Homeschooling, a form of education that has been criticized for its lack of legal oversight and safeguards against abuse, is often viewed as a violation of societal values. However, if we define societal values as values that much of our society holds, then homeschooling may not meet these standards. All 50 states have laws making education compulsory, and state constitutions ensure a right to education. However, the legal regime governing homeschooling is often unclear.
A Harvard law professor, Elizabeth Bartholet, believes that homeschooling should either be banned or severely regulated. She believes that it increases civic involvement and can be an alternative to government-approved education. However, she also acknowledges that homeschooling can be dangerous, as public and private schools are often used to identify child abuse and neglect.
The right to homeschooling is not frequently questioned in court, but the amount of state regulation and help that can or should be expected continues to be subject to legal debate. The United States Supreme Court has ruled that the right to homeschooling is not frequently questioned in court.
Homeschooling is not illegal because there are programs in place to establish and monitor families using it. However, the argument that homeschooling should be banned assumes that everything is better with regulation. Regulation provides a better alternative to state schools, and banning homeschooling would eliminate another alternative to state schools, enabling the government to further skew the educational process.
In summary, while homeschooling has its advantages, it is important to consider the legal framework and the potential consequences of its use.
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Thanks for the article. I’m a former Homeschool Mom, my two children are now 33 years old and 35 years old. Whenever they tested out at the end of the school year they always were in the 90% . My daughter went to school for Veternairian Technician and received a special award for high achievement, a 4.0 grade average throughout the 2 year program. She has been working at the same clinic for over 10 years. My son got involved in Missionary work and was in Nepal, China,Taiwan and Thailand. They are both very caring individuals . I believe in Homeschooling because no one has more interest in your child than you. And you don’t get those young, informative years back.
I am an EXPERT in this subject. I am a substitute teacher with about 6 years experience in 2 different states, Missouri and Florida. I have worked at HUNDREDS of various schools. Public schools are not much more than baby sitting services. Every classroom has several hooligans present. It only takes ONE hooligan to totally disrupt the teaching process. Teachers must CONSTANTLY spend a lot of time asking kids to “PUT YOUR CELLPHONES AWAY!” Kids put them away for 2 minutes… and RIGHT BACK out with them. What do they do on the cellphone? They watch sports, articlegames, texting, and PORNO!!! Cellphones should be SMASHED right in front of the kid if caught on one. On top of that… every kid is given an I-PAD or other laptop. What do they do on that? The same thing they do on the cellphone. Any parent who sends their child to public school is doing damage to their own child. Home schooling can’t be worse than public schools. Kids act like maniacs, punks and are totally out of control in most classrooms. If you send your kids to public school, you are deluded.
Wow imagine wanting to homeschool your children and not let the government train them for a life of yielding to their whims… Sorry, I meant ‘give them a well rounded education’.. I’m an ex-teacher and can tell you two words that make homeschool superior when compared to a gov setting for quality learning regardless of indoctrination etc.. Those two words are: ‘Contact time’
I have been homeschooling since 1995. I have seven children with the two youngest being 14 and 15 years old. We never even considered public schooling for any of my children. My husband and I sought the Lord, and homeschooling is where He led us. All of my adult children are excelling in the workplace and have leadership roles. Two purchased their own homes at 23 years old. I could go on and on about their accomplishments. My 15-year-old just graduated high school and is about to be enrolled in an online accredited college. It would require me to write a book to detail all the ways homeschooling has blessed me, my children, my family, and my marriage. I have no regrets. My best advice is to continually seek the Lord all the way through it.
I was really on the fence about homeschooling when my wife brought it up but last year we pulled our kid out of fancy private school and joined a local homeschool co-op and the results are amazing. If you have the ability to homeschool your children, why would you not? It takes work, and even family can be skeptical at first, but in my experience it is far superior than any public school and significantly better than most private schools. I understand why Harvard elites might want to ban it. We are teaching our child how to think, not what to think. Nearly all corporate schools are doing the opposite, telling them what to think instead of how to think. Full disclosure, I have a BS in Economics with a minor in History from a state university and an MBA from a private university. My wife went to college on an athletic scholarship and is a lay coach at the most expensive private school in our state. Yet we choose to homeschool.
