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Your thesis was that home schooled pupils have a more difficult time aquiring social skills than their public school educated peers. How does this study (or thi

• jaawn 11y ago
  It wasn't my claim that home-schooled students have difficulty acquiring social skills in general, it was that they miss out on a specific set of social skills, namely dealing with people who are different from them, whom they do not like, who have different opinions, etc... while maintaining productivity. Basically: learning to work together with a diverse set of peers and maybe to empathize with people who see the world differently, or to at least gain experience in coping with differences. The study/quote supports this by giving a rough indication of how most public schools are diverse places. Obviously, this doesn't "prove" the entirety of my statements, it just offers a small amount of support in the area of public schools being either segregated or diverse.
  • jt2190 11y ago
    > The study/quote supports this by giving a rough indication > of how most public schools are diverse places... No. They study reports that schools are increasingly segregating along socio-economic lines, despite efforts to desegregate public schools by race.