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Mamabearcali,

God bless you ma'am.

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And, in return, don't assume that your beliefs about the whole world are the only ones that are valid. FWIW, I heartily encourage parents who wish to, and who can do, to home school. But, not all home schoolers are angels, and not all public schools are devils. There are all kinds of kids out there, and not all home school programs are not equal, either.

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added to original, I think that was what was intended.

What in what I said led you to believe that I believed that my, "beliefs about the whole world are the only ones that are valid,"?

I was not attacking you, I simply asserted your intimate involvement with public education clouded your objectivity.

I agree that not all home schools are equal. Some are exceptional, some nominal, some sub par. Some have brought children, labelled and pigeon holed as disabled into spectacular lives.

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The problem is that your child is go to university, to a job, or into the military (unless you're going to put em to work on the family farm) in a world where there are drug dealers, child predators, rapists, armed robbers, murderers, kidnappers, random bullies and where there are folks in authority of all kinds that may be in disagreement with what you think is a constitutional principle. Are you going to put your child in a bubble and withdraw them from any chance of making their own way in this world?

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A bubble? I call nonsense. You can almost always tell a home educated child by their manners, respect and the ability to communicate well with adults and kids of all ages. They have more opportunities to socialize across a larger spectrum of ages and personalities than any child in an institutionalized school could hope for. Segregating children according to age does nothing to promote social interaction, at least not in a real world way, but it does promote peer dependency. Home schooled children are taught how to learn and how to reason, not just indoctrinated.

Colleges in most states accept applicants based on entrance exams, not where their diploma is from. Some Universities exist primarily for the home school community. The Marines were on the forefront of accepting home school diplomas, but there is some subjectivity still applied there. Some colleges promote scholarships for home schooled students. Stanford University enrolled home schooled students at a ratio of two to one in 2002-2003 (IIRC). A good many of them are entrepreneurs by the time they reach college age and are very successful without any further "education".

Don't let your profession blind you to the reality and cause you to repeat the propaganda of the school system's statism.

RoadRunnerTR21 wrote:Some flaws in your recommendation is that you are assuming that there is a parent around to teach the child and that the parent is educated to the point that they are qualified to teach a child.

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While I agree with the first part, lazy parents who want the free babysitting and what not. I wholeheartedly disagree with the second part. Many homeschooling parents learn with their children. A study was done in about 2003 (IIRC) where home school students were tested when the parents were of 9th grade and below education. They overwhelmingly tested in the 95th percentile.

"Qualifications" for a parent to home school their children is limited to loving them and a willingness to invest the effort in their outcome.