Home-schooling: Your opinion?

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HappySqurriel said:

Zlatan.R said:
Homeschool is for parents that want to brainwash their kids with their own brand of religion

Right ...

Because wanting to avoid the "high quality" education provided by the public school system must be driven by some wacky religious reasons.

At least in the US, some of the government schools also teach religious ideas.  I remember my middle school biology teacher explaining to me that evolution is just a theory that he thinks it wrong.  My high school taught the bible as a history class.

The majority of private schools in much of the US and the world are religious, but you usually don't have to actually follow that religion to attend them.  Sometimes, you just get a discount.  For example, there is a private religious school near me.  It's around $2,000 per year if you are of that religion (it is at a church and the church subsidies it's own people) or $3,000 if you don't.  Compare that to the area government schools which cost taxpayers around $17,000 per year per student.

I know some people that weren't homeschooled for religious reasons.  Heck, I live, um, very close to someone that is being homeschooled for other than religious reasons right now.  Anyway, the type of parent that is likely to try to force their religion on their child in the home is also likely to force them to attend a church, anyway.  And still, on average, that parent will do a better job educating the child in general than the government school system at perhaps 1/100th the cost to taxpayers.