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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]To be fair, home schooling was for a long time close to 100% freaks. I understand it’s gotten much better and is now more like 70%. And yes with mass migration to HS driven by COVID that number may go down to like 40% or 50% because of the influx of rich families that otherwise participate in society.

But let’s not pretend that in “normal” times HS doesn’t attract a wildly disproportionate share of extremists and oddballs of all stripes. Not all malicious or “bad”, though a good chunk of that as well. [/quote]

This has been my experience as well. Although, I fully recognize that my sampling size is not huge.

The homeschoolers I have meet fall into 3 categories:

1. religious zealots. 
2. crazy conspiracy kooks
3. people with a bunch of (like 5,6,7,8) kids. From what I have observed, there is NO way all those kids are getting their academic needs met in any kind of a rigorous way; but, it IS a great childcare setup.

I readily admit I do not have a high opinion of homeschoolers in general based on my experiences with these kinds of people. Im sure there are good ones out there, and some situations like special needs kids where it makes sense. I can honestly say I am not a fan or supporter and unlikely to become one, but it effects me not at all so carry on.....[/quote]

I think literally the only normal homeschooling family I’ve known had pulled their kids from a charter school because of bullying. The local public was horrendous, and they couldn’t afford private or to move. They homeschooled for a couple of years until they had the means to move to a better school district, where they enrolled their kids in public. The parents and the kids were all pretty intelligent, and it seemed to work for them.

Every other homeschooling family I’ve met are conspiracy nuts/anti-vax. Every single one.[/quote]

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