LesCanadiens
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Homeschooling should be banned.
Homeschooling makes it far more difficult for children to succeed in life academically and financially. It is next to impossible for homeschooled children to get into a good university, since universities do not trust homeschooling. It's simple: it's impossible for Mummy and Daddy to be impartial teachers. Mummy and Daddy will not fail their own children, even when their children deserve to fail. Sure, they might fail their own kid on the odd exam or essay, but they will never hold back their own child and make him take the same course twice. Sure, teachers in public schools aren't always impartial. Some public school teachers will pick favourites and reward those favourites, but never even close to the degree that homeschooling parents will. Because of this, universities do not view success at homeschooling as a reliable indicator of actual academic ability, certainly far less so than at a public school. Your homeschooled child will be stuck in crappy community or career colleges.
Most parents who elect to homeschool their children do so because they have a problem with something that public schools teach. I grant that in remote, rural areas, public or private schools are not an option and homeschooling must be done. But in urban areas, and hell most rural areas too, children still have access to public or private schools. In such occasions, homeschooling amounts to nothing more than indoctrination. You know, religious fundamentalists who think that biology textbooks are the spawn of Satan, or historical revisionists who think that history taught in public schools is a nefarious conspiracy to suppress the truth. The primary motivation is to control what their child learns at the expense of the child's well being, and this is child abuse.
How are most parents even capable of educating their child anyways? I grant you, the average parent might be capable of teaching elementary school. After all, elementary school is little more than a glorified daycare, and the only thing of value learned in elementary school are social skills. But when the kid gets to the high school level, how is it possible for the average parent to effectively teach? How many parents have the level of knowledge required to teach high school physics? Algebra? Calculus? Biology? Etc. Either you send your kids to public schools once they hit high school after you feel they've been sufficiently indoctrinated, or to a homeschooling cooperative and render the sole motive for homeschooling (controlling your child) null and void, or refuse to allow your kid to study what he wants.
No fair minded person will deny that the public education system has problems, nor that it is in need of reform. But the solution to these problems is not to scrap it altogether and replace it with your own crappy version of an education.
Please discuss.
Homeschooling makes it far more difficult for children to succeed in life academically and financially. It is next to impossible for homeschooled children to get into a good university, since universities do not trust homeschooling. It's simple: it's impossible for Mummy and Daddy to be impartial teachers. Mummy and Daddy will not fail their own children, even when their children deserve to fail. Sure, they might fail their own kid on the odd exam or essay, but they will never hold back their own child and make him take the same course twice. Sure, teachers in public schools aren't always impartial. Some public school teachers will pick favourites and reward those favourites, but never even close to the degree that homeschooling parents will. Because of this, universities do not view success at homeschooling as a reliable indicator of actual academic ability, certainly far less so than at a public school. Your homeschooled child will be stuck in crappy community or career colleges.
Most parents who elect to homeschool their children do so because they have a problem with something that public schools teach. I grant that in remote, rural areas, public or private schools are not an option and homeschooling must be done. But in urban areas, and hell most rural areas too, children still have access to public or private schools. In such occasions, homeschooling amounts to nothing more than indoctrination. You know, religious fundamentalists who think that biology textbooks are the spawn of Satan, or historical revisionists who think that history taught in public schools is a nefarious conspiracy to suppress the truth. The primary motivation is to control what their child learns at the expense of the child's well being, and this is child abuse.
How are most parents even capable of educating their child anyways? I grant you, the average parent might be capable of teaching elementary school. After all, elementary school is little more than a glorified daycare, and the only thing of value learned in elementary school are social skills. But when the kid gets to the high school level, how is it possible for the average parent to effectively teach? How many parents have the level of knowledge required to teach high school physics? Algebra? Calculus? Biology? Etc. Either you send your kids to public schools once they hit high school after you feel they've been sufficiently indoctrinated, or to a homeschooling cooperative and render the sole motive for homeschooling (controlling your child) null and void, or refuse to allow your kid to study what he wants.
No fair minded person will deny that the public education system has problems, nor that it is in need of reform. But the solution to these problems is not to scrap it altogether and replace it with your own crappy version of an education.
Please discuss.
