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> when they're later voting against other classes because they were never exposed to people from them early on

If you think homeschooling makes kids grow up to be prejudiced, you should just say that, instead of insinuating it.





> If you think homeschooling makes kids grow up to be prejudiced, you should just say that, instead of insinuating it.

Absolutely not what I was insinuating.

I was suggesting that explicit isolation from potential peers that come from different levels of wealth or backgrounds based on pre-existing prejudice has the potential to reinforce those prejudices. I'd wager this would overwhelmingly come from private schools and suburbs, not homeschooling, but it's more of a matter of where the desire to control the exposure comes from if that's part of the reason.

So no, I was making no direct association between homeschooling and prejudice.




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