I received a great article from The Christian Home.net with the above title.  Here are a few highlights:

Remember when you first heard of home education?

 

"Can I do this? Am I going to ruin my children for life? Is this the right thing to do?" you may have asked yourself a dozen times.

 

The average beginning home educator usually purchases a full curriculum from one of the major private school suppliers. She decorates an actual classroom and has desks and even a chalkboard. Now there is nothing wrong with any of this, but where did the idea come from? Possibly from her own personal experience that she had in school.

 

God wouldn't call and convict so many parents to train their children themselves to educate them in a [non] Christian manner.  We require our own children in high school to read John Taylor Gatto's book, "The Underground History of American Education" as one of their history lessons. This book was such an educational eye opener that my wife and I have never been able to look at school the same way again, and to teach our own children with different goals than we have ever had before. For an example, let me quote part of a short essay that Mr. Gatto wrote for the Wall Street Journal titled "Quit, I Think".  He was New York State Teacher of the Year at the time.

 

Government schooling is the most radical adventure in history. It kills the family by monopolizing the best times of childhood and by teaching disrespect for home and parents. The whole blueprint of school procedure is Egyptian, not Greek or roman. It grows from the theological idea that human value is a scarce thing, represented symbolically by the narrow peak of a pyramid.

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