Why the Push to Ban Homeschooling?

Why not ban Homeschooling? Homeschoolers out perform Public school students on standard tests, College test scores and the ACT and SAT. What is worse is that the most homeschoolers are being tortured at home. They are forced to think and reason and then they are told to find the truth. Can you imagine a student being interested in the truth? I say ban Homeschooling so they can learn such important facts as Molly Pitcher was more important to the Revolution than George Washington.

The Libs hate homeschooling because so many Christians do it. They hate anything Christians do. They also want Christian children to be forced to learn the Liberal carp they have been infecting the schools with. I would think they would be happy to have Christian children away from theirs. I think homeschooling is great because it makes the classes less crowded so the teachers can spend more time with children that need it.

Because then they can push their indoctrination, revised history, progressive social agenda acceptence, get kids to turn in no compliant parents, get kids to not think for themselves or question anything and have a nice, subdued, dumbed down, complacent society they can run ranshakle over and have them think they are doing them a favor.

I didn't know there WAS a push to ban homeschooling! That's ridiculous. I've been well aware that been people look down on the idea of homeschooling for various reasons. I've heard people put the concept down quite a bit. Even the school principal when my son was having school anxiety issues and was asking me to homeschool him. I opted not to for personal reasons but not because I think the concept of homeschooling is a bad idea. The public school system IS a MESS. I can't see how anyone can think that homeschooling (overall) is worse than public schooling. I do tend to try to see both sides of things and the only think I can say is that homeschooling might not be the best thing for EVERY child. But for some families it's a great idea!

Please tell me the feds are after it again. If you have a specific bill number please let me know. I will not tolerate them telling me how raise my children.

Because it is extremely difficult to innundate your children with leftist policies if they are being taught at home. They might actually learn something; even worse, they might learn the correct things. I discovered at my school, the teachers were having daily sessions cheering Obama and booing McCain during the campaigns. Politics unless being taught as true civics lessons should stay out of the classroom. I wonder if they will now teach how well he bankrupted the country when we owe all our debts to China? Probably not, the truth is an easy thing to waste.

It is all about money and power. Homeschooled children can learn more than children going to public school because the parents can teach to their children's strenghts and weaknesses. Public educators often do not want to loose children to homeschooling because having children in public classrooms means additional tax revenue. In this world, money talks.

The NEA is a powerful teachers union and the politicos who benefit from their support would not like to lose it. As has been mentioned before, homeschoolers put public schools to shame when it comes to SATs and other standardized test scores. Despite the hype promoted by those opposed to homeschooling, it does not result in socially inept students unprepared to deal with the real world. Quite the opposite is true. So why ban homeschooling? Because unless they have your children in public school, they cannot be sure that they will be indoctrinated properly with their political agendas. My daughter's teacher was aghast when my daughter told her that she didn't believe some of what they had been teaching her. Because of what had been discussed at home, she had formed her own opinions on some issues. True education teaches you to think for yourself, and quite honestly, that is exactly what they are afraid of.

The government knows they can't compete with homeschooling and since they can't they have to do whatever is necessary to destroy it. Only through public schools can our children be indoctrinated by the NEA and socialist in the government. You can also forget about getting vouchers that could allow choice toward private schools. The government is taking over more and more of our lives and the sad think about it is we have let it happen.

They want to ban homeschooling because they can't indoctrinate your children if you have control of them. How can they keep the children ignorant if you're teaching them? If they can't keep them ignorant, they can't control them. If the children are taught to think, they will be able to see what's going on in the government and will be able to assess things better.

I think that if the US bans homeschooling, there are going to be a lot of angry people. I personally don't think that they should have the right to make that decision, I think that right belongs to the parents and their children. What's next is the US going to try to tell everyone how to dress. I personally have had the oportunity to go to both a public and homeschool and I have to say that the homeschooling won, hands down. First of all there is nothing special about teachers, anything that they can teach a child, you can learn to teach. I think that homeschooling gives the child a better chance to susceed because they get more one on one attention in homeschooling which is definately not something that the public schools are at liberty to do. There is no reason for the US to make that kind of decision and I think that if they do, they will be making a very big mistake.

I think this is a push - or a bullet on the liberal agenda - to have one line of thinking in the mind of the average citizen. If children are homeschooled they won't be subjected to the revisionist history we now have in the public school system. Everyone will be on the same page - theirs.

