Gabriel Sechan wrote:
Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2008 11:06:21 -0700
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: Schooling funding debate ... again (Was Re: Wifi leeches (Was:
Multiple NAT layers))
One thing to keep in mind though, education aside, is that public or private
school also lets the kids experience socializing with their peers, along
with adults that aren't related to them. Peers/adults outside their family
and immediate neighbors, and it's usually a wide range of races, religions
and social backgrounds. Dealing with a variety of different people is a
valuable experience to kids.
That's what most homeschoolers want to avoid. Apparently there's exceptions on
this list, but every one I've ever met were right wing religious nuts who
didn't want their kids to learn how to think or to appreciate diversity- they
wanted them to be carbon copies of their racism and religion. They home
schooled specifically so they wouldn't meet Jews, blacks, hispanics, etc.
Perhaps you need to broaden your circle. The majority of homeschoolers
don't want objectionable and very questionable sex-education to be
forced down their children's throats. Same thing with the religion of
evolution being taught as though it were established fact while
creationism being given the credence of fairy tales and superstition
left over from the dark ages. The establishment doesn't show the
history of the religious belief of evolution and how it far predates
Christianity, going back even to the very beginnings of the earliest
known civilizations. Homeschoolers don't want their children exposed to
the violence that has been increasing in public schools. They don't
want their children to fall through the cracks and graduate from high
school without being able to read. There are many reasons why
homeschoolers want to homeschool, and many of them do a better job.
Perhaps it's because they differ from the families who send their
children off to public school in that they involve themselves in the
education of their children. Perhaps that is the main reason. Maybe
it's not. But it is evident that it works. And those wishing to
require certification, as well intentioned as they may be, are only
going to end up messing with success.
Regarding your comment about "right wing religious nuts who didn't want
their kids to learn how to think or to appreciate diversity, ..." you
just don't see it, do you? Public schools are currently the worst
offenders in this area in their treatment of religion as hocus pocus
legends. But of course you don't object to this skewed approach because
you happen to agree with it. So much for your desire for truly exposing
the kids to diversity.
Regarding your comment "They home schooled specifically so they wouldn't
meet Jews, blacks, hispanics, etc.", you presume too much. You presume
to know their *real* motivation, they one they won't dare reveal. Or
did they actually tell you this?
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