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      <![CDATA[Unless Moonbeam and Whatnow are just trying to be spoilers here, it would appear that they are truly not happy with their personal homeschool experience. And that's okay.
        
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      <![CDATA[whatnow said "It has taken me so long to adjust to college and it took a lot of work for me to become who I am. I am married and I have a beautiful daughter of my own and I can never imagine taking away the oppertunities that were taken away from me."
        
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      <![CDATA[I can really relate. I was homeschooled from second grade on.
        
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      <![CDATA[Oh, and prom is *TOTALLY* overrated. My then-boyfriend publicly dumped me and hooked up with another girl at mine- now doesn't that make you feel a teeny bit better about not going to one?
        
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      <![CDATA[Sounds like moonbeam has a bad case of "the grass is greener on the other side" syndrome. I attended traditional schools from K-12 and while I enjoyed the academics, I never fit in socially.
        
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      <![CDATA[Moonbeam, Here's one grown (25) homeschooled person who would be more than happy to homeschool possible future children of my own in the same way my parents homeschooled their children.
        
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      <![CDATA[I understand moonbeam, but my point is that the things you have mentioned are not unique to homeschooling- they are part and parcel of parenting and childhood. I don't think there is enough truth telling about traditional schools.
        
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      <![CDATA[Moonbeam said, Unfortunately, my experience with the home schooling movement as a whole has been for parents and children to defend the practice, dismissing the negative aspects altogether, because of the wrongful stereotyping and negativity towards home schoolers. Well Duh.
        
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      <![CDATA[I want to emphasize that my experience wasn't bad. I grew up with a very large and sociable family and am myself quite extroverted.
        
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      <![CDATA[moonbeam, I don't intend to dismiss your concerns and experiences but I would like to point out that loneliness, feelings of inadequacy, gaps in one's academics- these things are true of public schooled kids, so if you experienced these things as a homeschooled child, chances are you would have experienced them in 'regular' school as well.
        
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      <![CDATA[Steve--I do have children of school age--so yes, I can appreciate that situation. My homeschooling experience was not in line with a Vietnamese prison camp.
        
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      <![CDATA[Moonbeam: I find it absolutely amazing that previously homeschooled adults --who have not been parents themselves, can even pretend to understand the experiences of parents with children who are being home schooled -- even if they believe they're the only ones on the planet with an imagination or the ability to think, observe and understand.
        
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      <![CDATA[This article really spoke to me. I was homeschooled also and it rang completely true in almost every way. The problem is that most adults out there don't actually listen to grown up homeschooled kids.
        
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      <![CDATA[I believe you choose your family before you are born. So, I think there is no room for complaining or feeling victimized.
        
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      <![CDATA[Gotta say...My homeschool group has over 150 families. My children  have loads of friends and so do I.  They don't discuss Dawsons Creek for three hours, but they do discuss fairies and unicorn endlessly.
        
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      <![CDATA[This sentence jumped out at me:  "Education isn't just about book knowledge; it's about learning to deal with different kinds of people in different situations, skills I think a lot of homeschooled kids are lacking." I agree that some homeschoolers are missing the boat on this one, but the majority of this thought is stereotypical.
        
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      <![CDATA[Unfortunate wardrobe choices, awkwardness at social gatherings, and hostility towards authority figures is certainly not confined to the homeschool world. The standard plot of a John Hughes movie resonates with those of us who went to public schools because of the the cultural bubble that kids create there- the system is certainly not the utopia of socialization or high fashion.
        
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      <![CDATA[This line really stands out for me.  "The other homeschoolers I met, more often than not, could talk about physics for three hours but couldn't (or weren't allowed to) have a conversation about the latest episode of Dawson's Creek." Yes, obviously it is far more important to understand who is screwing whom on Dawson's Creek than Physics.
        
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