An Article About Homeschooling

I found an interesting article about homeschooling that is well worth your read. Here is the article:
Homeschooling: A Breeding Ground For Conservative Ideology
I have been homeschooling for so long that I thought that I had heard every argument against homeschooling. I confess that I was wrong. This quote made me laugh out loud:

Homeschooling is a true vocation and parents devote all the means necessary to it, even if it means tightening their belts. State schools have been financially sacrificed for decades in the US, especially under Republican administrations.

I can actually imagine one stomping their foot at the injustice that a homeschooler can tighten their belts, and devote more time to the homeschool child than the public school can. Do you know what vocation means?

According to the online dictionary vocation means this:
1. a particular occupation, business, or profession, calling
2. a strong impulse or inclination to follow a particular activity or career.
3. a Divine call to God's service or to the Christian life.
4. a function or station in life which one is called by God.

Teaching is a vocation. Instead of whining for more money, perhaps the children of the nation would be better served by the example set by the homeschool families. Instead of trying to determine what can be taken from the homeschool example a barb is tossed towards Republicans. This is a sad state of affairs that the article while correctly listing that homeschoolers are often times more prepared for college, we can only take the negativity towards homeschooling.

Take the title. If you are a conservative and your children are in public school, you are being told volumes. Public schools are liberal breeding grounds. So no matter what you try and instill in your child, the public schools have more time to subject your children to an ideology that you disagree with.

Another interesting point of the article is that homeschool parents are often untrained to educate their children, yet the movement is successful and children are learning. Do you understand the implications of this?

Of course I am not trying to change your minds on whether you should homeschool or not. But if public school failure is the blame of Republicans then what are you political beliefs? As a conservative are you willing to stand idly by and allow the blame to be placed on Republicans?

Just as the stimulus package will prove, dumping more money into anything rarely attains results unless the goal is firm and not wavering. Public schools no longer focus on the basics, but every political wind blowing its way. The curricula is outdated before it hits the classroom, and the bias is obvious in the textbooks. Ponder the texts that had several pages devoted to a man that had not even been elected president. Consider the revisionist textbooks-the liberal agenda of tearing down the walls of family.

By the way it is my vocation to

“Train up a child in the way he should go and when he is old, he will not depart from it" (Prov 22:6).

Jennifer