Education in America

It's spot on, these schools that run 90% of liberal mind, fear in a nation of 50/50 minds that they will lose the grip, the propaganda mind bending leftist stranglehold on our youth.

of course, isn't fundamental morality a threat....!

This call from the Harvard professor sounds like a page from every dystopian movie ever made. The notion that parents shouldn't have the right to educate their children and teach them their own values, but rather that the state (or the educational system) is better equipped to train (read: indoctrinate) them into the values they prefer is both bizarre and terrifying.

I do not see an "absolute" on this issue, homeschooling has its plus and minuses.... as does our public education system. I believe any parent has the right to homeschool their child. If they so choose to do so I hope they can offer that child or children the same "social" or "socializing" that is imperative for human development. My issues with public education is a long laundry list. 

Here in Central America (or “the center of America”), homeschooling is a much bigger, more prevalent thing than I feel it was and is to folks over there on the left coast.

Even still, I have always heard, including around here, homeschooling deprives students of the social interaction skill-building of a student body at a private or public school.  Although, honestly, I argued with my wife that some things are the responsibility of the family and not the school to provide.

my children have the social advantage of church at least twice a week, and if they need more (as determined by the wife and me), we will find them other outlets... however, we needn’t have argued.

my daughter is not of the temperament to handle the junior high school mean-girl attacks.  Visiting with teachers and school administrators did nothing:  She was left with the options to 1) Join them or 2) be subjected to them.  So beginning in 8th grade, we found a local home school coop and enrolled her.  Co-ops typically provide a minimal structure of “school,” usually in a public building or church and meet once a week to give the students a rigor to commit to, and a place they can go to work out gnarly curriculum problems, give required presentations and recite lessons.  The rest of the week, they are in their study spot (in the home or with one or two friends) and their progress is their own, as checked by their parents.

the following year, my son decided (erroneously) home schooling was easier than public school so he did his Junior and Senior year at home.  Their social lives have been no slouch.  They have home school proms, home school theater productions, home school band and chorale ensembles, even Home School Graduation exercises... in which my son participated last year.

what our experience taught me (well, and my wife)is, the fear they won’t be properly socialized is completely unfounded.

When an entire states public education system is run by unions whom support such ideas and ideology as this we are headed down a very different path as a nation.