Question for Home Schooling Kids

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I completely agree. A good friend who is a special ed teacher has a very low opinion of homeschooling. Yet she doesn't know a single homeschooling family. Not one. She has some of the usual stereotypes - no socialization, weird kids, weird parents, behind academically. I don't homeschool but I know many who do and it works well for them. It bugs me when people make snap judgments without knowing anything about who or what they are judging.

I know people like this too. They make a generalization about an entire community of people based on 1 or even 0 people they personally know! Makes no sense.

If you don't know anyone who homeschools personally, and just have vague ideas about it, I'm not sure where your opinion comes from at all.

If you know ONE family who homeschools, then you're judging 1.8M kids by ONE family. If you were mugged by a person from Nebraska (a state of 1.8M people), would you say that all Nebraskans are muggers? If you got into a car accident with someone from West Virginia (a state of 1.8M people), would you say that everyone from WV is a bad driver? Yet that's what you do when you say that all homeschoolers should be judged by the single instance you met a single homeschooler. It's beyond stereotyping or generalizing.