Homeschooled Students Versus….the World it Seems
I made no bones about it when I first took this blog that I knew very little about homeschooling. I have tried to take the focus of education and give it several lives, that of the parent educator, the public school teacher as an educator, the parent as a homeschool educator, our ministers, our policeman, our fireman, everyone has a role and I hope to keep moving in that direction.
As of late, I’ve focused a lot strictly on a system that I know the most about and that is the Alabama System of Public Education and even more specifically, the education system where I live. I’m trying to get back to gearing the site toward all variations of educators and I hope to get some more of the great feedback back in action.
In the meantime, I received an email from Edgar Acosta who is the editor at Opposing Views. He asked me to take a look at a topic in particular and see if I thought you guys might be interested in reading it as well. The topic, Are Homeschooled Kids at a Disadvantage? I think even the people here who are pro public school (like myself - so far I am still pro public school anyway) will find the information to be beneficial. I also think we’ve been very mature in our comments here by not pointing fingers and trying to one-up each other.
So, go give the debate a read, see what you think and let me know. I’d love to see if my perception of the readership here is correct. I would appreciate it if you would go check it out, chime in with your own comments and keep in touch with me as to what you feel about the debate.
I’m anxiously waiting…
September 29th, 2008 at 11:33 am
I found the response on this link to be a very solid dismantling of the current claims that homeschooling leaves kids disadvantaged: http://www.homeedmag.com/blogs/newscomm/?p=1645
~Luke