HOME ED SPORTS
Hal from NCHE points out a nice USAToday piece on how HEKs are excelling in athletics. A nice quote:
“Home schooling is an especially good educational strategy for children with exceptional talents,” says Mitchell Stevens, associate professor of education and sociology at New York University and author of Kingdom of Children: Culture and Controversy in the Home-schooling Movement, a look at the social history of home schooling. “Parents can organize learning around the passions and skills of their children.”
Of course, I’d argue that it’s exceptionally good for just about every child.
UPDATE: OTOH, this quote is typical Rob Reich:
“There is valid moral criticism of parents who endanger their children’s academic and employment futures in their quest for athletic stardom,” Stanford political scientist Rob Reich says.
One Response to “HOME ED SPORTS”
 Comment by Chad Boudreau June 9th, 2005 at 12:28 pm |
well, he’s right. there is a valid moral concern… However, I think the danger of either is relatively slight, and that moral concern is present both with public and home schoolers. Less with homeschoolers, I would guess, but I have no reason, beyond my own conviction, as to why that would be true. |