First off, I serioulsy doubt you can back that statement up. Second, based on my experience with teachers, if someone has enough drive to homeschool there children they more often than not have the intelligence and education to do it.
Do you disagree that many home schoolers consider the public schools to be incompetent and unable to provide a quality education?
Can you prove that homeschooled children fare worse than those educated in public?
No. Why should they?
By “innocent until proven guilty” I mean that laws which ban homeschooling seem based on the assumption that most parents who want to homeschool cannot or will not educate their children properly. Until individual parents are proven incompetant or neglectful of their child/children 's education, government should assume parents are qualified to teach their children or qualified to direct their children’s education through other means. (Many "home"schoolers use tutors, co-ops, outside classes, etc. for part of the instruction.)
Good, we agree that some children may do better in a home school environment. When government prohibits parents from homeschooling their children for “religious or philosophical reasons”, many children who might benefit from homeschooling are much less likely to be homeshooled.
But none of your points here relate to the original article that reported about Swenden looking to ban homeschooling. That proposed law wasn’t about determining if the parents were competant or if the homeschooled children received an adequate education at home–it was about prohibiting homeschooling.
That’s a very good question.
educationbug.org/a/uk-homeschool.html
Amazing isn’t it? It seems illogical, and yet it happens that parents get better results than teachers with master degrees and years of experience. Even the dumb parents!
WillieWonka, look up the graduation rate or literacy rate in you local school. The graduation rate might be tricky, you need to look at how they define it and find the term that means the percent of kids who enter 9th grade and actually receive a diploma four years later. Graduation rate often means those seniors who say they’re going to graduate that year and actually do, a pretty worthless statistic. The literacy rate is pretty meaningless until the jr hi or high school ages. Before that, they rate it on a child’s ability to read the words from their word list.
So in other words, you have no basis for your arguement.
Wasn’t Scandinavia one of the last places in Europe to become Christian?
Wow…Parts of Finland weren’t Christianized until the 19th century I believe.
My experience has been that most folks are grateful not to have to educate their kids & to let the state do it for free.The few that homeschool are very dedicated & try to do their best for their child’s education.
I agree my points don’t directly relate to the article. They relate to the idea that kids have a legal right to an education, illiterate and incompetent parents can’t teach, and the state has a responsibility to enforce the kids’ right…
I agree some parents get better results, and some get worse. I doubt illiterate parents do very well.Amazing isn’t it? It seems illogical, and yet it happens that parents get better results than teachers with master degrees and years of experience. Even the dumb parents!
It gives you new respect for the Church teaching on the necessity and irreplaceableness of the family. Just another one of those things about the Church that humanly didn’t seem to make sense, but really works.
Good points.
I haven’t argued home schooled kids fare worse than public school kids.