Are atheists for or against home schooling?

[lainiebsky]

"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.