in the United States is that they attend an elementary, middle, and high school with lots of children of varying ages around them.  They learn how to navigate that environment and the world around them through as they experience that environment.  Homeschooling your kid takes them out of that environment.  It makes it much less likely that your kid is going to be socialized differently than the vast majority of American children.  That's a fact.  The stuff about "interacting in structured ways" is just a cope.[/quote]

I’ve been substitute teaching in what are considered excellent public schools. I’m not so sure, given the behavior I witness, that we should be thinking of the way we currently raise our children as something laudable. The amount of porn I’ve accidentally glanced on middle schoolers‘ phones, for example, gives me pause.[/quote]

When I was a middle schooler, we had to stumble across a random stash of porn in the woods somewhere. Now we have tattoos and porn-on-demand. This used to be a country. A proper country! [/quote]
Next thing you know, your daughters will be smoking the Devil's Cabbage and taking up with jazz musicians![/quote]

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