My experience as a college administrator is that our home schooled students were proportionately much better prepared and ready for college than the public school kids. For example, one of our graduates returned last week to speak at a fundraising banquet. After leaving our university, he attended Harvard law school where he excelled and held quite a few leadership positions at Harvard. Today he works at a prominent law firm in the DC area and is active in his church. And I can recite many similar stories.
Also, I briefly reviewed the website of the CRHE. They definitely appear to lean far-left regarding gender issues and seek greater oversight, meaning control, over a parent's natural right to educate his/her children. Ironically, many on their website claim very positive home schooling experiences making one wonder about their motivations and if their mission is really to create, or at least, overstate a problem to justify their organization's existence. I did read one testimony where the writer suffered abuse from a "purity culture." That is a new one for me--apparently parents teaching their children to remain pure is abusive. My overall impression--with apologies to your Greek readers, " Beware of Greeks bearing gifts."
Indeed, they are a Trojan Horse, and I doubt any Greeks will take any exception to the reference! :)
I didn't have room in the piece to recount the myriad statistics showing how much better homeschooled kids do emotionally, in marriage, and in cores subject areas. The contrast is as much an indictment of the public schools as it is a positive for homeschooling.
As a retired homeschool mom who was active in groups from across the spectrum from unschoolers to sonservative Christian, this sounds like a made up group. Far left homeschoolers that I knew were all unschoolers who didn't want any regulation. I know because I often facilitated conflicts between those groups and Christian homeschoolers who could be "tricked" into innocuous sounding regulations. Not to mention anything like "purity culture" would be in conservative Christian groups, not unschoolers. I moved a lot and had contact with thousands of homeschooling families one on one, online groups, teaching workshops and speaking at conferences. Totally suss.
I told my husband at the time that the "powers that be" were going to regret shutting down schools and that it would spark homeschooling to new heights as parents saw what their kids were being exposed to and saw that homeschooling could be possible even for working parents. They literally forced parents to figure it out. WHOOPS.
~Retired homeschool mom who helped lots of newbies
I said the same thing about trans ideology -- that they would have to compel people to keep their kids in public schools because so many people would pull their kids to protect them.
We began our homeschool journey 46 years ago. Our children were enrolled in a Christian school which received federal funding. Our son was having problems and realistically was just not ready at 6 years old. We pulled them out due to fact of the Principal’s wife had become antagonistic towards my son and us.It was against the law at the time. We found a Baptist school which would cover our family. One telling remark came from the Democrat gubernatorial candidate at the time,Lowell Junkins,”it is not fair for the homeschool children to receive a better education than public school children. I’ll let that statement speak for itself.
Fierce opposition only means one thing: the inability to control the situation. Look where the opposition shows it hand... left leaning Illinois!! I also would not doubt for second that we in this state, would face that opposition also with the farcical legislators and their antics. Why have an intelligent population when you can have a controlled one? Plus, the minority factions (you know them) won't be able to have as much of an audience to demand their rights(?) and agenda....All the people that I know who undertake home schooling are intelligent, conscientious people who understand the subtle subterfuge and who actually care about the welfare of their children. Not all parents really care about the welfare of their children and those are the ones that shouldn't be parents in the first place!!
My experience as a college administrator is that our home schooled students were proportionately much better prepared and ready for college than the public school kids. For example, one of our graduates returned last week to speak at a fundraising banquet. After leaving our university, he attended Harvard law school where he excelled and held quite a few leadership positions at Harvard. Today he works at a prominent law firm in the DC area and is active in his church. And I can recite many similar stories.
Also, I briefly reviewed the website of the CRHE. They definitely appear to lean far-left regarding gender issues and seek greater oversight, meaning control, over a parent's natural right to educate his/her children. Ironically, many on their website claim very positive home schooling experiences making one wonder about their motivations and if their mission is really to create, or at least, overstate a problem to justify their organization's existence. I did read one testimony where the writer suffered abuse from a "purity culture." That is a new one for me--apparently parents teaching their children to remain pure is abusive. My overall impression--with apologies to your Greek readers, " Beware of Greeks bearing gifts."
Indeed, they are a Trojan Horse, and I doubt any Greeks will take any exception to the reference! :)
I didn't have room in the piece to recount the myriad statistics showing how much better homeschooled kids do emotionally, in marriage, and in cores subject areas. The contrast is as much an indictment of the public schools as it is a positive for homeschooling.
As a retired homeschool mom who was active in groups from across the spectrum from unschoolers to sonservative Christian, this sounds like a made up group. Far left homeschoolers that I knew were all unschoolers who didn't want any regulation. I know because I often facilitated conflicts between those groups and Christian homeschoolers who could be "tricked" into innocuous sounding regulations. Not to mention anything like "purity culture" would be in conservative Christian groups, not unschoolers. I moved a lot and had contact with thousands of homeschooling families one on one, online groups, teaching workshops and speaking at conferences. Totally suss.
I told my husband at the time that the "powers that be" were going to regret shutting down schools and that it would spark homeschooling to new heights as parents saw what their kids were being exposed to and saw that homeschooling could be possible even for working parents. They literally forced parents to figure it out. WHOOPS.
~Retired homeschool mom who helped lots of newbies
I said the same thing about trans ideology -- that they would have to compel people to keep their kids in public schools because so many people would pull their kids to protect them.
We began our homeschool journey 46 years ago. Our children were enrolled in a Christian school which received federal funding. Our son was having problems and realistically was just not ready at 6 years old. We pulled them out due to fact of the Principal’s wife had become antagonistic towards my son and us.It was against the law at the time. We found a Baptist school which would cover our family. One telling remark came from the Democrat gubernatorial candidate at the time,Lowell Junkins,”it is not fair for the homeschool children to receive a better education than public school children. I’ll let that statement speak for itself.
"It's not equitable?"
That was his argument on the campaign trail as we harassed him on his position. Of course we did that quite equitably!
lol
Fierce opposition only means one thing: the inability to control the situation. Look where the opposition shows it hand... left leaning Illinois!! I also would not doubt for second that we in this state, would face that opposition also with the farcical legislators and their antics. Why have an intelligent population when you can have a controlled one? Plus, the minority factions (you know them) won't be able to have as much of an audience to demand their rights(?) and agenda....All the people that I know who undertake home schooling are intelligent, conscientious people who understand the subtle subterfuge and who actually care about the welfare of their children. Not all parents really care about the welfare of their children and those are the ones that shouldn't be parents in the first place!!