This may be true of a very small number of home schoolers, but if you look (as I once did) at the curricula available for home schooling, you'll find that the vast majority of it is oriented toward those who want to subject their children to the most thoroughgoing religious indoctrination. The home-schooling movement is dominate by fundamentalist protestants. The religious indoctrination on offer at most Catholic schools, in contrast, is thin gruel indeed.
Michael McIntyre mcintyremichael at mac.com
"Il n'est pas facile d'affranchir ceux qui vénèrent leurs chaînes." --Voltaire
On Dec 14, 2007, at 9:11 AM, Wojtek Sokolowski wrote:
>
> --- Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote:
>
>> [this is from Special Guests, a right-wing PR shop]
>>
>> HOMESCHOOL MOM NAMED TO HEAD SOUTH CAROLINA STATE
>> BOARD OF EDUCATION:
>> She Never Sent Her Children to Public School!
>>
>>> The South Carolina Board of Education, by a vote of
>> 9 to 7, has just
>> elected as its new head a woman who has never sent
>> her children to
>> public school! (See South Carolina News 7 article
>> below.)
>>
>
> [WS:] This seems to be a broader pattern. Here in
> DC/Baltimore area, public school educators and
> administrators (most of them Black) often do not send
> their own kids to public schools, and choose private
> or charter schools instead. The most often quoted
> reason is the poor quality of public schooling and
> negative peer influence.
>
> 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.
>
> Wojtek
>
>
>
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