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In the process, it supports homeschooling without specifically arguing for it.

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Homeschooling is the most natural, healthy, and normal way to raise a child to adulthood. Yes, of course we will need to institutionalize some children. This is sad. We need orphanages too but no one would ever say that it is the best way to raise a child.

It is time that homeschoolers stop defending homeschooling. Instead we should be asking some pointed questions:

Please explain again why it is healthy or normal to corral children in same aged packs to be herded about like sheep to the sounds of bells?

Just exactly why is bullying and alpha girl shunning good for your child?

So,,,please explain to me how you are going to protect your child in school and on the bus from brutality and sexual abuse?

Are you certain that your child's teacher is not sexually using him or her behind the school auditorium stage?

Is it normal or healthy to frustrate the slower children or bore the brighter children with material that is not at their level?

Please explain again. Why isn't government schooling child abuse?

It is time that homeschoolers stop defending homeschooling. Instead we should be asking some pointed questions

I homeschool and feel like I am on the defense so much of the time that it wears away at my confidence. Even when people compliment my children on their behavior/knowledge, they quickly follow it up with 'but what about (insert socialization, friends, test-taking, etc...) They are just unwilling to ever admit that there is another way to educate children other than government school. Sometimes they point out how much schools spend per child and say they must be doing something with all that money to give them a great education Hello? Ever heard of teacher's unions/free health care/pensions for life at 55? I think what it really comes down to is an inability or unwillingness to think outside the box.

"Please explain again. Why isn't government schooling child abuse?"

Because the people involved in it aren't aware of it. There are many well-meaning people who work in the public schools, but the system as a whole defeats them just as it does most of the students.

The biggest problem is that most people can't imagine that education can be done in any other way.

Why isn't government schooling child abuse?

The worst aspect of government schooling is that it purports to "prepare children for life" yet assiduously avoids any teaching about God, life with whom is THE end of human life.

John Gatto is the only education writer that matters.

The Underground History of American Education.