Since we're giving anecdotal evidence...Tim Tebow seems to have turned out ok....even after playing at the University of Florida...not exactly a bastion of virtue.

Have taught for 27 years, Conservative, and even show Jeremiah Johnson in class. Lumping all public schools and teachers together equates to watching some poorly done trapping video on Youtube and saying that is all trappers. Home schooling works for some but not all. I know of one family that home schooled correctly. All of the rest have some degree of not being comfortable in public. If I taught in the city it would be at a private school and that is where my kids would go as well. It is great that it works for some but there is a reason society went to public education and this was done well over 100 years before liberalism and indoctrination issues.

Fortunately, thanks to public education, parents now have the skills to teach their own children.

I think there's a big difference in public school in a city with hundreds in a graduating class and public school in rural communities that have 52 in a class like mine or 12 in a class like the rival school down the road.
The Amish have there own public schools also around here, but kids are out of school by what we consider the 8th grade and then they go home to work and get married.
A huge percentage of people turn out just fine in public schools just as they do in homeschools. I know teachers in public schools that are unfit to teach and also homeschool parents that are unfit.
To me it's 6 of these and a half dozen of the other.

I'd be interested to know how many advocating for homeschooling were sent to public school or homeschooled themselves.

I’m sorry, but that is an incredibly ignorant statement. Look up the history of literacy rates in America.

I’m sorry, but that is an incredibly ignorant statement. Look up the history of literacy rates in America.

Pubic school of 100 years ago was nothing like State or Federal schools of today.

my grandmother went to a one room school house passed last year at 95
teachers went to teachers college and a board , a school board of the parents of the kids in the township or even a portion of the township hired a teacher. the teacher was a town employee but mostly an employee of the half dozen or so families that made up the school board they interviewed and selected the teacher. if the teacher told them of a discipline issue they dealt with it.

what we have today is a muddled mass state and federal school and not one of intense local control

a concept that school is something owed to you and use more as a daycare than a learning institution provided by the parents , and idea of a mother state that provides.
what mother state provides mother state can indoctrinate , change and control through mandates funded or unfunded.

yes the small towns , villages and cities still have a more control but at the same time are chasing and relying on state and federal $.
I grew up in and lived in small towns were I know people on the school board.

most people today could not name one person on the school board , in big cities school board member became a paid employees who work for more. more funding and more pay and juke the stats , change the tests anything to make it look good to make the money. this happens a the expense of students.

One of my best friends and his wife home schooled their 6 kids. I was best man at their wedding. When they first decided to do it, I felt obligated to share my concerns. I told them about my worries about the kids not being properly socialized. They enrolled their kids in sports and other activities. The kids went on field trips with other home schooled kids. The kids played with other kids in the neighborhood. The kids turned out better than fine. They are very successful, happy, well rounded adults now.

I was originally against home schooling. Now after meeting a fairly large number of home schooled people, over many years, I.support it. I.think there are definitely some people that should not home school their children. I think the majority of parents, who choose to home school their children, will have better results than our public school system.

Keith

That's a good one lol......how do you know they didn't go to private school or were homeschooled themselves? Parents are the ultimate educator.

Do you know what is the number one career of the parents of children in Christian schools?

Public school teachers. Number 1. That says a lot.

Seems a bit hypocritical on the teacher's part then, doesn't it? It's okay to teach other kids for the paycheck, but for their own kids to learn?

Seems a bit hypocritical on the teacher's part then, doesn't it? It's okay to teach other kids for the paycheck, but for their own kids to learn?

Seems a bit hypocritical on the teacher's part then, doesn't it? It's okay to teach other kids for the paycheck, but for their own kids to learn?

My wife is a retired Public School (English) Teacher and a Principal. She will be the first one to recommend keeping your child OUT of the Public school. All of our kids went to Private Christian schools..