主题：【求助】【原创】此事到底该由谁来负责——直视现代幼儿教育 -- 一一略过

Ann Arbor: Teaching children at home won't make them social misfits, a University of Michigan study suggests.

The detailed study of 53 adults who were taught at home by their parents is one of the first to examine the long-term effects of homeschooling - a practice now followed by as many as 300,000 American families.

"One of the major arguments against home schooling is that it deprives children of the peer contacts needed for normal social development," says J. Gary Knowles, U-M assistant professor of education. "Public school educators and other critics also question whether home-educated children will be able to become productive, participating members of a diverse and democratic society.

"But I found no evidence that these adults were even moderately disadvantaged in either respect. Two-thirds of them were married - the norm for adults their age - and none were unemployed or on any form of welfare assistance. More than three-quarters felt that being taught at home had actually helped them interact with people from different levels of society."