I for one would NEVER get chemo. Poisoning the entire body to rid it of a few mutant cells makes absolutely no sense. There are better ways to accomplish the same goal. Epigenics is proof of that.
a few mutant cells......
what would you tell a parent whose child was diagnosed with ALL (Acute lymphoblastic leukaemia)? chemo is the main form of treatment for ALL. pretty much initially, the whole aim of the treatment is to destroy leukaemic cells and hopefully induce a remission. you said 'there are better ways to accomplish the same goal'...
i'm keen to hear it. and i'm sure with all the knowledge that you appear to have, i don't need to tell you that ALL progresses very, very quickly, there's not a lot of time. treatment has to happen sooner rather than later.
i have my listening ears on. what are the better ways?
Also, we have moved toward a single dose method where such preservatives will not be necessary.
Single dose methods with multiple vaccines in one still overload a developing immune system. This is simply too much toxicity.
Keep in mind those of us in the profession also have children and want the safest vaccinations for them. Not all. The swing against them by medical personnel is growing rapidly.
What I took issue with is your absolute statement recommending children should not be vaccinated at all. That is a bit reckless by any medical professionals standard. Not reckless...informed.
Also, since vaccinations are mandated by law in most states, we better be damn sure these things pose little risk. This is an untruth as well. While immz are suggested and "required" for school entry, parents merely sign a waver to be released from it. It is called an "exemption".
I really think, like I stated earlier, that one of the downfalls of vaccinations is their success rate. We have not had to experience the horrors of polio, pertussis, etc. We don't experience these things because for the most part the western world has erraticated them. Again as I stated before, unless going over seas or being regularly exposed to persons at risk, the need to immunize against them is miniscule.
I had a childhood friend that died from something thought of quite mild back in the day, chickenpox.
So ONE obscure incidence of this necessitates vaccination for all? I would rather take my chances. Seeing the mounting evidence, it sure shows that vaccines cause more harm than the minute possibility of a negative side effect from these diseases.
"When you're climbing to the top, you'd better know the way back down" MSB
I already gave you the dangers. Earlier I said this: "A big risk is that once an outbreak occurs among the unvaccinated, it then gives that disease organism an opportunity to multiply rapidly, which leaves open opportunity for more mutations to render the organism sufficiently changed to then infect even the vaccinated." Again it goes back to what I've stated earlier, the vaccination success rate might indeed be its downfall.
Fake religious claims get around vaccination rules
By Steve LeBlanc
Associated Press
Sabrina Rahim doesn't practice any particular faith, but signed a letter declaring deeply held religious beliefs to get 4-year-old son Zain, left, into a Boston preschool without having to vaccinate him.
BOSTON — Sabrina Rahim doesn't practice any particular faith, but she had no problem signing a letter declaring that because of her deeply held religious beliefs, her 4-year-old son should be exempt from the vaccinations required to enter preschool.
She is among a small but growing number of parents around the country who are claiming religious exemptions to avoid vaccinating their children when the real reason may be skepticism of the shots or concern they can cause other illnesses.
Some of these parents say they are being forced to lie because of the way the vaccination laws are written in their states.
"It's misleading," Rahim admitted, but she said she fears that earlier vaccinations may be to blame for her son's autism. "I find it very troubling, but for my son's safety, I feel this is the only option we have."
An Associated Press examination of states' vaccination records and data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention found that many states are seeing increases in religious exemptions claimed for kindergartners.
"Do I think that religious exemptions have become the default? Absolutely," said Dr. Paul Offit, head of infectious diseases at Children's Hospital in Philadelphia and one of the harshest critics of the anti-vaccine movement. He said the resistance to vaccines is "an irrational, fear-based decision."
The number of exemptions is extremely small in percentage terms and represents just a few thousand of the 3.7 million children entering kindergarten in 2005, the most recent figure available.
But public health officials say it takes only a few people to cause an outbreak that can put large numbers of lives at risk.
"When you choose not to get a vaccine, you're not just making a choice for yourself, you're making a choice for the person sitting next to you," said Dr. Lance Rodewald, director of the CDC's Immunization Services Division.
