| I've spent my whole life not talking to people, and I don't see why I should start now. -- Sally Ride, Astronaut (not homeschooled) When I was in school, the only bad grades I ever got were C's in "conduct" or deportment. I talked too much. I didn't leave other kids alone. I was told many times, "You're not here to socialize." —Sandra Dodd The process of socialization is nowhere near complete at age five or six, when modern children start spending up to half their waking hours taking their cues from other people's children. -- Quinn Cummings. There are many school families that don’t get sucked into the assembly-line socialization rut, and thus teach their kids to cultivate a mature social life long before graduation. -- Jennifer Fitz I think schools generally do an effective and terribly damaging job of teaching children to be infantile, dependent, intellectually dishonest, passive, and disrespectful to their own developmental capacities. -- Seymour Papert. |
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The Homeschool Diner's Guide to Homeschooling Basics How Do Homeschoolers View Socialization? School isn't the only place kids learn about getting along... by Julie Shepherd Knapp, copyright 2006 What exactly is "Socialization"? Here are some dictionary definitions: 1. to make fit for companionship with others; make sociable 2. the adoption of the behavior patterns of the surrounding culture 3. a continuing process whereby an individual acquires a personal identity and learns the norms, values, behavior, and social skills appropriate to his or her social position Here are some articles that address these issues: What About Socialization? from the Minnesota Homeschool Alliance 3 Ways Homeschoolers Socialize Differently than School Kids by Jennifer Fitz Yes, My Grown Homeschooled Children Are Odd — And Yours Will Be Too! by Diane Flynn Keith... "...If you have dared to challenge government schooling or conventional private schooling, I suspect you aren't normal or especially well-socialized either. Somehow you were impervious to social conditioning enough to think outside the box. You're probably a little odd too...." Myths and misperceptions about school bullying. "Bullying is part of life in the real world"... and other myths about bullying from Bully Online No, Thank you, We Don't Believe in Socialization by Lisa Russell Do Schools Today Kill Creativity? -- a talk by Sir Ken Robinson Flowers Are Red by Harry Chapin |
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