Originally Posted by Zone
Exactly. Homeschooling could be being done by corrupt parents who will twist around history lessons to make them into people like them.
They do a fine enough job as is in the public school text books. There's a lot of lies in the public school stuff (I do admit that it's mostly in science stuff).
Originally Posted by sdp
I think Homeschooling is terrible and really shouldn't be as common as it is, but to outlaw it is a little too harsh.
Right, and all public schools should be burned down.
I'll make this short (some of you that know my posting style are thinking "Yea sure, it's going to be long when he says that" XD).
UN:
Who died and made the UN rules of the whole world? The UN is just a bunch of stuck up, corrupt, dictators that thinks they know everything and stick their hand in everyone else's business. They go around saying "Blah blah blah" and think everyone will go "OH OH OH they are soooooo right". I have NO respect for the UN, I'll say it again,
I HAVE NO RESPECT FOR THAT SCREWED UP THING CALLED THE UNITED NATIONS. If they want to outlaw homeschooling then they can come and kiss my..... you know.
Public Schools: I got to say something on public schools (this will be short).
Who's to say that public schooling is the way to go? I know 95% (or more) that's reading this goes to public schools (I should note, that I'm talking about US schools here). And that's all fine and dandy, but how many of you stopped to think "Well, maybe public schooling isn't what's best for me.". Lots of it is lies (again in science books), stuff like the human body, the Grand Canyon and so on. I'm not going to get into the whole "Creation vs Evolution" thing but a lot of it is lies (my dad has tapes and stuff on that sort of stuff and you'd be shocked at something like the Grand Canyon). But no one questions it (I'm not saying the teachers are the wrong doers here, they just teach, my dealings is with the writers and the scientist that thinks they know everything), and when a few parents do and say "Hey, I'm not going to put up with that so I'm going to teach my kids at home" someone tries to shoot them down. I thought it was the parent's job to raise the kids, not the gov telling the parents they have to send their kids here or there. And the public schools are a monopoly. When you got a monopoly standards go down, effort and time with the kids goes down. And they'll teach whatever they want to. The way they have it its like "You're going to go to our schools or you won't go at all", and on top of that it's run by the government. The only thing they know is how to take your money.
If public schools took out the flat out lies and had both Creation and Evolution in schools (give them both sides, don't push one view over the other and let the kids make up their mind) then I'd be back in there. And I do think many parents that homeschools their kids would do the same.
Homeschools: As you might have gotten from the paragraph above, I'm homeschooled. I went to public school in first grade, didn't like it (because the teachers were the pain, I hated getting up early, and not being able to take off and go somewhere when I wanted just sucked). Got into homeschooling liked it way better. And I've been doing it ever since. Sure there's downsides, but you got downsides with everything. David says it kills the social skills, and I have to disagree. Some kids will have no social skills (just like there will be dropouts from public schools) if being homeschooled. But I've been homeschooled all my life, my brother has, some of my cousins, and a few friends as well. All of us have friends, most are ones that goes to public schools, none of us are lacking on social skills.
Many parents homeschool their kids for one reason or another. Some doesn't want them to learn about evolution, others have their kids at home because the kids get picked on a lot, and some parents just have their kids home to be with them more. Whatever the reason the parents and kids should have that choice to say "I want [my kids] to be homeschooled". The UN, the government, and others shouldn't tell parents how to raise their kids. Next thing you know they'll say you can't give them this kind of food, they can't watch this kind of movie, they can't play this kind of game. Yes games, movies and foods have guidelines (well more like meds have guidelines) and ratings, but it's still up to the parents to say "Ok son, you can't play GTA till you're 17, you're 15 right now so you're too young".
If we come to a point where the gov tells somehow how to raise their kids then anything is possible.