An often overlooked aspect of our First Amendment right is the "right of the people to peaceably assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances." I was certainly grieved earlier this year, when a California state appeals court ruled that parents without teaching credentials do not have a Constitutional right to home school their children. Besides statewide consequences, this decision could set a legal precedent for other states as well. (This hits particularly close to home because my wife Gena and I personally home school our seven year old twins).
At the core of these types of ludicrous rulings is the assault on the parent-child relationship by judges who refuse to support of even acknowledge parental rights. This California appellate judgment is likely to be and should be overturned-but it and other similar rulings are warnings to us all of how liberal judges are seeking rulings are warnings to us all of how liberal judges are seeking to infringe upon the freedoms and rights we have as parents and to subvert the Constitution.
This is just a mere paragraph, he covers many more things, i just flipped to a random page and quoted a paragraph
There is a reason there are minimum requirements to education. In my personal experience, homeschooled children are 85% severely lacking in general critical thinking (and this is compared to the screwy critical thinking of general education products, mind you), and 100% are far, far behind in actual working knowledge of
any given subject. Very few parents are capable of teaching anywhere near the level of competency that is required to be successful, nor do they have anywhere near a complete knowledge of the subjects taught. Teaching a single subject these days, in most states requires a Master's or Doctorate in that SINGLE subject. I guess homeschool parents hold MS degrees in the entire curriculum. (And, I'm sorry, but you truly have to love a subject if you spend that much time be educated in it. It's laughable when someone argues that a graduate degree is just a piece of paper. Those that argue it, think it's another BS or BA. It really isn't.)
Yours may be a shining gem, and an exception to the norm, but that just isn't the case, as a whole.
Furthermore, all of the homeschoolers I have been around are socially awkward, some to the point of overt aggression. They are also
generally religious ideologues, which I gather, is the point, from the parental side, on many occasions. Looking through one of their "biology" textbooks was a sad hilarity. One 15 year old kid I was working with was using his Dad's textbook in Chemistry...published in 1979.
They also lack innate work ethic, and do not think for themselves. These are just my personal experiences, and they were with "gifted" homeschooled children.
Parental teaching should be complementary to the general education they receive outside of the family unit. Otherwise, it truly is the textbook definition of indoctrination and is completely unfair to the child. But I still agree it is anyone's right to screw up their children how they will. Or equip them for success. However you look at it, evolution will decide.
I guess inherently we all want to make little robots of ourselves, because we are perfect. <sarcasm>
