Homeschooling Equals Educational Anarchy?

You've heard the saying about the pot calling the kettle black? There's a classic case of that in California's public school system.

Even before the intellectually and morally brilliant decision that two men or two women who are sexually involved can constitute a "marriage," the judicial braintrust on the Left Coast ruled that parents have no right to homeschool their children.

A number of groups are working to overturn this ruling, with many on both sides issuing "friend of the court" briefs, arguing for and against the ruling.

The California Teachers Association has of course come down in favor of the anti-homeschool ruling, and in doing so, have made a grossly inaccurate charge.

From OneNewsNow:

Dacus did a double-take when he read one specific charge made by the teachers' union. "In their brief, the teachers' union said that to allow parents to be able to home school without being credentialed teachers could result in 'educational anarchy,'" he shares.

That argument, he says, discounts reality. "This is ignoring the facts that home schooling is widespread in California," he exclaims. "Over 200,000 children are being home schooled right now in California -- and they score higher academically than not only public school children, but also children in traditional private schools. If there's anarchy, the anarchy is in public schools."

That nails it! With children being taught about condoms but not sexual responsibility; with children being taught that terms like "mother" and "father" are obsolete, bigoted terms; with children being taught they are descended from apes and have no God-given dignity and worth; with children being taught that their religious faith is something to be ashamed of or something to be kept out of the "real world;" with children who have an adults sexual knowledge but can barely read or do math...with the state of our public education (especially in California), the educational anarchy is in the public schools.

My 10-year-old daughter (who is homeschooled) recently took her required standardized test. Instead of "educational anarchy," she scored "post high school" in most areas, and the remaining ones were all several years ahead of her normal grade level. And we don't even push our daughter as hard as many homeschool families do.

Some school districts spend north of $10,000 per child per year, but we spent less than 1/10th of that (I would expect most homeschool families do) and got better results. What's the magic?

Parental involvement. You can still have parental involvement in education even when the kids are going to public school...but they're going to get a lot more of it in homeschool. Sadly, many parents don't even put in much involvement when their kids are in public school--and it shows.

Until we as a society decide we're going to put our children's welfare ahead of our grownup toys and self-actualization goals, academic results are going to continue to stink. The choice is ours.