I am a product of home school. I am a visually impaired student. And I had a lot of trouble being bullied. And teachers not helping me learn. They would say that I was there for socialization not learning to read. so, if my parents hadn’t taken me out of that environment and put me into homeschool never would have learned to read.
Here’s some facts I can present that offer insight into this: 1. I have been a teacher in another nation. 2. In that nation the state schools promote MASSIVE government prop agenda (del. misp.) 3. Efficiency of learning is significantly low – the main perogative is to sit children between 4 walls and numb them so the tax-payers money can be signed off. Obviously there’s variation between schools with some good ones but many many very ineffective schools 4. The curriculum is not balanced for life skills but excessively about examination. 5. As said there’s excessive social indoctrination over actual intellectual advancement I’ve spoken with home-schoolers and the opportunities and potential for home-schooling is immense in terms of effectiveness and in terms of broadening learning and increasing the learning of functional skills for use in life. The main challenge of home schooling is social opportunity however solutions exist such as collaboration of home-schoolers as well as clubs and more. Also parents need to be able to understand the needs of the children and manage that along with making a living. Overall, there’s massive deception that state education is the best option. It’s not, it’s a mass logistical operation and that takes precedence over the actual individual bespoke learning of each student which home-schooling is far more capable of providing in MOST schools. Finally, the West is secular and does not teach value systems in the useful way that religions provide. In fact they do the opposite and teach nonsense mantras and nostrums of secular origin eg the united nations that are a in effect social decay and deceptive to most people.
Read “Durable Trades”, citing compulsory schooling. Public schools were instituted as factories to produce workers for the industrial revolution. When Massachusetts mandated compulsory schooling in 1852, the literacy rate dropped from 99% to 93%. For the first time since freedom-seeking pilgrims settled on American shores, it became illegal to educate one’s own children in the home. Non-compliant parents faced imprisonment, and many towns were “militarized when they refused to take their children out of their locally-run schools or home-schools and place them in the state-run, state-controlled institutions. In 1858 it took an invasion by the state militia to force the last holdouts in Barnstable, Massachusetts, to capitulate and release their children, who were then marched to school under armed guard. Sources: Turtel, Public Schools, Public Menace, 29–30. Hartmann, “Good German Schools Come to America,” para. 32. Gatto, The Underground History of American Education, 142. Wilson, “The Meaning of a Liberal Education,” para. 10.
My children are both homeschooled and have been since they were born. They play in a band all over the community we live in. They are teaching my students who take lessons how to play well and feel confident playing with others. I would never want them to be indoctrinated in public schools.11 and 9 years old.
Strange…. Of my three siblings who had kids, we had no teachers and only two college graduates. Cumulatively, we had 11 children who were all homeschooled, all but three who have gone on to successfully complete college, 4 went on to graduate school and all those now are married, have a home and careers, two of which are running their own business. One of the ones that didn’t go to college is a welder who makes more than his cousins and the other two will be graduating HS in a year and have already been accepted to their first choice college. I’ll stack that against any similar family of that size from a public school, including Erin O’Donnell who wrote the article that really hasn’t aged well since it was written at the beginning of Covid. And I’ll take up that same relative challenge for any of the 200ish homeschool families that I’ve become familiar with.
