Re:You can't shelter your kid forever.... (Score 1)

OK, for the billionth time, homeschooled kids do not just sit at home. Unlike public school kids who just sit in a classroom with the same people of generally the same age all day. Homeschooled kids have the liberty to be involved in a larger amount of actual real world community activities, clubs, church, sports, scouts, etc. And there are homeschool co-ops and groups which meet regularly for study halls, proms, field trips, art lessons, science experiments, and more. I don't homeschool because I want to shelter my children, quite the opposite (see my earlier comment in this thread at http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=191184&cid=157 19077 ).

And how in the world do you KNOW that they would be exposed to more at school? Public schools in my area offer very little in the way of political, ethnic, cultural, religious, economic, literary or scientific diversity.

I cannot understand how anyone would think that junior high or high school were anything remotely resembling the real world, or prepared us for it. Is this sort of like how the prison environment "rehabilitates" people?