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"makes is that some people believe public-schooling to be a lesser evil than the probability of home-schooling being indoctrination instead of education" I'd l
by zdean 13y ago
"makes is that some people believe public-schooling to be a lesser evil than the probability of home-schooling being indoctrination instead of education"
I'd love to see these people back it up with facts. To me it seems like a lot of people make up their mind about homeschooling and then use this as a straw man argument against it. Again, just because the early adopters are motivated by a certain factor doesn't mean that you (or I) need to be motivated by the same factor. We could end up having the same positive conclusion about homeschooling but for very different reasons.
- sanderjd 13y agoI have an extremely positive personal view of home-schooling, and hope that it will be possible for me to home-school my own children. But I think in a big society it is reasonable to be strongly in favor of things at a personal level and skeptical of those things at a societal level. For instance, I really like being able to afford gasoline and drive anywhere I want anytime I want, but I'm unsure that society should continue letting me do those things. edit: For the record, I don't at all think home-schooling should be outlawed or even at all discouraged (quite the opposite!), but I do think it should regulated, which is a scary ball of wax, to be sure.