Take the state out of the schools!!!!!

And how exactly do parents do that when both parents are required to work to make ends meet?[Bleeding Heart Liberal Pinko Commie Bastard Rant]I love it when conservatives bang on about the evils of the minimum wage, and how we should be willing to work for peanuts, and then berate working mothers who have to work because their husbands' pay is so crap! I love it when they then tell them that they should educate their own kids, rather than be out there providing for them. And I love it when they call them feckless when they can't provide, and try to take welfare away. Got you whichever way you turn.[/Bleeding Heart Liberal Pinko Commie Bastard Rant]I'm bloody glad I wasn't home schooled. My parents knew nothing about science, computing, mathematics and so on. I'd have missed out on all that.Education, provided by trained, knowledgeable and skillful educators, is a wonderful thing*. Why are creationists really against it, I wonder?*I'm well aware this doesn't always happen in the state system. But it's definitely not going to happen if the only teacher is one's parent.

You seem to think that learning is something one can do simply by reading books. Trained educators will tell you that it's more complicated than that. It's not just a case of learning to think. Besides, what makes you think that teaching someone to think is something any parent can do?