Cant say I disagree... a solid homeschool education is almost always going to better than a substandard public school education, even more so if the family is using an established curriculum.
The public schools are damaged - bloated budgets, underpaid stafffing, lack of resources, overcrowding, and dangerous for safety.
Parents have the right to educate their children, at home if they want to. We plan homeschooling two of the three this upcoming year.
I knew your position on this, Puffy.
Also, a big fuck you for hating on homeschoolers.
There's one in my house right now, playing Wii before bedtime.
Guess what dude? It's America. And fundamentalist Christians are allowed to homeschool their children. You may disagree with it, but it's their choice to teach their children what they wish. If you want to rant about that, there's a whole section devoted to it here. This thread, and this topic in particular, has nothing to do with it.
There's nothing wrong with homeschooling as long as it uses, as you said, an "established curriculum".
But what originally got me going on home schooling, courtesy of lilMike:
There was a discussion about this
elsewhere...
Things must be getting rough over there. First Ayaan Hirsi Ali, and now this.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/01/26/AR2010012603298.htmlGerman homeschoolers granted political asylum
A German couple who fled to Tennessee so they could homeschool their children was granted political asylum Tuesday by a U.S. immigration judge, according to the legal group that represented them.
The decision clears the way for Uwe Romeike (roh-MY-kee), his wife and five children to stay in Morristown, Tenn., where they have been living since 2008. Romeike says his family was persecuted for their evangelical Christian beliefs and for homeschooling their children in Germany, where school attendance is compulsory.
An attempt was made to further discuss the
issue:
There may be a fundamentalist muslim trend towards protecting their beliefs against others but would it also be fair that (today in our country) there's another fundamentalist christian trend towards protecting their beliefs?
Which is better? I'd like to hope neither. Extremism on both sides is wrong. I found this article which is interesting.
http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/New_World_Order/Gods_Warrior_Twins.html"With striking similarity, James Dobson, former professor of pediatrics and a popular conservative Christian voice heard by millions, summed up the Christian fundamentalist mindset in Children at Risk. "Those who control what young people are taught, and what they experience-what they see, hear, think, and believe-will determine the future course for the nation," he predicted. In the US, that is accomplished by home schooling or sending children to ultra-conservative Christian schools, where socializing that might open doors to critical thought is limited. The key concept of fundamentalist education is controlling what children learn."
Isn't that just as scary? More so because it's going on in our country?
See, I'm a teacher [Ok. So DaveInPo (hmmm...what do you get when you add a "rt" to the end of that?
lied on that one] and see everyday children repeating things their parents say and it (as I said above) scares me a lot more than some barbaric practice performed in third world and some muslim countries.
That's why I brought up the obvious comparison between radical muslims (who you are obviously targeting regardless of your claims otherwise) and radical christians.
There definitely is a comparison between muslims mutilating their children over mistaken ideologies and christians who hammer hate into their kid's heads over the same thing. Sometimes, I've seen the physical abuse of children equal to or greater than this.
As I said it's far more troubling to me to see kids brainwashed with hatred of others. My job is to teach kids reason. It's hard to do when you see this [New videos]:
It's even sadder when children are removed from the social settings of a school and homeschooled to accomplish this goal.
Remember, Puffy, I have no problem with homeschooling, per se. I do have a problem with homeschooling associated with an agenda other than teaching children. 'Cuz that's what it should be about.
As far as Mike's German family, there's a lot more to that than meets the eye. Research it.
