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As a mom who home schools her 7-year-old daughter, currently working at 2 grade levels above where a public school would place her, that is one of my biggest pet peeves. I’m so tired of the incessant “But, but — what about her socialization?” I’m sorry, but I thought school was for, you know, education. I didn’t realize that it was social hour. Personally, I prefer to not have my child forced into socializing with whomever a school randomly places her with, all of the exact same age, to boot.
When in life are you ever in a situation where you deal solely with people who are your exact same age? My daughter, Gracie, plays with children after school every day and “socializes” with them at our community pool for hours daily. She “socializes” with children of all ages. Since she’s never been indoctrinated to believe otherwise, she is not intimidated by older kids nor does she look down upon younger kids. They are all just kids to her. And she does have a best friend, an 8-year-old boy named Will. There is nothing wrong with that. The Anchoress correctly explains why schools and the so called experts want you to believe that there is:
This isn’t about what’s good for the children; it is about being better able to control adults by stripping from them any training in intimacy and interpersonal trust. Don’t let two people get together and separate themselves from the pack, or they might do something subversive, like…think differently.
This move against “best friends” is ultimately about preventing individuals from nurturing and expanding their individuality. It is about training our future adults to be unable to exist outside of the pack, the collective.
Bingo. For all their talk of individuality and alternative lifestyles and the like, the left wants nothing of the sort and they’ve extended that agenda to our schools. They do not want free thinkers. They want pack mentality. They don’t want individual freedom. They want sheep.
Well, they’ll have to try with someone else’s kid. My child won’t be forced to conform with the pack and her best friend allows her to be who she wants to be. Unconditionally.
The Anchoress ends by mentioning it’s yet another reason to consider homeschooling. I’d only amend that to say that it is yet another reason why I do home school.
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