Rephrase: Why are Liberal/Pro-choice Groups Against Home-Schooling?

Question

I was myself , homeschooled and I loved it. I
had alot of social interaction and was in fact
really popular. This whole subject seems pretty
hypocritical to me.

In fact some of these groups are trying
to make illegal! Why?

Why do they want to take
choices away from us?

As a child who was homeschooled
I am FOR it.

Answer 1

I was brought up through the Waldorf system and can't think of anyone in it who wasn't liberal and pro-choice.

To whom are you referring to?

There are always nut-job groups on both sides of the table, but luckily they are few and far between. Besides, too left or too right and no one pays attention to you except your extreme counterpart.

The only reason that I can think of would be a group advocating to a very select group of others put their own children into the public school system because they (the parents) lack the necessary.. .... .... ...worldliness to educated their own children. There are quite a few small minded, poorly educated, economically challenged families out there that wish that their own children do nothing more then rise to the same subdued level of intelligence that they have (think backwoods mountain folk or Jerry Springer material). But I can't see a whole group forming just to encourage their children into the public school systems. People like that are usually just ignored and ostracized into the shadows of civilization.

Besides, anyone who claims that "all liberals are..." is equally demented in the opposite direction. The extreme right and the extreme left are always going to be wacko - that's the extreme part. But claiming that one side wants to destroy humanity only makes the person making such claims look like an uneducated, small-minded gobemouche. That is why the majority of the country is fairly moderate (thus the name). Pretending that one extreme view is worse then another only pigeonholes you to the opposing extreme side – which allows all sane, intelligent people to discards their views as equally absurd. Don’t worry, I’m sure someone will come along and claim that either "liberals are..." or "conservatives are…" to give us a nice example of this type of mechanical idiocy.

PS I love how the public school educated kid above me misspelled two words and has one incomplete sentence. He should thank God for those interpersonal skills, or he would be screwed ;)

Answer 2

I know what you mean about liberal groups being against homeschoolers. I was homeschooled from Kindergarten to 12th grade. My mother had a BS in Microbiology and my dad had a BS in Electrical Engineering with some master's work completed. My parents were in an excellent position to teach us everything--even music. Socially we (my brothers and sisters and I) were actually more mature than kids our age because we didn't spend all our time goofing off with them.

Groups who want to make it illegal are people like Hillary Clinton who think it takes a village to raise a child. They want to be able to control what the kids learn and how they learn and essentially how they think. There are a few people who genuinely think kids aren't getting a very good education but that's because they haven't really studied homeschooling. So the majority of people are against homeschooling because it doesn't give the government the control they want.

Answer 3

The current administration is against it and they aren't liberal or pro choice.
Most parents are not good school teachers.
It would be a good idea if the parents had to take a test to see if they were qualified to teach.
To much home schooling is promoted by religious groups who try to brainwash kids to their agenda.

Answer 4

A lot depends upon the parents and the children. For example, I home-school our youngest child who is 11 - this fits in nicely with this stage in my life - we live in Ontario, Canada, where the homeschooling rules are pretty relaxed. This enables us to travel to Europe when we like (to visit family for a month), so our daughter has been to England, Scotland, Norway and Holland - the next visit might be Italy or France. We belong to three different Home school groups, one meets each Monday morning and the children there focus on nonacademic subjects - there are three classes during the morning and they can choose between 6 week sessions of Chess, Cooking, Tennis, Archery, Knitting, Interior Design, Stamp Collecting, Hockey etc. Each Wednesday morning our daughter goes Ice Skating with her home-schooled friends from 10 - 11:30, followed by social time during lunch. Monday evening is Voice Lessons, Tuesday is Girl Scouts, Wednesday is Choir, Thursday is Band Practise (she plays keyboard, drums and guitar) There is no lack of "Social time". Also, just because your children will be learning for about 4 hours each day, you can be very flexible with that - you could work 5 hours daily for just 4 days and take one day off mid-week to go on field trips - explore the neighbourhood, go to the beach and find shells, hike through the forest and identify the various trees and birds you see. EDIT: I have had 4 kids go through the Public School system and overall they are good kids, but your husband will be so impressed once he meets and gets to know home-schooled children. They are by far, the most polite, considerate, mature group of children I have ever met.

