Don't be so sure. It seems great at first, but one of the things you might not anticipate is the revenge effect of a low noise noise floor. I moved from a horribly noisy situation to a much quieter one. It's great until you adjust. Then, little sounds that you'd never notice before start becoming a real problem. The thud of a closing car door a few hundred feet away, or the sounds of a second hand on an old fashioned clock, or any number of other things really can become distracting, even to the point of causing anxiety. Unless you're basically in the woods, in which case the sounds of your own house can become like a raging cacophony. White noise becomes a refuge. You wait for the rain.

My wife worked with some talented therapists and had no doubts there could be enormously beneficial aspects to working with insightful, skilled professionals.

To expect anything from a special education teacher that would be more than minimal classroom management modifications is probably not realistic in all but the very wealthiest (top 1%) schools, which have multiple secondary educational aids and extremely small class sizes. The special education classrooms in most districts are loaded up with kids with other behavioral problems that are likely to further exacerbate the issues someone on the spectrum with experience.

Some business people, after trying this, find they're better off paying for native talent.

So you're acknowledging that the intended funding is exclusionary, because there's not enough to include boys, too. Nice. And you make an analogy that girls are like a diseased patient. Nicer.

It should be apparent to an experienced software engineer that over time, better engineering teams will reduce the fluff. That doesn't happen in a SOC project. It happens over several years of iterative development, and tightening up of requirements.

Right, but under the Federal Reserve, the dollar has lost 97% of its purchasing power. Who gives a shit about the number in the bank account? It's the value.

Here: http://energyfromthorium.com/

A nuclear engineer friend of mine explains that investment in such beneficial technologies is hampered by legitimate fears that new projects will be shut down due to irrational, fear-based regulatory policy.

Because there's no way a national government would allow its chartered monopolistic currency issuing bank to help commercial banks profit at the expense of taxpayers.

FTFY.

Thank you so much for this wonderful post. You do a great job explaining the real benefits of home schooling while destroying the strawman arguments agaisnt it.

He clearly states in his first statement he did student teaching.

I think you're missing his point. The public schools reinforce tribal behavior. The more people who don't get that experience, the better off everybody is.

I never found myself capable of navigating the social realities of schools. I found that the minute I entered the workforce, I was able to deal with the social realities with ease. None of the "socialization" I got in school applied. Adult society is different from school society/youth culture.

This kind of thing, in a small but significant way, starts to tip the social balance further in favor of males who are wealthy enough/risk tolerant enough to take a chance on this kind of thing to dominate against younger males.

On the side of the wealthier males, it could tend to change certain workplace dynamics. Not sure what exactly that would do, but without economic growth, it could lead to slightly more workplace conflict.

On the risk tolerant side, I see a risk of widespread increases in antisocial behavior as young, aggressive males amp-up their natural tendencies. Violence and crime are likely results. Given that we're already past the societal stage where we kill off lower-class males in wars of attrition, we're going to be facing an unprecedented dynamic with larger numbers of aggressive males than society is accustomed to.

Why is my experience that this is not the case? Why are we seeing extremely low unemployment rates (2.5%) in software engineering? Why are wages for software engineers averaging at about 6 figures, and one of the few careers where wages are not totally stagnant and falling behind inflation? Why do I get the distinct impression that people with more education and less income are somewhat envious (possibly even resentful) of the success I've enjoyed?