Replies to '11/24 Great School Debate'

Yes...you'd get the opposite vote because the home school support group is, by definition, bias! LOL

Why do you care what others think? You do your thing, they do their thing...who cares how many people are on your "side"?

I know that when I was in a group setting, and asked questions like "raise your hand if... ".

I, like many other people who discussed this type of thing with me admitted to, like me, looking around to see who else raised their hand, and then if it was someone with clout, raising their hands too.  A show of hands is often an unreliable indication of what people would really think if they knew they could express their true selves with impunity.

Cass Sunstein elaborates on this, where people often will submit to the opinion they think will render them the least flak.

I agree! And I noticed too that several people held their hand up for more than one of the "better schooling" options.

You're correct about the show closing in such a biased manner.  Education should be the choice of the parent.  Safety should be a concern of the educational society too.  Homeschooling has so many benefits that people don't understand.  What if you had 25 mom's that prepared lessons for all age groups and rotated days and block times for the kids to socialize and learn different styles from different people's teaching?  Sound a little like public school??????????  Even if they are home single from other daily education, but fieldtrips and sleepovers with friends and sports are rotating the child?  Let's face it.  Sheltering them can deprive them of the world to some extent, but innocense if a concept of the past and if parents want to shelter their children from the horrible things that you see on the daily news and children that have a little too much liberty with their language and sexual concepts, that is their business and people should respect their decisions.