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>Well obviously. The point was that it's more likely to happen to homeschooled kids.
Really? Got any data to back that bare-arsed assertion up?
How about incarceration rates, drug addiction rates, rape and assault rates, mental problem rates etc. -- or even more mundane things like marriage rates, and other things that would back up your claim that they are "more likely" to be socially retarded.
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BTW, here's an article on the liberal "DailyKos" site that your claim is bullshit. -- and yes, it is backed up by data, to wit:
>The same article points out that McDowell is not alone in her conclusion. She is joined by another researcher, Dr. Larry Shyers, who holds a Ph.D. in counseling:
>>His studies found that homeschooled children are not disadvantaged when it comes to socialization. He said that those taught at home were more likely to invite others to play with them, they were not as competitive but more cooperative, and they kept their noise levels lower. Homeschooled children also played with peers of both genders rather than with those of the same gender, he added.
> Dr. Shyers’ study went a step further. For his doctoral dissertation, “Comparison of Social Adjustment Between Home and Traditionally Schooled Students,” he compared the actual behaviors of two groups of seventy children from the ages of eight to ten. One group was homeschooled and the other group was drawn from public and private schools. This was a “blind” study, in which the children’s behaviors were evaluated by trained observers who did not know which of the students were homeschooled and which were not. The Child Observation Checklist Direct Observation Form was used to categorize each child’s conduct while playing in mixed groups of children from both sample groups. The homeschooled children were found to have significantly fewer problem behaviors than the children from public and private schools.
The only way that homeschoolers are not as "socialized" is that they are not as likely to be as problem filled as the typical formally "schooled" kids.
As another writer notes:
>>They haven’t been indoctrinated in the same way. They have not been steeped in the popular consumer culture to the degree that most schooled kids have been. They are not adult-phobic and peer-dependent.
>>They haven’t been grouped and sorted according to age and academic track. They haven’t been expected to know their place and stay in the “class” to which they have been assigned. They haven’t been trained to respond to the bell and do assignments [or technically figured out how to CHEAT on them] without question.
>>They haven’t had to surrender their individuality and will to an authority figure who may not have their best interests at heart. They aren’t subjected to judgment, grading, and the bestowment of rewards and punishments without the ability to object or appeal.
>>They haven’t been conditioned to be passive and compliant or dependent on others to tell them what to do or how to spend their time. They are not powerless. They have the choice to remove themselves from bad situations or people and change the curriculum when it’s not relevant, interesting, useful, or meaningful.