Re:Home schooling's rise from fringe to fastest-growing form...
by hotnfresh on Tuesday October 31, 2023 @08:55PM
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> I got really into fencing as a kid, which for whatever reason attracted a lot of private school and homeschooled kids
Selecting relatively obscure sports that nonetheless have a decent representation on college sports rosters is a college admissions and scholarship “hacking” thing. Fencing used to be a great choice for that, dunno if it still is.
No amount of artificially constructed socialization immersion is going to beat the organic development of spending several hours, every day, surrounded by a ton of other kids.
What you end up with is a kid who has marginal experience with conflict resolution, communication skills, and any degree of independence. Which in turn, makes them perceived as weird, meaning that when they do have social interactions with others, they get marginalized, and further deprived of social development.
Public schools definitely have a misalignment of interests problem, but private schools solve that problem without stunting your child's charisma.