Didn't that used to be a magazine or something?
I don’t think anyone reads Newsweek anymore; let alone cares what Newsweek has to say about anything.
So.... They’re not ALL racist, evangeical nuts. Some of them are, instead, sophosticated urbanites!
Home schooled children Newsweek would NEVER attack:
1) Islamist children
2) Gay children who don’t want to be ‘bullied’
3) Black children escaping public education hell
4) ‘Confused’ Transgendered children
5) Children escaping public schools with religious phrases on the walls because they are offended
Raised 3 homeschoolers and they are doing very well, thank you! Can't say the same for a lot of their government-educated friends though...
Spewsweek....
“Highly-educated urban” parents would likely be sending their children to private school, costing a fortune (in addition to the taxes they’re paying for the government system) and taking a lot of parental effort. A little common sense would show that homeschooling, especially with some professional classes thrown in, would save them money, time, and hassle.
We’re almost done with our kids, and it was undoubtedly one of the best decisions of my life. I can’t recommend it highly enough.
I do not homeschool. I have kids in high school now.
Over the years, I have met quite a few homeschoolers. Their reasons are many - from Christian values to special needs to distance to quality schools to parents wanting to push academic achievement. I have learned a lot from homeschooling parents.
My outsider’s view - these kids are always well-mannered, well-spoken and well adjusted. Obviously, not all public schools are not a bad environment (though many are), but all public schools DO waste a lot of time.
Course work that would take a full day in public school takes only a couple of hours in homeschools. No need to focus on stragglers, less review, no need to spend time keeping class discipline, and of course, no educrat propoganda to deal with.
WOW and actual balanced article on home schooling.... objectively writen.... I’m .... stunned.
“think of homeschoolers as evangelicals or off-the-gridders . . .”
I and my wife are neither “Off-the-gridders” of evangelicals. We just did not like the quality of public education when we chose to homeschool. So far, two sons are now engineers (one on track to become a tech fellow at his company, the other tracked to project manager less than a year after graduation) and the third is studying engineering.
But we did organize our home school as a religious school - St. Menas Orthodox Academy. Why? Because there are greater court protections if you are homeschooling for religious reasons than for purely secular reasons. School districts are more likely to leave you alone if you opt out of their services because you want to provide your children a religious education than if you opt out because you are dissatisfied with the quality of public education.
To put it in other words, they are happier viewing you as a religious kook than viewing you as someone who realizes they are incompetent twits. The former is less of a threat to their world-view, and my objective was to be left alone, not make a statement.
The veil of deception is slowly lifting.
Or, as Julia Ward Howe wrote, "God's Truth is marching on."
Just finished reading the article. It’s surprisingly good.
Sadly, despite the objective article, most people will see and remember only the derogatory headline, and the home school myth will continue for many.
Too bad our “news” sources won’t use a headline like: “The Truth about Home Schooling”, or “Home School Benefits”. But that wouldn’t fit their agenda.
At least the few people who read Newsweek will have their eyes opened.
Someone has to earn a living for the family, and some parents just aren’t cut out for full time teaching.
***Homeschooling works!***
Not necessarily! For some it is great! I’ve known several that have done well.
But not all. My wife’s cousin home schooled her kids. When they left home they immediately went wild and into drug addiction, crime, in trouble all the time. Now they are older adults and have not done well in life.
My family and my church congregation homeschool K-12 and the kids who want to go to college tend to have competing scholarship offers. I wish it had been an option opened to me. I came to this at 18 and the adult literacy courses have way improved my interest in reading and writing. Being on FR is part of what I do to improve my writing skills, too.
But, yeah, we homeschool and we love it.
Remember when the teachers union would say students who were home schooled were stupid?
That stopped when home school kids were shown to perform better in contests. So they changed the rules.
THEN they said the BS about socialization and dealing with real world people. When they came out as natural leaders over the sheep of the public school that was dropped.
SO NOW the government and teacher unions are reduced to ridicule and deception.