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• PHC (Score:1)

  by sigzero (5768)

  I used to work in the IT department there in Patrick Henry College and I dealt specifically with the student population. I can tell you first hand that I have never seen a smarter, nicer and well socialized group of young men and women. They are constantly in the top of all the competitions they get into.

  It is unfortunate that ignorant people get to speak out against homeschooling when they (and Torgox) have no clue what they are talking about.
  • Re:PHC (Score:2)

    by pudge (1)

    I like what Jon Stewart said to the article author. She said something about how these kids don't really know how the world works, that they are naive ... and he responded, how does that differentiate them from any other college students?
    
    I don't really know anything about this college (although if I have any more questions now I know who to ask :-), but I do know that the common assertion of homeschool kids not being socialized is rubbish. People pick out the few examples of them not being well-socialize
    • Re:PHC (Score:2)

      by ziggy (25) on 2005.07.05 13:02 (#41626) Journal

      It seems like one of the unstated fallacies here is that there is exactly one kind of "socialization" going on here.

      I may have been well-socialized going to a whitebread public middle school, but that certainly didn't give me the skills I'd need for navigating a crack house or a shooting gallery.

      Similarly, the kind of socialization one learns in high school is very different from what one learns in college, and even varies by college to college. (Commuter schools are different from resident schools, suburban campuses different from urban ones, and add community colleges, transfer schools, strong/weak graduate programs and such into the mix.)

      Funny thing is, I never stopped to think about it until I read that Jon Stewart comment...

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      • Re:PHC (Score:2)

        by pudge (1)

        It seems like one of the unstated fallacies here is that there is exactly one kind of "socialization" going on here.
        
        Yeah. e.g., my kids will spend a lot more time around a wide variety of adults, and get better socialization of that kind, than will kids who spend over 15,000 hours in school.