Rayman Pirate-Community

PluMGMK wrote: So I ask MLII: Do you find that your social interaction is very limited?

StaceyW wrote:what I'd like to know is why she even gets homeschooled.

Xenon wrote:By the way, I don't consider the Internet to be a means of socialising. Forms of communication are conducted virtually, not really.

Xenon wrote:The facts are pretty clear as they stand.

What facts are these?

Xenon wrote: Not proper socialising, then. Yes you're talking to them but you're avoiding every other part of communal interaction. I understand where you're coming from as I have made several friends on the net (actual friends, not just members of the same community) myself, but I still don't see how posting instant messages can be considered a form of proper socialising - that and making friends are two different things.

Xenon wrote:

What facts are these?

That lack of state schooling hinders opportunities to meet up with people.

All social interactions have to start somewhere, and some are downright weird. Some people form long lasting bonds after horrific accidents or through dialing a wrong number. Who's to say that the internet isn't another stem of that just because the people don't physically meet (and many do afterwards)? Not me

That's your opinion, not a fact.

Xenon wrote:

All social interactions have to start somewhere, and some are downright weird. Some people form long lasting bonds after horrific accidents or through dialing a wrong number. Who's to say that the internet isn't another stem of that just because the people don't physically meet (and many do afterwards)? Not me

I totally agree, and I speak from personal experience, but that's digressing. I was saying that merely typing messages is not a form of proper full-on socialising. Several people seem to have gone astray so here's the list of core points I've been making in this topic:

- Home-tutoring hampers opportunities to meet up with people and make friends
- Online chatrooms and forums are not tools to use for proper socialising

I see them as pretty solid, so I'm confused as to why everyone is disputing my posts.

That's your opinion, not a fact.

Debatable.

StaceyW wrote:Time for a new bother: discs with scratches. I swear I'll probably have a mountain of Rayman saturn discs before I find one that gets me past Moskito's Nest, because the copy I've got this morning craps out when I get past the bit with the giant berry chasing me. So I had to resort to sending both my fucked discs to a CD repairing service and hopefully they'll do it or my money back, because there's no way I'm searching out to get yet another copy of the game.

Fuuuuck I wish I never glued my gamebox up and just waited to get my scart first.

Xenon wrote:You missed the point on several occasions, but I'm happy to respect your "opinions" if we can put an end to this debate.

A brief narrative description of the journal article, document, or resource. Noting the lack of basic information necessary to begin to make conclusions about a home schooled child's social contacts, a study investigated the social networks of home vs. public schooled children (with a child's "social network" defined as all of the people who interact on a regular basis with the child at least once a month). The subject pool consisted of 21 home schooled children and 20 public schooled children, ages 12-l8, living in Oklahoma. Each subject kept a list of his/her interactions over a month's period of time, i.e. who he/she talked with for periods of at least 2 minutes or more. Follow-up surveys elicited information from subjects and their mothers about the structural and interactional quality of subjects' relationships with people on the list. Results indicated that the home schooling process does affect the nature of the relationships experienced in adolescence for home schoolers. The study found overall that home schoolers are not "at risk" in terms of the total number of people with whom they interact but are "at risk" in the sense of feeling less closeness towards and receiving less support from their peer friend relationships than public schoolers. (Five tables of data are included; 60 references and an appendix providing the Home/Public Relationships Questionnaire are attached.) (NH)

MLII[2Random4U] wrote: Apparently the schools in my area aren't really that great, I don't know if that's the main reason but meh.

Tobbe wrote:

A brief narrative description of the journal article, document, or resource. Noting the lack of basic information necessary to begin to make conclusions about a home schooled child's social contacts, a study investigated the social networks of home vs. public schooled children (with a child's "social network" defined as all of the people who interact on a regular basis with the child at least once a month). The subject pool consisted of 21 home schooled children and 20 public schooled children, ages 12-l8, living in Oklahoma. Each subject kept a list of his/her interactions over a month's period of time, i.e. who he/she talked with for periods of at least 2 minutes or more. Follow-up surveys elicited information from subjects and their mothers about the structural and interactional quality of subjects' relationships with people on the list. Results indicated that the home schooling process does affect the nature of the relationships experienced in adolescence for home schoolers. The study found overall that home schoolers are not "at risk" in terms of the total number of people with whom they interact but are "at risk" in the sense of feeling less closeness towards and receiving less support from their peer friend relationships than public schoolers. (Five tables of data are included; 60 references and an appendix providing the Home/Public Relationships Questionnaire are attached.) (NH)

Judging by this, neither of you are entirely right.

StaceyW wrote:When you choose a sec school for your kid, it's a really hard choice because there's barely any that don't have a drug and bullying problem. :/