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Homeschooling - both extreme left and right (Score:2)
Re:Homeschooling - both extreme left and right (Score:2)
This is one of the things I really like about homeschooling. There are so many different points of view. As long as all subscribe to the fundamental mantra of homeschooling, in my mind, "Parents are the best judge of how to raise and educate their own children," I appreciate what they are doing and love looking at the diversity for cross-pollination of ideas.
Somewhere I read somebody saying the tree-huggers (or some similar offensive term for leftist environmentalists) paved the way, the religious funda
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Re:Homeschooling - both extreme left and right (Score:1)
And... everyone is above average [freep.com] too.
On a more serious note, being the best judge of how to do it (which I don't agree with... but let's just pretend for a moment) still doesn't make you the most capable person of doing it.
I personally will be home schooling my kids... every day after they get home from school. I will add to their learning experience.
Not shield them from it.
It seems to me that this is the real purpose for many po
Re:Homeschooling - both extreme left and right (Score:2)
How is teaching kids shielding them learning? I could just as easily say, by sending your kids off to school during the day, you are shielding them from opportunties they could otherwise have.
What your statement assumes is that sending a kid to a school is the best or default way for them to learn these things, or that it is somehow something people
Re:Homeschooling - both extreme left and right (Score:1)
Taking them out of formal school so that they won't experience something (political, religious, social) is the shielding I was referring to.
The only case I've personally experienced was where someone started home schooling because they didn't want their kid taught evolution.
If you can't deal with exposing your kid to a theory, you have a serious problem, IMHO. At the very least, teach them to refute the damn thing. But, to completely limit exposure?
What you
Re:Homeschooling - both extreme left and right (Score:2)
OK. But that is the very small minority in my experience.
Although, I would note that public schools are not allowed to teach religion in this way
My proposition is that A + B > B for all cases. (Likewise, A + B > A for all cases.)
Where A and B represent useful knowledge, I cannot agree. Sure, my kids can learn some things in school they won't learn at home, like how to treat other people like shit, how to lie to teachers, how to pretend to be something you're not to gain acceptance. But as for useful knowledge, I don't buy that at all.
And if nothing else, if you have A, you have less time for B.
And really, time is the main point. School is a waste of time. Thousands of hours a year for 13 years. There is so much more and better things that can be done with that time, without sacrificing any knowledge, and in fact, gaining more by having more opportunities.
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