[BibChr]

One of the reasons I homeschool is that the schools no longer think it is their responsibility to only teach the three R's, but they think they need to teach everything else under the sun. I get so ticked when people talk about homeschooled kids missing out on socialization. The schools shouldn't be teaching "social skills" in the first place. Math. Science. English. History. Period

All sorts of amen to that.

Our kids were still in public school (to our mounting dissatisfaction) when we learned, almost by accident, that one had been subjected to a psychological exercise without our knowledge or consent. We were outraged. We met with school officials. I said just what you said: "We send our children to school to learn reading, writing, and arithmetic. Period. Therapy is handled at home and church."

In a be-gentle-with-the-moron tone, one of them responded, "Yes, Mr. Phillips, at one time that was the model for schools. But now we take a more holistic approach. Anything that affects the child is our concern."

My wife and each other shared a look that said, "The hell it is."

We politely concluded the session shortly after, and before long, our children were homeschooled. And ever since. One of the two or three best decisions I, for my part, have ever made, and almost the only one I never, NEVER, second-guess or regret or re-evaluate.

Dan

[bettina0]

They don't know how to teach academic subjects anymore, so they have to do something to justify their existence. So now the school is a therapeutic institution rather than an institution that inculcates academic knowledge. This is very scary. Kids are under the impression that they will lean at least the basics -- reading, writing, and arithmatic and wind up spending their time being psychoanalyzed. Talk about cognitive dissonance. I wonder how many kids come out of the public schools totally screwed up after being subjected to this mindless nonsense.