Not all public schools are Liberal Indoctrination Centers...not all homeschooling is utopia...but you don't want to hear that!
All the wonderful kids you describe after turning the TV and video games off, are the loud, obnoxious and turned loose on the public in Shopping Centers when other kids are in Indoctrination Centers.
That is my exposure to homeschooled kids...they don't know how to behave in public any more than public school kids.
I think we have a parenting problem. Too many parents think they're undisciplined, obnoxious darlings are perfect!
I feel sorry for kids.
In one sentence you nailed the problem
Nicely done
Another amazing thing that people here do is lump things under one umbrella.
Not all public schools are Liberal Indoctrination Centers...not all homeschooling is utopia...
True. But, under the current system of public education I don’t have any say in the education of my children. I do not have any voice concerning the curriculum, the other children that my children are forced to associate with, or even the teacher(s) that are assigned to teach my children. But I am required to pay property taxes to support the system.
For me, the main issue is having the FREEDOM to choose the path that I want to provide for my children. Sure, there is a lot of bad parenting out there. And many people might object to the choices that I personally make in raising and educating my children. But does that mean that I shouldn’t have the fundamental right to use my funds the best way that I see fit to raise my own children?
So Public school is better? By what standard? Average test scores? College admission?
No, facts support that at spelling bees and in testing home school kids do amazingly better.
I see kids misbehave, but I don’t know if they are home school or public, How do you know? You don’t.
In your average public school you find drugs and violence, is it that way in your home?
Is your public school a liberal indoctrination center? Do you really know? Did you check out the daily studies? Do you hear what the people are saying to the kids day in and day out? No, you probably don’t, and even if you work there and hear what? 10% of what is said you may hear, but everyone else? C’mon!