(September 4, 2012 at 6:29 pm)Chuck Wrote:(September 4, 2012 at 6:21 pm)Faith No More Wrote: In my observations, homeschooling is rarely if ever about giving the child a proper educations and more about controlling the content that reaches the child, usually for religious reasons.
That is my observation as well.
Generally speaking, that has been my observation as well.
However, I do know a couple that homeschool their son. They're non-religious and very liberal, pretty much the opposite of the stereotypical homeschooling family. The mother is his primary teacher, and she uses all of the resources available to homeschoolers. She's intelligent, well-educated, I think fairly well-equipped for the task, and also introspective enough to recognize when she's over her head.
I don't know what their motivation is. I suspect it has to do with the quality of public schooling, and not for ideological reasons. Perhaps I'll ask when an opportunity arises.
(September 4, 2012 at 7:52 pm)teaearlgreyhot Wrote: They think they're doing "God's work." They can't see it as indoctrination at all.
Only tangentially related - but when I raised concerns with my ex regarding the manner in which she was "introducing" him to religion, she bristled when I called it "indoctrination". The word seems to carry a very negative connotation - even though the dictionary definition fits it to a 'T'. I've come to discover that (in general) theists and atheists aren't speaking exactly the same language.
