Stephen Arons Quote

"Why is it that millions of children who are pushouts or dropouts amount to business as usual in the public schools, while one family educating a child at home becomes a major threat to universal public education and the survival of democracy?"

by:	Stephen Arons
Source:	Compelling Belief: The Culture of American Schooling
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Categories:	Control, Education, Knowledge, Learning, Monopoly, Obedience, Propaganda
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So true! We parents who take responsibility for our own children's education cannot possibly be as qualified, or "care" as much about our children as the so-called experts. I say let's compare track records!  -- Marcia Gathercoal, Lilburn, GA
Indeed! If I had school-age children, I'd definitely be home-schooling them. American public education truly was great once, several decades ago. It's gone terribly downhill since the early 1970s. Wish I could figure out precisely *WHY*.  -- Byron, Fort Collins, CO
Brilliantly said, acutely accurate. We hold this truth to be self evident.  -- Mike, Norwalk
Great Question!  -- J Carlton, Calgary
answer= DEPT. OF ED. a giant leap toward collectivism.  -- marty king, woodstock
The Department of Education along with the teachers unions are the main reasons that our schools are so bad that they have remedial reading classes in colleges.  -- jim k, Austin, Tx
You beat me to it jim k. I was going to say the same thing.  -- cal, lewisville, tx
This atrocity against our YOUNG PEOPLE will continue only as long as "we the people" permit it to. A seperate movement needs to be put in place by "we the people" to stop this.  -- Duncan Campbell, Castleton, NY
-- LGMZS
-- Zeitgest, La Crescenta, CA
The Department of Education is the biggest hypocrisy since the Cold War. I as an educator personally spit on the Dept of ED  -- Johann Hollar, Saint Paul MN
I have known and grew up with transferee to public high school who came from chruch schools and home schooling. They were generally bored in their former schools and loved the diversity, freedom and sense of fresh air in the later environment, rather than being controlled by a Nun or Parent.  -- Waffler, Smith
As a homeschooling parent I have faced this issue head on. Luckily my children never got the long burn of government schooling and still had the spark to learn all about their world enough to keep studying independently. They can write their own ticket whenever they are ready. Looking at universities right now is mind blowing -- $50,000/year for 4 years or more, graduating with a 6 figure debt -- what a racket! Again designed to keep the classes divided. Heck, most of the curriculum is reading text books and writing essays -- and we have to pay for this? I am encouraging my children to start working immediately in their fields and continue developing their skill sets on the job and off. Learn to SAVE instead of BORROW for one's life. It is so obvious to me that the world is run by bankers whose sole purpose is to put everyone in debt to them forever.  -- E Archer, NYC
Where is the supposed argument that "one family educating a child at home" has become "a major threat to universal public education and the survival of democracy?" This quote was just a mindless rant for the sake of ranting...  -- Anonymous, Reston, VA, US
Homeschooling can be a powerful tool for educating your children. However, you must make every effort to ensure that they have adequate time with peers of their age so that they do not become social outcasts. They must also be exposed to authority figures other than their parents so that they may learn for themselves how to judge whether the autority should be followed or disobeyed. Some homeschool children only obey their parents, others obey everyone. I've seen it many times and I'm still not sure which is worse. You can indeed teach your children everything they need to know from the textbooks at home, but there are some things that they must learn from their own experiences, by themselves, outside of the home. In most cases, it is better for them to learn these lessons while they are young in a public school setting than when they are older and the stakes are much higher.  -- Publius

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