All states have some requirement that youngsters be immunized against such childhood diseases as measles, mumps, chickenpox, diphtheria and whooping cough.
Twenty-eight states, including Hawai'i, allow parents to opt out for medical or religious reasons only. Twenty other states also allow parents to cite personal or philosophical reasons. Hawai'i is not on that list. Mississippi and West Virginia allow exemptions for medical reasons only.
From 2003 to 2007, religious exemptions for kindergartners increased, in some cases doubled or tripled, in 20 of the 28 states that allow only medical or religious exemptions, the AP found.
While some parents — Christian Scientists and certain fundamentalists, for example — have genuine religious objections to medicine, others are simply distrustful of shots. Some fear that the vaccinations themselves may make their children sick and even cause autism.
Though government-funded studies have found no link between vaccines and autism, loosely organized groups of parents and even celebrities such as radio host Don Imus have voiced concerns. Most of their furor has been about a mercury-based preservative, once used in vaccines, that some believe contributes to neurological disorders.
Unvaccinated children can spread diseases to others who are unvaccinated or those for whom vaccinations provided less-than-complete protection.
In 1991, a religious group in Philadelphia that chose not to immunize its children touched off an outbreak of measles that claimed at least eight lives and sickened more than 700 people.
And in 2005, an Indiana girl who had not been immunized picked up the measles virus at an orphanage in Romania and unknowingly brought it back to a church group. Within a month, 31 people had been infected in the nation's worst outbreak of the disease in a decade.
Rachel Magni, a 35-year-old stay-at-home mother in Newton, Mass., said she is afraid vaccines could harm her children and "overwhelm their bodies." Even though she attends a Protestant church that allows vaccinations, Magni pursued a religious exemption so her 4-year-old daughter and 1-year-old son, who have never been vaccinated, could attend preschool.
"I felt that the risk of the vaccine was worse than the risk of the actual disease," she said.
Barbara Loe Fisher, president of the National Vaccine Information Center, said she empathizes with parents tempted to claim the religious exemption that her center discourages: "If a parent has a child who has had a deterioration after vaccination and the doctor says that's just a coincidence, you have to keep vaccinating this child, what is the parent left with?"
Admittedly, I do not know the laws state to state, just my own.
The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance,
but the illusion of knowledge.
~Daniel Boorstin
Only a life lived for others is worth living.
~Albert Einstein
No a legal exemption can be obtained by your local health department. A parent can either choose a religious or a medical exemption. Each school has the forms on file. One merely need ask for them.
"When you're climbing to the top, you'd better know the way back down" MSB
These laws are only set up for kids going to actual schools anyway. Home schoolers-- like I intend to be if I ever have kids-- don't even need to worry about this. There is no law (at least in my state) that says every child has to be vaccinated... PERIOD. Only that every child entering school has to be vaccinated.
Vaccinations aside, why would you want to keep your kids at home? Sounds like a top notch way to make sure they never make any friends or learn any social skills.
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Vaccinations aside, why would you want to keep your kids at home? Sounds like a top notch way to make sure they never make any friends or learn any social skills.
Just because I plan on homeschooling doesn't mean I plan on cloistering them in their rooms so they never see the light of day. And I don't plan on teaching them everything myself. (I suck at math for example.) I plan on getting them involved with community sports, music, dance, drama... and on top of that they will have play groups. I think they will have plenty of friends and I think they will learn better social skills than I did all the years I was in traditional school.
But lets not get off topic. This thread is about epigenetics NOT homeschooling and not even really vaccinations. Lets keep it focused, people.
Vaccinations aside, why would you want to keep your kids at home? Sounds like a top notch way to make sure they never make any friends or learn any social skills.
The evidence isn't there. There is a slight increase in anti-social behavior in children who are homeschooled, but it's played down, my guess is the standard deviation is too high. What more times than not causes anti-social behavior is authoritarian parenting. If one is homeschooling their children to keep them out of the influence of peers, then that might be the case, but if it's in objection to the education system, then they might just end up illiterate. But in most case studies children who are homeschooled turn out fine.
