Re: [Goanet]Re: Homeschooling

[Viviana]

"Minor issues"???  Am I reading this correctly??  These are MAJOR 
issues, not minor ones.  Who would want his/her child to attend a school 
where drugs and alcohol are easily obtained and where 10 year old girls 
are gang-raped by 14 year old boys?  I do not believe that people who 
homeschool their children have a religious agenda, but rather the more 
religious the parents, the more likely they are to pay attention to 
their children's education, not the other way around.  Most "religious" 
parents (whatever that means) send their kids to public schools, very 
few make the commitment to homeschool them.  If were just about 
religion, more kids in the US would be homeschooled, don't you think?

"Minor" issues, indeed.

Viviana

Santosh Helekar wrote:

This is exactly my point. Homeschooling in the U.S. is mostly about
religion. Drugs, sex and failing schools are just minor issues meant
to be used as selling points, and to hide the religious agenda in
public forums:-)
Cheers,

Santosh
 



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