[Paved Paradise]

Please don't confuse the institution of school with that of an orphanage. How ridiculous. It is no more natural than any other way. School isn't natural at all, period. Children learn in different ways. Homeschooling has wonderful advantages and good points. My son would have been a prime candidate for homeschooling, but it was in its infancy then and we didn't have nearly the information and resources we have now. The point is that nobody should crucify someone for NOT homeschooling their children. There are pros and cons to both. I'm glad for homeschoolers and think it's a great thing, but you are wrong. It is not the end-all, be all. If it were, then you'd have medical students being homeschooled.

[wintertime]

Please don't confuse the institution of school with that of an orphanage. How ridiculous.
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The point is that nobody should crucify someone for NOT homeschooling their children. There are pros and cons to both. ( snip)
. If it were, then you'd have medical students being homeschooled.
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Institutionalizing children for their schooling is worse than orphanages. Why? Because far too many children are in institutional schooling because of the ignorance of their parents, their parents own government indoctrination, parental government school induced lack of self-confidence, and shear lack of knowledge about a better way. At least with orphanages children are there for a good reason.

There is only a few good reason to institutionalize a child for his education: Their parents are too stupid, too lazy, too dysfunctional, too poor, too sick, too mental ill,too materialistic, too uncaring, too ignorant, etc. The other children would all do better at home. As homeschooling grows this fact will be self-evident.

Yes, parents should definitely feel guilty for resorting to institutionalizing their children for their education. It is past time that were made to feel so.

The medical school argument is a red herring. Medical students are adults learning a trade. Hopefully, they are not immature children although I have heard of a few homeschooling children doing well in medical school.