“One wants the child very isolated and cloistered and the other wants the child to be worldly and be exposed to all the experiences one ought to have as an adolescent.”
What a crock. He apparently didn't have any problem with the homeschooling previously. The debate is over the religious upbringing, not the homeschooling issue.
Besides, do you realize what " all the experiences one ought to have as an adolescent" entails these days????
Please, spare her.
Laura Ingalls Wilder grew up just fine with a religious upbringing in relative isolation, as did millions like her. They turned out fine. What makes you think this present generation's social life is one you'd want to inflict on any child? Let her have her childhood and enjoy it. Life is bad enough these days and she'll be better equipped to handle it when she's ready to if she doesn't have the emotional baggage of a public school education hanging around her neck.
Not only that, there's the matter of her actual education. The father's objection is not that the girl won't be educated. He's worried about her "social life".
Read the article.
Do you homeschool, just out of curiosity?
You’re missing the point entirely. Even if this is a case of religious upbringing, it’s far from the first to land in court. When separated parents of different faiths can’t agree on religious issues, sometimes the only redress can be found in court.
I agree when you get to the root it is usually the objection of the Religious study or Religion in general. Then sometimes it cost the father more for the Mom to stay at home and School them. Its was fine until it hit the pocket book.
I agree with you that his opinion is not well-founded.
However, the larger issue is the role in which the father has to decide the education of his child. Mother and father must come to an acceptable agreement.
The child cannot be both enrolled in a school and taught at home. There’s no way to split between the two. So they have to come up with something that works for both of them.
Until that happens, the child should be schooled with her mother.
No, I do not home school. My children are grown and are all successful adults. They attended public school, and also went to church and Sunday School. k
i was a practicing lawyer for 30 plus years, until health issues forced my retirement. At one time I did some family law, but couldn’t stomach the “she got the gold mine, I got the shaft” mentality of too many of our judges.
I just wonder if you think the Yearning for Zion ranch in Texas is a great example of home schooling?