Are atheists for or against home schooling?

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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.