How can home and private schooled children be better prepared for the world they will enter in 18 short years?

The children placed in these situations have many various reasons. Some parents place their children in these situations to keep them away from other children who may be bad influences on them–drugs, sex, violence. For many others religion plays a role; public schools really shame religion in many ways. You can’t walk fifty feet in a public high school without hearing the Lord’s name taken in vain and at least five swears, possibly used by one person in one sentence that would be significantly shorter if the words were omitted. Also any thing you may not take part in or approve of on moral grounds can make you plenty of enemies–you can offend someone simply by telling her that you don’t think moving in with her boyfriend would be in her best interest especially considering the circumstances of their relationship. This can make highschool an especially trying time for children with morals.

These are very good reasons and I support parents who believe this is a significant reason for removing their children from such an environment, that is, if they properly perform the duties they will have following this removal. Many children who attend private schools or who are home schooled face harsh reality when they step out alone into the world we take for granted knowing before we’re swept into it. These children don’t know half of the terms commonly used in public schools; these words include ghetto, pimp, and rape. At first you may think these words would serve no purpose in a moral child’s life. You’re right, except what happens if they eventually live in a place where people tell them to stay out of the ghetto and to avoid pimps because they might get raped? They also hardly interact with people they aren’t familiar with. What will happen to them when they have to get jobs and deal with people, sometimes upset people? They will lack the social skills necessary to do the job and not go home crying at night. This is just setting the children up for failure.

You may ask, how do I know this? Why do I care so much about making a difference? That’s because this is the story of my life. I was enrolled in a Catholic school, married young, and because of my husband’s job, was placed in an environment I was completely naive to. I know how it feels and how much of an affect it has on the emotional and physical well being of a young adult. I support a parent wanting a child to be moral, but not hindering them in life for this purpose. Some integration into society must take place in order for a child to enter into society properly. This can happen many ways including sports, jobs/volunteer work, and music programs.

However small, it is necessary for a child’s well being and this is the point I make in my book The Torments of the Modest, Secluded Farm Life (ISBN: 1-58721-806-2) and my screenplay Broken Souls.

If you are considering such schooling or are just interested, please, read it and consider the ramifications.

Thank you,
Doris Anne Beaulieu
www.LifesUltimateTest.com