Homeschooling was illegal??

[Dragon4Anarchy]

Quote:Access to schooling increased steadily from the middle of the twentieth century. HIGH SCHOOL attendance burgeoned following World War I and again after World War II. In 1954, the Supreme Court decided that African-American children should be allowed to attend local public schools instead of the separate schools they had been attending since the end of the Civil War. Desegregation of public schools was finally enforced in the 1960s by Presidents Kennedy and Johnson. Thus, by the end of the 1970s the United States saw high school graduation occurring for the largest percentage of its population ever before–or since. In response to this and other issues, the decade of the 1980s ushered in the era of school reform. One of those reforms was homeschooling. It has always been available to the privileged, some of whom were tutored at home. But when large numbers began to homeschool, district officials began to arrest parents, saying they were encouraging truancy.

Disgusting, Ihad no idea before that they had actually arrested parents for homeschooling. You can find the article here http://www.faqs.org/childhood/Gr-Im/Homeschooling.html

[SoulRiser]

Homeschooling is still illegal in Germany, and lots of people have been arrested and had their kids taken away... Hitler still made that law, but they've only started enforcing it now.

[Avenger]

SoulRiser Wrote:Homeschooling is still illegal in Germany, and lots of people have been arrested and had their kids taken away... Hitler still made that law, but they've only started enforcing it now.

yeah but there doing it because these religious americans keep pulling them out becuase of "celelbration of occultism,and co ed showers,and something else" so i see why germany does it and it really doesn't bother me,and if the population of germany really wanted to home school then they would have changed it by now.they really just do it because get tired of the religious fanatics pulling there kids out to indoctrinate them into there religion.

[SoulRiser]

As far as kids go:
Parents > Government... even if they are religious fanatics, at least they're not the government. The fanatical ones are rare, though.

Remember: we only hear about the religious ones 'cause most of the news articles I find about it are from the HSLDA, which is a christian organization. They won't report non-christian ones even if there are lots of them.

[Avenger]

SoulRiser Wrote:As far as kids go:
Parents > Government... even if they are religious fanatics, at least they're not the government. The fanatical ones are rare, though.

Remember: we only hear about the religious ones 'cause most of the news articles I find about it are from the HSLDA, which is a christian organization. They won't report non-christian ones even if there are lots of them.

yeah but i'm pretty sure most of the home schoolers are foreign(american usualy)so if the people don't like it they can move out.

[thewake]

Avenger Wrote:

SoulRiser Wrote:Homeschooling is still illegal in Germany, and lots of people have been arrested and had their kids taken away... Hitler still made that law, but they've only started enforcing it now.

yeah but there doing it because these religious americans keep pulling them out becuase of "celelbration of occultism,and co ed showers,and something else" so i see why germany does it and it really doesn't bother me,and if the population of germany really wanted to home school then they would have changed it by now.they really just do it because get tired of the religious fanatics pulling there kids out to indoctrinate them into there religion.

Better to be indoctrinated to love your neighbor than to blindly follow your government.

[Puchiko]

Avenger Wrote:and if the population of germany really wanted to home school then they would have changed it by now..

I've got to disagree. Germany has 82 million inhabitants. Now, say one million want to homeschool.A million is a lot of people, but that doesn't neccassarily they'll get what they want.

Homeschooling is illegal here too (legal until 5th grade, school attendance is compulsory until 9th), and there are plenty of people who'd like it changed. But not enough to change it.

I guess the point I wanted to get across is that we've got to respect minority viewpoints as well. You can't just write off thousands or even millions of people who just don't make up the 51%.

[Fire Elf]

I'd be willing to bet it's illegal because of the image it's gotten as a way for religious parents to indoctrinate their kids. That is abuse. It's too bad we have people like the HSLDA perpetuating this image.

Urban Dictionary, on homeschooling Wrote:An option for parents who are too poor for private school. Basically these folks think the entire outside world other than the 700 Club, their megachurch and Wal-Mart is corrupt and sinful. A example schedule for a home schooler:

9:00-11:30: Bible Study
11:30-1:30: Discussion of the latest James Dobson/Rick Santorum book
2:00-3:00: Seminar: "Why Negroes are evil and sexually promiscous and why Jesus tells us to hate them"
3:00-4:00: Daughters: lesson in cooking, sewing or houskeeping
Sons: Math, Science (Young Earth Creationism), History (White Christians rule, everyone else deserves their suffering), Government (why Democrats are Satanic), or English.

[Dragon4Anarchy]

26 Wrote:I'd be willing to bet it's illegal because of the image it's gotten as a way for religious parents to indoctrinate their kids. That is abuse. It's too bad we have people like the HSLDA perpetuating this image.

