HOME SCHOOLING SHOULD BE OUTLAWED...

A recent headline caught my eye: HOMESCHOOLING PARENTS RALLY AGAINST “COMMON CORE” RULES by Kimberly Hefling / Associated Press 6/12/2014.

I have always felt very negative towards homeschooling and consider it similar to incest. Not the sexual kind of incest but the result of incest; the child gets the worst traits of the parents.

This is not saying that the mother or father doing the teaching is not smart enough to teach certain courses; it is saying that the teacher/parent will transmit to the child all the negative biases and prejudices that the parent has.

More importantly, it deprives the child from entering into our society and learning how to function in our society.

I mentioned Bowe Bergdahl, the soldier in Taliban captivity for five years, as a good example of a troubled, immature adult who was not capable of handling life in the big world, due to being homeschooled…in my opinion, something the parents now have on their consciences.

The current issue concerns the new educational standards being promoted by educators nationwide to help improve our educational system since it basically sucks compared to other civilized nations.

Obviously the mother/teachers want the new math standard repealed (repealed in Oklahoma) because they are not up to the task. I would have trouble with the new math as I learned my math many, many years ago.

As these standards are adopted nationwide and universities will expect enrolling students to pass those math standards on entrance exams, home schooled kids will be at a severe disadvantage.

Parents need to help their children with their homework and teach them moral and ethical behavior at home but keeping those kids out of public school just so the parent can impose his or her learning on them is just criminal.

I am all for allowing people that want to home school to do so but that schooling must be up to national standards or the kid is yanked from home and put into a school.

I still believe that the lack of social interaction provided by a school environment is very detrimental to a young person and can cause severe problems for that child in adulthood but I am not sure how we can legally outlaw home schooling.