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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]True. As for the notion of undersocialized, awkward homeschooled kids...let's make a deal. I won't assume public schooled kids are giving BJs in the back of the bus and forgetting what they've learned the day after testing is over if you don't assume homeschooled ones are living in a cave, either grunting as they watch "Oprah" or being forced at gunpoint to study Analytic Geometry According to Jesus. Because the reality is, yeah-- those kids do exist, in both homeschool and public school. But most members of any group are far too sophisticated to fit an ugly stereotype, and believing that sort of thing is pretty limiting.[/quote]

I am not one of the posters who thinks most homeschooled kids are awkward. The ones we know are not in any way like this.  They may have other social issues (in my experience:  clingy, yelling out inappropriately, not socializing with peers and instead hanging around adults during neighborhood get togethers or our kids' parties), but awkward isn't really what I'd use as a descriptive word.  I think the bigger issue is the lack of discipline the main homeschooling parent (typically moms from what we have around us in our neighborhood and in my own family) elects to maintain regarding schooling.  There is no 4-5 hours a day, 5 days a week, 38 or so weeks per year but rather a much more loosey goosey type of "school day" in which all the work can easily be completed.  Yep this is generalizing but since this is with all but one of the homeschooling families we know, I'm guessing this is the general rule, with a few exceptions sprinkled in (some much more strict and some even more lenient.)  [/quote]

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