The world has turned upside down..what was right is now wrong and wrongs now right….we truly are living in a looney bin…if anything I do believe that we are better off without the societal influences that are in the public school system …one shoe does not fit everyone..personally my belief is that they are more well rounded especially the basics of homesteading and the list goes on and on each family should have the right to decide for themselves…KEEP GOVERNMENT OUT OF OUR PERSONAL LIVES…thank you for bringing this to light very sad but obviously true…stay blessed…
Thanks for the article, my thoughts: Homeschooling allows the opportunity of children to be raised without the possibility of negative dampening by outside societal construct(consider classroom hierarchies, teachers who are strangers to the parents) beyond their home. In comparison with a great deal of animal species, the young from an infant age spend extreme proximity to their parents, ex. birds of all kinds, dogs, felines, hippos, deer, mice, badgers, raccoons. The progeny of these animals do not frolic alone without Mother or Father nearby and rarely leave their care until they can properly sustain, feed, mate and fledge for themselves, what we humans call adulthood. The clause of children starting their days constantly away from their parents and home for great hours at a time and having to fend for themselves without Mom/Dads there to take after, supplemented by the company of strangers makes an attractive gesturing of home-school’s benefits toward well being, peace of mind and right development within the suited comforts of home. It is quite well known humans develop the least slowly of any species(in terms of brain cognition), with reason and decision making not reaching excellence until as late as 25 years. Children are great mimickers and learners, being closer to mom and dad, being situated at home where they have a comfortable place to grow and thrive allows them to center their development after all of the genes they’ve inherited and innately follow. We don’t have to be like everyone else, a value we collectively embrace.
I, along with my partner were MASSIVELY BULLIED in elementary and high school. Abused and beatened by a elementary school teacher and bullied by highschoolers without any students help. I will never EVER put my kids if I have them in school! There are home schooling programs with a online teacher or online courses. Then in college or university(higher maturity and awareness levels present) they decided if they want to go in. It is a personal choice and it is no ones business to judge. We also live in a sick broken world. People have kids selfishly without thinking, put them in daycare ET VOILÀ! rid of them. If you can’t afford them or to be a syay at home mom or dad who properly raise your kids then do not have them. Adult now I am on several medication and I wish I had never went to elementary and highschool ever.
As a former homeschooler and current private school teacher I definitely support homeschooling. I can understand why people are scared of it though when they see things like the new documentary that was put out (haven’t seen it but heard stories). I think that what people need to understand is that every education system can be abused. I think there are great educators in public schools, private schools, and homeschools and people should have the freedom to choose what’s best for them. Also, even though people homeschool often to help their kids learn their own values (like I was) I definitely learned to think for myself and not just accept everything I was told. Maybe that’s not the case for every homeschooler but it definitely was for me.
Im married to a public school teacher. The defenses he puts up when public schools come under fire are PATHETIC. Once this adoption is complete, I fully intend to yank both kids out of the core curriculum. I’m extorted to fund the institutions, so my kids can, and likely will, use the school electives and sports. My kifs deserve better than the main stream.
I home educate in New South Wales, Australia. We have had 3 children at schools at various times. One is neurologically diverse & 2 local primary schools were non-compliant with legal obligations around disability. The other 2 would have done ok, & originally I found the staff responsive & helpful in navigating around things my children weren’t allowed to participate in & with which we had a right to keep our kids out of. Once covid hit parents were completely shut out of schools & it was increasingly difficult to communicate effectively. I am now in a group of home educators in my region (county). It is mind boggling the number of women (myself included) who were teachers or teachers aides who are seriously disenfranchised with the public school system or were outrightly horrified by what they witnessed going on, resigned & took their kids out. While some of the parents seem very slack & their kids may be behind, we are experiencing such a lack of teaching staff that kids are split out of their class frequently & aren’t receiving proper instruction IN schools. Publicly available data shows that the system is very broken & our kids deserve better. There has been a 30% jump in home school numbers since ‘remote learning’ during Covid lockdowns. You’d have to be doing nothing for your kids to be worse off. We are legally required to register & have a learning program approved that is based on the State curriculum. You can design your own or pay for one. I was held to a higher standard than local schools.
