I was rather surprised to read such a favorable article about homeschooling in the secular media. Can you believe it? “They” are actually beginning to acknowledge that public education is stepping way out of bounds with its agenda, and that the feminists influence is having negative effects on boys! Author suggests that homeschooling is a force to be reckoned with and the feminists better take note…
Definitely worth the read, whether you are a homeschooler or someone adamantly opposed.
“In quiet mutiny against the quality and content of government education, a growing number of women are choosing to stay at home to teach their children one-on-one. A recent federal survey (Parent-NHES:1999) estimates that 850,000 children were homeschooled in 1999: this constituted 1.7 percent of students between the ages of 5 to 17. Other studies put the figure as high as 1.5 million children.”
Click link below to read entire article:
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,33552,00.html
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LOOOVE it! Thanks for posting this.
Love it! Thanks for posting! My favorite line:
“Educated women are forgoing the material advantages of the workplace and investing in their children instead.” YAY!
Excellent! Is it possible the world is actually gaining a bit of sanity?
Thanks for the post! I am currently a teacher in a public school and this article is right on topic. I see so many programs targeted to girls, while leaving out boys. It is upsetting to me, because I have a little boy and I would not want him “pushed aside.” In case no one has noticed, most of the teaching staff are women. In my school of almost 500 kids, we only have 5 males,with only 1 who has any interaction with kids regularly. The social agenda is equally disturbing. We spend so many staff meetings and professional development days on how to teach character, morals, tolerance and making punishment “positive” instead of better ways to teach the basics. I recently had a professor get upset with me because I shared how it would be so much better of we left the teaching of morals, sex, religion, homesexuality and the like to parents. She said this was unrealistic. Needless to say, I have become very negative on the whole public school agenda and I believe the Lord is leading me to not only leave, but not send my son there either.
jcmom,
Thanks so much for your unique insight…it is so comforting to hear you say these things, even though you are involved in the system. So often, those who are there have been brainwashed and therefore can’t see the reality. I think God has been gracious to show you light!
I agree on sex education being taught at home, even if your kids attend public school. Being taught about sex in a mixed classroom was absolutely MORTIFYING for almost all of us girls at 11 years of age. I think the boys were better able to take it in stride, but us girls were subject to horribly invasive and immodest teasing questions about our bodies and menstruation from the boys on the playground. It was an absolutely terrible experience that violated our natural modesty, and I will NOT put my daughters through that.
I was recently discussing sex-ed in school with my brother in law, and he informed us that in high school, when the boys and girls separated to watch the testicle self exam/ breast self exam videos, his teacher informed the boys that if they were good, he would let them watch the breast video too! I was absolutely horrified that a public school teacher would allow a classroom of high school boys to watch a video that had nothing but breasts in it. HORRIBLE!
I work part time as a librarian, which is a most horribly feminist leaning line of work (who knew? I thought I’d be helping people find good books). I’m also seeing a greater tendency to embrace homeschooling, even in my field. In fact, I work specifically with homeschooling families. I was astonished to actually find an article on the harm our slanted education does to boys in School Library Journal recently. I truly hope more people will come to see what public education is REALLY doing.
Why, though, is this only about homeschooling moms? My parents, PLURAL, homeschooled me through my Sophomore year of high school, while working from home. My mom was a professional organist and taught music lessons. It was important for my dad to teach me as well, because he and my mom went separate ways in their schooling- he was more interested in academic subjects, while my mom got a master’s in music education.
My mom simply did not have the knowledge when I came to her with a particularly hard science question, just as my dad couldn’t have taught me French to save his life.
Both parents had a hand in creating the child, and both should have a hand in teaching.