I can think of a number of circumstances where that might well be the case. Fundamentalist religious parents, for example, who might reject science and evolution in favour of creationism.
Who gives you, or anyone else, the right to make that call?
Are the children in question going to suffer any objective harm if they happen to believe in God or maintain a certain degree of skepticism regarding an abstract scientific theory which plays no role whatsoever in the daily affairs of most people?
Virtually every aspect of the arguments being put forward against Homeschooling in this thread are hilariously dogmatic and totalitarian. What you people are basically saying here is that everyone should embrace your particular worldview, or be
bullied into doing so by power of the state.
Well... What if the shoe was on the other foot?
Would you support the same tactics if it were Nazi Germany, Cromwell's English Commonwealth, the Taliban, or Francoist Spain setting the standards for what are or are not "acceptable" ideas and behavior?
Of course you wouldn't.
Hypocrites like yourself would cry and scream to the heavens about the violations of human rights being perpetrated in those countries, and demand that all of their leaders be lynched.
The sheer level of comically unaware moral and intellectual bankruptcy on display in this thread frankly boggles the mind to behold.
Children are indoctrinated enough by their parents' prejudices in the normal course of things - without isolating them further from normalising influences.
Because indoctrination is only okay when the government does it, and only when it happens to be directed towards a goal that the political Left happens to agree with, amirite? :roll:
Plus school is far more than just learning from books, it is also learning how to be around people and so on.. and home schooled children do not have that learning and that means they will be more of a social outcast when they grow up.
I'm frankly glad that I never experienced the "socialization" enforced by the public educational system.
Have you
seen how the people in my generation behave?
If being Homeschooled means that children are kept away from the idiocy of today's youth culture, and all of the problems it inevitably leads to (drugs, underage drinking, STDs, teenage pregnancy, counter-productive rebellious attitudes, group think, etca), I would frankly view that as being a point in the practice's favor.
The argument that children belong primarily to the state is absolutely a totalitarian precept.
If this thread, and the case it is based around, demonstrate anything, it is just how fundamentally "anti-Liberal" the modern Left has become.
Several of the people in this thread are only about a half step away from taking the Soviet route and simply declaring anyone who expresses ideological opposition to their ideas to be mentally ill, and in need of clinical treatment. :roll: