re: Harvard Law Professor Elizabeth Bartholet - Homeschooling should be banned

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The left can't stand the fact they may not be allowed to brainwash even 4% of the population.

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While that’s true, it seems like every other person that’s homeschooling is either some fundamentalist or an anti-vaccer. Very few cases are about legitimate education.

I believe that a greater percentage of homeschooling moms give their best effort every day than public school teachers.

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there is a percentage of teachers (and it grows bigger every year) that should never try to teach kids.

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FIFY

Homeschool is regulated some states have to teach more than public school.

There is a right way to do it. I have a long time friend who married a teacher. When they had kids they decided to homeschool them. His wife quite teaching for a living and just focused on their kids. They are a member of some homeschool group where they meet up and do activities and field trips with other home school kids. So, it can be great if it’s done right, I just don’t think it’s easy to do it right.

His kids are extremely well educated (I’m jealous that I could not provide that to my kids the way they did) they are very social and immediately fit in with other kids.

Damn right.

Ohh so you changed it to a greater percentage...I see.

I agree with your point. The greater percentage of parents do homeschool because that is what is best for their child and the child flourishes. My original point was that not all parents choose to homeschool for the righteous reasons. I agree with the author on that point. In some cases its not what’s best for the child, not even close. The percentage of parents who homeschool their kids because they are too lazy, drugged out, don’t have it together enough to bring their child to school or get them on the bus, the child is too out of control to behave at school, and etc. is growing every year. These parents choose to homeschool because it’s a lot easier for them honestly. No schedule or routine, no fighting with their to do homework, no emails or calls from teachers telling them their child couldn’t behave. It’s easier to just keep them at home and claim they are being homeschooled.

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I never said that at all. Don’t put words in my mouth.

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Then surely you have some rational reason to dislike it besides an anecdote.

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The percentage of parents who homeschool their kids because they are too lazy, drugged out, don’t have it together enough to bring their child to school or get them on the bus, the child is too out of control to behave at school, and etc. is growing every year. These parents choose to homeschool because it’s a lot easier for them honestly.

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This isn’t 1% of homeschooled kids.

Sure, a lot of moms (not really a lot - but one or two a year in a school system?) pull their kids from school for a month and say they’re going to homeschool them. Then they re-enroll, usually after they move into another district and wait for a teacher to report them for abuse or neglect and then they “homeschool” for a month or move again. None of that is part of homeschooling. That’s a broken state-run social services system.

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So you truly believe that every parent who homeschools does so with the best intentions for their child and strives everyday to give them the greatest education possible.

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That has been the case for every one of the thousands of homeschoolers I've met the past three decades, yes.

It’s becoming a part of the homeschool system, especially with junior high and high school kids. A small part that’s growing every year. I wish it wasn’t happening but it is.