The order of ignorance

[Blackleaf]

I would add the home-schoolers. Not only is it further eroding the an already eroded public school system, it's creating a generation of badly educated, badly socialized children

While I wouldn't recommend homeschooling at all, kids who are homeschooled tend to perform better in college. In my case and my brother's, this was true. The badly socialized part is definitely true, though. The only people a homeschooler socializes with are the people their parents allow them to see, including family, children of their friends, and church members. There is little to no exposure to normal peers, which is the main reason parents choose to homeschool in the first place; to limit "ungodly" influences. I was incredibly awkward in my early college years. I'm still socially awkward, but it was much worse when I was initially released into the real world.

[marom1963]

While I wouldn't recommend homeschooling at all, kids who are homeschooled tend to perform better in college. In my case and my brother's, this was true. The badly socialized part is definitely true, though. The only people a homeschooler socializes with are the people their parents allow them to see, including family, children of their friends, and church members. There is little to no exposure to normal peers, which is the main reason parents choose to homeschool in the first place; to limit "ungodly" influences. I was incredibly awkward in my early college years. I'm still socially awkward, but it was much worse when I was initially released into the real world.

I think that that is the main objection to it - the isolation from the World. I think that it was a mistake to have allowed private schools, but that is a separate issue; the private schools allowed the rich to underfund the public schools and turn them into segregated swamps that would guarantee that the poor stayed poor, but, again, that's a separate issue. Home schooling is allowing parents to abuse their children in the name of God - usually in the name of God b/c, as I understand, homeschooling is almost always done by the very religious who want to isolate their children from secular influences, especially from ideas such as evolution and sex education.