An equally unprofessional response to the PopSugar.com article:
“What Homeschooling Gets Wrong About Socialization, According to a Former Teacher”
If you subscribe whole heartedly to the public school definition of socialization in an artificial setting of same aged peers day after day, then homeschool kids are getting it wrong and always will.
Whether this is a recap for you, or you are just discovering Hifalutin Homeschool, lets look back on what my readers found the most informative, hilarious, outrageous, or possibly irritating and worthy of sharing on social media. Hifalutin Homeschooler sprang up in 2016 on a fountain of sarcasm and comical introspection of my life as a homeschool mom. If you have kept up from the start, thank you for your nosy curiosity. If I have not offended you on some level yet, I promise to try harder this year. And if you are just joining us, welcome. Join us in 2017 and allow me to show you how not to take yourself too seriously.
Legend has it that the 12 or some odd children, though illiterate and poorly spoken, were nonetheless able to quote the Bible by book, chapter and verse and without dropping the piece of straw they gritted between their maligned teeth…they shield their faces from strangers who might try and engage them. Socially. Their story has become infamous and an albatross around many of our necks.
…In fact don’t expect anything. Then you don’t have to feel like a failure if/when the following happens: …
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