Home Schooling Or Not?
Home Education or Not? Much of what I thought of house schooling was wrong. The conventional knowledge about this rapidly growing dimension of American education is too basic, too stagnant and too stereotyped. For example, the Home School Legal Defense Association, in spite of its energetic attorneys and many admirers, is not the leader of home schooling in this nation. There is no leader, and no reigning ideology. There are rather at least a million American children - the real figure is most likely twice that number - whose families want them to learn at home for numerous reasons, frequently having little bit to do with religion or politics. The typical image of home-schoolers as lockstep spiritual conservatives falls apart when you find that some of these moms and dads have actually been shunned by their fundamentalist churches for teaching their kids at home rather than sending them to the church's school. Some are home-schooling since their kids were finding out more slo...