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You know, I make typos on here as much as anyone, mainly out of haste, but your post was so poor in that area, it makes me wonder how you can be so full of yourself about knowing what excellent education really entails.

For you to attack any parent that sends his/her child/ren to a traditional school, whether public or private, is outlandish and arrogant and smacks of a true know-it-all, judgmental type (i.e. very scary). Furthermore, there is simply no basis for that argument whatsoever, other than your emotional investment.

You obviously are so biased in favor of homeschooling that you refuse, or are too ignorant, to see that it is not the perfect thing you want it to be, nor is public school necessarily quite the evil you believe it to be.

I fully realize the negatives with public schools, primarily because I have teachers in my family and am, myself, a product of public school -- fortunately, it was an excellent school and I was educated by the old-school teachers. However, you apparently believe that ALL schools are bad. Patently false and ridiculous. I think homeschooling is a wonderful thing and particularly beneficial to certain children. If I had small children I would either homeschool them or send them to a conservative Christian school (one like my church has established), but I am not so black and white on this issue as you so obviously are. I guess I figure that I came out okay and love the Lord with all my heart, mind and strength. God is everywhere you know, not just in homeschooling families.

Oh, and two things: Medical school is NOT trade school, and I was being facetious. Secondly, punctuation is our friend, my dear.

Paved Paradise,

For the most part, I do have a reputation for carefully written posts. That this one wasn't will be forgive by the rational members of this board.

Here it is again:

Institutionalizing children for their schooling is worse than placing children in orphanages. Why? It is worse because far too many children are in institutional schooling because of the ignorance of their parents, their parents' own government indoctrination, government school induced lack of self-confidence in their parents, and shear lack of knowledge about a better way. At least children are in orphanages for a good reason.

There are only a few good reasons to institutionalize a child for his education: their parents are too stupid, too lazy, too dysfunctional, too poor, too sick, too mentally ill, too materialistic, too uncaring, too ignorant, etc. Those children not suffering in such dysfunctional families would do better being educated 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 they 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.

I am not so black and white

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I am as "black and white" about institutional schooling as I am about orphanages. I hold that orphanages are NOT the best place to raise a child. I also state that institutional schooling, government schooling especially, is not the best way to raise a child.

Yes, we need orphanages. Yes, we will always need institutional schooling, but no one should argue that either is the best way to raise a child.