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Interesting topic, this home schooling. I was dead set against it at the begining but have done a 180 degree change. The socialization argument seems to be promoted heaviest by the teachers union members because it's the only ding they think they can make stick against "home schoolin' " My children swim at the top of a very competitive swim team, take classes away from home in physics and latin and have the oppurtinity to watch me and see if I'm worth a crap or not in this society. I, like Jimbo can only speak from my personal experience. Jimbo Sir, please understand I value the hard questions and wiil not shrink from them. What I absolutely will not allow is my children to be trained by failed liberal democratic members in our local teachers union who never knew how to succeed in independently owned business which to this day employs more people than all the corporations in the United States combined. This is the underlying and unseen fabric upon which this nation was both built and still depends. At no point in public education is this addressed or respected. I have had some success at combining multiple disciplines, involving a little critical thinking, into my work. Failure in this means no food or shelter because I work with no backup. It is said that it is best to lead by example and this hopefully is an important component of the home schooling in this house which is not available in our children in the local public schools. Interesting topic. Bill
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