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My main objection to home-schooling is the fact that unless a parents happens to be a certified school teacher that they aren't qualified to do the job. Teaching is a profession that requires a certain amount of education and certification. Just because someone has children doesn't mean that they have the skill sets and academic background required to teach them anything.
The home-schooling trend in America has almost exclusively been established and promoted by religious parents who became frustrated that their efforts at changing school text books and eliminating evolution from science books has been a complete failure so they've chosen to pursue a new tactic, removing their children from public schools. The result is children who miss out on the experience of interacting with other students, participating in sporting events, and enjoying the typical experience of growing up in a normal way. It's also a disaster if they want to attend college and discover that their years of isolation have left them far behind other students. They also don't have classes in creationism in college so if they become interested in a subject like biology or medicine they're going to have to unlearn all of the brainwashing that they've been subjected to.
My main objection to home-schooling is the fact that unless a parents happens to be a certified school teacher that they aren't qualified to do the job. Teaching is a profession that requires a certain amount of education and certification. Just because someone has children doesn't mean that they have the skill sets and academic background required to teach them anything.
Did you check out the link I provided? Any child taught this drivel is either being lied to or the curriculum is incredibly ignorant, and I refuse to believe anyone can be THAT ignorant.
The ignorance is equally abundant on both sides of the issue. I don't expect you to understand that, but that's the case.
The ignorance is equally abundant on both sides of the issue. I don't expect you to understand that, but that's the case.
Are you saying creationism is on an equal footing with evolution? Are you saying that the scientific evidence for creationism is as abundant, compelling, testable, predictive and consistent?
[quote=Nikk;13207927]There is no basis for the hypothesis of evolution. Were you there in the past to see what really happened? No, neither was any scientist today or those scientist living 250 years ago who wrote the drivel.
And you were not there when the bible was written. So I guess the bible can't possible be literally true....
Science has much to offer mankind, and to discount science because they weren't "there" seems ignorant.
Evolution makes more sense then what the bible has to say.
Parents have been teaching their children read for centuries before state issued teaching certificates.
I find it not a little disconcerting that adults with decades of experience in reading, writing, and arithmetic think they can't teach those same skills to a five-year-old.
And the last people I think should be "in charge" of education are the politicrats.
I'm an atheist, I wholeheartedly support alternative education.
Parents have been teaching their children read for centuries before state issued teaching certificates.
I find it not a little disconcerting that adults with decades of experience in reading, writing, and arithmetic think they can't teach those same skills to a five-year-old.
And the last people I think should be "in charge" of education are the politicrats.
I'm an atheist, I wholeheartedly support alternative education.
The ignorance is equally abundant on both sides of the issue. I don't expect you to understand that, but that's the case.
Over 95% of scientists generally, and over 99% of scientists in the fields of biology and earth sciences, accept the theory of evolution. These beliefs estimate the earth to be about 4.5 billions of years old. I guess you think these people are all wrong do you?
There is a serious problem in homeschooling right now in that most homeschooling families find themselves using the Apologia series for teaching science because it is so parent friendly. However, this series was written with one purpose in mind and that was to debunk evolution in favor of Intelligent Design. While our family is religious, we are not Creationists and I have serious problems with the Apologia series. I find it dangerous because so many homeschoolers are using it
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