She points out that homeschooling (HS) is rooted in white supremacy, then explain why there is a massive increase of black families pulling their kids out to homeschool? My son is biracial, I am white, and my husband is black. We decided to homeschool because we wanted our son to go at his pace and explore his interests while giving him a well-rounded education. Also, we do not adhere to any religious faith, but my son has friends who are of different faiths. The whole incident in California with the homeschooling family that was abusing their children is a constant example for these “professionals” who claim that homeschooling is connected to neglect and maltreatment. But sexual abuse in schools, school shootings and bullying kids to the point where they take their own lives is not neglect or maltreatment. Right? I am tired of people presuming that my son sits inside all day and stays at a desk and has no friends. Most homeschoolers I know do not mimic public school in their homes, they do the opposite. My son attends meet ups, co-ops and social events all the time. Not all homeschoolers attend college, some go into trade schools, and some create their own business. To only account for those who go to college as successful is an injustice to the homeschooling community.
The problem with the discussion is that people on both sides compare the best with the worst. The best of public school vs the worst of homeschool and the other way around. Homeschooling might be ideal for some while for others not so much. Even within families one child might excel at homeschool while another might be better in a classroom. The problem is when it comes to education there is not a one sized fits all for every child. I agree we should be free to put our child where we feel it’s best for them, as well as be able to listen to criticism of our chosen method for a particular child so we can change course and put them in the best situation to thrive.
For this coming school year in August 2023, my son will “study abroad” for fourth grade in my wife’s hometown in Asia. We got an opportunity to travel there, and my son’s public school in northern California made the decision easy–way, way, way too much focus on sexuality and racial angst. Not sure if I will re-enroll him when he comes back. Homeschool may be a good idea. I think I’ll take your idea of emphasizing Bible stories.
TL:DR: NY State requires standardized tests for homeschool kids, and they crush it every year. Yay! Go Team Homeschool! Wooo! LONG: We are a secular homeschool family in NY State. We have a small homestead, and our son has been homeschooled from pre-k through 4th grade. He’s doing great. Needs to work on his spelling, but he’s finally getting it after months of darn hard work on both our parts. I’m a former art teacher; I didn’t last long in public education, but I still fully support the system itself, though it needs major overhauls in so many ways. Within the local homeschool community, we have roughly 60% who are Christian of some flavor, and homeschool because of that reason. Most of them are really nice people who want to raise their kids away from the massive drug and violence issues in public schools (hard same my friends, hard same). About 20% are secular homeschoolers of some kind or other (that’s us), so it may be meeting special needs, following interests, twice gifted, adventurous spirits, or any number of other great reasons. The remaining 10% were unfortunately caught up in NY’s required vaccination mandate, and were essentially pushed out of public schools into homeschooling in 2019 (bad timing). We all did our best for them, but homeschooling needs to be a choice, not a non-choice, and that was rough all around. Worse is that now the entire homeschool community has ended up with a reputation as anti-vaxxers, which is like ‘what did you expect when you kicked them out of public school?
My only child is a 15-year-old schnauzer. As a former adult education teacher of teenage moms, I have an interest in learning. I would have liked some information about the GED scores of homeschooled students. Not long back I read that often homeschooled kids’ GED scores are very good to excellent. Would have also liked to see info on how well homeschooled kids adapt to college. Nevertheless, I loved how you tied this subject to Bible prophecy.
I am not even remotely a Christian,but i deeply value religious freedom, and the inalienable rights for people to live their lives according to their conscience, and raise their children accordingly. There is to me, no other freedom which is more sacrosanct and vital to living in a healthy free society. Thus the idea that people in power are claiming that parents are somehow no longer qualified to raise their children because of traditional conservative, religious or other ideologies and values the State seems to not find appropriate is deeply disturbing.
I have no issues with homeschooling if the parents have the skills, the resources, and the time to do so. But thats little consolation to the vastly larger numbers of poor and disadvantaged working class people whose parents work to support themselves and their kids financially and don’t have the time or energy to teach their kids at home.
