[wintertime]

Gee! Our homeschooled kids never had a TV, so it would have been impossible to educate them in front of it!

[Myrddin]

Another pair of ignorant crap weasels with access to the premier fish wrap in Los Angeles. They obviously don't appreciate the war zone that is the public school classroom. They disapprove of parents keeping their children away from schools that preach sexual perversion as "normal". They are too ignorant to understand that California public schools are near the bottom of achievement nationwide.

My son finished with a 4.33 GPA, but that was the result of lots of study at home. Work well above what the bonehead public teachers and their curriculum expected or provided. The teachers assigned to his "AP" classes were incompetent. He "fixed" that problem by conducting study sessions during the week for his classmates. At times, he even stepped in for the "teacher" who was being paid to keep the seat warm.

Having seen the poor California schools up close, I'm quite certain that a home schooling approach has a fair probability of doing a better job. The national spelling bees have been dominated in recent years by home schooled students.

[Antoninus]

There has always been something decidedly elitist and anti-democratic in home schooling.It smacks of a belief that privileged children should not have to associate with the other kids in the neighborhood and that by staying home, they would not be subjected to the leavening effect of democracy.

Quick--take a poll of the LA Times ed board and where their own kids attend school. I'll bet for those who actually have children, they're not going to public school and mixing with the "other kids in the neighborhood."

[JasonC]

Homeschooling doesn't require defense, it is nature.

State schooling does, because it has been horribly failure in practice, failing to teach actual truth and instead becoming a political indotrination tool exclusively (for some that the entire point from the start), peddling the worst ideas in human history, and directly enabling wholesale slaughters that would make the bloodiest tyrants of former ages blush for shame.

Burn it to the ground.

[DieHard the Hunter]

> It smacks of a belief that privileged children should not have to associate with the other kids in the neighborhoodchild molesterers, perverts and perverted teachings and that by staying home, they would not be subjected to the leavening effect of democracypornography and filth.

There, fixed it.

I had a "Road to Damascus" experience when I read on another thread that gay porn was being made required reading at one hi school. Crikey -- my brain exploded!

Mr Silverback, Grizzled Bear, Dave and all others with whom I have had debate on this subject in the past -- you were right and I was wrong.

> Moreover, it is apparent from the cries of the far right that there has been a specific policy in home schooling -- to teach only the ideas acceptable to ideologuesdecent folk who fear the contaminating influence of what is commonly known as a liberal education vice, damnation and filth.

I am pleased that my kids get a good religious education at an Integrated School (run by the SDAs). We are fortunate that way. If not for that, I believe I would now consider homeschooling as a good viable option.

I learn alot from the Free Republic: this is not the first time I have changed my World View as a result of this wonderful facility (thanks Jim Rob!) -- among other things, during my sojourn here I have changed my world view on the State of Israel and the role of Islam. So thanks all for your patience with me.

When you are Right, you are right. That which is Left is Wrong.

*DieHard the Hunter*

[GeorgeWashingtonII]

“There has always been something decidedly elitist and anti-democratic in home schooling.” You shoudl have known this was coming.

This is not so much anti-homeschooling rhetoric as anti-Christ philosophy. They hate homeschooling because they hate Christ.

These “liberal educators” are not proponents of freeing the mind as one might think liberal connotes. Rather these men are totalatarians who want to indoctrinate students into statist thinking.

These postmodernists are threatened by Jews and Christians who believe in Scripture as absolute truth. They view Christianity as an attack on their god of Tolerance.

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[jmcenanly]

It's evident that the vast majority who teach their offspring in front of the television do so because they don't want their children to be subjected to such dangerous doctrines as evolution, abortion, global warming, equal rights and other ideas abhorrent to the evangelical mantra

If one leaves a child in front of a television for any length of time, the child will see nothing but 'evolution, abortion, global warming, equal rights and other ideas abhorrent to the evangelical mantra'. If you want to educate a child properly, you would have to use books currently anathema to the current line of progressive thinking, such as the Bible, Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations et cetera

It would seems that those who are attacking homeschooling are attacking a straw-man, who does not exist.

[SuziQ]

There has always been something decidedly elitist and anti-democratic in home schooling.It smacks of a belief that privileged children should not have to associate with the other kids in the neighborhood and that by staying home, they would not be subjected to the leavening effect of democracy.

Spoken like someone completely ignorant of the realities of homeschooling. Homeschooled kids are not only involved with kids their own age, on town sports teams, and even some public school activities, they are also involved with all other age groups, and that makes them more well rounded individuals.