well here is a fuller answer since I am not using the last of my battery now.
Briefly I think you are committing the fallacy of thinking that all cows are animals because you've seen some cows that were animals. I subscribe to quite a few homeschooling lists. Originally it was for ideas and support with local issues (required portfolio reviews and the like). Anymore, with my kids in college, I just glance over the digests and keep the spam out of the lists I moderate. But my point is, I have a basis for the answer. I moderate a fundamentalist homeschoolng list -- though I stay out of the fundamentalist stuff, I just inherited the thing and agreed to keep it going because it does some good. I subscribe to a couple of Catholic lists. I also subscribe to geographical homeschooling lists for West Virginia, Ohio, Texas and New Mexico. Several for each state I think. And in my experience the reason homeschoolers homeschool is overwhelmingly concern with the quality of education their children would receive at the local school. The fundamentalists may use words like secular and ungodly to express this, though usually they do not. But when you get right down to it a lot of their concerns also boil down to the feeling that the time spent keeping other people's kids from assaulting each other takes away from the time that we can spend on actual education. Even the fundamentalists' concern with things like sex education can be reduced to one size does not fit all. And none, repeat, none, of this has anything to do with evolution. In Kansas things may be different. I don't think I have *ever* seen evolution mentioned as a reason for homeschooling. What I have seen is a lot of concern with the things you learn at school. Like, Britney Spears is cool. Girls should dress like her. Like, only geeks care about history. Like, math is boring and cool kids don't learn it. Like, the thing to do once they can't make you go anymore is drop out of school and watch television. Like, reading is for suckups. Like, football is WAY more important than art or science. Like, it's ok to kick kids out of school so they don't skew the testing scores. Like, kids who don't learn by sitting at a desk are dumb. Don't get me started. Dana eclectic unschooler network security analyst editor of a web development journal math tutor mom On 11/13/07, G Money <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I know, but the reason that non-fundy home schoolers feel the need to post > this type of request, is that, in fact, many home schoolers are indeed > fundies....and they do it for religious fundamental reasons. > > I know that's not why you do it. > > On Nov 13, 2007 9:17 AM, Dana <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > some may. This is by no means the majority of homeschoolers though. > > See "please don't assume I homes school because I am religious," and > > "if I am religious, please don't assume that's why I homeschool." > > Quality of education is actually the most frequent reason. > > > > -- > And all this could be > Just a dream so it seems > I was never much good at goodbye > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Check out the new features and enhancements in the latest product release - download the "What's New PDF" now http://download.macromedia.com/pub/labs/coldfusion/cf8_beta_whatsnew_052907.pdf Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/message.cfm/messageid:246311 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5
