Being different and unaccountable does not necessarily make something more successful or better! Many of the home schooling activities in the US are motivated by religious extremists who do not accept the precepts of modern science (eg. creationism over evolution) and therefore not very different in spirit than the madrassas in Pakistan and Afghanistan who are churning out tomorrows terrorists.
Obviously there are many legitimate home school movements and good reasons for homeschooling as well, but in general, due to the preponderence of the negative, I would not give these activities much merit. Homeschooling in India is a different ballgame all together is for the most part driven by lack of access to good institutional education, rather than the desire to institute extreme religious beliefs on their children. In America, if you are poor (and most probably not very well educated), you will most probably live in a place that does not have good schools. This is because schools are funded by local taxes. Poor areas = less taxes = crappy local schools Hence substituting poor institutional education with poor home schooling education will not make any sense. Likewise, if you are well to do (and most probably well educated) and therefore most probably live in a good neighborhood, you will have access to good institutional education that will contain well qualified and motivated educators. Homeschooling may make sense if the parents are well educated, but it may not be necessary in this case. For a brief intro to the motivation of homeschooling in the US, look at: http://parenting.families.com/home-schooling-geca I am suprised that Peter is for greater government intervention in aspects of people's family lives - such as restricting/regulating the rights of adults to get married, or for greater big brother government authority to monitor and track its citizens, but is against secular public education. Since when did it become ok for governments to dictate the moral and religous code of its citizens? Marlon --- Peter D'Souza <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > In many cases it seems to involve private > tutoring--not necessarily by a > parent. It also seems to be anchored to a > traditional school board, like > the ICSE. Homeschoolers in the USA use their > independence from the > system to learn in ways that are often alien to the > traditional school > system and have, as a consequence, a good record of > academic excellence. > > Peter _____________________________________________ Do not post admin requests to the list. Goanet mailing list ([email protected]) Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: %(user_optionsurl)s This email sent to %(user_address)s
