The [Taylor] family is part of a small subset of affluent homeowners who home-school their kids—but not for typical reasons of wanting to provide religious instruction or because they don’t like the public schools nearby. Instead, they say they can create their own optimal learning environments by buying or building homes in which almost every room is a classroom. [...]
“When you do a house from the ground up, you do it for how your family lives. Home schooling for us is a lifestyle”
— wsj.com
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You know? Me and my friends were joking about this the other day, who knew it was true?
Fortunately their inheritance will preclude them from ever having to be productive citizens in society.
I asked my teacher/wife about this just last week…mine was more centered on a rural farm environment, more interested in values. Never really finished the discussion, but my concern was going on to college…she brought up friends & sports…she said college wouldn’t be a problem…not sure on that, my kids got x-rayed on their school life as much as grades…sports & interests/activities can be accommodated, but not sure about friends….maybe with these people they just buy some.
all the home schoolers I knew, for the most part crazy religious, when they got to college they discovered Freedom, drank too much, did too many drugs, got knocked up or a girl pregnant and dropped out of college and reality. good chance most these kids will fail miserably when they meet they real world. also good chance they will never need to meet the real world.
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