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Message: <blockquote data-quote="The_Universe" data-source="post: 2024374" data-attributes="member: 8944">I hate to be a buzz kill - but send your kid to school.  While I have no doubt of your sincere desire to help her, there is nothing I am more proud of than my public school education, nothing that has better prepared me for the life beyond the world of education.  At the same time, I have a close cousin who was homeschooled for her entire academic career, save college.  She was a loner - a total outsider...and not only because she was socially crippled (though she was to a certain degree) - she had friends, or at least other kids she was acquainted with...but not a best friend.  Such things are practically impossible when two children experience such widely different things for 6-8 hours per day, 5 days a week, for most of their developing lives - she was at a distinct disadvantage when socializing because she and the other kids had nothing in common. At the same time, you're child will never be exposed to the diversity of thought and experience (asinine though it sometimes may be) that public schools force upon those within them.  Certainly, she'll hold all the closer to what her mother and father have taught her, and what they believe - but a worldview untested is a worldview that's ultimately harder to hold.  Oh, she'll probably never hear or see anything even vaguely disturbing while you're homeschooling her - and I'm sure she'll be a bright, amazing girl...but she can't escape the naivety that a lack of dealing with people - both good and bad - is guaranteed to create.  So, let her meet the mean kids - the bullies, the idiots...and also the angels, the people besides you who will help make her the amazing girl she might one day become.  She'll make more mistakes, and undoubtedly have more foolishness done to her...but she'll be a stronger person for it.  And I promise that she'll thank you.  Your mileage may vary, as with all things.  Just didn't want the discussion to pass without a dissenting voice. Good luck.</blockquote>

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