Should homeschooling be banned?

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While I do think that some religious homeschoolers shelter their children and sometimes resort to indoctrination,

What do you think the state run schools do?

Anyhow, option 3 (love freedom/not the states business).

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While I do think that some religious homeschoolers shelter their children and sometimes resort to indoctrination,

What do you think the state run schools do?

Anyhow, option 3 (love freedom/not the states business).

Well, few accuse public schools of sheltering children...

No, I am referring to the indoctrination part.

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Only if the parent is certfied but I don't understand why some get all flustered up about banning it or even certifying parents. Sure I don't think it is wise to homeschool children and I don't think it helps kids at all but rather shelter them but it is not the government's job to decide what is best for your kid unless it is common knowlede.

With regards to certifying parents I think the process should be easy, straight forward and take a very small amount of time. They do not need to be trained extensivley but the government should provide a slew of resources to help parents teach their kids if they are homeschooled.

Why try to break down what's worked in human society for hundreds of years before government engineered thought factories?

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Because I don't believe sheltering children is giving them liberty.

And it doesn't work into the lefts plan of brainwashing children either, isn't that right Mongo?

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Because I don't believe sheltering children is giving them liberty.

And it doesn't work into the lefts plan of brainwashing children either, isn't that right Mongo?

Were you ever in a public school? Just curious.

No, thank God. Catholic school for all 12 years.

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Because I don't believe sheltering children is giving them liberty.

And it doesn't work into the lefts plan of brainwashing children either, isn't that right Mongo?

Were you ever in a public school? Just curious.

No, thank God. Catholic school for all 12 years.

Exactly, you have never experience one so you have no idea whether they brainwash or not and the answer is they don't. They are actually run quite well in a majority of areas and if you really believe the teaching is as crappy as it is then why would you think anyone would be brainwashed?

Actually, I have quite a bit of experience with public schools my daughter goes to one. Of course the one she goes to is a charter school and it teaches religious values as well. However, it still is a public school. It's pretty good for a public school but of course they only take the really good kids from all the other crappy schools in the area. When my daughter went to one of those crappy public schools she was in first grade and they were already then trying to brainwash them with the global warming lie.

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Absolutely. It's stupid fundie crap.

Dude, homeschooling existed even before US public schools.

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Only if the parent is certfied but I don't understand why some get all flustered up about banning it or even certifying parents. Sure I don't think it is wise to homeschool children and I don't think it helps kids at all but rather shelter them but it is not the government's job to decide what is best for your kid unless it is common knowlede.

With regards to certifying parents I think the process should be easy, straight forward and take a very small amount of time. They do not need to be trained extensivley but the government should provide a slew of resources to help parents teach their kids if they are homeschooled.

Why try to break down what's worked in human society for hundreds of years before government engineered thought factories?

That depends on what you mean by 'human society'.

Normal, civilized, western society.

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I agree with Storebought and Philip btw. Which makes me feel a little... odd. Only in America (and possibly Canada I'm unsure of the situation there) is home schooling associated with religion. Actually in Europe its usually seen as a left wing fad.

It's NOT just a religious thing, the left in this country just like to paint that it is (which is why they are against it.  Bitching about how it will make for socially awkward children is just reasoning after they've made up their mind on the subject).  Many NON-fundies home school their kids, ignorance from Democrats isn't going to change that reality.  I'm not sure how or why it's turned out this way, I would assume that the left would be for home schooling as well.  Some of the blame might go to the two major teachers unions being very much against it (they don't like competition), they have a decent amount of power.  That combined with the way the Fundies have embraced it is probably most of the reason the left is against it.  Now getthing them to admit as much, well that's the challenge.

The other obvious reason is that if the left didn't have children in state run schools then they couldn't impress their political beliefs in the minds of our youth.