From: Lucky Green <shamrock@netcom.com>
Date: Mon, 23 Sep 1996 17:55:32 +0800
To: snow <snow@smoke.suba.com>
Subject: Re: Informal Renegotiation of the Law
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On Sun, 22 Sep 1996, snow wrote:
>      I would agree that parents can do as good or better at _most_ subjects 
> thru about the 3rd or 4th grade, and I do agree that most of todays schools 
> are shit, however there is one area--social skills--that homeschooling 
> simply can't compete. Children need to learn how to interact with one another
> in groups larger than a family unit. I don't think that homeschooling can
> accomplish this nearly as well as the public (or private) schools could. 

I understand that many parents that homeschool belong to organizations
that provide for meetings twice a week in which the children so educated
in a certain area get together.  Homeschooling does not have to stand in
the way of a normal socialization process. 

--Lucky