Personally, I'd rather take the time to find a decent school. I think it's better for the child in the long run.
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to 123 deaths—ninety percent of those who died had not been vaccinated.
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campaigns until the routine immunization program was functioning again.
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Progress is not made by everyone joining some new fad,
and reveling in it's loyalty. It's made by forming coalitions
over specific principles, goals, and policies.
I've read a lot about these cases. Usually meant to support the fact that the brain is the source of our self and consciousness, our memories, desires, fears, and inhibitions. The brain is where its all at.
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Vaccinations aside, why would you want to keep your kids at home? Sounds like a top notch way to make sure they never make any friends or learn any social skills.
It sounds like you are stereotyping all home schoolers with thoughts of the religious separatist home schoolers. They are actually a very SMALL sub set of the HS community. Actually, there is a greater increase in anti-social behaviors in children in public schools.
Actually, there is a greater increase in anti-social behaviors in children in public schools.
I've never heard of that.
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I'd say that is accurate. Is it a great difference? I don't know. It seems most if not all home schoolers I've encountered or seen featured in the media seem more well-adjusted, in general.
I'd say that is accurate. Is it a great difference? I don't know. It seems most if not all home schoolers I've encountered or seen featured in the media seem more well-adjusted, in general.
I don't care what you've seen on TV.
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Seen/read in the paper/feature articles/radio programs. Don't recall much on the TV, but I have seen some home school featured programs here and there.
The best evidence I can find to support the hypothesis that public school causes anti-social behavior is a paper by Brady 2003 available in this article: http://www.nheri.org/pdfs/154B.pdf
But what Brady is suggesting is not that homeschooling per se is the trick, but "increased parental monitoring" is, which is well-known to me.
Let's understand what causes a child to become associated with negative peer influence. Clearly the negative peer influence does not come before the parent or the child's admission to public school. So what influences could lead a child to adopt negative peer influences? Some things might be, poor peer relations, i.e. social ostracization, which may be a result of anti-social behavior, or a problem with normality or authority which will incline an individual to join the fringe.
I was anti-social in highschool, not because I was in highschool. I was socially ostracized in highschool, but only because I was anti-social. I was anti-social because of very traumatic experience in my life that put me under the microscope and made me suspect of society. There is no telling what difference it would have made if I was homeschooled. I don't think there is any consensus on this within developmental psychology and I think it's rather naive to make any such assumptions on the matter.
Just as I defended homeschooling against claims of anti-social behavior, I defend public school against those same claims, because the evidence is not there.
I necessarily have the passion for writing this, and you have the passion for condemning me; both of us are equally fools, equally the toys of destiny. Your nature is to do harm, mine is to love truth, and to make it public in spite of you. - Voltaire
The best evidence I can find to support the hypothesis that public school causes anti-social behavior is a paper by Brady 2003 available in this article: http://www.nheri.org/pdfs/154B.pdf
But what Brady is suggesting is not that homeschooling per se is the trick, but "increased parental monitoring" is, which is well-known to me.
Let's understand what causes a child to become associated with negative peer influence. Clearly the negative peer influence does not come before the parent or the child's admission to public school. So what influences could lead a child to adopt negative peer influences? Some things might be, poor peer relations, i.e. social ostracization, which may be a result of anti-social behavior, or a problem with normality or authority which will incline an individual to join the fringe.
I was anti-social in highschool, not because I was in highschool. I was socially ostracized in highschool, but only because I was anti-social. I was anti-social because of very traumatic experience in my life that put me under the microscope and made me suspect of society. There is no telling what difference it would have made if I was homeschooled. I don't think there is any consensus on this within developmental psychology and I think it's rather naive to make any such assumptions on the matter.
Just as I defended homeschooling against claims of anti-social behavior, I defend public school against those same claims, because the evidence is not there.
Seen/read in the paper/feature articles/radio programs. Don't recall much on the TV, but I have seen some home school featured programs here and there.
Crack out the citations.
