How are children really socialized?
Homeschoolers joke that public schoolers are socialized by getting beat up in the bathroom and offered drugs. All jokes have some element of the truth. I have yet to see positive socialization. Study hall no longer exists, and where it does, silence is demanded. Young children are forced to be silent during lunch, while wating on line, while waiting in the classroom, while using the bathroom etc. When they do conversate with each other, it is heavily regulated, or against the rules... which brings us back to the 'Joke'.
Meanwhile, homeschool critics believe (quite seriously) that homeschoolers have no opportunities at all to socialize and are therefor inept. That could not be further from the truth. Althouh not all homeschoolers socialize, most have opportinites for socialization in addition to their academic activities.
Personally, my children have hundreds of opportunities to socialize with other children. I wrote about just a few of the local opportinities available to us in this aticle for Associated Content.
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