Every filthy rich parent ever would (and does!) give their kids a private tutor. Because they understand the simple intuition that personalized education is better than one-size-fits-all education. So why doesn’t everyone homeschool given the chance? Well, because parents either believe they aren’t qualified to teach, and/or because both parents think having a career for themselves is the pinnacle of life satisfaction. With the regards to the former, I would argue that the “skill” of teaching in a public school is the “skill” of teaching from a rigid curriculum to a large group of kids, and the inherent challenges of managing 20 kids at once. I frankly don’t put much stock in that. To the latter I’d say that my children’s well being is more important to me and my wife than our career prestige. We actually like being with our kids, not just pawning them off on other people whenever we can get away with it. Since we don’t strictly require dual-incomes to get by, my wife stays home with our kids and home schools, and I have far more faith in her (and our) ability to teach to my kids personal needs than I do in the public school system. Especially thinking back on the many teachers I had as a public school student.
My wife and I decided to do a mix of both – so for the first semester our kids go to public school, and we withdraw them for the second one, so they are homeschooled at that time. In my head that gives them a comparison of two systems as well as an alternative view to mine and my wife’s. Our kids are happy in both “systems”, and as long as we control what goes in their heads from “public”, we’re happy to give them a broader views. My wife is upset with hard pressing of technology starting pre-K, and we both agree that screen time for young age should be VERY limited, as close to zero as possible, which creates a countless conflicts with school, since they want my (and everybodyelse’s) kids staring into the screens 24/7.
If the parents are capable and well-organized, it is such a blessing. The kids that I know who are homeschool are far smarter and more practical that I was at their age. I attended public school when it was relatively decent. However, if parents are not pratiencevor or adept in teacing (and many are not), or the work burden is too overwhelming, this might not be an option. It is alarming that the Liberals and Super Conservatives have push their own faulty agendas.
I homeschooled for over 7 years. My two oldest being FEMALES graduated from homeschool. One is a lawyer, (Asst. DA in a large city), second is a mechanical engineer. Both being male dominated fields and they a crushing that mindset. Then my son is training to be a chef, (cooking is not just for women)! Yes, we a Christians this does not mean we are crazy! We defiantly are not racist! We have dear friends and family that are African American, Native American, Pilipino, Hispanic just to name a few. My teaching Asst. is an Asian, I love her. I would not exchange her for anyone! Yes, I teach in public school now. I still support homeschooling 100%. Parents do what they feel is best for their family.
Calling for the prohibition of nonviolent behavior should be banned. To engage in such advocacy is to offer a death threat, and no such behavior should be tolerated. It may be best to begin to have and raise our children in secret, seeing as society guns for them so hard. They see them as tools, as objects to be used, not people.
As a kid who was homeschooled by a family in the IBLP cult, it makes me so sad how many parents are against oversight that can prevent abuse. Almost all the other homeschoolers I knew then and have met as an adult were from religious fundamentalist families with an isolationist bent. A vast majority of us want more oversight to prevent abuse. Why don’t the parents want oversight and the best for all homeschooled kids?
Your review of Mrs. Bartholets work is incredibly dishonest. You read out a article from someone else that summarizes and sadly adds their own spin. In the article from Mrs. Bartholet they mention white supremacy once with a case of a person with a source. Sadly the article you read interpreted the white supremacy in there. Mrs. Bartholet had a pretty simple premise. There is no good evidence that homeschooling on average is better, there is no regulation to ensure a educational Standart (right to education is a human right). Most do it for ideologal reasons so in terms of law and rights of the children the current status is not acceptable.
2:00 nice to see comments from someone who is not homeschooling! 🙂 In Poland we have an explosion of homeschooling, and conservative Christians are totally invisible in this crowd. These are mostly kids with passion, sportsmen, artists, and also kids tormented at school with diagnoses such as autism, ADHD, dyslexia, etc. The explosion was so rapid, that subsidies transferred via local authority could not keep up leading to a serious breakdown 🙂
I remember learning in public school that Ab Lincoln was homeschooled and grew up brilliant. Also, having two Masters and a bachelors in Electrical Engineering Technology, I have reflected on much taught me in first 12 years was useless. I agree with Elon Musk, our public education system is terrible.
