Public Schools Hate Homeschooling
Why Public Schools Truly Hate Parents Who Choose to Homeschool
Have you ever wondered why so many public school authorities hate parents who homeschool their children. Well, it is because homeschooling is very successful.
Homeschooling families pose a direct challenge to the monopoly that the public school has. This monopoly is what makes it nearly impossible to fire a tenured public school teacher or principal. This means that these tenured employees are almost guaranteed that they will have a job for life. They only get this incredible benefit because public schools are monopolizing our children's education. If these teachers were to work for a private school they would not have this tenure and thus they would have to compete for their job. This is why public schools see homeschooling parents as a serious threat.
A lot of school officials also cannot stand the thought of an average parent who never attended college, much less attended college to become a teacher, being able to better educate their child than the public school experts could. These parents are able to give their children an education that is far superior to that which they would have received in the public schools. This humiliates the public school teachers, who are licensed to teach children, as it shows that these public school teachers have failed in comparison. This is humiliating for the public schools to admit.
Another reason for which a lot of public school officials resent homeschoolers is because the public school looses approximately $7,500 per year in tax money for each student that leaves the public school system. These public schools are highly dependant upon this tax money because it pays the employees' salaries, benefits and pensions.
These are just some of the many reasons why until just recently a lot of state legislatures either outlawed homeschooling or placed so many regulations on it in order to try to put a stop to it. In fact, as recently as 1980 only Utah, Ohio and Nevada gave recognition to a parent's right to homeschool their children. These states had freedom to homeschool while other state legislatures continued to harass and prosecute homeschooling parents according to truancy laws and educational neglect charges.
All of this changed in 2004 thanks to the pressure that parents, Christian homeschooling organizations and court rulings placed upon public schools. Now all 50 states have to allow homeschooling as long as the state's requirements are meant. Of course, these requirements vary depending upon which state you live in.
Even after the 2004 ruling, a lot of states still continue to harass those parents who choose to homeschool. This is because the Supreme Court gave the local government the right to regulate homeschooling. Thus, there is plenty of room left for homeschooling parents to be harassed.
If you are a homeschooling parent then you need to know how to protect your rights. There are two well-known groups that exist in order to help you do this. They are the HSLDA (Home School Legal Defense Association) and The Rutherford Instituted. Both of these groups were founded in order to give its members legal representation against any public school official that is harassing them, demanding to supervise their homeschooling or demanding to periodically test the homeschooled child.
Published by Brenda Hoffman
I am a college graduate and now a single mother of a wonderful daughter whom I am able to homeschool because I work as a full-time freelance writer from home. View profile
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14 Comments
Post a CommentIt always makes me laugh when people say things like, "Homeschooling is not always the best option because kids need to have certain life experiences outside of the house." Do you suppose if I drove a big yellow school bus they would say, "look there goes those homeschoolers again out to learn something." My child talks to the postman, the delivery people, the clerks, other kids, karate lessons, dance lessons, piano lessons, and the playground. We even manage to sneak in some free time at the McDonald playland. SHOCKING, I know! We own cars! We can leave our house at any time of the day and experience the daytime world that most children don't get to see. To learn thinks like how to deposit money into a bank account, how to use the library, explore the zoo, visit historical sites, museums, art, visit a farm, and learn how apple cider is made. Just a few things we have done this year! Oh, and homeschoolers cost tax-payers nothing. Compared to the leaching school taxes you pay regardless if you use them or not! I am for liberating the tax-payers of the cost of raising my children. I know that is SHOCKING to the socialist agenda. They want you tax-payers to be suspicious of homeschooling, so they can pass laws to hinder it, then increase taxes to pay you pay their salaries. Consider the source of some of these comments!
I know people who are absolutely brilliant, whose equally engaged and educated parents made the choice to homeschool. It was a win-win for them. On the other hand, I have had kids return to the public school system, entering my classroom without the ability to sit still and focus, without the skills academically for writing and discussion. They struggle really hard to make it in the school system and often just bail or fail. Clearly, like the free school fad of the sixties, some benefit from this type of education and some are broadsided in a disastrous collision of expectations too high, skills too unpolished, minds too conditioned to avoidance and escape.
It's not Homeschooling that is a problem. It can really help those who are unable to focus in a classroom. But it can harm those who are then neither asked by a classroom nor asked at home to practice focussing at all. Abraham Lincoln said he thought the problems of mankind might stem from the inability to sit still in a ro
You do realize that a business entity, which is forced to use 1 employee per hour to serve about 40 clients, aka students, which can leave whenever, is in no way, shape, or form a monopoly, right? Arg.
It is difficult to take this article seriously when the writer's credentials seem limited to RV repairs, ski boots, and kitty communication techniques.
public schooling is not dangerouse it helps children know what it islike to let go of mommy's hand and be their own person so they can have their own personality and know how to deal with tough situations.
It should be pointed out that the claim of "far superior" educations provided by the parents of homeschoolers is in no way supported with any sort of data or even with anecdotal evidence. A claim like that would never stand in my public school classroom!
As an educator, I can say that we teachers really don't hate anyone for doing whatever he or she wants to do-as long as it is not a harmful practice of some sort. What irritates us in regards to homeschooling is that when the parents suffer burnout or when certain responsibilities at home take more and more of the parents' time, the students often make their way into (or back into) the local public school. These students are, more often than not, far behind the other students in their coursework. When teachers, counselors, and administrators meet to discuss what is best for these particular student and to discuss proper class placement for these students, the homeschooling issue surfaces. It is then that we educators often draw
It's more about funding than anything else. And homeschooling isn't just done by fundamentalist Christians. I live in Philadelphia and many hippie-granola types homeschool their kids, as the public schools in this city are simply not an option.
"Now all 50 states have to allow homeschooling as long as the state's requirements are meant."[sic]...
As a public school English teacher, I ask, didn't you mean, "as long as the state's requirements are 'met'"?
Get off your high horse. We don't hate home schooled kids. I wish some of my fellow church members would let their kids see that my classroom isn't 'liberal.' I don't have a homosexual agenda. I don't believe in evolution. I believe in being salt and light in a dark world. It would be a lot easier if some of my students were praying for me.
By the way, the home schooled kids I met, for the most part, have no respect for adult authority outside of their own family. They speak very condescendingly to other adults, including to pastors and lay ministers. I'm not impressed overall. Get over your paranoia and superiority complex.
We deal with the "social rejects" that Christian schools won't touch (i.e. the handicapped and severely mentally ill). We could lower
Homeschooling is not always the best option because kids need to have certain life experiences outside of the house. Great Article!!!!!!!
I don't think humiliation plays much into it. It is mostly the money.