Home schooling in CA

tracilicious · 03-11-2008, 12:37 PM

I'm not sure kids learn much about the "real world" by being in school. In the real world you get to direct a lot of your time yourself, you aren't isolated to people of the same age, etc. I didn't really even have exposure to very many different kinds of people in school. In the advanced classes it was mostly middle class white christians. It wasn't until after I graduated and got a job at a used bookstore that I encountered different ways of thinking. The real world theory doesn't hold a lot of water.

03-11-2008, 12:37 PM	#1
tracilicious avatar transition Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: in-between Posts: 2,487	I'm not sure kids learn much about the "real world" by being in school. In the real world you get to direct a lot of your time yourself, you aren't isolated to people of the same age, etc. I didn't really even have exposure to very many different kinds of people in school. In the advanced classes it was mostly middle class white christians. It wasn't until after I graduated and got a job at a used bookstore that I encountered different ways of thinking. The real world theory doesn't hold a lot of water. __________________ And now Harry, let us step into the night and pursue that flighty temptress, adventure! - Albus Dumbledore
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