“…Surveys of homeschoolers show that a majority of such [homeschooling] families (by some estimates, up to 90 percent) are driven by conservative Christian beliefs, and seek to remove their children from mainstream culture,”
The above was in a Harvard magazine (and reported on by Lifesite News – please see the below link) about the horrors of home schooling. And what were these horrors? Was it low test scores? No, all the research I could find showed that home schooled students do better than public school students.
Was it social isolation? No, home school parents have a network between them and students participate in town sports, cheer, dance classes and other activities with their peers.
So what is it that is it that is so concerning? According to the article, it’s because the majority of families that home school – have Christian beliefs.
Yikes, we can’t have that! Just imagine, the home schooled children could grow up loving their neighbor, being concerned for the poor, not lying, not stealing or bearing false witness.
The other concern was that parents wanted to keep their children from mainstream culture. Unbelievable! Think of all the things home schooled students will not learn – that there is no such thing as biological reality (a man can become a woman and a woman can become a man), that human beings only have value if they are wanted (otherwise they can be aborted), that weather changes means the world is going to end in 10 years (even though weather has been changing from the beginning of the world), that CO2 is bad (but without it there would be no plant life) and that the world is overpopulated (give everyone 10 square feet and the whole world can fit into Texas).
And don’t forget the hypocrisy. We love diversity (except for Christians), we need to be tolerant of everyone (except for Christians) and everyone’s opinion is valid (except for Christians).
So what are some of the mainstream culture values? Denial of God, sex without marriage, child sacrifice (abortion), denial of objective truth, socialism and communism. If something is sinful, it is most likely a “mainstream” value.
God bless the Christian parents who are able to home school their children and the parents who teach Christian values even if the students are in public school.
“Whoever causes one of these little ones who believe in Me to sin, it would be better for him to have a great millstone hung around his neck and to be drowned in the depths of the sea.” Matt 18:6
You can read the Lifesite News article at the link below.