Posted on 04/18/2020 10:38:37 PM PDT by DeweyCA
After you. I’ll pass.
“.... Homeschooling, she says, not only violates children’s right to a “meaningful education”
HA!
and their right to be protected from potential child abuse,
Double HA!
but may keep them from contributing positively to a democratic society.”
Like Lizzy Bartholet do. Yup. She shore do be contributing positively./s
Trying to take her seriesly, but can’t manage it. She’s a moron.
If it will keep them out of Harvard, then Home Schooling is already doing better than Public education.
As always, leftists project. It is not the parents who are powerful, but the STATE. She wants the parents to be as powerless as the children so progressives can enjoy "total authority".
I watched the entire interview with Tara Westover in this
This woman never got a high school diploma but did get a PhD from Cambridge.
Her older brother taught himself Trigonometry, Algebra and Calculus although he had only one year of high school and then went on to college. He nearly aced the ACT.
This woman is an argument that government schooling is not necessary.
To support her argument she gives 1 extreme example of a kid damaged by homeschooling.
The number of kids severely damaged, abused or even killed by public schools runs into the many millions.
Here’s a great example why William F Buckley, while still a relatively young man, wisely said “I would rather be governed by the first 2000 people in the Boston telephone directory than by the 2000 people on the faculty of Harvard University.”
This woman who thinks society owns the kids needs to STHU until the many proven failures of government schools are remedied.
The ongoing attacks against homeschooling are hilarious.
Apparently, the establishment education institutions are largely worried that they won’t be able to INDOCTRINATE with their business as usual models. GG. /s
Homeschoolers must be vigilant in protecting our rights, Professor Bartholet is not alone in her views.
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My experience teaching college — home schooled student are best. They have confidence, knowledge well beyond their peers, and can write well.
Asians are next behind homeschooled.
Indeed! Well stated.
This lockdown has opened some eyes. Many parents are discovering just how much their primary kids DON’T know.
I know of two families who are NOT sending their kids back, as they have taught them more at home these past two months than the system has done in a few years.
Admittedly, they have not been bullied, read to by a drag queen, or ridiculed for clothing, but you can’t have it all.
My two boys who did a couple of years in the K12 online
home school program are on their college Deans List.
The point is the teachers unions fear change that would
make them compete for students.
They object to charter schools too, and home schooling
is a job security and pay issue.
I note, they can’t indoctrinate home schoolers. This is
why so many Christians home school.
What could this woman possibly be going on about for twenty paragraphs?
In my religion, education of kids is the parents’ responsibility. That’s just common sense. Carting them off to get brainwashed by the communists in the public school system is just neglect and abuse
I agree - the bold lettering did emphasize important parts of the article.
I believe that the word ‘indoctrination’ should permeate the article where it refers to the government teaching/influencing the students.
For as another said, “It takes a village.” (sarc)
Who cares what Elizabeth Bartholet thinks? Only other people like her.
Let’s talk about the risks of public schools.
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