girl roles-playing princess, etc.

[Irulan]

No, it's not. Homeschooling does not equal social, cultural, religious, ethnic or any other kind of isolation. There are as many different types of homeschoolers as there are people who send their kids to brick-and-mortar school. Please do not perpetuate that stereotype.

I'm visiting out of town and don't have easy internet access, so I may or may not be able to post in this thread again. This explains my rather direct reply.

Karen

uh yeah, wow

Unless you homeschool and don't let your kids play with other kids . . . then you can't control everything they are exposed to.

Yes certainly the stereo type of the overprotective, isolationist home school families exist BUT there are as many kinds of home school variations as there are colors of skin on the planet. I agree don't perpetuate the stereo type of homeschools as a bunch of isolationist fanatics...
I personally know:
-education co-op types, with huge amounts of intellectual and social input from a variety of sources (field trips, community experiences,visiting experts, shared teaching);
- religious/isolationist home schoolers;
-hippie-granola home schoolers;
-waldorf type family education groups
-gifted kids working way past their grade level with parent and community support;
-trouble maker kids who's parents "home school" them but this just means the kid watches tv and skateboards all day,


This is why I am such a proponent of telling a kid why, in their terms, something is the way it is at our house.