Comments on: How Isolation Damages Youngsters' Developing Brains

By: Clary

Clary — Sun, 23 Sep 2012 02:11:52 +0000

This sounds like a reason to be very concerned for premature infants, and other babies who must stay in the hospital for weeks with only limited caregiver interaction. For instance, babies born with addictions and removed immediately from a parent but then unable to leave the hospital to enter foster care. Perhaps some of their problems originate not solely from the addiction, but also from the relative isolation during treatment.

By: tharun

tharun — Fri, 21 Sep 2012 13:34:14 +0000

Home schooling doesn’t mean you are isolated or your freedom for social interaction is denied.This experiment means no interaction of any kind with anyone.you will still be in contact with your parents ,sibling in a home schooling environment……..

By: Joe_Ks

Joe_Ks — Fri, 21 Sep 2012 02:55:06 +0000

Vel, if the public education system teaches your children what to believe rather than how to think, My personal view is home schooling is better. Seriously, I used to be a supervisor on a construction related job. During the summer, most of our work was on school properties. The pick up in work required temporary summer help to be hired. I was a supervisor for 15 years, and I can tell you honestly that the previously home schooled college kids we hired were hands down the most respectful of regulations and authority, the most eager to do the job well, the easiest to get along with and relate to, in every way more efficient and reliable than those kids who had graduated from public high schools. They invariably earned my personal respect and appreciation as a supervisor. They made my job easier and I didn’t have to tippy toe around their feelings or excuses like I had to do so often with public high school graduates. I didn’t have to figure out how to motivate them or keep them honest in their work, it was their nature to be motivated and honest. We only had one problem with them: We couldn’t keep them, they had bigger and better plans for their lives than being time clock laborers on a construction crew. This is kind of long, but it is honest. I was not home schooled myself, I grew up a couple of generations ago, but I can promise you that home schooling, if done RIGHT from K-12 is an absolute blessing for a child. If done wrong, they might as well be in the public system. The deciding factor, I believe, is not home schooling vs. public schooling. The deciding factor rest not in social trends, claims or opinions. It rest in the dedication to excellence in education of the parents who home school, including not just academic issues, but personal character and social training as well. In the final analysis, how children turn out socially and intellectually is much more the responsibility of parents than it is public education. Being home schooled does not automatically equate with social isolation. A wise parent would be in touch with other home schoolers for their own learning and to provide their children with social peers.

By: Frances-anne

Frances-anne — Wed, 19 Sep 2012 15:00:34 +0000

Many homeschoolers are part of programs that bring kids together, or participate with classroom activities at a school (such as going in for band class or PE), or after school activities. Most homeschool parents do not isolate their children, they just don’t want them receiving what they consider a sub-standard education in public school.

By: vel

vel — Wed, 19 Sep 2012 14:51:07 +0000

As much as I would have loved to have been home-schooled, is this a valid argument against it?