No no we cant have this !

[Skybird]

Originally Posted by Platapus

I have one question about home-schooling?

I can understand and appreciate the ability of a trained parent, using approved curricula, being able to teach their kid the "three R's".

However, I would like to know how about the child's social education when they are home schooled?

Even kids in private schools are exposed to other kids (some nice and some not so nice) and instructors (also some nice and some not so nice). They have to learn how do deal with interacting with different people.

To me, learning how to deal with different people (people who may not have the same beliefs as you) is important. Learning how to deal with a bully; how do deal with an overly shy teammate; the inherent unfairness of informal competitive sports. These are all very important life lessons.

How does a home-schooler teach those lessons?

My 5th school class I spent in Lübeck at a "Gymnasium" (we have a highschool-system in germany having three different kinds of highschools: Haupt-, Real- and Gymnasialschule) that back then, late 70s, still was an exclusive boy-school. even that already felt different than the mixed Gymnasium I went to after we had moved to Berlin. And I was definitely happier at the latter. The latter school is the reaosn why I look back at my schooltime with a friendly heart and good memories.

It's simply was two very different things.