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Dude, I just finished reading Fifth Edition Developmental Psychology by Prof. David Schaffer. Homeschooling and anti-social behavior were covered and as I stated already, there is no conclusive evidence. The running hypothesis has been that homeschooling is bad because it doesn't allow for peer relations, but that has always been met with scepticism.
I'm only googling because I don't have the textbook handy, I had to return it to it's rightful owner (I'm thinking about getting the Seventh edition). And the textbook wouldn't have new research in it. But my best googling efforts pull up a summary of research that suggests "increased parental monitoring" helps children develop socially, which was already covered in the Fifth edition of the book. But that alone doesn't proove that highschool causes increased social maladjustment.
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Dude, I just finished reading Fifth Edition Developmental Psychology by Prof. David Schaffer. Homeschooling and anti-social behavior were covered and as I stated already, there is no conclusive evidence. The running hypothesis has been that homeschooling is bad because it doesn't allow for peer relations, but that has always been met with scepticism.
I'm only googling because I don't have the textbook handy, I had to return it to it's rightful owner (I'm thinking about getting the Seventh edition). And the textbook wouldn't have new research in it. But my best googling efforts pull up a summary of research that suggests "increased parental monitoring" helps children develop socially, which was already covered in the Fifth edition of the book. But that alone doesn't proove that highschool causes increased social maladjustment.
Good teachers-parents are well aware of socialization and peer relations.
I guess those who might not fall into that category are the cultists/religious freaks... but that's a different topic. I don't think home schooling in general can be simplified like you are trying to do here.
Good teachers-parents are well aware of socialization and peer relations.
I guess those who might not fall into that category are the cultists/religious freaks... but that's a different topic. I don't think home schooling in general can be simplified like you are trying to do here.
Sorry, I wasn't trying to simplify it. I was actually trying to express more depth to the issue. It's not enough to look at a couple of select incidence or even the output of a couple of studies without knowing the correlation coefficient or the standard deviation, the sample groups, etc.. generally I would trust a report like Brady (2003), but he only states "increased parental monitoring" which could easily apply to children in public school, since most of their social activity occurs after school.
I necessarily have the passion for writing this, and you have the passion for condemning me; both of us are equally fools, equally the toys of destiny. Your nature is to do harm, mine is to love truth, and to make it public in spite of you. - Voltaire
But that alone doesn't proove that highschool causes increased social maladjustment.
The only "proof" I need is that high school was hell on me. I was over weight and teased A LOT. I had ADHD and got into a lot of trouble. Teachers wrote me off. They refused to educate me. Getting teachers to do their jobs with me was like pulling teeth. (I really think this is the reason my mom became a child therapist and advocate.) I was shuffled to the bottom of the pile. I was told to my face that I would never amount to anything! I was told to my face that I was going to end up in prison. Even if I tried and did my work, I only got mediocre grades. Sometimes I think they didn't even bother to actually give me accurate grades. I think they just put B- and C's on my papers so they wouldn't have to deal with me. And I quit trying after while. So, as soon as I could I dropped out, got my GED, and went to college where I excelled. I always knew I was smart. But high school was a bad place for me, and I will not force my kids to go through that. I say I will home school, and I will, but if I have kids who really want to go to traditional school I will let them go. I just don't want my kids to have to struggle like I did. I would rather just educate them myself at home, especially if they are "non-traditional" type kids like I was. That's all.
On top of that schools have changed since I was in school. They've gotten worse. I absolutely hate the idea of standardized testing in grade school. Music programs are OUT. Art programs are OUT. And then... the violence. When they put the metal detectors at the front gates... well, that was just too much for me.
