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> "So, to your point, if atheists had been the early adopters in this case, you would support homeschooling." Not if the Atheists were teaching their kids info
by ikt 13y ago
> "So, to your point, if atheists had been the early adopters in this case, you would support homeschooling."
Not if the Atheists were teaching their kids information we know to be wrong as solid fact.
If there was a group of Atheist KKK members supporting homeschooling so they can teach their kids that blacks are inferior we'd have the same issue.
The problem is the isolation, there's no standard that home schooling is compared against, there's no child education services that come along and ensure the student knows the alphabet.
- zdean 13y agoThere is no inherent isolation in homeschooling and there are standards if that's what you're looking for. On an academic level: http://www.topmastersineducation.com/homeschooled/ http://www.topmastersineducation.com/homeschooled/ On a political level, the federal government has taken a hands off Jeffersonian approach (as far as I know) and let the individual states experiment. Some states are very involved while others are very hands off. You can explore the variety of approaches and see for yourself which work (if any) and which don't (if any). The fact of the matter is that the vast majority of homeschooled kids do as well or much better than their public school counterparts when it comes to knowing the alphabet and much more (see link above). If your primary argument for outlawing/regulating it is that kids are being taught non-fact based information, let's go ahead and shut down all the churches, mosques, and synagogues while we're at it.