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In reply to the discussion: Salon: Home-schooled and illiterate - for some kids it means isolation with little education [View all]Skelly
(238 posts)oh so many years ago, my Marriage and Family professor threw out some statistic on the number of inter-racial marriages. A student in the class would not believe that low percentage. She alone knew quite a few inter-racial couples. She remained adamant about the percentage having to be higher.
My point is, our perspectives on any issue are derived from a number of factors (experience, education, etc). Sometimes, we only see the 'knee of the elephant' (so to speak).
I understand somewhat what you are saying. However, there is also a 'flip' side. I see parents who send their kids to school and don't even know their teacher's name. I see cookie cutter graduates that are taught what to think, not how to think. I see teachers that should never have entered the profession or should have left long ago (two of my children ARE teachers).
Home schooling is not the problem. Individual people are the problem. It is how we can be part of the solution that is the answer.