The recent question about why people homeschool had me with far more words than I felt I should express because what I did express already took up a lot of room.
What I felt as I was writing my answer was that school has a culture all its own. Each grade level is practically a culture all its own. They have their own dialect, their own clothes, their own music, behaviours, attitudes... And it's all just kids directing it all, influenced by the media and advertising and what they think everybody else is doing.
I don't want my children to grow up in that culture. Just as someone might move from a country to flee certain cultural aspects, or someone might move so their child can attend a school that doesn't have some cultural elements that their other school had, I choose to homeschool to not have my children raised in the school culture that is present here.
2006-09-04
01:51:27
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