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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I understand why some parents choose to homeschool and I think they have valid concerns when their reasons are education based.

OTOH I think what school teaches the majority of children is nuanced group social interaction that generates as the result of being forced into a group of the same people day in and day out for a year (which will then carry over years later to the working world).  It's the way kids learn to pick up subtleties that they can't get through a group that meets once a week or so.

As far as learning to interact with adults, I don't think school teaches that really. I think kids get them from being with adults they are comfortable with first such as non immediate family, friend's parents, etc and that they can branch out from their.  
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Nuanced social interaction?? You are kidding, right? Often times school settings are like the Lord of the Flies when it comes to social interactions with bullying and snobbery and other bad behaviors abounding. I know of many kids in my life time who were scarred emotionally by the "social" interactions they experienced in school. Of course, there are positive social interactions in schools as well but many kids experience more the bad behaviors. Plus, are you saying that children interacting with their families and community cannot learn social nuances? Give me a break :roll: [/quote]

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