I have 4 kids and we homeschool them. You have no idea what you are talking about.
Free your mind from the communist idea that human beings are nothing more than economic units. Life is not work.
I think we all know how families handled their financial burdens decades ago...
Decades ago we had a mostly intact nuclear family with a mother at home and a father provider. In every way, this country was better. It was growing and prospering, in contrast to the European model we follow now, which is decline, collectivism, and political correctness.
Well, the nazi socialists agreed with JediJones’ notion that women should be in the workforce and leave the care of their children to the state and “professional caregivers.” All collectivists, socialists, and statists think that way. I disagree. I consider myself extremely blessed to be able to stay home and raise my own children.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2848587/posts
#17 Under Adolf Hitler, the state started taking over the job of child care.
The following is more eyewitness testimony from Kitty Werthmann....
When the mothers had to go out into the work force, the government immediately established child care centers. You could take your children ages 4 weeks to school age and leave them there around-the-clock, 7 days a week, under the total care of the government. The state raised a whole generation of children. There were no motherly women to take care of the children, just people highly trained in child psychology.
Of course this is exactly what is happening in America today. Children are raised by day care centers and public schools, and most parents spend very little time with their own children.
I have nothing against home-schooling, but it is an admission that our actual school system is failing. I don’t see people as “economic units” but I see our success as a society defined significantly by how successful our economy is. Seeing as home-schooling is an economically more inefficient way of getting the job done (just as churning your own butter would be vs. buying it in a store) it is far from an ideal solution.
I believe in school choice and dismantling the government monopoly on education. Just like welfare, a government school should be the option of last resort. If we all were free to use our school taxes to pay to go to any school we wanted to, then a greater variety of schools would be created. I would expect that many people home-schooling would be able to find a school that fit their values and standards better. Of course they could always home-school anyway if they chose to. I’m worried about the people who feel they need to do it because there’s no good alternative, not the people who want to do it.