If home-schooled children are only exposed to the values and ideas that their parents teach them, are they more likely to be less tolerant of other people later on in life?
Institutional schools are no more likely to produce tolerance than homeschools if students group themselves into cliques of like-minded children and are only guided by one adult to 25 or more children. These cliques are breeding grounds for intolerance. Homeschool students often volunteer and socialize with others of many different ages, races, and socioeconomic levels through classes, field trips, volunteering, and other activities. In these settings, there is a far higher adult to child ratio which prevents some of the behavior often associated with cliques and encourages more tolerance of others who may be different.
