Have you seen the article in the latest issue of BusinessWeek, Meet My Teachers: Mom and Dad
http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/06_08/b3972108.htm
It has captured my attention and my thoughts - and I'll write more later. Any thoughts?
Until next time,
Amanda
Wow..that article gives me real mixed feelings. It is great that parents are wanting to spend more time with their children, and to take the responsibility for their education. That is as it should be in all segments of our society, and not just in Christian circles. I just am hoping that as this trend continues in the secular world, more and more people in the Christian community continue to bring their children home.
ReplyDeleteThere is a quote in that article that really scared me: "Schooling in isolation could threaten civic cohesion and diversity of thought, says Stanford University education professor Rob Reich. Reich favors stricter homeschooling regulations to supplant the current patchwork of state laws so that children can be assured of exposure to more than just what their parents sanction. He also worries about parents pushing homeschooling on their kids." Scary, scary stuff there...
Doesn't schooling at home *in isolation* PROMOTE diversity of thought rather than threaten it, as Reich states here? I think that what worries him is just that---hs'ing promotes free thinkers instead of lots of little sponges absorbing the mass propaganda that is free for the taking in ps's. And laws to be sure that kids are exposed to "more than just what their parents sanction??? WOW!!! That man is actually saying I don't have the right to sanction what my children are exposed to??? Nor the right to push the type of education on them that I deem best? Sounds like the UN's Rights of the Child balderdash to me...
Kathy