On homeschooling

Does anyone else notice the issue here? She’s making the argument that homeschooled kids are normal while not being quite normal herself. I would flip the stats and say that about 80% of the homeschooled kids I’ve met are weird.

Also, she’s listing off “cool” people that were homeschooled, and names mostly historical figures instead of people we know that are alive today. Who knows if they were weird or awkward? Not me. Though I’ll bet Darwin was a weirdo. Plus, weren’t most people pre-1900 homeschooled in some form anyway? So using them as examples makes no sense.

I have a theory, though: the fact that homeschooled kids are weird usually (not always) has something to do with their parents, not the homeschooling itself. In other words, the kind of parents that prefer to homeschool are going to have weird kids whether or not they actually homeschool them, just by the environment they’re raised in.

There’s absolutely no way to prove that, of course. Just a theory.