House Schooling Or Not?
House Schooling Or Not? Much of what I thought of home education was wrong. The conventional knowledge about this rapidly growing measurement of American education is too simple, too stereotyped and too stale. The Home School Legal Defense Association, in spite of its energetic legal representatives and many admirers, is not the leader of house schooling in this nation. There is no leader, and no ruling ideology. There are instead at least a million American kids - the real figure is probably two times that number - whose families desire them to find out in the house for many reasons, typically having little to do with religious beliefs or politics. The typical picture of home-schoolers as lockstep religious conservatives falls apart when you discover that some of these moms and dads have actually been shunned by their fundamentalist churches for teaching their kids at house instead of sending them to the church's school. Some home-schoolers enjoy the new for-profit online te