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To: Ilaine who wrote (38396)	5/23/1999 1:20:00 PM
From: Grainne	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 108807

Gee, Blue, out here in San Francisco the Catholic schools (the very expensive and prestigious college-prep academies in particular) are just teeming with drugs (you can buy anything you want right on campus) and sexually active teenagers. Perhaps some of their parents are not as vigilant because there is a veneer of propriety and careful moral teaching that the public schools don't offer, however. Thinking back, the Catholic friends I have had have been the very most experimental and rebellious of them all. I do think that their intellectual development was superior in general, and their excellent study skills allowed them to succeed even while consuming huge quantities of psychedelic drugs every weekend. Of course, that was the seventies! School is really tough on children who are delicate and frail, or for some reason not really resilient, or who don't fit in well. These children seem to mostly at least endure school when they have one or two close friends, but it is very difficult when they do not have this social support. I am not sure I want a miniature adult, but certainly teenagers who are around grown-ups more, and people of all ages in their everyday lives, might be more mature and witty. There is an argument that is made by parents of home schoolers that high school is unnatural, because historically teenagers are surrounded by the entire community as they grow up and learn adult skills, not herded in packs through adolescence. When you look into the issue it seems like home schooling could be a very HEALTHY way to proceed, but at the same time most people think it is quite weird.