Are home schooled adults sick more often?
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August 18th, 2017
It’s the first week of the school year, and already two of my nephews are sick. It happens every year. Other kids bring germs, infecting everyone.
But when kids who are home schooled become adults, they haven’t had their immunities built up by all the schoolyard social diseases (no, not those) that play havoc with most kids.
Are they sick more often as adults?
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A lot of home-schooled kids are exposed to lots of pathogens. They still play with other kids, all the neighborhood kids have all the school germs and expose the other kids. Homeschooled kids also often belong to groups that do things together, field trips, phys ed, stuff like that.
Unless kids are totally isolated, they will be exposed and build up normal immunities.
(I did the homeschooling thing for awhile. There wasn’t extra sickness from being in school)
I doubt it. Interesting question though.
I bet when they are kids they are sick less than most kids who are in school though. They still catch plenty of colds I’m sure.
Flipping children are germ vectors.
Most homeschool parents who don’t vaccinate for chicken pox purposely expose their children. Actually, even the kids in school who aren’t vaccinated for chicken pox the parents usually purposely expose them.
The adults I know who work with young children or who work in hospitals seem to me to be sick more than my other friends.
No, they aren’t raised in a bubble. They still go to multiple places where they can get non-familial illnesses, if not every day, then at least several times a week.
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