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Technicly, parents shouldn't be home schooling their children unless they have the qualifications for it (that is, a diploma of some sort), and contrary to popular belief,being a parent doesn't entitle you to do so. It might be your kid, but s/he is not your toy and even less your pet. -.-

Nonsense. Those "diplomas" issued by the teaching colleges are for the most mediocre types. Teaching colleges are for imbeciles.

ruveyn

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I have always viewed the Internet like a vast library. In the old, pre-web days when at least five to seven library/journal sources were needed for a standard essay (less than ten pages, more than three) then the same standard should be followed when gathering info from the world wide web. Many professors will not accept Wiki articles as scholarly sources.

I was educated in the public system, but fortunately, I was of average intellect ( I did not know the system was substandard, just unfulfilling.) though of a literary bent and learned on my own that reading one book on a topic did not constitute instant expertise. My main special interest has been ongoing for going on forty three years and upwards of a thousand books I have read, and still I would never consider myself an expert in this area. (I do not count Internet sources--I still consider books and scholarly magazine articles/journals to be preferable.)

Conservapedia looks like an attempt by fundamentalists to control the thoughts of children--something my own family could not, and I am very thankful for this. I read what I wanted and came to my own conclusions and decisions about where I wanted to go with what I knew/learned.

Yeah, I really doubt that a college education, or even a high school education for that matter, is needed to make sure children learn the basic high school curriculum. I mean, the hardest things to teach would be the math and science classes, and to some extent, I bet those could be contracted out to a local community college or some such.

Credentials are nice and all that, but I doubt that they are as important as many like to think they are.

http://rationallyspeaking.blogspot.com/ ... ivity.html

As for teaching, I think would-be teachers have to at least teach subjects like evolution without using religiously correct obscurantism (something public schools even in Canada fail to do).

In that case, they would properly love this article on, what might be called, the atheists bible.

I didn't find it clear as I'm AS and take things quite literally, I didn't think that would be looked down upon on an AS forum. I wasn't making a point, I was making a comment, another act I found quite normal on a forum where people make statements/comments. Thanks for pointing out my mistake, I'll try to be more careful next time.

Do you really believe all home schoolers are Fundies? Not so. I home schooled my kids until High School, and I am no Fundie. I am not a Christian and my beliefs are highly non-standard. What I dead was teach my children to read, to write, to do mathematics and to think critically. At no point did religion enter into the course of instruction.

I used first rate instructional material, journal articles and top of the line audio visual aids. I did not use any religiously tainted material at all.


ruveyn