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I am sure a lot of parents who homeschool do a great job and get their kids involved in lots of outside activities. What freaks me out about homeschooling is the very, very small percentage of homeschooled kids whose parents don't teach them anything, or whose parents are using it as a means to isolate the kids, hide abuse etc. I am betting this is something like 5 percent or less of homeschoolers, but it scares me that for that percent, the kids are completely cut off.

I agree. This is a potential problem. What about the number of schools who don't teach their kids anything or the number of kids who are abused and the schools either don't pay attention or don't care? This is second hand, so I couldn't report it myself, but a school I worked at once told a parent "See that line over there? You can go and beat them outside of that line, but you can't beat them in here."[/quote]

[b]I'm not really sure what you are getting at.  Are you saying that because some kids fall through the cracks in a system where adults outside of the family interact with a child, there is no greater risk in a system where no adults outside the home interact with the child?[/b][/quote]

You are assuming that most homeschoolers have no contacts with other adults outside of families which is simply not true. When we homeschooled, our kid was out and about with us for co-op and other classes, museum visits and classes, library visits and events, etc., etc. Most homeschoolers I met were doing the same.[/quote]

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