The only "proof" I need is that high school was hell on me. I was over weight and teased A LOT. I had ADHD and got into a lot of trouble. Teachers wrote me off. They refused to educate me. Getting teachers to do their jobs with me was like pulling teeth. (I really think this is the reason my mom became a child therapist and advocate.) I was shuffled to the bottom of the pile. I was told to my face that I would never amount to anything! I was told to my face that I was going to end up in prison. Even if I tried and did my work, I only got mediocre grades. Sometimes I think they didn't even bother to actually give me accurate grades. I think they just put B- and C's on my papers so they wouldn't have to deal with me. And I quit trying after while. So, as soon as I could I dropped out, got my GED, and went to college where I excelled. I always knew I was smart. But high school was a bad place for me, and I will not force my kids to go through that. I say I will home school, and I will, but if I have kids who really want to go to traditional school I will let them go. I just don't want my kids to have to struggle like I did. I would rather just educate them myself at home, especially if they are "non-traditional" type kids like I was. That's all.
On top of that schools have changed since I was in school. They've gotten worse. I absolutely hate the idea of standardized testing in grade school. Music programs are OUT. Art programs are OUT. And then... the violence. When they put the metal detectors at the front gates... well, that was just too much for me.
I can almost guarantee I had a worse time in highschool. But I don't consider that conclusive evidence. Most kids have a great time in highschool and depriving them of that is bad, IMO.
I necessarily have the passion for writing this, and you have the passion for condemning me; both of us are equally fools, equally the toys of destiny. Your nature is to do harm, mine is to love truth, and to make it public in spite of you. - Voltaire
I can almost guarantee I had a worse time in highschool. But I don't consider that conclusive evidence. Most kids have a great time in highschool and depriving them of that is bad, IMO.
Its a good thing that you qualified that by saying almost because I don't know how you could guarantee any such thing. You don't know me well enough to make such a blanket statement. And even if it is true that you had a worse time in high school than I did, that only illicits pity from me toward you. And most kids aren't MY kids. If my kids are anything like I was then I won't subject them to the treatment that I got in high school... especially not in the culture of violence we have now. Not now, with classrooms of 35 students, and one seriously underpaid teacher, who only teaches them how to pass standardized tests and nothing else, where there is no music or art, and MY KIDS have to walk through metal detectors just to get to homeroom. No thanks!
And that's the last I'm going to say about this. I really wish we could get back to talking epigenetics before this thread gets closed for being off topic.
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a few mutant cells......
what would you tell a parent whose child was diagnosed with ALL (Acute lymphoblastic leukaemia)? chemo is the main form of treatment for ALL. pretty much initially, the whole aim of the treatment is to destroy leukaemic cells and hopefully induce a remission. you said 'there are better ways to accomplish the same goal'...
i'm keen to hear it. and i'm sure with all the knowledge that you appear to have, i don't need to tell you that ALL progresses very, very quickly, there's not a lot of time. treatment has to happen sooner rather than later.
i have my listening ears on. what are the better ways?
As far as a wavier, do you mean something like this? http://www.honoluluadvertiser.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20071018/NEWS07/710180330/-1/NEWS07
Fake religious claims get around vaccination rules
By Steve LeBlanc
Associated Press
Sabrina Rahim doesn't practice any particular faith, but signed a letter declaring deeply held religious beliefs to get 4-year-old son Zain, left, into a Boston preschool without having to vaccinate him.
BOSTON — Sabrina Rahim doesn't practice any particular faith, but she had no problem signing a letter declaring that because of her deeply held religious beliefs, her 4-year-old son should be exempt from the vaccinations required to enter preschool.
She is among a small but growing number of parents around the country who are claiming religious exemptions to avoid vaccinating their children when the real reason may be skepticism of the shots or concern they can cause other illnesses.
Some of these parents say they are being forced to lie because of the way the vaccination laws are written in their states.
"It's misleading," Rahim admitted, but she said she fears that earlier vaccinations may be to blame for her son's autism. "I find it very troubling, but for my son's safety, I feel this is the only option we have."
An Associated Press examination of states' vaccination records and data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention found that many states are seeing increases in religious exemptions claimed for kindergartners.
"Do I think that religious exemptions have become the default? Absolutely," said Dr. Paul Offit, head of infectious diseases at Children's Hospital in Philadelphia and one of the harshest critics of the anti-vaccine movement. He said the resistance to vaccines is "an irrational, fear-based decision."
The number of exemptions is extremely small in percentage terms and represents just a few thousand of the 3.7 million children entering kindergarten in 2005, the most recent figure available.
