11-25-2008, 01:38 AM | #11 | |
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Would you believe there was a Women's Studies minor at BYU? It makes me lol now, even though I completed the minor. And we talked about this in a course or two along the way. At the Lord's university! The one headed up by those same old guys in SLC. |
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11-25-2008, 10:23 AM | #12 | |
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11-25-2008, 11:31 AM | #13 |
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In contrast, consider a family I know very well that has been home schooling for quite a few years. I would love for my children to look up to this family as role models, to seek to be like them.
The oldest child is a sophomore at BYU, even though she is not yet 19 years old. She is on scholarship, is an A student, is an excellent flute player, and is active in sports. She is very friendly, interacts well with people of all ages, and shows a maturity and wisdom beyond her years. The second is sixteen, and excels similarly in academics. She has received state-level accolades for her clarinet skills, and has participated in various sports as well. She is like her sister in her social/maturity levels. The third, a boy, is 14, and is the best musician of them all. He is an accomplished pianist, a top-notch student, and a good basketball player. He has a bit of the moodiness often seen in teenagers at this age, but is for the most part a friendly, level-headed, and mature kid. They also have three younger children that appear to be following in their older children's footsteps in most ways. I know their parents focus on classical music and literature, but are not mullahs on keeping the influences of pop culture out of their home. None of these children seem very interested in pop culture, and all have a strong work ethic and good moral reasoning skills. How did this happen, given that they are the product of a home school? |
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I have no beef, in theory, with home schooling, and I am aware of several people similar to those that minn_stat mentions. Having said that, I have also known home schooled kids, who seemed intelligent, who could barely read when they were 10 years old.
I think it is clear that many of us react to the motivations of LDS home school parents. Maybe I am simplifying, but in my experience, very many LDS parents who home school are not doing so to give their child a better education, but instead to give them a more moral education. They are upset that the schools are too liberal, or that the schools teach evolution, or sex ed, or that they read a book that talks about breasts, or something like that. They are much more concerned with shielding than in enriching or educating. |
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Yes, I'm sure many people know perfectly wonderful, smart, well adjusted children who have been homeschooled. |
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11-25-2008, 02:46 PM | #17 |
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But maybe if there were more homeschooling, or people at least hired tutors, we wouldn't have all this big government meddling in our lives and educating our children.
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Government sponsored education preceded big government. It is a rich frontier tradition. Now do we need a Department of Education at the federal level? Probably not.
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School is a free-for-all of ideas and values, as you are exposed to many people from different backgrounds.
This is what many homeschoolers are trying to avoid. For example, a girl in my ward is home-schooled and done very well on her SAT. Her father said that maybe if she ended up going to a more conservative university she wouldn't be exposed to "some lesbian school club." Of course, it is probably true, that when you send your kid to a $50k/yr school on the east coast with three other Mormon undergrads in the entire school, none of them active, you are not setting up your child for being an active member of the church. But the parents and the child are in perfect agreement that that is the case, even if they never actually discuss it. |
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