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Fernando B 🚀

I understand, that's one way to look at it. Socializing is something I was never good with because of my parents constantly moving to different cities due to my father's job. Here there's a place where people that homeschool can meet up. Right now my biggest concern is covid, I've seen so many schools reopened and cases going through the roof. So for now socializing is the least priority, but definitely something to keep in mind. I think if you raise your children to be good people they'll be ready regardless. I personally knew a coworker that homeschool until high school and his children enrolled in college and did pretty well.

We also have to keep in mind today's school system is still the same as system that was built when the industrialization (40s) era begun. School all around the world has nearly the same curriculum. I encourage you to listen to this talk ted.com/talks/sir_ken_robinson_do_...

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Mike Bybee

Safety is one of the best reasons to homeschool; not only right now due to COVID (and it's insane to me that parents are so obsessed with their glorified free daycare that they're willing to disregard the threat, when schools have always been petri dishes for disease, lice, etc.), but from other physical threats (how many homeschool students are the victims of shootings or other violence?).