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Originally Posted by redforever
I think those who are so concerned about home schooling are not aware of what it entails. And you sell many parents short of what they can do. Many parents can and do fulfill roles they were not trained for. Many parents can and do fulfill roles they never visioned themselves in. Teaching might be one of those roles, caregiver for a seriously or terminally ill child might be another...... there are so many examples where parents did rise to the occasion when circumstances forced them to.
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I don't disagree that there are many parents who can do a great job, and many parents who can rise to the occasion.. but there's no way of telling who those parents are, and in a home-schooling situation many isn't enough, ALL parents have to do a good job and rise to the occasion.
And as I agreed, in a situation like Canada where standards must be met, that makes it easier to accept.
I also agree that the public system has its problems; I myself am looking outside the public system because there are a lot of things they do that I don't think are very effective, and because my son in particular has things that might make the public system a more difficult path.
Choice is good, as long as the choices are good.
However just from a reason point of view, it makes more sense to have a few people trained to fly airplanes and build cars and such than it does to let everyone fly their own airplane and build their own cars.
