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The note that he "knows hundreds" of homeschooling families and the claim that they all conform to his model seems like a generalization about the homeschooling
by lmartel 13y ago
The note that he "knows hundreds" of homeschooling families and the claim that they all conform to his model seems like a generalization about the homeschooling community at large, even if it's not 100% explicit.
- zdean 13y agoNo, it's actually a generalization about the homeschoolers that he knows...which is a subset (that he selected) of the greater homeschooling community. Look, no one is denying that there are lots of religiously motivated people that homeschool their children. But for those that aren't, this is a completely irrelevant fact. If you've got an argument that shows me that homeschooling as an educational approach is fundamentally flawed because religious people are a majority of the early adopters, I'd love to hear it.