Should Homeschooling be Illegal?

[Lemanrussland]

Here's a better idea: get rid of public schools and make attendance voluntary. It shall drive the prices down and allow more diversified education opportunity.

That's a terrible idea.

It's a great way to trap people into generational poverty and rob children of any life opportunities.

Illiteracy wasn't eliminated in most countries until mandatory school systems (church or state based) began to sprout up.

I wouldn't necessarily disagree with voucherized education (provided schools are accredited and follow a standard curriculum), fully privatized education with no provision for those unable to pay is disgusting and anti-freedom.

[Agorya]

That's a terrible idea.

It's a great way to trap people into generational poverty and rob children of any life opportunities.

Illiteracy wasn't eliminated in most countries until mandatory school systems (church or state based) began to sprout up.

I wouldn't necessarily disagree with voucherized education (provided schools are accredited and follow a standard curriculum), fully privatized education with no provision for those unable to pay is disgusting and anti-freedom.

Ha. Anti freedom is losing our ability to pick and choose instead being goaded into a subpar school. All people should have the ability to pay with surplus gained through what would be tax money.

[Thafoo]

It's a great way to trap people into generational poverty and rob children of any life opportunities.

Illiteracy wasn't eliminated in most countries until mandatory school systems (church or state based) began to sprout up.

I wouldn't necessarily disagree with voucherized education (provided schools are accredited and follow a standard curriculum), fully privatized education with no provision for those unable to pay is disgusting and anti-freedom.

Ha. Anti freedom is losing our ability to pick and choose instead being goaded into a subpar school. All people will should have the ability to pay with surplus gained through what would be tax money.

Once again, quack quack quack, that's a bad idea.

[Hornesia]

I have no problem with it as long as children score sufficiently on a standardized test equivalent.

[Lemanrussland]

It's a great way to trap people into generational poverty and rob children of any life opportunities.

Illiteracy wasn't eliminated in most countries until mandatory school systems (church or state based) began to sprout up.

I wouldn't necessarily disagree with voucherized education (provided schools are accredited and follow a standard curriculum), fully privatized education with no provision for those unable to pay is disgusting and anti-freedom.

Ha. Anti freedom is losing our ability to pick and choose instead being goaded into a subpar school. All people will should have the ability to pay with surplus gained through what would be tax money.

Anti-freedom is not being able to read, or being consigned to poverty due to a lack of education. Positive freedom, the ability to do things, is just as important as negative freedom, that is, freedom from external restraint.

[The Grey Wolf]

Ha. Anti freedom is losing our ability to pick and choose instead being goaded into a subpar school. All people will should have the ability to pay with surplus gained through what would be tax money.

Anti-freedom is not being able to read, or being consigned to poverty due to a lack of education. Positive freedom, the ability to do things, is just as important as negative freedom, that is, freedom from external restraint.

I don't see how homeschool is anti-freedom. It's better than nowadays, where public school teachers have to teach thirty students in a class.

[Lemanrussland]

Anti-freedom is not being able to read, or being consigned to poverty due to a lack of education. Positive freedom, the ability to do things, is just as important as negative freedom, that is, freedom from external restraint.

I don't see how homeschool is anti-freedom. It's better than nowadays, where public school teachers have to teach thirty students in a class.

Not homeschooling, but his idea of removing all government support for education altogether.

[Hornesia]

Anti-freedom is not being able to read, or being consigned to poverty due to a lack of education. Positive freedom, the ability to do things, is just as important as negative freedom, that is, freedom from external restraint.

I don't see how homeschool is anti-freedom. It's better than nowadays, where public school teachers have to teach thirty students in a class.

Not to mention that some people hate public schools with a passion for that very reason and can't afford private schools.

[Hushabagain]

I don't see how homeschool is anti-freedom. It's better than nowadays, where public school teachers have to teach thirty students in a class.

Not to mention that some people hate public schools with a passion for that very reason and can't afford private schools.

Also, suppose religious concerns were factored into the reason for homeschooling? In the U.S, we have a right to make ourselves poor, ignorant, and stupid, and we have a homeland to do it in (West Virginia).

