Monday, March 28, 2011

Great essay on homeschooling









Bean said...

I have a great admiration for parents who choose to home school, I wish that I had had the confidence in myself to have home schooled my own children.
My 19 year old is taking college classes, he was studying a power point presentation in prep for a sociology test, and I was irritated by the examples given by the professor for various sociology terms - for example "group think" was likened to everyone believing the weapons of mass destruction presented by the Bush administration, other terms were likened to prejudice in society towards African Americans, all of the examples seemed to be very leftist leaning. This is not just at the college level, it for sure is at the high school level, at our local high school one of the teachers is a "devout" atheist and spends a lot of time "evangelising", which really is annoying, and he is allowed to do this. When we entrust our children to others, we do not always know what they are being exposed to.

Arthur Sido said...


We were pretty much done with the public schools when the last school my kids were in had a history book that had about two paragraphs about World War II, the pivotal event on the twentieth century and two entire glossy pages on internment camps. The textbooks are mostly like that which is troubling and as parents we get no say at all regarding the books or curriculum being used.