Mr. Adams wrote:
For example, you will not read anywhere that compulsory education laws have rare. Compulsory education has been effectively repealed by the actions of refusenicks in both the subject population and the enforcement population. Their children are still getting educated. Not thoroughly enough in some cases, but educated in the basics. It has always seemed somewhat amusing that we will have a) a widespread opinion
On Sun, 15 Sep 1996 17:54:49 -0500 (CDT), snow wrote: that homeschooling is of lesser value and b) numerous studies, surveys, testimonials, reports, etc, that show what a rotten job public education is doing*. This raises the question of how anyone even remotely concerned with their children's welfare could do worse. . . Yet another unexplained mass insanity.
I would agree that parents can do as good or better at _most_ subjects thru about the 3rd or 4th grade, and I do agree that most of todays schools are shit, however there is one area--social skills--that homeschooling simply can't compete. Children need to learn how to interact with one another in groups larger than a family unit. I don't think that homeschooling can accomplish this nearly as well as the public (or private) schools could. I also don't think this is as important as, say Math, Science, or English. Petro, Christopher C. petro@suba.com <prefered for any non-list stuff> snow@smoke.suba.com