Here they are making friends with homeschoolers. Yet the schooled ones fail to see that this very interaction directly answers their questions. The irony escapes them. Concern with socialization overwhelms and blinds them. Until recently the public s major concern with homeschooling was that students would suffer academically.
Adults truly believe that homeschoolers are compromised in their ability to have friends.
Syndicated columnists have claimed that homeschoolers suffer socially because of their supposed isolation from peers. And children s comments about homeschoolers being unable to make friends reflect what their elders are telling them. So strong is this belief that when the facts contradict it, the blind remain blind. Even when the disbelieving are in the midst of making friends with a homeschooler, they just do not realize what is happening. Certainly homeschoolers are not isolated.