JohnW
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| Quote (dheddle @ Mar. 07 2008,08:31) | | Count me out of the glee over this one. This is simply a case, it seems to me, that you are delighted because something bad has happened to someone you don't like--the homeschooling families who tend to be religious. But this is just one more instance of the intervention of the omniscienct nanny state. And I suspect people who jump for joy when the state intervenes into the personal lives of citizens in "a good way" will be equally outraged if the state intervenes in a way that violates what they believe is a fundamental right. |
I see this as the court recognising the right of all children, regardless of who their parents are, to get an education. The court is simply ruling that those who home-school their children need to know what they're doing, and be able to show that they know what they're doing. If we changed a few words:
| Quote | | Parents who lack surgery credentials cannot remove their children's spleens at home, according to a state appellate court ruling that is sending waves of fear through California's home surgery families. |
would it still be an "intervention of the omniscient nanny state"?
| Quote (dheddle @ Mar. 07 2008,08:31) | | I sent both my boys to public schools, but being devoutly religious I know probaby 50 or so families that homeschool their children. On average, in my experience, the home-scooled children are more prepared for college than the public school students, including in math and science. It is not unusual for a homeschooled kid to be doing calculus in about the ninth-grade age group. Yes, some (a surprising minority) will do the YEC/Bob-Jones science, but most use decent text books. (True, they won't teach evolution, but they won't teach creationism either--they will teach biology "factoids", parts of plants, ecosystems, etc., exactly what my kids got at the best public high school in New Hampshire.) There is no way that you can justify that clamping down on homeschooling is good because the students will now receive a better education: the data don't support it, nor the anecdotal evidence such as the well-known fact that some of the nation's most elite colleges recruit homeschooled students. |
Clamping down on bad homeschooling is good because those students will (or at least should) now receive a better education.
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