[cyclotic]

Continue to gain acceptance?

Outside of one wicked sister-in-law, with 4 kids and 11 years of home education under our belts, we have never had a bit of non-acceptance.

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.

[JZelle]

"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.

[after dark]

With the exception of the nuts who claim they are homeschooling in order to cover up child abuse, home schoolers will never rival our public school system in terms of failure.

[TomSmedley]

Continue to gain acceptance?

Outside of one wicked sister-in-law, with 4 kids and 11 years of home education under our belts, we have never had a bit of non-acceptance.

Let me append a quote from my favorite Marxist Jesuit, the late Ivan Illych:

Some fortuitous coincidence will render publicly obvious the structural contradictions between stated purposes and effective results in our major institutions. People will suddenly find obvious what is now evident to only a few . . . Like other widely shared insights, this one will have the potential of turning public imagination inside out. Large institutions can quite suddenly lose their respectability, their legitimacy, and their reputation for serving the public good. It happened to the Roman Church in the Reformation, to royalty in the Revolution. The unthinkable became obvious overnight: that people could and would behead their rulers. (Illich's Tools for Conviviality, p. 111)

[RKBA Democrat]

"I think we'll see more homeschool failures and bouncing between public, private and homeschools."

Of course. And we can all rest assured that the NEA and their cohorts will be there to waive the bloody shirt whenever that happens.

But the important thing (which of course won't be mentioned) is that the percentage of homeschool failures will be very small as compared to the successes. This as compared to the failures of the government schools where I think something like 20%+ don't actually graduate from high school.