Jeez how obnoxious. The Harvard Gazette posited that there was little oversight of homeschooling and wondered if perhaps some parents weren’t capable of teaching to basic standards. that is a factual statement and easily demonstrated in the article. Nobody is banning homeschooling. You guys are so alarmist it’s actually funny. Tell me more about how gas stoves and more than 2 beers will also be banned. Sheesh.
As far as I know, the schools are skating on thin ice. My son who goes into the 5th grade has had in the last 5yrs perhaps only 30 papers for homework, tops. And when the coco19 started and they gave out laptops as if it was an advancement, things only got more asinine. At best, steer your kids to libraries and autodidactic tendencies. As an African living in America, I can say that America doesn’t teach much, especially when it comes to history, but such is life….. Do you…. By Hands Now Known – Margaret A. Burnham Death At An Early Age – Jonathan Kozo Sundown Towns – James W. Loewen King Leopold’s Ghost – Adam Hochschild Slavery by Another Name – Douglas A Blackmon News for All the People – Juan Gonzalez & Joseph Torres They call themselves the KKK – Susan C. Bartoletti Black Ops Advertising – Mara Einstein Death of a King – Tavis Smiley & David Ritz High Price – Dr Carl Hart Propaganda and the Public Mind – Damian Barsamian & Noam Chomsky Behold A Pale Horse – Milton William Cooper Where Do We Go From Here – MLK Jr White Trash – Nancy Isenberg The Man-Not – Tommy J. Curry They Were Her Property – Stephanie Jones-Rogers White Fragility – Robin DiAngelo White Rage – Carol Anderson Ph.D Stamped From The Beginning – Ibram X Kendi The Half Has Never Been Told – Edward E Baptist The Great Stain – Noel Rae The Reckoning – Randall Robinson The Accident of Color – Daniel Brook Henry Ford And The Jews – Albert Lee Beyond These Walls – Anthony M Platt Sugar – James Walvin Toussaint L’Ouverture – Phillip Girard The Destruction of Black Civilization – Chancellor Williams The Stolen Legacy – George G M James Media Control – Noam Chomsky To Be A Slave In Brazil – Katia M de Queiros Mattoso Superior – Angela Saini The Color of Law – Richard Rothstein Red Summer – Cameron McWhirter How Europe Underdeveloped Africa – Walter Rodney The Crowd – Gustave Le Bon The Condemnation of Blackness – Khalil Gibran Muhammad The Empire of Necessity – Greg Grandin They Came Before Columbus – Ivan Van Sertima Germany’s Black Holocaust – Firpo W Carr Ph.
Yes. In my country it’s illegal, everyone goes to school, no ifs and or buts about it. And for the blonde women, yes, we do have religious studies, mainly focusing on Christianity and its history. The only say parents have is for their children’s performance, bullying from other kids, and if there is an abusive teacher at school.
Children have been taught in their homes since the beginning of time. It’s nothing new. Somewhere down the line, sending your children away from their parents for teaching was made normal. And you wonder why most people don’t have good relationships with parents and siblings, they are more apt to get into all sorts of trouble, can’t think for themselves, can’t take care of themselves, cannot contribute to society, are not happy and healthy, I literally could go on. All because it was made normal to snatch children away from their parents, now as early as 3-4yrs old and indoctrinate them in their own ideology!
The reason I homeschool my child is because my child was sexually abused in kindergarten at a public school. when reported to the teacher and the principal, they did not do anything to the abuser even though it was reported. And since it was a Child, they can’t do anything legally…. The best interest of my family was to homeschool him and it has been a blessing. Most public schools sexually abuse occurs more than what you think.
I think that homeschooling must be strictly regulated. So the children later in life would have an opportunity to make their own decisions as young adults. Every parent have a right to homeschool their child and explain to their child why x or z in official school program is wrong. At the same time children should have the rights to have a valid USA high school diploma and have a freedom of choice later in life without being held back.
