More oversight of 'homeschooling' needed

handofdave Mar 21, 2007 16:26:52

Ugh- what a horrible person....

http://news.sky.com/skynews/article/0,,30100-1256898,00.html

It's not pretty to realize, but this is more widespread than you might think. I don't trust people who insist on being the sole source of care and education for their children. Even in benign cases the kids grow up with a seriously comprimised ability to relate to the world. Public schooling has it's unpleasantries for some of us but it's where you learn socialization.

Kids who suffer the prison of being raised by such types deserve better. The state ought to be much more vigilant about not just who the foster kids go to, but any kid who is identified as the victim of isolation and mistreatment.

I think a lot of people still cling to a medieval idea that their children are their 'property', or that they are a controllable extension of themselves, like a puppet. What a horrible concept.

Daminxa Mar 21, 2007 16:39:06

Replying to handofdave

A fucking bitch who should burn in her own imaginary hell. I suppose God told her to do it did he? Either that or she's one sadistic psychopathic cunt who will hopefully get beaten up regularly in prison.

grufty jim Mar 21, 2007 17:06:04

Replying to handofdave

I've always felt that if I were to ever find myself in the position of raising a child, that I'd seek some kind of compromise between home-schooling and public schooling.

There's no question that children need to be around other children, and keeping them entirely isolated from a regular school environment runs the risk of creating adults with few social skills.

On the other hand, I'd definitely want to have more control over the things my child was being taught. The modern education system is -- in large part -- a factory designed to produce "productive workers".

This crippling of individuals I consider the worst evil of capitalism. Our whole educational system suffers from this evil. An exaggerated competitive attitude is inculcated into the student, who is trained to worship acquisitive success as a preparation for his future career.
- Albert Einstein.

(and that was back in 1949. Things have gotten worse, not better, since then)

shanshee_allures Mar 21, 2007 21:33:59

Replying to handofdave

I'm sick of this 'lessons will be learned' crap because they rarely are. As for this old bastard I would give her the same on the level the kids would've suffered (ie one slap for them = a cricket bat in the face for her).
I have a three year old, who's at pre-school and very happy and socialised and a pain in the arse at times like other kiddies, but as soon as she turned two her health visitor just clean forgot about her. She's hardly been to a doctor in her life so for a whole year there was absoloutely no monitoring of her or me at all. Worrying. If I hadn't chosen preschool for her, it might still be the same.
Homeschooling on the whole makes me feel dead queasy, can't help it. I find it more of a lifestyle choice on the parents' part than anything else and really, unless the kids got serious problems, dead unfair. There's this notion that schools stifle imagination etc and perhaps they do in a way but that's up to the parents/carers to communicate and encourage their kids in other ways.
She loves all these great new friends she's got, and already she's learned how to fall out with someone, feel regretful about it then make up again.
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