I was homeschooled and I am very happy that I was, I think I got an education many times better than public or even private schools. My parents were not professional teachers but they still managed to find all the information that I needed to learn. Those that want to ban or severely restrict homeschooling don't really care about education. If they did, they would be glad to see homeschoolers outscoring public school students by significant margins. What they care about is indoctrination. They don't want kids to think. LOL, for those self-contradicting liberal socialists, did you ever think of this: Homeschooling is environmentally friendly, no trips in the car or bus to school!

As a parent it is my primary responsibility to educate my children. I can do it myself, or I can choose to use the state governments system. I have to say that I'm not terribly impressed with what my kids are bringing home from school. Our guidance counselor told the parents and children that not everyone is cut out for college and it's easier if you just accept that and stop trying now (7th Grade). Wow!!! They're being taught to quit. That usually comes pretty naturally without an employee of the state telling you. I deal with many home schooled children and I really don't see any difference in their social development...accept that they that their parents care about what they are learning and what they are doing. I went to public school. My parents didn't really pay any attention to what I was doing. As long as I went and came home I could have gotten away with almost anything, and I did. I think public school is just another way to right off your kids. Most people use it for free day care...only it's not free. School tax is a pain, especially when you see the return on your investment.

I didn't realize there was a push to ban homeschooling, but I'm not surprised. The government wants control of our children, so what better way to do it than in a school where they can form the thought processes from the beginning? Public schools stink at true education, but they're pretty good at force feeding propaganda. Parents teach their kids to eat with knives and forks, to tie their shoes, to act in a proper manner and a myriad of other things, but they can't teach their kids to read? Baloney.

My issue with homeschooling is, many parents aren't very well educated, nor are they educated in HOW to teach children and they're teaching their children things that they may be teaching wrong or they may be teaching something that they have NO idea about and it hurts the kids. I just don't think homeschooling is as good as regular school is. I know many people will disagree with me on that and I'm fine with that, but you can't give me a good reason as to why homeschooling is better than public schools either.

The problem with homeschooling is, the parents don't have to teach the kids anything. I was home schooled, and I came out better for it, but only because I took the initiative to learn. My mother is a high school graduate who graduated with the lowest possible standards anyone could have. Algebra confused her, physics and chemistry were another language - the only thing she was good at was English. All the stuff she didn't understand, I had to teach myself. Homeschooling can also make a child socially awkward.If a parent doesn't stay on top of a kid's social abilities, the child may easily suffer for it years down the road. I know this because I've seen it in my little brother, who's been home schooled for almost 10 years now. Despite all this, I don't see why homeschooling should be banned. Yes, poor parenting will lead to making the situation worse, and there are parents who, when they do teach their child, they're teaching them wrong. However, I came out better for it, and so will some other students. Besides, public schooling is over rated. I was amazed at how much they DIDN'T teach, rather than how much the did.

I havent home schooled but I really wanted to. We simply could not afford the curriculum because we had 5 kids in school. I figure the main reason they want to ban it is for the money. If the kids are not in the school system there are no tax dollars for the school system. Sad that it comes down to money and not the education of the children. I personally wonder why the vouchers never passed, I would have liked to use the tax dollars to send my children to private school like the the officials in Washington do.

I suppose any government is not so keen on home schooling, because then it is not so simple to brain wash the child to become another cog in the machine. That's a negative reason. A positive reason is, that by learning alongside other children the child (hopefully) learns to socialise with his/ her classmates. To answer your question (this applies in the US or any other country for that matter), given enthusiastic and knowledgeable parents, the education they can give, will in most respects, beat, hands down any public schooling. Just be sure the child has opportunities to socialise with other kids. Out of interest, what is the situation regards home schooling in the States? All the best, ParaTed2k

My family is in Canada and we have homeschooled our kids from the start. Homeschooled kids simply out perform their public school counterparts. For those who worry about their social skills, they are in for a surprise. Homeschoolers generally have better self esteem and are much better at socializing with other. For our sakes I hope Americans don't ban homeschooling. Why? If you do it will happen here in Canada too. There is more resistance to the concept here than there is in the US. In fact if it is banned in the US homeschooling is headed for a very rough ride worldwide.