Lets face it, kids do one thing well, they learn! They do not however always learn the things we wish them too! Before they are born they are learning our voices, when they are born they learn how to get us tall humans to do their bidding, and before we know it they are talking and walking and getting into our naughty drawers. Oh come now, you know you have things you rather your children not see!
Now picture all the things we rather our kids not learn about, and picture them spending most of their days with other little geniuses who have also learned things their parents rather them not learn about. What will they do? They will share the naughty! Bad manners, rude language, even cruel jokes. Not to mention what they think they know of the birds and the bees. That is even before the drinking, drugs, and reckless driving that spreads like wild fire. I was just listening to the radio last night with my husband on a drive and there was a man talking about a study showing that 70% of kids text when alone behind the wheel. Only 7% of kids text with a parent in the passenger seat. WHO are those 7% of parents I have to wonder and what kind of kids have they sent out into the world to teach the rest of ours all kinds of things?
Kids learn from other kids very well, and it is not always great things. Sadly abuse tends to get spread around, hurting kids tend to hurt others. There can be more drama than we ever dreamed. We can try to ignore it, but there it is. When you have 30 kids and one teacher and so much time for Chaos, things happen. I know this too well having gone to public school and oh the trouble I learned from other kids and no doubt shared with other kids too!
As parents we can’t be in all those classes and moments with our kids, and I am not saying they can all be avoided with homeschooling as that is just not the case, kids have friends and many homeschoolers have public school friends. We as parents though can have more say in helping our children choose their close friends and dealing with other peoples crazy Monkeys! We don’t just have to through our hands up and accept that our kids will learn depravity from other kids. We can’t just say that they need to learn to deal with it either, the school system is not the “real” world. It can be referred to as a closed system of accepted kid jail. Like our real prison system, people tend to come out having learned all sorts of things we wish they hadn’t and never intended them to. Your free to not agree of course! When it comes to public school drama though, I am happy to be a homeschooler and be able to say: “Not my Circus, Not my Monkeys!”
