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I have no problem with parents homeschooling their own children if the parent doing the homeschooling is qualified to be a teacher.
Some church oriented homeschooling programs don’t really teach the truth about science and history.
Here in Oklahoma, money of each local school system is based on Average Daily Attendance and much of that money comes from property taxes and vehicle licensing.
When children are removed from (or don’t even attend) a local public school in the home district, the school where they would have attended end up being short of money which was needed.
That’s sort of like the homeschooling parents punishing the local school system.
On the end of the dead-end street where I used to live was Metro Christian Academy for grades from kindergarten to grade 12. Very few of the students who attended there even lived within a mile of the school.
The children did not even ride on the city bus system to get to school. The students with driver’s licenses drove high priced cars and the others were driven there by their parents in expensive SUVs and similar priced vehicles. Many of the parents and even some of the staff drove by faster than the posted speed limit of 25 MPH.
It is actually a no-musical-instruments-in-the-church Church of Christ run school.
In my opinion, if it is a “sin” to have musical instruments in a church, it should be a sin to play them and sing with musical instrument accompaniment.
Homeschoolers pay taxes like everyone else, PLUS the expense of curriculum, etc. Therefore, we pay IN, but we do not “benefit” from the taxes. If there are fewer students in the public system, the school needs less teachers, etc. therefore, less funding.
Many city bus systems are subsidized with tax money. Is it so wrong to pay 100% of our transportation expenses, if we choose to do so?
Church of Christ (which I do not belong to, but know people who do) does not use musical instruments at all. They do all their music a cappella. Almost every other denomination does not have a complete prohibition on musical instruments, although some churches may choose to use only pipe organs and other instruments which work best with their style of worship. Many churches have “praise bands” with drums, guitars, brass instruments, etc.
Science & history are two areas where what is “true” are dependent upon that person’s worldview. Winners usually write the history books. For most of our history, I have not used textbooks, but rather find biographies and other “real” books that tell the complete story. If I can, I try to find ones with opposing viewpoints (say one written from the Scottish or Irish perspective and one from the British perspective). We teach science which is verifiable, repeatable. We cover macro evolution, even though we do not believe or teach it as “truth” but rather as a “theory or hypothesis”. By showing the available evidence, and teaching how people with different worldviews would interpret the evidence, gives a more complete education than teaching that naturalism is the only way anything could come into existence.
If they are driving too fast, complain to the police. Maybe they’ll set up a speed trap and collect more revenue for the government.
Homeschoolers average 80% on standardized tests, where public school students average only 50%, therefore it is a real stretch to say that homeschooling parents in general, are not qualified to teach.
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The_JAM said, about 1 month ago
Try homeschooling :D :D :D
IncredibleWerekitty said, about 1 month ago
bradwilliams
said,
about 1 month ago
Ain’t that the truth!
cynof3 said, about 1 month ago
I am so glad I homeschool mine…no beginning of the year forms for me!
bald 716 said, about 1 month ago
and then they will send the list of schedule days off
Joe Allen Doty said, about 1 month ago
I have no problem with parents homeschooling their own children if the parent doing the homeschooling is qualified to be a teacher.
Some church oriented homeschooling programs don’t really teach the truth about science and history.
Here in Oklahoma, money of each local school system is based on Average Daily Attendance and much of that money comes from property taxes and vehicle licensing.
When children are removed from (or don’t even attend) a local public school in the home district, the school where they would have attended end up being short of money which was needed.
That’s sort of like the homeschooling parents punishing the local school system.
On the end of the dead-end street where I used to live was Metro Christian Academy for grades from kindergarten to grade 12. Very few of the students who attended there even lived within a mile of the school.
The children did not even ride on the city bus system to get to school. The students with driver’s licenses drove high priced cars and the others were driven there by their parents in expensive SUVs and similar priced vehicles. Many of the parents and even some of the staff drove by faster than the posted speed limit of 25 MPH.
It is actually a no-musical-instruments-in-the-church Church of Christ run school.
In my opinion, if it is a “sin” to have musical instruments in a church, it should be a sin to play them and sing with musical instrument accompaniment.
Rmom said, about 1 month ago
Homeschoolers pay taxes like everyone else, PLUS the expense of curriculum, etc. Therefore, we pay IN, but we do not “benefit” from the taxes. If there are fewer students in the public system, the school needs less teachers, etc. therefore, less funding.
Many city bus systems are subsidized with tax money. Is it so wrong to pay 100% of our transportation expenses, if we choose to do so?
Church of Christ (which I do not belong to, but know people who do) does not use musical instruments at all. They do all their music a cappella. Almost every other denomination does not have a complete prohibition on musical instruments, although some churches may choose to use only pipe organs and other instruments which work best with their style of worship. Many churches have “praise bands” with drums, guitars, brass instruments, etc.
Science & history are two areas where what is “true” are dependent upon that person’s worldview. Winners usually write the history books. For most of our history, I have not used textbooks, but rather find biographies and other “real” books that tell the complete story. If I can, I try to find ones with opposing viewpoints (say one written from the Scottish or Irish perspective and one from the British perspective). We teach science which is verifiable, repeatable. We cover macro evolution, even though we do not believe or teach it as “truth” but rather as a “theory or hypothesis”. By showing the available evidence, and teaching how people with different worldviews would interpret the evidence, gives a more complete education than teaching that naturalism is the only way anything could come into existence.
If they are driving too fast, complain to the police. Maybe they’ll set up a speed trap and collect more revenue for the government.
Homeschoolers average 80% on standardized tests, where public school students average only 50%, therefore it is a real stretch to say that homeschooling parents in general, are not qualified to teach.