| When I think about it, I know almost no
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| | productive adult lives, that
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| one of my generation who doesn't have a
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| | homeschooling is perhaps not as odd as it
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| story about a school trauma with a
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| | seems to some.I am putting the question
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| teacher or other students that affected
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| | of academic achievement entirely aside,
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| their self-image for at least a period of
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| | and thinking only about the personal and
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| their youth, if not beyond. I've come to
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| | social skills a young person needs to
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| the conclusion that this is mostly
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| | create a worthwhile adulthood. If
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| because schools, especially middle
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| | homeschooling parents, while providing a
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| schools and high schools, become their
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| | quality education at home, arrange and
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| own mini-societies, however unnatural a
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| | allow for opportunities for their child
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| society made of up people of all one age
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| | to meet and interact with other children
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| and maturity level is in comparison to
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| | and adults of different ages,
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| the so-called "real world". Thus, the
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| | backgrounds, and interests, that child
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| culture of the peer group and the school
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| | would, to my mind, have a much greater
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| becomes the "real world" almost
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| | advantage in his adulthood than someone
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| completely to a middle schooler or a high
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| | who has spent almost all day, every day,
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| schooler. Just at the age when they are
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| | until age 18 with others with not much
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| supposed to separating to a degree from
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| | more, and maybe far less, wisdom.Of
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| their families and realizing their own
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| | course, there will always be parents
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| individuality, they are thrust into a
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| | whose children are much better off in
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| daily world where some of the most
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| | school, in almost any school, than being
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| shallow "values" are used to judge them
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| | home with their parents, if the parents
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| and, inevitably, many come to judge
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| | have alcohol, drug, mental, or emotional
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| themselves negatively accordingly.Parents
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| | problems. But, for many others, it might
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| who homeschool and don't offer up their
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| | be worth giving some thought to the
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| children to the prevailing culture of
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| | advantages of giving their child the
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| pre-adolescence and adolescence are often
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| | time, the space, and the autonomy to
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| though to be over-protective and trying
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| | develop into their own unique self,
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| to shelter their children from "reality".
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| | without the warping pressure of modern
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| However, I contend that since adolescent
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| | adolescent culture.Linda Popolano is a
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| school culture only lasts for a few years
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| | homeschooling parent and an Independent
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| and then thrusts young people who have
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| | Consultant for BRIGHT MINDS, which
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| been almost wholly pre-occupied by ideas
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| | produces products which help all
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| and issues which will have virtually no
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| | children, from the very youngest through
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| future value in helping them lead
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| | high school, learn to think critically.
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