History books tend to be extremely biased (America is a christian nation, gosh darn it) (but my parents somehow mostly avoided this)
Biology books tend to be completely wrong because you have to lie a lot when you don't believe evolution (I'm still pissed about this)
Science/astronomy books tend to have wrong sections because you have to lie a lot when you believe the earth is 6000 years old.
These three seem like one point (biased curriculum.)
I'm surprised by the socialization ones; I thought there were studies saying homeschoolers were actually socialized just fine, thank you? (It's possible you were just unusual in this regard, I guess.)
These three seem like one point (biased curriculum.)
Agree, similar points, I split it out because it's apparently possible to be relatively sane about american history and relatively insane about evolution, which I wouldn't have expected. From my large sample size of two or three, other homeschoolers I know got both or neither.
I thought there were studies saying homeschoolers were actually socialized just fine, thank you?
I have two hypotheses; first, most of my social-interaction-hours growing up were spent with adults. As a result I got (I think) v...
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