Posted on 01/06/2009 11:39:38 AM PST by GonzoII
A homeschooling movement is sweeping the nation – with 1.5 million children now learning at home, an increase of 75 percent since 1999.
The Department of Education's National Center for Education Statistics reported homeschooling has risen by 36 percent in just the last five years.
"There's no reason to believe it would not keep going up," NCES statistician Gail Mulligan told USA Today.
A 2007 survey asked parents why they choose to homeschool and allowed them to provide several reasons. The following are the most popular responses:
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Perhaps - I guess one bad school makes it worse for the others ... but there seems to be a recurring thread running through most ...
It is not possible to sustain a public education system as the underlying culture becomes more “diverse”. It is simply obvious and inexorable that parents will opt out as they are able.
It’s not in the end about religion, academics, or “socialization”, — but all three combined, and then some. The entire cultural consensus of the West continues the breakdown that started with, oh, Abelard, and NO PUBLIC EDUCATION SYSTEM CAN SURVIVE THIS PROCESS.
Like I said, not all are bad. If you want homeschooled children to be treated with respect then you might try respecting the public schooled children. It works both ways.
It seemed that if liberal ideas were not pursued then it wasn't worth teaching.
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Absolutely.
In every topic I participate in, the one thing that bothers me the most is the broadbrushing. I admit that I have resorted to that same tactic, but only because I have ben provoked into doing so --- I'm human, not perfect.
Perhaps? You guess?
Thank you for proving the point I was making in that those of us on FR with children in public school are generally willing to defend those who believe homeschooling is the way to go, but the opposite does not occur.
Unlike you, I won’t blame the schools for that. There are libraries, the internet and other sources of education. My child uses them all and has a well read knowledge. If you rely on one source you’ll run into trouble eventually.
Well, you know how it is. It helps if you actually have children and they are in the system.
Example: My friends were (when we were being schooled) talking about Black History Month. They were talking about Black American activists, mainly. So I asked "Who were the following Black Americans that made a difference in out lives?"
Garrett Morgan
Matthew Hensen
Charles Drew
They hadn't a clue. My point being curriculum - what is taught and how it's taught.
I have no quarrel with people who believe in public education. Fine. Just don't diparage home schooling is all I ask.
Example: My friends were (when we were being schooled) talking about Black History Month. They were talking about Black American activists, mainly. So I asked "Who were the following Black Americans that made a difference in out lives?"
Garrett Morgan
Matthew Hensen
Charles Drew
They hadn't a clue. My point being curriculum - what is taught and how it's taught.
I have no quarrel with people who believe in public education. Fine. Just don't disparage home schooling is all I ask.
My younger child graduated first in her class, with a 4.0+ GPA, with 12 AP courses with an average score of 4.5 on them with enough credits to walk into most universities a second semester sophomore. She was offered over 750,000K in scholarships at universities across the nation. She is a Christian, an athlete, a state-ranked musician, and a public school graduate and attending the Honors College on Long Island.
Great kids can come from a variety of educational institutions. And kids from public schools are not necessarily mind-numbed liberal dullards. Much depends on the parents and the family and the church they attend.
I respect all kids that do well.....regardless of how and from whom they were taught.
Exactly - it's up to the individual kid with help and motivation from adults to bring out their talents.
I agree with you 100% and ask the same courtesy for those of us that looked around at our communities, our abilities, our means, and made a conscious decision to place our kids in a public school. It would be respectful to not be told that parents who place their kids in public schools are "de facto child abusers," "lazy," "stupid," and/or "ignorant" when we FReepers are none of the above.
One book? You are basing your condemnation of public school in general and PS history in general being taught based on one book?
The only thing my 5th grader knows about the Clinton Administration is what she has learned at home. Just before Christmas vacation (yup, that’s what it is called) she did a paper on the meaning of the Gettysburg address then and now.
The December program the 4th and 5th grade Chorus presented was entitled “A Colonial Christmas” and actual Christmas Carols were sung.
I have lots of problems with public schools and have never denied them, however I also do not condemn all because of some. I also don’t condemn all private or religious schools because of my experiences in them and I do not condemn homeschooling because of a few idiots who shouldn’t be homeschooling.
OFPS!
I was simply mentioning one book as an example - not the entire reading list of books.
Excellent! Is she still in college? If so what is she studying?
She is majoring in bio/chem on the pre-med track. Yours?
All we ask, is the same courtesy.
...Oh, forgot to say....3.975 GPA. When she got to college the only bad thing she discovered was the difference between an A and an A-. :)
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