But public health officials say it takes only a few people to cause an outbreak that can put large numbers of lives at risk.
"When you choose not to get a vaccine, you're not just making a choice for yourself, you're making a choice for the person sitting next to you," said Dr. Lance Rodewald, director of the CDC's Immunization Services Division.
All states have some requirement that youngsters be immunized against such childhood diseases as measles, mumps, chickenpox, diphtheria and whooping cough.
Twenty-eight states, including Hawai'i, allow parents to opt out for medical or religious reasons only. Twenty other states also allow parents to cite personal or philosophical reasons. Hawai'i is not on that list. Mississippi and West Virginia allow exemptions for medical reasons only.
From 2003 to 2007, religious exemptions for kindergartners increased, in some cases doubled or tripled, in 20 of the 28 states that allow only medical or religious exemptions, the AP found.
While some parents — Christian Scientists and certain fundamentalists, for example — have genuine religious objections to medicine, others are simply distrustful of shots. Some fear that the vaccinations themselves may make their children sick and even cause autism.
Though government-funded studies have found no link between vaccines and autism, loosely organized groups of parents and even celebrities such as radio host Don Imus have voiced concerns. Most of their furor has been about a mercury-based preservative, once used in vaccines, that some believe contributes to neurological disorders.
Unvaccinated children can spread diseases to others who are unvaccinated or those for whom vaccinations provided less-than-complete protection.
In 1991, a religious group in Philadelphia that chose not to immunize its children touched off an outbreak of measles that claimed at least eight lives and sickened more than 700 people.
And in 2005, an Indiana girl who had not been immunized picked up the measles virus at an orphanage in Romania and unknowingly brought it back to a church group. Within a month, 31 people had been infected in the nation's worst outbreak of the disease in a decade.
Rachel Magni, a 35-year-old stay-at-home mother in Newton, Mass., said she is afraid vaccines could harm her children and "overwhelm their bodies." Even though she attends a Protestant church that allows vaccinations, Magni pursued a religious exemption so her 4-year-old daughter and 1-year-old son, who have never been vaccinated, could attend preschool.
"I felt that the risk of the vaccine was worse than the risk of the actual disease," she said.
Barbara Loe Fisher, president of the National Vaccine Information Center, said she empathizes with parents tempted to claim the religious exemption that her center discourages: "If a parent has a child who has had a deterioration after vaccination and the doctor says that's just a coincidence, you have to keep vaccinating this child, what is the parent left with?"
Admittedly, I do not know the laws state to state, just my own.
but the illusion of knowledge.
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Just because I plan on homeschooling doesn't mean I plan on cloistering them in their rooms so they never see the light of day. And I don't plan on teaching them everything myself. (I suck at math for example.) I plan on getting them involved with community sports, music, dance, drama... and on top of that they will have play groups. I think they will have plenty of friends and I think they will learn better social skills than I did all the years I was in traditional school.
But lets not get off topic. This thread is about epigenetics NOT homeschooling and not even really vaccinations. Lets keep it focused, people.
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Deni
The evidence isn't there. There is a slight increase in anti-social behavior in children who are homeschooled, but it's played down, my guess is the standard deviation is too high. What more times than not causes anti-social behavior is authoritarian parenting. If one is homeschooling their children to keep them out of the influence of peers, then that might be the case, but if it's in objection to the education system, then they might just end up illiterate. But in most case studies children who are homeschooled turn out fine.
Personally, I'd rather take the time to find a decent school. I think it's better for the child in the long run.
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I've read a lot about these cases. Usually meant to support the fact that the brain is the source of our self and consciousness, our memories, desires, fears, and inhibitions. The brain is where its all at.
I've never heard of that.
I'd say that is accurate. Is it a great difference? I don't know. It seems most if not all home schoolers I've encountered or seen featured in the media seem more well-adjusted, in general.
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I don't care what you've seen on TV.
Seen/read in the paper/feature articles/radio programs. Don't recall much on the TV, but I have seen some home school featured programs here and there.
