Over time, the achievement gap between home-school students and their peers nationwide widens. By the time home-school students reach eighth grade, their median scores are more than four grade equivalents above their public school peers (see figure 3).Learning at Home
Moore is calling for something more radical than mere reform. Government schools, he maintains, cannot be reformed. Moreover, they have an origin that differs markedly from what the Framers wanted, and from the beginning were on collision course with the principles of a Constitutional republic. Finally and most importantly, government schools violate Biblical principles that place responsibility for educating children on the family, not the government. Moore recently told me: "We believe that from Scripture and theology, God gave education to the family with assistance from the Church, and that the State has no legitimate authority over what we call K-12 education." He added, "The State is in fact violating God's law. You can't reform something that shouldn't exist." In his opinion, we should not be surprised that government schools, in addition to their failure to educate, have nurtured attitudes and points of view resolutely hostility to Christianity and Christians. Moore therefore argues on Biblical and not just on political and economic grounds that instead of trying to reform government schools, Christians ought to abandon them in favor of private Christian schools and homeschooling. A Christian Exodus from Government Schools?
It's called "soft dictatorship" – government's attempt to control every aspect of American life for your own good or for the good of the children. The ultimate issue is power. Homeschooling - The real reason the state opposes ,WorldNetDaily,December 12, 2002
The article assembles evidence from several sources to confirm that home schooling is growing. It finds home-schooled children more likely to be middle income, white, from larger families, and from two-parent families with one parent not working. While some authors have described a division between religiously-motivated and academically-motivated home schoolers, this research finds more support for a divide based on attitude towards regular schools.Home Schooling in the United States: Trends and Characteristics
Good article on homeschooling w/ resources.
However, the source, Lew Rockwell, or as I call it: Lew Hamas al Rockwalid, is a pretty crappy 'paleo-con' antisemetic, isolationist website with a woody for all things Arab.....
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..I could homeschool my son. :-(
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We've gone back and forth between home school and public schools. Five kids, with two yet to enter "formal" education. I see little or no value in public education insofar as it appears bent on denuding education of any concept of God and His mercy in Christ Jesus. At the same time neither myself nor my spouse are qualified in teaching the finer points of mathematics to anyone, let alone ourselves.
What to do? Live one day at a time. Understand there are some very good people in the public schools who are devoted to teaching the academic disciplines and who understand certain weaknesses are manifest in public schools. Being in the world and not of the world entails a certain amount of association with the seedier elements. Jesus came for the sick, not the well. I count myself and my family among the sick because it is all but certain a tombstone awaits us all.
When history runs its course we will all know well that all things have always depended upon the mercy of God in Christ Jesus, who for our sake took up human flesh and endured every evil we ourselves deserve by our sin. In short, the story is far from over. Just a short struggle with evil that is not worthy to be compared with the eternal future.