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hunter

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20. On the other hand, I know someone who was accepted to a PhD program entirely "home schooled."
Mon Nov 2, 2015, 10:44 PM
Nov 2015

Her parents were scientists, most frequently living in very remote places of Africa, etc.

Her teachers and daycare providers were scientists and graduate students working in the field.

Unwashed Humans, all of them. Stinky.

My own parents are artists and I enjoyed a similar feral childhood, chasing my own interests.

I quit high school for college. I was very done with high school the very first day, but it took some time to escape.

Nevertheless, I recognize many "home-schooler" parents are rather dim and intensely fearful that their children might learn some biology in school, most especially human biology, or maybe worse, evolutionary biology, or God Forbid, SEX!

My parents are artists but they've never had any trouble with science. As a kid all my questions about sex or science were answered, if not by my mom's words, then by my dad's drawings.



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