Why do ill informed christian parents feel the need to home school?

Question

The home schooling parents I know are christian, were not good students themselves, not college educated, and seem to have an agenda. Granted public school has it's drawbacks but I cherish the time I had in public school. Just meeting new people and forming bonds that I never would have in the home. I went to a school where white people were the minority and learned so many life lessons from that experience. It just weirds me out to know that there are large amounts of young people that will become adults, not knowing anything except what their parents chose to tell them. It doesn't seem fair to the child. It's like taking their freedom to choose what they think away from them.

The question obviously hit a nerve, and thanks to all remarks even the ones I don't agree with. I did not mean to imply that the parents not have the right, or that all are christian. Again, the 4 families I know are all christians. But my parents are public school teachers of more than 30 years. And my parents do not support thugery, drugs, immorality, or questioning the validity of anyone’s belief.
Seeing kids in your neighborhood is a little sheltered to me. I went to school with quality people that came from many different neighborhoods. Some were very wealthy, and some were very poor. Many of the most genuine, decent people I ever met were the poorest.
I just think parents could help serve the best educational system in the world better if they joined into the system with other parents. Some of you are totally discounting how many under-privileged kids the public school system helps, and in my case how many middle class kids it helps.

Answer 1

Not true. Keeping them away from per pressure. Ungodliness, knives and guns, other religions not of GOD.

PR 22:6 Train a child in the way he should go,
and when he is old he will not turn from it.

Answer 2

It is very obvious that you are not a parent. Parent's by rights, are the primary educators of their children. They are the ones who are responsible for their children's care and upbringing. Like anything else, people can do a lousy job, even with home schooling. However, I don't believe that the data supports such an idea for the vast majority. Home school children tend to be better prepared to deal with life and responsibilities (translation = more well rounded individuals). Most home schooling families do not do it in a vacuum, but are part of a home schooling group. They will also have many fond memories of their school years, it will just be different, just like it would be different for someone who went to a private school, versus a public school.

Answer 3

Home schooling has advantages that public school does not and vice versa. Home school and even private school gives the kids a better education, they also have the same socialization skills as those that attend public school.Home schooling has all the same activities as a public school too. In this day and age with guns and drugs in the public schools, home schooling just seems a better alternative for some people. I went to public school and I loved it, but things were alot different 25 years ago

Answer 4

It is a mixture of ppl who home school. I used to think it was wrong.
I saw my cousin's children grow up home schooled until gr 11 and then excelled in gr 12 and now post secondary education. They are strong, confident, outgoing ppl. They hv been involved with community and organizations all over the city. They're not lacking the social skills I thought they wld.

I know ppl are heated up. It is because they are continually criticized for their decisions and become defensive just as I do when I hv been criticized, hated and discriminated against.
I praise u for taking the high road and educate instead of hate. I hope u hv learned from their answers as well

Answer 5

Well, a lot of the Christian parents are not ill informed a lot of the the Christian parents that I know are highly intelligent in all fields of learning. Most Christian parents home school because they don't want their children being exposed to corruption that mostly all school have today, and a lot of the schools science classes teach about evolution. The home schooled children don't feel deprived they have children in the neighborhoods, in there families and church to play with. They do not only learn form their parents they learn form relatives and friends and the church. Most of the time when the child reaches Junior High and high school the parent lets the child make the decision of whether they want to be homed schooled or not, because by then the child won't be able to give in to false tracings of evolution exc. If they make the decision to go to regular school they will be focused and know what to stay away from and ignore the teachings of evolution

Answer 6

I homeschooled my kids for three years using a wonderful non christian program developed by William Bennett. I also taught my kids about God and our believes. They always had friends, as a matter of fact, when the neighborkids got home from school, they usually spent the afternoon at my house because we had fun. This year, my kids are going to a public school because we moved to a different state. The teachers have complimented me on how well my kids are doing, all of them straight A students. They all had no problems making friends. I do miss having them at home though. The oldest wants to do homeschool again. It wasn't just about teaching them our beliefs but about learning great things and doing so with each other. I got to know my kids and their talents and cherished that. We explored in science together, did art and music, math, german, language art, history all at home and had such a blast.

Answer 7

No, not at all. Your first statement is completely wrong, many homeschooling parents are college educated and were good students. I have no idea where you got that statistic.

But, public schooling has large drawbacks such as gay/lesbian groups, the inability to teach morals with the sex education, bullying, drugs, hate so on and so on. To many parents, these drawback outweigh the social benefits of proms, dances, hanging out after school. Home schooled children often get together with other home schooled kids, they participate in community sports leagues...so they get socialization. They are often better educated then public school kids and they are taught morals and values...something seriously missing from the public school system.

Answer 8

I don't think that all homeschool kids have uneducated Christian parents, but I don't think that is what you are saying. You made it clear that you are speaking simply of the ones you know. And I have noticed a trend of people who choose to homeschool their kids doiong so based on Christian beliefs. There are exceptions to every rule. But the ones I have known have all done so in order to keep their kids away from opposing world views. Homeschooling tends to go along with extreme Christianity hand in hand. "If they never see another way of living, they'll have no choice but to live the way we tell them to." It goes along with Christianity's culture of brow-beating and taking all other ideas out of view. Just another brainwashing tactic. They are afraid that just by sitting next to an atheist in school, their child will automatically become a drug dealer, rapist, murderer. They take away the entire purpose of education. Nothing you learn up through high school is really worthwhile, except the ABILITY to learn. And the ability to be social, and be told what to do. Homeschool, in general, is detrimental to a child's social skills. And, while I'm sure there are plenty of reason people homeschool their children, and that there are plenty of non-believers who do so, the trend I have noticed is homeschool=Christian.

Answer 9

We have multiple resources available, so the kids aren't in the home for all of their education. Fairly well rounded - sports, violin, Latin, Spanish, art, history and the core math, composition and reading comprehension. My 9 year old daughter scored a 99 on the 'Iowa Test of Basic Skills'.

Volunteer time, help the neighbors and practice the golden rule.

The NAE is strangely arrogant, in assuming that the kid I went to High School with, who looked over my shoulder for answers, smoked about 12 pounds of dope a week, can suddenly qualify to educate any ones child, because they hold a BS/BA in anything, and pay their union dues? The perfect example of chosen ignorance.

The beauty of it for the 'educators' is that they have fewer children to supervise, and they still get my taxes! What more could you want?

Ill informed on what topic exactly? How do you suppose to be properly informed? Source please.

Answer 10

I have talked to teachers and what they all say that education has changed over the years and not for the better. Guns and knives are commonplace. Students killing students is becoming commonplace. My children are grown, my grandchildren (two are still in school) face things that did not exist when I was in school. I can understand home schooling.

Answer 11

Well coming from someone who is homeschooled, yes it is difficult sometimes for me to not be with my friends all the time and know that there is whole a whole other world out there but you can't always let your friends pick your decisions. Now that i'm homeschooled I learn so much more than I did before, and there will always be more friends and life lessons to come along in college so I have plenty of time for that but right now all that matters is my education, I don't want to have to struggle when I am on my own.