Ok, so tell me the real reasons as to why you've chosen to homeschool? You have said it's none of the reasons I give... so, why do you do so?

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According to a survey mentioned in the wiki article on homeschooling. 85 percent of homeschooling parents cited "the social environments of other forms of schooling" (including safety, drugs, bullying and negative peer-pressure) as an important reason why they homeschool. 72 percent cited "to provide religious or moral instruction" as an important reason, and 68 percent cited "dissatisfaction with academic instruction at other schools." So, the vast majority of parents are doing this either because they think their children can't handle being around other children, or due to religious reasons. Neither of which I think are doing the kids any favours whatsoever.

Surely the longer that the kids are away from formalized education, the harder they're going to find it to actually move into it eventually (As I'm assuming you aren't accredited to hand our bachelor degrees).

What is so bad about school that makes you feel that your kids won't learn there?

(There are those that do so because their child has learning difficulties or other impairments which makes formal learning, or being around other children difficult, and I can definitely see the case for this. At our children's old kinder they had a few Autistic kids that were hugely disruptive to the sessions for pretty much the entire time, required their own aids to ensure they didn't hurt the other children (which they did) or destroy things (which they did)... and really, to what end? It was hard to see that they were actually benefiting from the time themselves as they seemed to spend the entire time being angry and upset and not actually doing anything in the way of learning or socializing. )

Ouch. I think my college education just got pwned.

I like most of your comments, imstellar, but I take issue with being called a lazy person. College usually entails more than just reading textbooks. Among other things it is the exchange of knowledge and opinions between a professor, who is supposed to posses a certain degree of expertise in the field, and a student. Also, students often attain practical experience and learn from each other. I have read WAY more than 48 books in college, not to mention scholarly journals, essays, articles, etc. In fact, I am required to read 30 books for only one 3-credit class next semester. In my field of study I have benefitted a great deal from the input of my peers in a classroom setting, and I have had the advantage of professors who could help me understand and interpret matierial like my archaic grammar textbook.

Couldn't you insult Farhad's extensive economic knowledge without cramping my style?


>> ^imstellar28:
>> ^Farhad2000:
The average college student enrolls in 5-6 classes a semester. So in a year, they read on average 12 (text) books, or 48 books to obtain a bachelors degree. Spending an hour or two a day (compare this to how many hours people watch television) it is not hard to read 1 book a week. That is 52 books a year. Over a 4 year period that would be 208 books - 4x more than you read during a 4 year period at university. If you think college is a good way to obtain information, you would be mistaken. College is an environment to make sure lazy people read books at a leisurely pace, while providing easy access to parties, alcohol, and a piece of paper which certifies that you successfully read 48 books.

>> ^Farhad2000:
But hey American high school must be much better than that!


If you read my comment, I'm saying American high schools impart a poor education. I also think that many colleges impart a poor education. Case in point, you were at university studying economics and yet you came out failing to understand the most common economic myth (the fallacy of the broken window). You can't claim to be an economic expert because you spent a few years in university, nor can you claim to be an expert on the great depression. Did you take a class that focused specifically on the great depression? That is, the entire textbook? Probably not, yet there are many books 400-600 pages long that focus solely on the great depression. You dont need to pay $2500 a semester to understand the great depression, all you need is a library card. Many books have conflicting theories (as in any scientific field)--even if you took a class (which you probably didn't), how can you be sure you were exposed to the correct theory?

The average college student enrolls in 5-6 classes a semester. So in a year, they read on average 12 (text) books, or 48 books to obtain a bachelors degree. Spending an hour or two a day (compare this to how many hours people watch television) it is not hard to read 1 book a week. That is 52 books a year. Over a 4 year period that would be 208 books - 4x more than you read during a 4 year period at university. If you think college is a good way to obtain information, you would be mistaken. College is an environment to make sure lazy people read books at a leisurely pace, while providing easy access to parties, alcohol, and a piece of paper which certifies that you successfully read 48 books.

Besides, an education in keynesian economics is about as valuable as an education in intelligent design: neither models can make predictions with any accuracy.