Education Expert, Homeschooling, and Socialization
January 24th, 2008
The San Antonio Express News published a very positive article on homeschooling. The best part was that when they presented the obligatory “expert” view on homeschooling who you expected to give the standard “problems with socialization” spiel, you got this instead:
MySA.com: Our Point Of View: On Motherhood and Parenting in San Antonio
Experts say the idea that you have to go to public school to be truly socialized is bizarre.
“That’s a very tortured definition of socialization,” says Terry Osborn, professor and chair of the Graduate School of Education at Fordham University. “The idea of a homogenous grouping of 25 to 30 children who sit at their desks all day long and do activities — to call that socialization is tortured. You and I don’t live and function in that kind of environment.”
Thank you Melissa Fletcher Stoeltje for finding an “education authority” that doesn’t think homeschoolers are missing out on socialization.
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See also:
- Now why are people worried about homeschoolers? (December 26th, 2009)
- Progressive homeschooling (April 6th, 2008)
- Top Websites on Homeschooling Legality in Texas (January 5th, 2008)
- San Antonio SAT Prep (October 1st, 2007)
- Petition for the National Education Association (September 29th, 2007)
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