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Originally Posted by Rain Man
Cool. Thanks for the explanation.
The origin of my question is that I've wondered if a lot of home-school kids get narrow educations, intentionally or inadvertently. I figure that very few parents have broad enough educations and interests to teach everything a student should learn. But getting an online curriculum where that stuff is already thought out and packaged could solve that problem. I can empathize with your other concerns.
In my youth, I don't think home schooling was really a thing. Or at least it wasn't in my part of the world. I think maybe we had one kid who got pulled out of the system because his parents were mad about some sports stuff, but I'm not even sure about that. The closest we had was some religious fundamentalist school that had about six students. I didn't even know it existed until I graduated and those kids were listed among the graduates.
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There is certainly a sizeable portion of the homeschool community here that is doing it for religious reasons. However, about the time we started homeschooling there was a big swell in people like us, pulling kids out of school for non-religious reasons. Instead of trying to understand why it was happening, the school district decided to get defensive and treat us like trash.