I think it’s more of a North American thing.
), though some parents will actually opt for a secular school if they see it as being helpful to their children academically.
My wife is a family therapist, so I will address the second half of the question.
I don’t think there is a correlation between “enmeshedness” and homeschooling. Maybe families that deal with enmeshing send their kids to public school or private school and many people choose homeschool for the main purpose of allowing their children to focus on their own interests and to provide individualized opportunities that aren’t possible in a classroom setting.
Catholic parents make many different schooling choices-- public, private, private Catholic, online/virtual school, charter school, homeschool. They make these choices for many reasons, just like any other family.
I know Catholic homeschoolers, Protestant/evangelical homeschoolers, and atheist/non-belivers/secular homeschoolers.
I have no idea what that is, and it has nothing to do with whether or not Catholics homeschool. So I don’t understand what the question is here.
Lets be honest. There are ‘homeschooling’ families who do not want their kids in public school OR Catholic school because they might (horrors!) encounter a diversity of kids from different backgrounds, religions, or color.
In general you are talking about a minority of families that homeschool for reasons like that. There are plenty of kids in public and private schools that lack social skills and make poor decisions also so I wouldn’t chalk it all up to some form of “homeschool isolation syndrome”.
It is possibly more of a US thing since we have a choice of public secular schools or paying out the nose for private or parochial schools. Most other countries seem to give parents choices about what type of school to send their children to.I think it’s more of a North American thing.
The norm in my own country is still “Catholic schools for Catholic children” (though some of them have interesting ways of being Catholic
This is a nasty genealization!
That is pretty much how we started homeschooling. My wife was an adjunct professor of physics at a local university. We had4 kids in the local Catholic school. I had no objections, either academically or spiritually, about the school. But boy was it expensive. In addition. Our2ndgrader had a different start\stop time from the kindergartener, who had a different drop off and pick uptime from the pre-schooler. So my wife wastrying to dealwith*3 different drop off times, 3 different pick up times, a baby at home, and her own classes to run.
NONE of the homeschool families I know are bigots.
Well I have seen the opposite.
Simple answer - yes to ‘do Catholics?’
Good post.It is possibly more of a US thing since we have a choice of public secular schools or paying out the nose for private or parochial schools. Most other countries seem to give parents choices about what type of school to send their children to.
If all my kids were in Catholic schools we would be looking at around $53,000/year with 4 in elementary and 2 in highschool. Figuring in taxes (school tuition is not tax deductible) and my wife would have to pickup a job making close to 85,000 per year just to pay for tuition and that doesn’t figure in another couple thousand for books, uniforms and fees. Economically it makes more sense for her and me to educated the kids with the side benefit that we can tailor their education to their needs.
If the US actually allowed choice in schools or parochial schools were not so expensive (and actually followed Catholic teachings) homeschooling might not be as popular here.
The “expense” factor is slowly becoming a reality here too. I’ve met atheists that feel that way too.
I’ve never encountered this. Not once. Not even close.
I think this was a “poor decision” from you to post this non-sense.