The homeschooling thing - yeah, I feel like it's been allowed and promoted as part of the right wing agenda to corrupt the United States into a theocracy. But on the other side, the USA has public schools which are failing, which are practically prisons for the crime of being a child or a teenager, and if they're smart children or teens it's only worse. I can't blame anyone for wanting to get their kids out of that.
Maybe homeschooling is a good thing at an early age - with the idea that you're training the kid to have a good sense of self, and that part of that good sense of self is that it's okay for other people to be as they are and that there's more to know than just what Mom and Dad know. Then, when they have a core that can't be destroyed by abusive teachers and peers, you send them packing off to public schools to learn that the world has a far greater extent.
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Date: 2006-08-16 07:51 pm (UTC)Maybe homeschooling is a good thing at an early age - with the idea that you're training the kid to have a good sense of self, and that part of that good sense of self is that it's okay for other people to be as they are and that there's more to know than just what Mom and Dad know. Then, when they have a core that can't be destroyed by abusive teachers and peers, you send them packing off to public schools to learn that the world has a far greater extent.