There were a couple of great articles in The American Interest on the continued growth of homeschooling. The first article talks about the many reasons to homeschool. The last paragraph of the first article on the many reasons to homeschool resonated with me:
We’ve noted before that homeschooling is on the rise as Americans lose trust in the experts that run the American school system. For religious people, that distrust stems from their belief that schools don’t respect their values. Silicon Valley entrepreneurial types think they can disrupt education and create better approaches on their own. According to this piece, African Americans increasingly distrust schools as well. It’s not just because of low expectations either—some families quoted in the piece think their kids don’t get as complete an education in African American history in public schools as they should. Distrust in experts, cultural pluralism, dissatisfaction with current institutions, DIY-ism: some of the biggest trends reshaping America are at play in the rise of homeschooling.
The second article on how the American people have lost faith in the “experts” as blue progressivism has taken control in much of institutional America is quite a good article, too.
Betty Blonde #267 – 07/28/2009
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