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Originally Posted by tracilicious
If a homeschooled kid spends 98% of their time on art and only 2% on "basic subjects," what does it matter as long as he can provide for himself as an adult? It isn't like there is some age cutoff where we must stop learning. If an adult feels they were shorted in math by school or their parents or whatever they can always learn it on their own.
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The things I learn or relearn best as an adult--be they language, music, or physical/hand-eye coordination things--are things in which I acquired some basic competency as a child or youth when these things are most easily learned. The idea of a child spending only two percent of his school day on reading and math strikes me as a recipe for failure. Some tendencies are to be encouraged. Some are to be overcome.