At 09:13 AM 8/29/01 -0500, Jim Choate wrote:

http://www.Kuro5hin.org/story/2001/8/28/1868/27867

I've been reading the cover article in Time magazine about home schooling, and it makes me wonder. One of the primary questions the article poses is this: "Home schooling may turn out better students, but does it create better citizens?" Also present is the accusation that home schooling threatens the current public education system: "Home schooling is a social threat to public education," says Chris Lubienski, who teaches at Iowa State University's college of education. "It is taking some of the most affluent and articulate parents out of the system. These are the parents who know how to get things done with administrators." Funny that, a State employee putting home education down. In any case, the notion that parents should sacrifice their children for the good of society is abhorrent.