[droithomme]

I agree, but I think his comment was sarcastic as that's an actual argument I have heard people make against homeschooling: "Bullying is no reason to homeschool. In public school your student will be bullied and learn how to deal with it. This is important life experience because it's how the real workplace is. Homeschooled students can not function in the workplace because they never learned how to handle the bullying." In other worlds the world is abusive, so there is a moral obligation to abuse our children so they learn to get used to it. Homeschooling parents are thus cast as abusing their children by not subjecting them to the constant abuse that describes the life long personal experiences of the anti-homeschooling advocate, who can't imagine any other world beyond daily abuse, belittling, nagging and worse, all seen as good for you as it makes you tough. Similar to the philosophy of the ancient Spartans who threw their babies off of cliffs and those who survived were strong enough to be Spartans.