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I'm just going to sit back and count all the people that mention religion in this thread. At the moment we are up to two.
You're welcome. 99% of the home schooled people I've interacted with online were home schooled because of religious and/or extreme ideological reasons (but yeah, mostly religious). If that entertains you then I hope you stocked up on extra popcorn.
Is there necessarily a problem with that?
It's hardly like our public educational system is "agenda free" either.
You're welcome. 99% of the home schooled people I've interacted with online were home schooled because of religious and/or extreme ideological reasons (but yeah, mostly religious). If that entertains you then I hope you stocked up on extra popcorn.
If the result is to inculcate a hostility to evolution and critical thinking in general, and to celebrate logical fallacies and rewrite history, then yeah that's a problem.
People home school their children for all sorts of reasons, and yes, many times those reasons revolve around disagreeing with the curriculum. It's kind of entertaining watching people act like what they want to teach children is somehow superior to what someone else wants to teach their children. I suppose that is what happens when government gets involved in education though.
You mean besides the fact that public schools are known to twist scientific and historical facts? :lol:
There are of course legitimately awful schools that I can perfectly accept as being worse than being home schooled, but that's not the motivation I see to any statistically relevant degree. The motivation is almost always religious in nature, and yes, teaching science is superior to teaching evolution. Shielding children from critical thinking for the first eighteen years of their lives merely results in an eighteen year old idiot being thrown out into the world.
If the result is to inculcate a hostility to evolution and critical thinking in general, and to celebrate logical fallacies and rewrite history, then yeah that's a problem.
I did not. I think it is viable for others, though. I have no issue with the concept, but it's not the hot-button issue for me that it seems to be for some.Do you homeschool your children and do you think you think it's a viable option for other families?
If you believe it comes down to evolution vs science, and you believe in the former over the latter, and you're home schooled, then your posts are a perfect demonstration of what I'm talking about.
Do you homeschool your children and do you think you think it's a viable option for other families?
Do you homeschool your children and do you think you think it's a viable option for other families?
Every home-schooled person I have ever met is badly socially adjusted. I know parents who home-school who really try to involve their kids in outside activities to socialize them, however, many don't....and even those who do are not always successful.
First off, is evolution even really necessary?
Sure, I believe in it. However, it's not like that belief really impacts my day to day life in any particular way. There's no real way it could, unless I were to go into biology, paleontology, or some other related field.
Secondly, I haven't seen any particular evidence whatsoever to suggest that Christians are less "logical" or successful in their day-to-day lives than anyone else, nor have I seen any particularly egregious attempts on their part to "rewrite history."
They might try to skew the direction of the narrative a bit. However, literally everyone does that. :lol:
I don't see any reason to specifically single out Christians or Homeschoolers.
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