Answer 5

I know a lot of Christians that homeschool.
There are pros & cons. As far as the liberals, it's probably because they want to push their pro-gay,evolution, etc agenda on everyone.
BUT....
I know kids that did BETTER when they were homeschooled. I also have had homeschooled kids on my kids sports teams that have no social skills.
Everyone is entitled to their opinion, but I think Christians that can, should keep their kids in public school. As a Christian, it seems to me that THEY are the ones taking God out of the school. It makes me, who can't homeschool, be in the minority when we try to let them present creationism as an alternative, or when we want a Christmas program or when we want to say "under God" in the pledge.
It seems like Christian kids would have more options for evangelism if they went to the public school. Some kids aren't prepared for the "real world" when they are in a cocoon of pure Christianity....no options of teaching them to make good choices.
Also, do they get to be themselves if they are constantly being watched?

Answer 6

Because schools do more than just teach reading, writing and arithmatic, they also socialize and teach students how to get along with each other and start students on the path of living independently. Home schooling can never do that as the students, while they may be learning the subjects, never interact with other people, still remain firmly tied to and dependent on their parents, don't ever have to face a problem like another hostile student or a bully, don't ever have to solve a problem for themselves that life regularly throws at the public school student. Also, home schooling doesn't give the student a range of activities or a range of elective subjects--at my high school we could study german, spanish, french, latin and italian. in the average home schooling situation would the student have the same choice? we had soccer, tennis, golf, football, baseball, basketball, field hockey and swimming as extracurricular team sports--does the average home school student have that choice? Are there enough students for a team? Are there any teams with which to compete?

Home schooling lacks a substantial amount of "extras" and also deprives the home-schooled student of being involved in a society larger than the family. Its also a way to skew the world view of the student, whether intentionally or unintentionally and creates narrow and narrow-minded products.

If you go back to the landmark case of Brown v. Board of Education, the US Supreme Court knocked down the concept of "separate but equal" on several bases. One of those bases was that even if equal, separate schooling for the races deprives those races of contact with each other. Its true in the broader sense of home schooling as well. Those home schooled children are being deprived of exposure to other people--different people, which is inherently inferior. Even if that exposure sometimes exposes them to bad things. That is nothing more than a reflection of life...there is good and bad in our society as a whole and our children need to know that and experience it.

Answer 7

To the person who said that kids who are home schooled miss out on social stuff. Bull. Who sends their kid to school to learn social skills? No one should.

I had a discussion with a co-worker who was a teacher about this very thing. I was contemplating the idea of letting my daughter be home schooled by my mother. He said that I was being cruel and selfish, wanting to deny my daughter her prom and yearbooks, etc. I had to explain to him that it was my intention for my daughter to learn to read, write, and learn math. It was not the school's job to socialize my child or to teach her environmentalism, evolution or any of that other crap. In short, I don't want my child indoctrinated into liberalism. I want to raise a human being, not another herd animal.

Public schools are notorious for dumbing our kids down. Not my kid.

Answer 8

Basically, liberals only have one thing in common, they are against things that are good, and for things that are bad.

They are for killing innocent babies in the womb, and against killing convicted murders.

They are for letting people use profanity on tv, and against giving teenagers who want abortions the facts and info as to why an abortion may be a bad idea or alternatives to abortion.

They are for homosexual behavior being taught to school kids, and against the ten commandments being displayed to these same kids.

They are for giving sick, addicted people free needles so they can remain sick and addicted, and they are against Christians helping these sick people to break their addiction.

They are for illegal aliens coming into our county, and they are against God coming back into the schools.

The list goes on and on.

SUCCESS!

Answer 9

What a scary thought, to have independent free thinking children that will grow to independent free thinking adults...."they" would prefer that children be in the liberal controlled schooling system where history can manipulated and their agenda indoctrinated into the childrens believe system.

Answer 10

I'm liberal/libertarian and pro-choice and have no issue with homeschooling as such.