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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My experience with home schooled kids, both as a child and now was a scout leader, rec league coach, and parent is that they are used to everything being about them.

If they have a thought, they share it and they expect everyone to stop and listen to them.

If they want to do or say something, or changes an activity, they are very confused when they aren't permitted to do that.

They are generally respectful and polite.  But they definitely think they are the main character, even when its their turn to the NPC.

They just don't "get" some of the social expectations of them, that other kids do.

And now, as an employer, I can almost always pinpoint when a resource was home-schooled.  [/quote]

Got it, regular schools teach kids to be NPCs who know they are supposed to shut up until the teacher calls on them, and that's what you want as an employer.[/quote]

Being in a regular school requires kids to develop social skills. as a matter of necessity to manage relationships with peers and outsiders.  Homeschooling them denies them this opportunity to develop those social skills.   [/quote]

Homeschooled kids develop social skills from dealing with adults all day. These are in fact superior to the social skills developed as a result of dealing with other kids all day in the warehouse of bullying, cliquishness, and immaturity that is regular school. Try again![/quote]
Defensive fundie back again? 
No, their social skills are not superior, they are not even on par. This is one major reason why people think homeschooled kids are weird. Because this is the exact thing they lack. [/quote]

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