Homeschooling

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When you say they don't face peer pressure... they have friends, don't they?

I'm not saying they don't "face" peer pressure--only that they aren't willing to compromise to do what everyone is doing. They have friends. We have always spent an average of 2 days per week out among a peer group of some kind (church, AWANA, homeschool group, volunteering, art school, swim lessons, etc.) They just don't seem to suffer the "Oh, what if I don't fit in??" pain that I did as a teen. I thought that was an inevitable reality and apparently it isn't.

I'm surprised that people are so hostile about this. The people that I know who homeschool aren't perfect, but very few of them are heavy handedly religiously manipulative (like about 1%--probably not far off the total population figures.) Those that are saying that as a norm religious homeschool parents abuse their kids are ignorant of the reality of the love, tenderness, study, investment, and effort that is put into homeschooling. I would never want this schooling option to be eliminated because of a few bad eggs. It has been overwhelmingly positive for our family.