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This thread is all over the place, I can't read the article since I don't pay for wsj and the archive link isn't working for me. There shouldn't be a problem w
by nerdjon 3y ago
This thread is all over the place, I can't read the article since I don't pay for wsj and the archive link isn't working for me.
There shouldn't be a problem with home schooling in a perfect world, but the current situation is horrible.
At the very least we should expect that a student that is home schooled is taught the same basics as someone who is in the school system and we need to make sure that the student is physically ok. Properly fed and not in my physical harm. Something that going to a school provides if a kid has a very bad home situation.
The lobbying for home schooling is downright frightening just how much power they have and how much they fight against what should be basic protections in the name of "parental freedom" since apparently "parental freedom" for them includes abusing children.
It also doesn't help that much of the push for Home Schooling is also based an an asinine idea of "indoctrination" in the school system when many just want to indoctrinate their kids into their religion but stopping them from having a broader view of the world.
- Turing_Machine 3y ago> At the very least we should expect that a student that is home schooled is taught the same basics as someone who is in the school system Evidence is strongly against public school students being taught the "basics", at least in large regions of the country.
- nerdjon 3y agoOh I completely agree! our school system sucks. Which is why I find it insane that we can't even require such a low bar as it is.
- AnimalMuppet 3y agoWell, if you're going to require that bar for homeschooling, require it for public and private schools as well. (And then think very carefully about what steps you expect to happen if they fail...)