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>Homeschooling in the US works out much better now than it did in the time the article describes, because the government did something out of character: it actu
by macspoofing 11y ago
>Homeschooling in the US works out much better now than it did in the time the article describes, because the government did something out of character: it actually returned some liberty to parents that it had taken from them.
A significant portion of parents who homeschool kids are doing it for religious reasons and teaching their children garbage.
- SiVal 11y agoAnd a MUCH higher percentage of kids are taught garbage by the state than by religious homeschoolers. Children belong to their own families, not to the state, except in cases of serious abuse, and deviating from the state's (and statists') approved dogma does not constitute child abuse. I'm an atheist myself, so I have no interest in teaching religion, but I do have a strong interest in parents having more say than the state in what their own children are taught to believe. I'll take the marketplace of diverse ideas that parents sincerely teach to the children they love over the state's agenda for the people it intends to govern, any day. Parents, whether religious or not, should be the primary decision makers in their own children's educations.