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**zoolissentesy** · 05-09-2012, 04:36 PM

They use the RD as an excuse for children turning out bad, instead of their lack of in-home education. No matter what country in the world you live in, 90% of everything your kid will ever learn is learnt right inside of your home.

Anyone who said their social life was better elsewhere, was because you have chosen not to become part of the RD culture. Social life here is extremely rich and fulfilling and the love I receive from friends and family is something that I have never felt living in the US. I felt like all of my friends in the US were broke potheads who just hung around me because I had beer money and a nice car. In the RD, my friends have just as much or more money than I do, and hang around me because they like my company. This opinion is coming from a half-Dominican so maybe there is a different perspective, but I have some Canadian friends here who are freaking awesome.. even if they say eh all the time.. lol

Home and school hold very different but equally important fundamental life skills (education), yes what is taught in the home will be the foundations for what is learned at school, but your idea that children learn 90% of what they will ever learn is learned in the home is not typical, unless home schooled which I think seriously stunts child developement on the grand scale of things.
anyone who says the social life was better elsewhere was because they have chosen not to become part of Dominican culture?
You are stating that the Dominican Republic has the most valuable culture in the world? A Sweeping statement if ever there was one.
I appreciate your experience is different to everyone else's, and your history lays between the DR and the US, but you can't make judgement on everyone else's experience based on your own. Most would not agree 90% of a child's education is taken from the home, or that the Dominican Republic has the richest and most rewarding culture in the world, as you claim.
with respect and no offense intended.

05-09-2012, 04:36 PM	#29
zoolissentesy Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 484 Senior Member	They use the RD as an excuse for children turning out bad, instead of their lack of in-home education. No matter what country in the world you live in, 90% of everything your kid will ever learn is learnt right inside of your home. Anyone who said their social life was better elsewhere, was because you have chosen not to become part of the RD culture. Social life here is extremely rich and fulfilling and the love I receive from friends and family is something that I have never felt living in the US. I felt like all of my friends in the US were broke potheads who just hung around me because I had beer money and a nice car. In the RD, my friends have just as much or more money than I do, and hang around me because they like my company. This opinion is coming from a half-Dominican so maybe there is a different perspective, but I have some Canadian friends here who are freaking awesome.. even if they say eh all the time.. lol Home and school hold very different but equally important fundamental life skills (education), yes what is taught in the home will be the foundations for what is learned at school, but your idea that children learn 90% of what they will ever learn is learned in the home is not typical, unless home schooled which I think seriously stunts child developement on the grand scale of things. anyone who says the social life was better elsewhere was because they have chosen not to become part of Dominican culture? You are stating that the Dominican Republic has the most valuable culture in the world? A Sweeping statement if ever there was one. I appreciate your experience is different to everyone else's, and your history lays between the DR and the US, but you can't make judgement on everyone else's experience based on your own. Most would not agree 90% of a child's education is taken from the home, or that the Dominican Republic has the richest and most rewarding culture in the world, as you claim. with respect and no offense intended.
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