A WEE BIT SNARKY
The CS Monitor goes after home educators (particularly evangelicals) for “indoctrinating” our kids. I found this line hilarious:
Homeschooling gives parents the opportunity to transmit values and political beliefs to their children to a degree that public schools generally cannot.
What!? The public schools don’t transmit political beliefs? Then, where is all the political correctness coming from? Geez! The reason a lot of parents chose to homeschool was because the political and moral beliefs the schools were imparting were anathema to the parents.
The rest of the article goes on to take a look at HSLDA and its impact on politics. It’s an interesting (if somewhat frustraing) read.
4 Responses to “A WEE BIT SNARKY”
![]() Comment by Judy Aron March 23rd, 2004 at 12:36 pm |
I penned this response to CS Monitor and emailed it to them via their website: Regarding your piece entitled, “Homeschoolers keep the faith”, may I please remind you that if anyone has a captive audience that is being “indoctrinated”, it is the public school system. The children attending public school are “indoctrinated” with liberal and progressive agendas every day. They are also graded based on their compliance with those ideologies. |
![]() Comment by Skip Oliva March 23rd, 2004 at 2:17 pm |
Another angle to this is the oft-heard position that we need to “take politics out of” something. I recently saw this argument in an op-ed column arguing for a ten-year term for the CIA director; by removing the president’s discretion to fire the director, it will “take the politics out of” the CIA. What this really means is that bureaucrats, not elected officials, will make decisions for people. That certainly holds for schools. Bureaucrats always view themselves as “non-political” and “non-ideological”. |
![]() Comment by Laura March 23rd, 2004 at 8:15 pm |
But Daryl, all you homeschool parents aren’t making your six-year-olds read “King & King”. It’s a real problem. |
![]() Comment by Eric Holcombe March 24th, 2004 at 2:34 pm |
“But critics are troubled by the idea of taking an organization – the HSLDA – that purports to support all homeschoolers and making it the feeder system for an evangelical Christian political network.” Uhhh…didn’t you just say… “Still, the public face of homeschooling is distinctly white, upper-middle-class, evangelical Christian.” You can’t label homeschoolers as distinctly evangelical Christian and then be surprised when they act like one. Where’s the love, the diversity, the open-mindedness, the tolerance? |