My wife is a Special Education teacher in the public school system here in Canada, and when she's confronted with what some parent's who homeschool say about the public system she makes a couple observations herself. In here experience she's found that kids who were previously homeschooled and then enter the public school system #1 think they are better than the other kids #2 have a hard time knowing how to interact with or show understanding to children with disabilities (mental or physical) or behaviour issues. Of course, these could be generalizations but it comes from both sides. The two points shown above is just what she's noticed over her years of teaching.

I just had to chime in to say that my name is also James David... although, my parents always called me by my middle name and so I'm a "Dave" or "David".... I think it was a cruel joke my parents played on me because I never know what to fill out for official documents or government things, and I especially get confused when my Medicare card says "James David Yanofsky" and when I'm in a waiting room I wonder why they guy named "James" doesn't get up when he's being called in by the nurse.

Our boy's name is Gabriil (pronounced Gabe-ree-ill), just like Gabriel, but the Russian spelling has two "i's" instead of the "ie"... My last name is Russian... We just call him Gabe.