There are absolutely awful homeschooling parents out there but it really is up to the home in question doing the schooling. My Mom would, every semester, find text books covering the topics you normally have in school, and then some, and make a weekly plan out of it. I was given the plan, the books, and an essay to have written about topics presented by the end of the week. It was encouraged to cross topics, so for example I might read Tom Sawyer, then read a history book about the real steamships that were on the Mississippi, then the steam power that moved the ships and the science behind that. Not every parent can or will do that, but I just mean to say like, not all homeschooling parents are making antisocial disorganized idiots with no work ethic. I'm only anticisocial and disorganized.

[–] ichmagrum@feddit.de 0 points 1 year ago (2 children)

So, I reckon your parents didn't solve the "how does a homeschooled child get properly socialized" issue?

[–] JungleJim@sh.itjust.works 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

No, not fully, but I was pretty active in our church growing up. That has its own issues but I definitely hung out with outer kids my own age, older and younger kids, old people, and people with mental and physical disabilities multiple hours a day multiple days a week.

[–] ichmagrum@feddit.de 0 points 1 year ago

Yeah, I'd assume that's the main socialization for most homeschooled kids in the US, but that's like a whole other can of worms. Though I guess not every church is full of raging fundamentalists and/or rapists.