[66182] in Cypherpunks
Re: Informal Renegotiation of the Law
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Lucky Green)
Mon Sep 23 00:43:14 1996
Date: Sun, 22 Sep 1996 21:31:30 -0700 (PDT)
From: Lucky Green <shamrock@netcom.com>
To: snow <snow@smoke.suba.com>
Cc: adamsc@io-online.com, cypherpunks@toad.com
In-Reply-To: <199609230243.VAA00509@smoke.suba.com>
On Sun, 22 Sep 1996, snow wrote:
> I would agree that parents can do as good or better at _most_ subjects
> thru about the 3rd or 4th grade, and I do agree that most of todays schools
> are shit, however there is one area--social skills--that homeschooling
> simply can't compete. Children need to learn how to interact with one another
> in groups larger than a family unit. I don't think that homeschooling can
> accomplish this nearly as well as the public (or private) schools could.
I understand that many parents that homeschool belong to organizations
that provide for meetings twice a week in which the children so educated
in a certain area get together. Homeschooling does not have to stand in
the way of a normal socialization process.
--Lucky
