"The fact that homeschooling must be defended again and again against consistently wrong naysayers attests to one single, undeniable fact: Critics must continue to propagate the lies and defend public schools at all costs. They cannot admit that this enormously expensive experiment in public education has utterly failed."
A couple of weeks ago, there was an article on a lieutenant governor candidate in South Carolina who urged parents to help improve education by taking their children out of public schools and either homeschool or use private schools.
Needless to say, this topic attracted its share of detractors, including one poster who wrote the following: “Homeschooling … fails children miserably on many fronts. Christian schools breed bigotry and do not allow for children to integrate in a positive and balanced manner with the rest of society. When children are not taught to get up, dress up. and show up – except for at the kitchen table, what good will that do them 10 years from now in the ‘real world’? It won’t. I have yet to meet an HONEST home-schooled teen or young adult who has NOT felt like a social reject during their venture into the big world.”
Sigh. Here we go again. Beside the obvious point that this person clearly doesn’t know many (if any) actual homeschoolers, I feel that once again a defense of homeschooling is in order.
The academic superiority of homeschooling is not in question. Homeschoolers routinely leave public-schooled children in the metaphorical dust when it comes to standardized tests.
Needless to say, this topic attracted its share of detractors, including one poster who wrote the following: “Homeschooling … fails children miserably on many fronts. Christian schools breed bigotry and do not allow for children to integrate in a positive and balanced manner with the rest of society. When children are not taught to get up, dress up. and show up – except for at the kitchen table, what good will that do them 10 years from now in the ‘real world’? It won’t. I have yet to meet an HONEST home-schooled teen or young adult who has NOT felt like a social reject during their venture into the big world.”
Sigh. Here we go again. Beside the obvious point that this person clearly doesn’t know many (if any) actual homeschoolers, I feel that once again a defense of homeschooling is in order.
The academic superiority of homeschooling is not in question. Homeschoolers routinely leave public-schooled children in the metaphorical dust when it comes to standardized tests.
More @ WND
"The academic superiority of homeschooling is not in question. Homeschoolers routinely leave public-schooled children in the metaphorical dust when it comes to standardized tests".
ReplyDeleteLike the conditioned fool who wrote this tripe?
Like the conditioned fool who wrote this tripe?
DeleteI assume you are referring to the detractor, correct?
I heard on radio this week that Rand Paul spoke at UCLA or was it UC Berkley to a packed house and got standing ovations. That from California students!
ReplyDeleteEven they are starting to awaken in fear of loosing any more freedoms.
There issue is related to privacy. I don't care what wakes them up as long as they awaken.
Ron Paul had his biggest attendance there too. Just kills me he didn't make it as there was actually a day in the December before the election that it appeared he had a chance.
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