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Really? We have wasted billions more on education then the rival nations and they are producing more educated students..Your ideas have been tried, they have failed, not expect this and move on...
What are my ideas? I'm a homeschooler. This is what I'm talking about. People, left and right, are so closed minded.
I'm amazed, reading this thread, that many people both left and right are still assuming that all homeschoolers in general are ultra-religious conservative people with a fear of the government. Not so. People homeschool for a variety of reasons, in our case my child does not learn well in a traditional classroom, public or private. I absolutely support public schooling, and I think the whole indoctrination theory is silly and promoted by folks who could use a little education themselves.
It's not completely true, but not far off the mark either. While you are correct that not all cases are like that, I have found that a good portion of home schoolers are religiously conservative people. This coming from personal experience as a former home schooled child.
It's not completely true, but not far off the mark either. While you are correct that not all cases are like that, I have found that a good portion of home schoolers are religiously conservative people. This coming from personal experience as a former home schooled child.
Kind of (one of) my points. The movement has grown so much to include all sorts of families, but from what I read in many posts here, and articles in general, lots of people still see it as an exclusively religious conservative movement. I often find I'm having to explain to religious homeschoolers that we aren't quite on the same page, or to friends who traditionally school (public or private) that what we are doing has nothing to do with politics or religion.
What you are teaching your children is really none of my business unless you are teaching them to be terrorists.
What public schools are teaching children is the business of everyone.
Well no, not teaching her that! LOL. Having said that, she was in public school through 8th grade and I can't think of a thing she was taught that I wouldn't teach her myself.
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