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Why public schools are better than home schools
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I do not know the author of the controversial memo below, but if anyone can identify it, please let me know. This has circulated among the home schooling community many times over the years and always causes heated debates.
I have heard different stories about who wrote it. Some say that this was written as a serious piece by someone from the National Education Association. Others claim that the author was a homeschooler writing a sarcastic piece to try to sarcastically combat the constant and undeserved criticism that home schoolers receive.
Memo: Top 10 Reasons to Criminalize Homeschooling
In an effort to increase the public drumbeat for criminalizing
homeschooling, a memo has been distributed containing the top 10 reasons why
public schooling is better than homeschooling. Here is an excerpt from that
memo:
Why
Public Schooling Is Better Than Homeschooling
Most parents were educated in the under funded public school system, and so
are not smart enough to homeschool their own children.
Children who receive one-on-one homeschooling will learn more than others,
giving them an unfair advantage in the marketplace. This is undemocratic.
How can children learn to defend themselves unless they have to fight off
bullies on a daily basis?
Ridicule from other children is important to the socialization process.
Children in public schools can get more practice "Just Saying No" to drugs,
cigarettes and alcohol.
Fluorescent lighting may have significant health benefits.
Publicly asking permission to go to the bathroom teaches young people their
place in society.
The fashion industry depends upon the peer pressure that only public schools
can generate.
Public schools foster cultural literacy, passing on important traditions
like the singing of "Jingle Bells, Batman smells, Robin laid an egg..."
Homeschooled children may not learn important office career skills, like how
to sit still for six hours straight.
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