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		russellsprouts on Sept 5, 2013 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: School is a prison and damaging our kids There's also a Toupee Fallacy effect going on -- you never see a good looking toupee - because a good looking toupee is indistinguishable from real hair. The same way, you will never notice normal homeschooling kids - because you will not know they were homeschooled. They will know the stigmas around homeschooling, and probably won't bring it up.

zarify on Sept 5, 2013 [–]

Eheh, I hadn't heard the term Toupee Fallacy before.

But in my situation at least I'm told which schools (or lack thereof) our kids have come from.

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