• Look at NHERI to see information and documentation showing that:
  • "[H]ome educators carefully address the socialization needs of their children in every area studied (i.e., personal identity, personal destiny, values and moral development, autonomy, relationships, sexuality, and social skills)."
  • "[T]he home educated had significantly lower problem behavior scores than do their conventional school agemates. And the home educated have positive self-concepts."
  • "[T]he home educated have significantly higher self concepts than those in public schools.
  • "The home schooled are well adjusted socially and emotionally like their private school comparison group. The home educated, however, are less peer dependent than the private school students."
  • "[H]ome schooled students are just as involved in out-of-school and extracurricular activities that predict leadership in adulthood as are those in the comparison private school (that was comprised of students more involved than those in public schools).
  • Home education families "... have not turned their backs on the broader social contract as understood at the time of the Founding [of America]. [They are] ... asserting their historic individual rights so that they may form more meaningful bonds with family and community. In doing so, they are not abdicating from the American agreement. To the contrary, they are affirming it."
  • "Home educators and their families are not dependent on public, tax-funded resources. (In Oregon, they appear to be saving taxpayers at least $31 million per year.)"
  • "Dr. Larry Shyers observed children in free play and group interaction activities. Conventionally schooled children had significantly more problem behaviors than did the home educated. This is probably because the primary models of behavior for the home educated are their parents."
  • "Home educated children are more mature and better socialized than are those sent to school."
  • Among a study of adults who were home educated, "None were unemployed and none were on welfare."

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