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But what Brady is suggesting is not that homeschooling per se is the trick, but "increased parental monitoring" is, which is well-known to me.
Let's understand what causes a child to become associated with negative peer influence. Clearly the negative peer influence does not come before the parent or the child's admission to public school. So what influences could lead a child to adopt negative peer influences? Some things might be, poor peer relations, i.e. social ostracization, which may be a result of anti-social behavior, or a problem with normality or authority which will incline an individual to join the fringe.
I was anti-social in highschool, not because I was in highschool. I was socially ostracized in highschool, but only because I was anti-social. I was anti-social because of very traumatic experience in my life that put me under the microscope and made me suspect of society. There is no telling what difference it would have made if I was homeschooled. I don't think there is any consensus on this within developmental psychology and I think it's rather naive to make any such assumptions on the matter.
Just as I defended homeschooling against claims of anti-social behavior, I defend public school against those same claims, because the evidence is not there.
Thank god for google, eh?
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Crack out the citations.
I prefer to use what I can access from my own experience.
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Dude, I just finished reading Fifth Edition Developmental Psychology by Prof. David Schaffer. Homeschooling and anti-social behavior were covered and as I stated already, there is no conclusive evidence. The running hypothesis has been that homeschooling is bad because it doesn't allow for peer relations, but that has always been met with scepticism.
I'm only googling because I don't have the textbook handy, I had to return it to it's rightful owner (I'm thinking about getting the Seventh edition). And the textbook wouldn't have new research in it. But my best googling efforts pull up a summary of research that suggests "increased parental monitoring" helps children develop socially, which was already covered in the Fifth edition of the book. But that alone doesn't proove that highschool causes increased social maladjustment.
Good teachers-parents are well aware of socialization and peer relations.
I guess those who might not fall into that category are the cultists/religious freaks... but that's a different topic. I don't think home schooling in general can be simplified like you are trying to do here.
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Sorry, I wasn't trying to simplify it. I was actually trying to express more depth to the issue. It's not enough to look at a couple of select incidence or even the output of a couple of studies without knowing the correlation coefficient or the standard deviation, the sample groups, etc.. generally I would trust a report like Brady (2003), but he only states "increased parental monitoring" which could easily apply to children in public school, since most of their social activity occurs after school.
The only "proof" I need is that high school was hell on me. I was over weight and teased A LOT. I had ADHD and got into a lot of trouble. Teachers wrote me off. They refused to educate me. Getting teachers to do their jobs with me was like pulling teeth. (I really think this is the reason my mom became a child therapist and advocate.) I was shuffled to the bottom of the pile. I was told to my face that I would never amount to anything! I was told to my face that I was going to end up in prison. Even if I tried and did my work, I only got mediocre grades. Sometimes I think they didn't even bother to actually give me accurate grades. I think they just put B- and C's on my papers so they wouldn't have to deal with me. And I quit trying after while. So, as soon as I could I dropped out, got my GED, and went to college where I excelled. I always knew I was smart.
On top of that schools have changed since I was in school. They've gotten worse. I absolutely hate the idea of standardized testing in grade school. Music programs are OUT. Art programs are OUT. And then... the violence. When they put the metal detectors at the front gates... well, that was just too much for me.
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Deni
I can almost guarantee I had a worse time in highschool. But I don't consider that conclusive evidence. Most kids have a great time in highschool and depriving them of that is bad, IMO.
Its a good thing that you qualified that by saying almost because I don't know how you could guarantee any such thing. You don't know me well enough to make such a blanket statement. And even if it is true that you had a worse time in high school than I did, that only illicits pity from me toward you. And most kids aren't MY kids. If my kids are anything like I was then I won't subject them to the treatment that I got in high school... especially not in the culture of violence we have now. Not now, with classrooms of 35 students, and one seriously underpaid teacher, who only teaches them how to pass standardized tests and nothing else, where there is no music or art, and MY KIDS have to walk through metal detectors just to get to homeroom. No thanks!
And that's the last I'm going to say about this. I really wish we could get back to talking epigenetics before this thread gets closed for being off topic.
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Deni
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