Urban Dictionary, on homeschooling Wrote:An option for parents who are too poor for private school. Basically these folks think the entire outside world other than the 700 Club, their megachurch and Wal-Mart is corrupt and sinful. A example schedule for a home schooler:

9:00-11:30: Bible Study
11:30-1:30: Discussion of the latest James Dobson/Rick Santorum book
2:00-3:00: Seminar: "Why Negroes are evil and sexually promiscous and why Jesus tells us to hate them"
3:00-4:00: Daughters: lesson in cooking, sewing or houskeeping
Sons: Math, Science (Young Earth Creationism), History (White Christians rule, everyone else deserves their suffering), Government (why Democrats are Satanic), or English.

LMFAO, but still bullshit

[Fire Elf]

Dragon4Anarchy Wrote:

26 Wrote:I'd be willing to bet it's illegal because of the image it's gotten as a way for religious parents to indoctrinate their kids. That is abuse. It's too bad we have people like the HSLDA perpetuating this image.

Urban Dictionary, on homeschooling Wrote:An option for parents who are too poor for private school. Basically these folks think the entire outside world other than the 700 Club, their megachurch and Wal-Mart is corrupt and sinful. A example schedule for a home schooler:

9:00-11:30: Bible Study
11:30-1:30: Discussion of the latest James Dobson/Rick Santorum book
2:00-3:00: Seminar: "Why Negroes are evil and sexually promiscous and why Jesus tells us to hate them"
3:00-4:00: Daughters: lesson in cooking, sewing or houskeeping
Sons: Math, Science (Young Earth Creationism), History (White Christians rule, everyone else deserves their suffering), Government (why Democrats are Satanic), or English.

LMFAO, but still bullshit

This is not what I'm saying all homeschooling is like. It's just the image it's been getting lately, thanks to all these religious fanatics. This does't mean there should be no homeschooling, but this at least shows why some countries ban it. I definately wouldn't want to live with a religious homeschooling family.

[Dragon4Anarchy]

Quote:This is not what I'm saying all homeschooling is like. It's just the image it's been getting lately, thanks to all these religious fanatics. This does't mean there should be no homeschooling, but this at least shows why some countries ban it. I definately wouldn't want to live with a religious homeschooling family.

Places where parents would teach that to their kids: Texas, end of list.

[Fire Elf]

Dragon4Anarchy Wrote:

Quote:This is not what I'm saying all homeschooling is like. It's just the image it's been getting lately, thanks to all these religious fanatics. This does't mean there should be no homeschooling, but this at least shows why some countries ban it. I definately wouldn't want to live with a religious homeschooling family.

Places where parents would teach that to their kids: Texas, end of list.

Also: Oklahoma, Kansas, Missouri, Arkansas, Kentucky, Virginia, Mississippi, Alabama, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia (the US state, not the country), and Florida.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bible_belt

[Dragon4Anarchy]

26 Wrote:

Dragon4Anarchy Wrote:

Quote:This is not what I'm saying all homeschooling is like. It's just the image it's been getting lately, thanks to all these religious fanatics. This does't mean there should be no homeschooling, but this at least shows why some countries ban it. I definately wouldn't want to live with a religious homeschooling family.

Places where parents would teach that to their kids: Texas, end of list.

Also: Oklahoma, Kansas, Missouri, Arkansas, Kentucky, Virginia, Mississippi, Alabama, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia (the US state, not the country), and Florida.



http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bible_belt

Meh, it's all the same to me

[thewake]

26 Wrote:I'd be willing to bet it's illegal because of the image it's gotten as a way for religious parents to indoctrinate their kids. That is abuse. It's too bad we have people like the HSLDA perpetuating this image.

Urban Dictionary, on homeschooling Wrote:An option for parents who are too poor for private school. Basically these folks think the entire outside world other than the 700 Club, their megachurch and Wal-Mart is corrupt and sinful. A example schedule for a home schooler:

9:00-11:30: Bible Study
11:30-1:30: Discussion of the latest James Dobson/Rick Santorum book
2:00-3:00: Seminar: "Why Negroes are evil and sexually promiscous and why Jesus tells us to hate them"
3:00-4:00: Daughters: lesson in cooking, sewing or houskeeping
Sons: Math, Science (Young Earth Creationism), History (White Christians rule, everyone else deserves their suffering), Government (why Democrats are Satanic), or English.

Nice way to stereotype, 26. The majority of Christians aren't racist, many are Democrats, and a key tenet of Christianity is not wanting everyone else to suffer, but to love everyone.The 700 Club is, as I'll say again if you ask, about as Satanic as any real Satanist(it's misleading and won't get anyone to Heaven). Also, a large portion of Christian wives have jobs just like men.
You, my friend, as mislead. A Christian homeschooling would be better than a corpratist public schooling.