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Originally posted by bilmore
I was responding to my perception that both you and 'da fish think that homeschooled kids are lockstep copies of Mom and Pop BibleBelt. My experience tells me that homeschooling results in some extraordinarily freethinking kids.
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FWIW, there's a bestselling book out that came out last year written by a homeschooled kid named Christopher Paolini. (Go look it up on the Amazon link.) It's very well written, and it's currently number one on the NYT children's bestsellers list. Kid wrote it when he was 15 years old. He's 19 years old now, and he says that he would have never been able to write it he had been in a conventional school. I don't get the impression that there's anything fucked up about this kid, other than the fact he's going to be very, very wealthy before he's in his 20s. His book is a fantasy book, so SD probably will put him in the dorks and losers category, though.
I have a colleague whose husband homeschools their three children. She and I have very similar political philosophies, and her kids don't seem particularly maladjusted.
