Article: READERS' FORUM: HOME SCHOOLING DOES MAKE THE GRADE, SAY PARENT-TEACHERS AND GRADUATES.(LOCAL)(Letter to the Editor)

``At home with school,'' a series on home schooling by reporter Philip Walzer, ran on The Pilot front page for four days last week. The series, and a subsequent letter to the editor, hit home with readers. Here are some of their comments.

Home-schooled need

exposure to others

While it appears that home-schooled children are academically equal to their peers, or in many cases academically accelerated, academics is not more important than socialization in human development.

Even students of a one-room schoolhouse had to deal with the class bully, the whiner, the ingratiating teacher's pet. These same people, in their adult version, have ...

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