The Good And Bad Of Home Schooling
House Education or Not? Much of what I thought about house schooling was incorrect. The conventional wisdom about this quickly growing dimension of American education is too easy, too stale and too stereotyped. The Home School Legal Defense Association, regardless of its lots of admirers and energetic attorneys, is not the leader of home education in this country. There is no leader, and no ruling ideology. There are rather a minimum of a million American children - the real figure is most likely twice that number - whose families desire them to learn in the house for lots of reasons, often having little bit to do with religious beliefs or politics. The typical image of home-schoolers as lockstep spiritual conservatives falls apart when you find that some of these moms and dads have actually been avoided by their fundamentalist churches for teaching their kids at home rather than sending them to the church's school. Some are home-schooling since their kids were finding ou...