America didn’t start going downhill on so many fronts until school was compulsory. In fact, when it was first mandated in New England, the goal was to indoctrinate Catholics incorporating into Protestant America. Not to mention we spend 10s of thousands of dollars per student per year and we aren’t putting out educated people. Children’s minds are basically indoctrination grounds for secularists. As far as these people wanting to ban homeschool, I think they simply don’t understand why. They think anything other than their beliefs are theirs is inferior or to be feared.
Of course they would try to ban it. That’s a sure sign it’s a good thing. We did a Christian school for a while to get our kids out of the public system. They are grown now and doing their own thing and are better off for the experience. Being in school now promotes most of the things they say home schooling would promote.
5:38 “we should be able to choose to believe whatever we want” That’s actually the point in the phrase you just quoted: If you are removed from society and ONLY exposed to your parents beliefs you are not able to “choose to believe whatever you want” because you don’t have a frame of reference, that is literally indoctrination. Now, I don’t have kids and I’m not from the USA (though I was raised christian), so it’s not like I have a dog in this fight either but I do think UNREGULATED homeschooling is bad and the role of the state in this case should be one that makes sure kids are getting basic knowledge to function in society AND critical thinking, nothing there against religion.
There’s probably a solid argument for more oversight for homeschooling but banning it outright seems super drastic. There’s definitely more conservative/religious families switching their children to homeschooling due to reactionary behavior. At the same time I think conventional schools can be places where conservative and exclusionary ideologies can be learned and reinforced.
I’m not sure if former homeschool students have a dog in this fight, and if so and if we are using the dogfight analogy and bringing specific dog breeds into it, who knows if former homeschool students have a Chihuahua or a pitbull in said fight? But we (as a society/community) should really be asking the homeschool students both former and current, because they’re the ones that arguably get affected the most, and if you do ask me, I will explain to you how I fear that the public education system is probably going to be a source of census for the government, you know, where they use whether you spent so much as a day in the public education system to determine whether you get “rights” as a citizen because what’s stopping them from doing that or something shadier and more underhanded still? That’s my argument against homeschooling, but i’m just one person whose parents parental rights backfired on me and ways no one seems to be talking about.
I love that you can even discuss about this. Homeschooling is not available in my country, only under strict rules, but they would not allow anyone easy on that route as parents are being ‘supervised’, oh I mean just their kids are being weighed? Oh yeah they are supervised.. since they ask a bunch of questions from sleeping in the same room to a what your child eats and give so called ‘advice’ about everything. Lots of bad advice. And then school age comes up and they get very pushy and basically if you do not comply will be in a trouble with many institutions. So really, I so wished to have homeschooling available here.
I am Muslim, I thought I will stay in USA forever but after 6 years I changed my mind and backed to Iraq so my kids could be religious people in religious society because I feel one day I can’t homeschool my kids and raise them in the way of allah. I think this woke stuff pushed everywhere in the USA it keep raising kids in traditional environment very difficult. And my kids has a very solid friends because he raised and learned in the same mosque for 10 years and the gym he went to for over 8 years and social events for 10 years. For me all relationships that stayed forever is from outside the school system that I peer bonded with them from activities or religious events. Thank god I am a Muslim and this woke stuff it’s waaay too far in my motherland
It sounds like the authors of the first two articles are more concerned with the threat of free thinking upstanding citizens being produced through the homeschooling process than anything else. Have there been homeschool horor stories? Yes. But how many public school horror stories have you heard as well? Lots. I have heard far more atrocious things happening in public school than the majority of the homeschool community. I think we should all educate our children in the best way we can in consideration with our life situation and ability to educate our children.
