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Home Schooling
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Question:
I'm just now watching last nite's episode on tape. Bill Maher
really surprises me on this issue. It seems to me that a true
libertarian view on this would be that parents have the right to raise
and educate their children anyway they want as long as they're not
abusing them. Outlawing home schooling or even passing judgement on the
ability of parents to properly home-school their children would be too
great of an infringement on liberty that I would think Bill would see
this as an even more important freedom that being able to smoke a little
reefer in the privacy of your own home.
Reginal Hall also made a comment about how children need not exposure
not only to a diversity of cultures, but also to a diversity of
socio-economic backgrounds. No wonder I'm so screwed up. My school had
neither.
Answer:
- What bothered me about that show was that no one mentioned testing.
Don't home schoolers have to take regular tests to verify that they are
keeping up with kids in public school. And doesn't home schooling end
at some point - like maybe highschool, and certainly college. And don't
you have to pass the same tests to get into college as someone from
public school?
One problem I see with home schooling is: What parent has time to do it?
- My cousin barely graduated from highschool. She repeated her senior year
of high school. She is homeschooling her 2 older children, complete with
religious dogma. Luckily, they inherited their brains from her husband.
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