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The Liger:
This is one of my favorite books.  I homeschool my kids because I did not like what I saw in my oldest daughter's old school.  I know it sounds dramatic, but I really did feel like she was in a prison or boot camp.  All the lining up, strict schedules, bells and whistles -- it just really felt wrong.  I'd have to write a huge long thing to explain all of my reasoning, so I guess I'll just leave it at that.

Anonymous:

--- Quote from: ""nimdA"" ---To top it off I believe strongly that it is every person's sacred duty to educate themselves regardless of their circumstances.

Being educationally crippled by forced attendance in a public school is hardly an adequete excuse for not tending to your own education.
--- End quote ---


That's "adequate"
And it ain't that simple, guy.
People's life situations are idiosyncratic, and comprised of gross limitations.
A famous author’s mother (forget who), circa 1930s, held that cleanliness was always possible; all you needed to do was work at it. Than, she was forced out of her home and wound up in an ethnic ghetto by the turmoil of WW2. She found that the new time constraints, inaccessible resources, and work exhaustion made such a thing impossible. Her house became inevitably dirty, but she gained a more realistic understanding of environmental conditions and their effect on animals/humans. Educating oneself is possible to an extant, but again, dependant on one’s situation, and even then, self education can never equal the one gotten though a reputable university system. This is why we don’t have “self educatedâ€

Anonymous:
Also, home schooling is unrealistic for most people. I also believe that most parents are not capable of educating their kids well. I mean, seriously. Why not have parents perform tonsillectomies while they’re at it, because of all the problems with the medical industry.

How many of you think you would have gotten a good education from your mom?
 :roll:  :roll:

Oz girl:
for the purposes of this discussion I am possibly the grumpy conservative but my concern is that stupid ppl who homeschool raise stupid kids. There is no independent model for how much a kid learns. i appreciate the benefits and am sure there are many very bright ppl who do this raise smart thinking kids but I would imagine that there are also a fair few insular nutbars who raise paranoid fearful children. I think of many of the parents from Jesus Camp as examples. Is it a good idea that such ppl are the only educational influence on a kid?

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