"I see a potential for an opposite reaction. Home schooling is so accepted that it becomes just another educational choice and people will jump into it with little regard for the total lifestyle approach that home schooling really engenders. I think we'll see more homeschool failures and bouncing between public, private and homeschools."
I sure hope not because that's just what the lib's are waiting for.
Well, on purely statistical basis - in a large enough sample there's bound to be a failure or two [or more]- nothing is foolproof. The hope is to be that those failing will fail soon enough before they cause too much damage.
I should have pointed out that the population of "homeschoolers" I pointed out before will be very small as opposed to real home educators and will flash out quickly when they realize that it does actually take some work. The libs would love it but the power of real homeschoolers will quickly drown out the bleating of the libs.
See, there is an interesting thing about homeschooling lots of folks don't know. Sorry to lump you into this catagory if ya don't belong. Homeschooling, at least modern homeschooling goes back at least to the 1960s when it was a hippie or socially liberal thing to do. It was also a definate consideration for certain religious groups, which is why Raymond Moore and his wife were among the early supporters of home education. But probably the earliest and most famous educator/educational author to support the movement was John Holt, who was most definately liberal in his politics. His first few books on education "How Children Fail" and "Teach Your Own" were definately what a country whose education system was too big and too motivated by money (at least the unions), to respond... needed to hear. No doubt there are many fine public school teachers out there but let's face it, the bureucracy does more harm to good teachers and there students than help them. Intelligent liberals used to understand this.