[lbo-talk] home-school mom to head SC Board of Ed

[JBrown72073 at cs.com]

Wojtek wrote:
>The problem is, however, that private schools tend to
>be expensive, except perhaps for religious schools
>that may offer tuition breaks to low income parents. 
>So home schooling looks like a viable option for those
>who want to opt out of the public school system but
>cannot afford private schools tuition and do not want
>to subject their kids to religious indoctrination.

I don't get this 'cheaper' argument--isn't someone (usually the woman) 
forgoing a paycheck to do the 'schooling'?  Doesn't that make it rather more 
expensive than most private schools? (Though if you have 6 kids like Rick and Karen 
Santorum I suppose there's an economy of scale.)  

Also, my impression is that the vast majority of homeschoolers are doing it 
in order to subject their kids to religious indoctrination (and for racist 
reasons.)  For example, a big emphasis in a homeschoolers convention here was 
textbooks that contain Christian themes.

Jenny Brown

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