RE: Thoughts on homeschooling?
September 6, 2012 at 9:41 pm
(This post was last modified: September 6, 2012 at 9:42 pm by Cyberman.)
Has anyone considered the more social aspects of sending kids to school as opposed to keeping them in the home environment? What I mean by that is that school is not just for learning facts and figures; the child is much more likely to mix and engage with a larger pool of other children all from different backgrounds, than remaining at home and, in general, only interacting with family and friends from their own neighbourhood or whatever. In this way, they're much more likely to be exposed to people of vastly differing opinions. Whatever one's opinions of the state school system, which as far as I'm aware (and I'm probably wrong) only seems to be an issue in the United States, this has got to be a much more healthy environment for a young mind, surely? It'd be like opening a window and letting in fresh air.
I can easily see how such exposure to new ideas and new opinions might be seen as a potential threat to parents who, for reasons of their own, may want their child raised in one particular faith and only that one faith.
I can easily see how such exposure to new ideas and new opinions might be seen as a potential threat to parents who, for reasons of their own, may want their child raised in one particular faith and only that one faith.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'
