I would appreciate all the references to homeschooling to cease...DUH! of course it’s better. Fact is, though, many of us are not in a position to be able to,
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Yes, on average homeschooling is far superior.
And you are correct that some parents absolutely have no other option than institutionalize schooling in the government schools. These parents are too poor, too stupid, too dysfunctional, to ill-educated, too lazy, too sick...etc.
Yes, there will always be some children that need institutionalization for their schooling. We need orphanages too, but no one would consider an orphanage to be the best place for rearing a child.
I hope you put some flavoring on those chips at least :)
For years and years it has been homeschoolers who have had to justify their decision to homeschool. Now that there are enough adults to study we now know that children who have been homeschooled for all ( or nearly all) of their childhood are fairing far better than their institutionalized contemporaries.
Formerly homeschooled adults have greater social participation in the community; vote more regularly; volunteer more; have fewer divorces, have higher academic attainment; and are far, far, far more likely to be active and faithful to the faith of their fathers. It is almost non-existent for a formerly homeschooled adult (who has been entirely or nearly entirely homeschooled ) to be in prison or on welfare. If you do not believe me check out the Homeschooled Legal Defense Association.
Homeschoolers have absolutely nothing to justify! Even parents with the most minimal education are doing a better job than the government schools on average. It is the parent who decides to institutionalize their children for their schooling who needs to do the explaining.
Are there successful institutionalized children? Yes, of course there are! There are **always** outliers in every research study.