[Libertarian California]

Homeschooled kids are taught the same things as the kids in the classroom. This just seems dumb.

[The Grey Wolf]

Not to mention that some people hate public schools with a passion for that very reason and can't afford private schools.

Also, suppose religious concerns were factored into the reason for homeschooling? In the U.S, we have a right to make ourselves poor, ignorant, and stupid, and we have a homeland to do it in (West Virginia).

Why the hell are you insulting West Virginians!

[Hushabagain]

Also, suppose religious concerns were factored into the reason for homeschooling? In the U.S, we have a right to make ourselves poor, ignorant, and stupid, and we have a homeland to do it in (West Virginia).

Why the hell are you insulting West Virginians!

I never said anything about West Virginians. I said a lot about West Virginia. But in all seriousness West Virginia is a great state (looks at watch, yawns).

[Hornesia]

Also, suppose religious concerns were factored into the reason for homeschooling? In the U.S, we have a right to make ourselves poor, ignorant, and stupid, and we have a homeland to do it in (West Virginia).

Why the hell are you insulting West Virginians!

They're easy to insult. They had the nerve to leave Virginia. They had to take their virginity west.

[Meryuma]

Homeschooled kids are taught the same things as the kids in the classroom.

Hopefully, at least.

[Divair]

No, but there should be regulation so that we don't end up with kids who know nothing.

[Lemanrussland]

Homeschooled kids are taught the same things as the kids in the classroom.

Hopefully, at least.

In theory, yes.

[The Grey Wolf]

Homeschooled kids are taught the same things as the kids in the classroom.

Hopefully, at least.

You do realize that if they don't teach their kids the material, then social services get called on their asses, right? You can literally lose your kids and go to jail.

[The Grey Wolf]

No, but there should be regulation so that we don't end up with kids who know nothing.

There are.

[Hushabagain]

Homeschooled kids are taught the same things as the kids in the classroom.

Hopefully, at least.

Things I learned in the Public Classroom:
1. Teacher is always right.
2. Even when teacher is wrong.
3. Knowing "why" just clutters your brain. So don't bother.
4. Outstanding performance in the classroom is defined as doing only the work assigned and shutting the Hell up.
5. Even if that means sitting still for 50 minutes.
6. The internet is an instrument of the Devil with no educational value.
7. Poking someone is acceptable.
8. But responding in kind is not.

[Greed and Death]

I don't think it should be necessarily illegal, but I definitely don't like it. Many homeschooled children have social problems and don't perform as well academically as their counterparts. Many religious people also use it to try to isolate their children from dissenting information, which is wrong.

The right of parents to teach their children how they wish must be balanced with the right of children to a good education and economic opportunity, in any case.

This site says home schoolers outperform their public schooled counterparts.
http://www.home-school.com/news/homesch ... school.php

[Divair]

No, but there should be regulation so that we don't end up with kids who know nothing.

There are.

There are what?

[Frisivisia]

Hopefully, at least.

Things I learned in the Public Classroom:
1. Teacher is always right.
2. Even when teacher is wrong.
3. Knowing "why" just clutters your brain. So don't bother.
4. Outstanding performance in the classroom is defined as doing only the work assigned and shutting the Hell up.
5. Even if that means sitting still for 50 minutes.
6. The internet is an instrument of the Devil with no educational value.
7. Poking someone is acceptable.
8. But responding in kind is not.

Wah wah, you're super cool and special. Taxation is theft.

[The Grey Wolf]

There are.

There are what?

Regulation.

[Hushabagain]

Things I learned in the Public Classroom:
1. Teacher is always right.
2. Even when teacher is wrong.
3. Knowing "why" just clutters your brain. So don't bother.
4. Outstanding performance in the classroom is defined as doing only the work assigned and shutting the Hell up.
5. Even if that means sitting still for 50 minutes.
6. The internet is an instrument of the Devil with no educational value.
7. Poking someone is acceptable.
8. But responding in kind is not.

Wah wah, you're super cool and special. Taxation is theft.

The difference between me and the average student? I learned 8 things in school.

[Divair]

There are what?

Regulation.

Depending on the country. Regardless, it's my opinion, not a commentary on the real world.