Charlie James and callers critique public school literacy and homeschooling.

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Charlie James: Yeah, I had to go to the—the eye doctor today. It's been about six years, almost seven years since I had new glasses. Went to go see my buddy, um, uh, Dr. Charles Bernardi over there at Boss Vision, and uh, man, great job. Thank you so much for all your help, pal, I appreciate it. Let's go to, uh, Anthony in Spring Hill. How you doing, Anthony? Anthony: Hey, I'm doing good. Charlie James: All right, pal, what's up, man? Anthony: Hey, um, I was listening about, uh, they were talking about, uh, homeschooling and all that stuff, right? Charlie James: Yeah. Anthony: Uh, who was that woman that you had on that was saying, um, that it was—it was—it was nonsensical, that it would, you know, mess with your kids' development and all that stuff? Charlie James: Yeah, that was, uh—that was, well, it was two of them: Jennifer Welch and Angie Sullivan. Anthony: Yeah, I—I—I—I'd, uh, homeschooled my kids, and I feel like it's important to—one of the things you get with public school that you don't get with homeschool is they get an exposure to, as you say, adverse people, that it would allow them to better identify them when they're out in the world, you know, urbanite people, uh, you know, people that, you know, they like drinking, you know, Kool-Aid, watermelon, like all—all that sort of stuff. Charlie James: Oh, no, Anthony. Thank you very much, I appreciate it. Let's go to Lisa in Anderson. Lisa, welcome. Lisa: [Silence] Charlie James: Hey, Lisa, how are you? Lisa! All right, I'm going to put Lisa on hold, and uh, maybe you can get on with her. Let's go to Gerald in Cowpens. Gerald, welcome. Gerald: Hey, Charlie, the way y'all—all these people moving in here—looking like we're going to have to build another hospital! We had a family member in the emergency room yesterday at Spartanburg Regional— Charlie James: Right. Gerald: —for five—five hours and never was seen! Charlie James: Five hours? Good grief! Gerald: Nobody ever saw 'em. Charlie James: That's—that's pretty amazing. That's a—that's a—five hours for the ER? I mean, that's the thing, though. I mean, when you go to the emergency room, usually it's an emergency. Now, I know they're packed with people who are, you know, there because they have a cold or whatever, but it's gotten so bad at some of these emergency rooms that they're actually putting up the wait times on billboards. That's pretty amazing. Let me go to Lisa in Anderson. Lisa, are you there? Lisa ("Reese's Cup"): Lisa? Are you talking about Reese's Cup? Charlie James: Oh, it's Reese's Cup! How you doing, darling? Good to talk to you. What's up? Reese's Cup: Nothing much, I'm doing great. Listen, I got three comments that I wanted to make about the homeschool. Charlie James: Uh-huh. Reese's Cup: Um, I homeschooled my daughter, and I absolutely loved it. And one of the criticisms that people made about homeschooling, they said, "Well, you know, your kids are not going to be, you know, socialized." But what a lot of people don't realize is that social skills are actually taught at home—manners and morals, all that is taught at home. And when they go out somewhere, they are displaying what you taught them at home. However, if you do not um teach them morals and manners and—and different things like that at home, they will pick up the bad stuff at school. So it's up to the parents to teach the social skills and all of that at home, and then the kids can display what they've been taught at home. So when you see kids showing their behind out in public, it's because that's what they were taught at home, or it wasn't corrected at home. So, you know, to parents who are afraid of that argument, you are the ones that teach your kids social skills, and they display them when they go out. So do not let that be, you know, what makes you afraid to homeschool your kids. Charlie James: Yeah, it's like my granddaddy—he—my grandfather saw this woman, um [chuckles], getting very upset with her, uh—well ...

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