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What are your thoughts about homeschooling?

With our public schools failing to truly educate our children and choosing instead to Indoctrinate them, what are our choices?

Clammypollack 7 Mar 5
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The only problem with homeschooli thing for some kids is socializing. I have met some that don't have the socal skills when dealing with others. Some do not all have these problems.

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I have chosen to send my children to a religious school. It costs a bit and we have to very purposefully save for tuition, but having the religious background was important for us. I encourage homeschooling, but it wasn't for my family.

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We home schooled our 2 oldest kids and it went well. We weren't going to put them in public school because of the secularism that dictates the curriculum and the anti Christian bias. We later put our other kids in the local Catholic school system.
I say that the case for home schooling is even stronger now.

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"The right to mold the political, moral, and religious opinions of ... children is a right exclusively and jealously reserved by our laws to every parent; and for the government to attempt, directly or indirectly, as to these matters, to stand in the parent's place, is an undertaking of very questionable policy. Such an attempt cannot fail to excite a feeling of jealousy, with respect to our public schools, the results of which could not but be disastrous." - Massachusetts Special Legislative Committee, 1840

We will be sending our kids to public school but I am preparing myself to teaching them logical questioning, philosophy, religion and dealing with people who are wrong but in authority.

Makes me think of "The Magic Engineer," LE Modesitt - where the order engineers are sent into exile among the chaos magicians.

With kids in public school, be very alert to what they are being indoctrinated with. My senior in high school just came home quite angry because he had to sit and watch a video regarding toxic masculinity. There is far too much leftist indoctrination going on in the schools and not enough teaching of the traditional subjects.

@Clammypollack - your Senior was angry - you should be proud!

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If it’s done right, and the children are socialised properly in after school activities then I don’t see an issue with it. Unfortunately this is very rarely the case. It’s highly unlikely that a children’s parents will have the range of knowledge to teach a child proficiently in every subject in a full curriculum. Using a large pool of private tutors would be great, if you could vet them and make sure they don’t include personal political agendas, but the cost would be ridiculous. If I was rich, I’d definitely consider going down this route. You’d need to spend most of your day with your children and the socialisation aspect would need a lot of time and effort to ensure your kid has plenty of friends though.

How about joining a homeschooling network where those in the network can teach specialties? That sounds even better than a trained teacher.

My wife and I homeschooled our four sons, two through the eighth grade and two right through high school. We got to instill our morals, values, faith, and worldview while my wife gave them a classical education. When the math and science classes in high school got to be too much, they attended the local community college for them. Socialization was never an issue. We belong to a large homeschool network in our area and they were also involved in town sports, a church youth group, a homeschool orchestra, friends in our neighborhood and play with each other as well as cousins. The first three received full tuition merit scholarships to college. The last one is a senior in high school and will likely do the same. We lost out on many years of potential income for my wife but we are so grateful that we homeschooled instead. We are both extremely pleased with the men that our boys have become and give thanks every day. I urge everyone who can possibly do it to homeschool your children.

If you send your kids to public school to be socialized, then you're sending them for the wrong reason. They're supposed to be there for an education. The socialization myth for homeschooling has been totally debunked btw.

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I'm a home schooled-parent (meaning, we home schooled our daughter most of the way through. She and hubby are homeschooling our grandchildren and my cousin is home schooling HER children. So I'm highly in favor of it and feel sorry for the neighbors.

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I successfully homeschooled 3 kids from K-12. Coworkers and bosses thank me for raising such good young men, they have wonderful and varied interests, none have had run-ins with the law, none have addictions, none have baby-Mamas, all are good citizens and thoughtful people. Homeschooling can be a wonderful option.

Congratulations on a job well done. You are now enjoying the fruits of your labors.

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