Good News for Home-Schooling: Single-Sex Classrooms May Increase Girls' Learning

Schools are huge jungles

and kids are forced to survive by any means, healthy or not. I've had my quasi-home-schooled high school kid in a variety of settings, and he definitely is happier and more accomplished when he's outside the negative-socialization pressure cooker. It would be lots easier for me to just help him with his homework when he comes home, but the time, effort and emotion spent to recalibrate his judgment centers after he ran with the bulls was too great,

both sides are perpetuating stereotypes...

I was a girl that went to public school and I was very poorly socialized. It wasn't until college that I really began learning to socialize.

I was also a virgin all through public school, for all you people who seem to think that public school = loose morals + poor judgment.

And as for indoctrination, children will receive "indoctrination" whether they are publicly schooled, privately schooled, or home schooled. All teachers present the world from their own point of view: the only way to avoid being indoctrinated is to learn information on many points of view, and to learn analytical skills to determine what is meaningful.

Socialization?

Who says home school kids don't socialize? They just socialize with other home schoolers - Not the tattooed class idiot with a stud on his tongue that flashes as he spews out his vile vocabulary.

Take a chill pill, phylicia.

Eric said nothing in his comment stating that his daughter was "better" than you.

Seems all that "self-esteem" training you received didn't work too well.

Good for you, Eric.

I think everything you posted about your daughter is what the author of this column really meant when she mentioned "the socialization kids receive at school is critical to success later on in the real world." Meaning homeschooled kids won't be indoctrinated into our perverse pop-culture philosophy, and therefor she feels they won't "fit in".

Here's to true diversity!

Home Schooling

While I believe that parents have every right to educate their children (through public, private, or home schools), it is not fair for you (Eric Holland of AL) to say that "public" kids are any worse than your beautiful, perfect daughter. I, myself, went through the public system, and am now a freshman in college. I can't imagine what life would have been like if I'd learned my acedemics from my mother- or worse, my stepfather. I am proudly still a virgin in every sense, don't swear, get A's, and love God. It makes me sad that there are parents like you who think their children are better than I.

home school

Eric Holland hit it on the head !! the reason public schools (and liberals) are against home schooling is because they can not indoctine your child if they do not have them in their class rooms. They can't teach them how to be and except homosexurals and other sexural perversions, that the goverment knows whats best for them. That there is no God or after live and live this one by taken all you can out of it with out consience.

Homeschool Daughter

My daughter was homeschooled K-12. At junior high level, she began to take classes at our home school covering center. She took classes in things that we couldn't offer at home: (drama and advanced math as examples). She played softball in the local association and played travel ball all over the country. She wasn't "socialized", very well however. She speaks with respect to adults. She doesn't pepper her conversation with foul language. Worse than anything else....she is a virgin! I know what a horror that is in our advanced society. Not to mention that she has never smoked,drank or used drugs. To make up for her "loss", we poured ourself into her development. She is now on full scholarship in grad school, at a top 20 university. As an undergrad, she left a drama scholarship when she refused to kiss the leading man. She wants her first kiss to be the man she marries. I realize how this sickens many. 10 years old and still a virgin seems like such a waste! Just keep doing what you're doing. Public education appears to be doing really well. We intend to go on being "unsocialized".

The success or failure of home school

for any particular child is directly related to the maturity of the teaching parent---period. Some kids need to go to physical school to escape the 24/7 influence of inadequate, nutty or even meany parents. Others will thrive in home school by escaping the distracting, negative, or even dangerous, environments of physical school. And, as you suggest, some girls may just do well by escaping boys---but only for a while, of course.

Who knew home-schooling is sexually segregated?

Thanks for clearing that up.