Posted on 08/31/2015 2:53:24 PM PDT by jazusamo
What makes you think that kids are getting educated in the public school system?
So someone might use the excuse of homeschooling just to keep the kids home and maybe they'll be illiterate? What happens to all the kids who attend public school and either drop out or "graduate" functionally illiterate?
How has government oversight prevented that from happening?
In the worst case scenario of homeschooling, like you presented, the kids are going to be no worse off than if they had attended public school.
Attending public school is no guarantee of an education.
Besides, having lived in welfare community for far too many years, those parents who care so little about their kids that they would not educate them, do NOT want them around anyway. They send them to school so they don't have to feed them and put up with them.
In the aggregate, public school students fall further behind students of other countries with each year they attend. That one fact should make it obvious that the government is incompetent to produce well-educated people. Therefore, they should just keep out of it.
For later
In ever state there are laws requiring children of a certain age range to attend some type of educational training. I think this is reasonable. I suppose it would be the most conservative course to ASSUME that parents are complying with the law and only take lawful punitive action when evidence surfaces that children are not being educated. But by then, it’s largely too late - for the child.
If the parents are keeping the child home under the guise of homeschooling them and are not bothering to educate them, then the least of the kid’s problems is literacy.
They can learn to read and write later.
But their home situation is going to be so bad, that the baggage that they are carrying is going to cripple them for life without the intervention of God in their lives.
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