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- greatterritory942 - 11-27-2012 06:57 AM
Not an Atheist, but I think homeschooling is great *if* you try to impart social skills as well. And that wouldn't be too hard, just take the kid to Boy Scouts or to join a sports team or join the local youth group.
God knows that *anyone* could teach their child better than they would be at a public school.
- Siver ChaCha - 11-27-2012 06:57 AM
I'm for it.
I used to be against it, then a close friend moved to Utah the only way to protect her kids against the nut cases like yourself was ...... HOME SCHOOL.
They soon moved lol !
- Devoted1 - 11-27-2012 06:57 AM
Most seem to be against it, in spite of the fact that MOST home schooled kids score infinitely higher on SATs and other tests. My niece has been homeschooling all 4 of her children. Her oldest daughter just graduated high school and was pursued by several IVY LEAGUE colleges, offered full scholarships, because her scores were so incredibly high.
The wonderful thing about home schooling is that kids aren't indoctrinated with homosexuality and the DIALECTIC PROCESS, which has turned most kids who graduate from public schools, into liberals who don't have any understanding of what made America great!
- Space Wasp - 11-27-2012 06:57 AM
It depends on the individual situation.
If the people who will be doing the "schooling" are qualified to do so, will make sure that the children get a PROPER balanced education, and there is PLENTY of opportunity for the children to interact with other children who are representative of a proper cross section of society to enable them to develop their social skills, then it could be a good thing (especially if there are GOOD reasons why mainstream schooling is not appropriate - eg. excessive bullying).
On the other hand, there seems to be a very high tendency for children to be home schooled by parents who wish to 'control' the subjects, and social interactions, that their children are involved with (eg. preventing interaction with the opposite sex, or to ensure that they ONLY hear the parents views on subjects like evolution).
In cases like this it is DEFINITELY a bad thing which will harm the childs development in the long run.
- Ashnod - 11-27-2012 06:57 AM
Sometimes homeschooling can be good, and sometimes it's downright terrible. Some children don't learn well in a traditional academic environment, whether because they're too far ahead or behind children their own age, have particular learning needs, or are subject to bullying and harassment by their peers. For these kids, homeschooling is a valuable option that allows them to thrive academically.
However, some parents use homeschooling to insulate their children from ideas that conflict with their narrow world-views, keeping them at home to teach them lies and anti-intellectual garbage. This is an abuse of the homeschooling system and is harmful to the children subjected to it.
If there is sufficient regulation of the homeschooling system to ensure that children are being taught competently and from a curriculum that offers a complete and accurate understanding of science, history, civics, and other important subjects, and it is ensured that homeschooling students are keeping up with their peers, then I support it. When students are being lied to and taught intolerance and hatred, I decidedly do not.
- lainiebsky - 11-27-2012 06:57 AM
"they believe the government should be in charge of every aspect of your life"
I really doubt that. I don't know of any atheists or liberals who think that, but I know loads of conservatives who spout that lie as if it were true.
Home schooling can be very beneficial when it's done by well-educated parents who put the educational needs of the child first. When it's done for the sole purpose of indoctrination by fundamentalist parents who barely squeaked through high school themselves, things don't turn out quite so well.
I had a friend who ran a home-schooling co-operative. There were many parents in the group who had graduate or professional degrees who shared their expertise with all the kids in the group and many of them did extremely well academically. Then there were the fundamentalists. Their kids were the ones who still couldn't figure out change for a dollar when they were teenagers, couldn't construct a coherent paragraph, and never got past simple arithmetic because their parents didn't know enough math to teach them more and they were suspicious of the parents who offered to teach those kids higher math skills, because many of them had good science backgrounds.
- Mark - 11-27-2012 06:57 AM
Neither.
Atheism indicates a lack of belief in a god (any god). It does not imply a position on any other matter.
Your responders will all make a case for or against home schooling, so i will not bother. But I WILL point out that there will be people who do not believe in god but who are not opposed to home schooling. maybe they will post on here, or maybe not: The simple fact remains that there is not a connection between the opinion about one of these things and the opinion about the other.
You may detect what appears to be a numerical correlation between the viewpoints, but even then, it would be wrong to conclude that being atheist causes opposition to home schooling.
Finally, just in case I have failed to state the point adequately, there are plenty of believers of various religions who will opine that home schooling is a bad thing.
- Oo - 11-27-2012 06:57 AM
Every home schooler I know does so to religiously indoctrinate his/her spawn and to keep them as ignorant as they are.
I am against willful ignorance of any kind.