Philip Faustin follows up on an article posted in World Magazine. Philip's post (found via a Google alert) is titled Homeschool is Dangerous. It has a couple good line, and is worth reading.
Philip has a few quotes from Robert Reich and then Philip responds with:
"Now we see what he’s really worried about. It’s not the academics, but who gets to control what the children believe and what kind of environment they are raised in."
And from the article Bruce Short makes the same basic point:
"What he is really objecting to is not the ineffectiveness of homeschooling, but its effectiveness. A homeschooled child is effectively a child outside the grasp of the state and, therefore, outside the grasp of those who control the state's educational institutions. He fears that these children will have a worldview of which he disapproves and that he finds threatening. That is what drives Reich. His real concern is not 'ethical autonomy' or the welfare of children in any conventional sense; it is ideological control."
Someone once commented that there are always at least two reasons someone is pushing for an action. There is the public reason which typically sounds good and noble. And then there is the real reason, often not very noble. As homeschoolers we sometimes have to address the "noble" reasons. But we also need to be aware of the other reasons people are fighting homeschooling.
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