Should homeschooling be banned?

[Hawker]

This is why people are losing trust in academia. Not some "anti-intellectual" culture.

She thinks homeschooling can indoctrinate students...like public schools don't do the same thing?

[MrFonzworth]

[baudkarma]

Homeschooling should not be banned, but parents who decide to homeschool should have to take some sort of training and pass a test to show that they know basic teaching concepts. And their kids should be tested to make sure that they're actually being taught at an appropriate level. It's kind of ironic... here in Texas, before a parent can teach their kid to drive the parent has to download a guide and pass a test. Wanna teach your kid math, science, history, whatever? No testing required.

[fsvr54]

As far as socializing goes, that's on the parent.

Where are the kids' cousins? Family should be around. You should be taking young kids to parks to play with other kids and stuff like that. If you're kid comes out awkward as hell it's because the parents never put any effort into having other kids their age around. It's not rocket science.

[DoctorP]

LeBron was homeschooled and at the end of the day he says "at the end of the day" a lot.

[Derka]

There’s no educational environment that doesn’t indoctrinate kids in some way so her rationale doesn’t really make sense to me.

[NBAGOAT]

no but homeschooling could use some regulation and really depends on the parents obviously unless they hire multiple private teachers or the student is awesome at learning by himself through study. I've met smart/well-educated people who've been homeschool but overall dont quite trust someone to teach math, science, english and history well. the high school stuff can already be pretty advanced.

It's just not that many people who can teach you that many subjects well. Indoctrination ofc happens everywhere but you see it less so when you have multiple teachers who have different biases which is what you find in middle and high school. Dont want to get political but I've read Dana Loesch homeschools her kids and dont know how they have any chance