Funk,
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Just because you studied a subject for 3 years doesn't make you qualified to teach. You may know a great deal about the subject but do you have a heart and a gift to teach it? I have run into teachers who are brilliant, but were terrible teachers.
A non-argument. What makes you think parents are good teachers, anyway? They may
think they are. If you had two people, one, the parent, & the other a qualified teacher holding a mathematics degree, who would
most likely make the best job of imparting mathematical knowledge to the child? Do you see how silly your argument sounds? That there are bad teachers is irrelevant, their are bad teaching parents too. At least the teacher accredited by the relevant authorities.
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A parent who loves their child knows how that child learns. A parent who loves their children will go to all ends to provide a proper education.
Well, that's nice, I'm sure.
Do you know anyone with a degree level knowledge of mathematics, English, geography, history, biology, chemistry, physics etc etc PLUS the relevant qualification in teaching? If not, how can you possibly equate a system that provides all of the above, with parents that may not have ANY of the above? If not, it looks like these parents never went to "all ends" to provide their children with a proper education, does it? It seems to me that the best way to get your children a "proper" education is to send them to school.
What is the
real reason parents want to homeschool their children, apart from depriving them of day long interaction with large numbers of their peers? What are they afraid of, that their kids will catch evolution?
Mark
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Occam's razor is not for shaving with.
[This message has been edited by mark24, 12-15-2002]