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To: WIladyconservative

In an area where everyone homeschools there should be no need for any kind of government schools. That's not the case now --- but we should go back to what the Constitution decided --- and it limited the scope of the federal government. It was never given the authority over education and should remove itself. Same with health care.


10 posted on 11/20/2004 3:03:25 PM PST by FITZ
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To: FITZ
In an area where everyone homeschools there should be no need for any kind of government schools.

Where is this utopia to be found? At present, homeschooling is about 2% at most of the school-age population. Even with widespread awareness and more lenient state laws (compared to 20 years ago), the numbers are still comparatively small - mostly because homeschooling requires one parent to stay home.

There will still be a need for schools, because there are homeschoolers who do transition to school. One support group I belonged to for awhile had virtually no homeschoolers over 6th or 7th grade - they almost all went to middle school (or more rarely, high school) after being homeschooled as younger kids.

15 posted on 11/20/2004 9:56:29 PM PST by valkyrieanne (card-carrying South Park Republican)
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