Open Thread for Night Owls: Can home-schooling really promote progressive values?

[mzteris]

5. They would teach them

to be no less Nazi while IN a public school.

Your argument is baseless.

You take "a" negative and want to deny a powerful and positive mode of education to all who would benefit.

Parents teach their children their "values" whether or not they are in a "public" school. Of course you will argue they are exposed to more variety, but I ask you, how many kids stray from their parents "upbringing" while children - whether they are public or homeschooled?

Ok - so my son was an exception - who decided while in Kindergarten that he didn't believe in God. And by 1st grade and completely denounced just about anyone who was a believer. And he grew up in a Church preschool and going to church every single week, etc. . . and all those kids he went to school with? They were all believers of one stripe or another. Mostly Christian a whole lot of Jehovah Witnesses. It was their persecution of the lone Jewish girl in the class that pushed him over the edge, btw.

But generally speaking, parental values are taught regardless of the educational medium. I'm sorry, but you can't take away MY right to hs MY child just because some nutjob is also hs'ing and you disagree with their views.

Do you suppose, over on FR, they are trying to figure out how to keep liberals from (gasp!) homeschooling?!? How does that play for you?