With all their crying about school shootings, they should be happy more are being homeschooled. But of course it’s all hypocrisy. But I think the professor was very honest about why she wants homeschooling banned. She doesn’t want children raised with conservative values. What is the implication? That if you send your children to school (ANY school), that child is going to adopt the values taught at the school, rather than yours. I was just discussing with my husband recently the fact that the reason society is in the place that it is is because, generations ago, parents stopped raising their children and instead handed them over to teachers, the TV, celebrities, and day care workers/babysitters to raise FOR them
Oklahoma has a 4 day Public School schedule Texas has a 5 day Public Schools schedule. For my family it will come down to what will help my children not just servive but to live when there grown. There’s a middle school here in Colbert Oklahoma that doesn’t have a working cafeteria those kids get there school lunches brought over from the High School, that’s what I’ve been told. I’ve heard my husband say time after time he gets a new worker in but after 30 days he has to move him from his department or fire him because he can’t do basic math and reading. But the ones that do make it are all home school. They can do not only basic math but math I would not even begin to comprehend. I do Hope that Oklahoma Schools pick up there teaching game or I will half to homeschool my children. I’ve got 2 years left before that decision is made.
1:56 I was waiting for the White Supremacy argument. I wasn’t expecting the sexist or religious argument though. Great article though! I plan to at least homeschool for the formative primary school days, I have less of a problem using that time to save up money for a private academy for as much of middle and hopefully high school as possible. If I can’t afford private school I hope I did a good job setting the stage for critical thinking in those 5 years and they won’t be so easily indoctrinated.
Homeschooling has to be an option. Public will never be able to meet the needs of every child and has never been an efficient way to educate anyway. However, when it comes to re-education/indoctrination, it has be done by societies again and again. It was done here by the colonies and when America became a formal country to the slaves (love your master, forgive the wrongs done to you, you never had a “culture” and so on) and to the Native Americans in the boarding schools where they were stripped of their culture, made to feel ashamed of their parent’s ways, and force fed Christianity. Ironically enough, people are looking into that same Native culture to reverse some of problems we face today created by destructive corporations. So go forward with freedom, but don’t ignore/forget the past as though this very thing was not done to others by Christians here in America.
Learning basic academic skills, Isn’t she someone from Harvard? Though, she doesn’t know how to understad the data from all the information pointing how homeshooled children scored higher than the school peers, and not only academically. Most of the homeschoolers are critical thinkers, of course there are exceptions. At school there are exceptions of highly educated students being critical thinkers, however, at school is not the rule but the exception. There is strong connection between homeschooling and highly invested parents. They are not only invested in their children’s academics but also in their values and morals.
As a person from the balkans i cat say fs how it is in the US but i personally think that public school is a better option if the teachers are competent n sometimes they are because it exposes kids to one another n thier different views n lifestyles n readies them for the torture of havin to tolerate idiots later in life as well as how to socialize better in general tho it shouldn’t be banned but if i gotta be honest theres a reason why most of the kids r from rly religious families lol
I realize that this is likely to fall on deaf ears but I agree that there should be more regulation surrounding homeschooling, not an outright ban. There shouldnt be (close to) zero statistical info about educational outcomes if a child doesnt go on to collage after high school. Your children do not “belong” to you. You should not have the right to indocrinate them into Christianity or any other religion for that matter. I believe it to actually be child abuse to do so. You may teach them what you believe but you’re fooling nobody if you say that you do not require at least feign belief while they are under your roof. Extreme religious views (including and especially conservative christian) have bocome a danger to society.
Personaly idon’t like homeschooling in some situations. I live in Portugal and a number of foreigners do homescholing, i don’t have a problem with what the children learn, but more what they don’t learn. as you point out, some extreem religious people don’t teach evolutiontheorie or the children don’t grow up with other children, thus are not very social. Al things considered i don’t think that parents should be the only teachers of their children. Too onesided and what did the parents learn in school themselves.
Unless you are teachers, homeschooling should not be a thing… sorry if people get offended or triggered but if you’re a shopkeeper or something like that you are in no position to teach anything but how your kid to be as a human being. More and more people think that schooling is just some purely social item. Each with their own but as an example, I’d rather not fly in planes built by homeschooled people