Only two pages before someone decided to point out that all of us public educators are evil and harmful and the worst thing for their children. I suppose more credit is due; I was expecting all the public education bashing to start on the first page.
Nice to be reminded that I'm in the most hated and clearly most incompetent profession in the US! *thumbs up*
Most (read: ALL) of the homeschoolers I know bash public school. A lot of that is just cognitive dissonance ("Well
I was homeschooled and I turned out well, so it
must be the best").
My father-in-law tells me about why he is so against public school. He tells me stories he reads about 10-year-old girls having sex and that classes teach 5th graders how to do it. And stories about second graders being offered hard drugs, and boys being allowed to go into the girls bathrooms in elementary schools.
Okay, so obviously it has been about 15 years since I was in elementary school, but I can't imagine it's changed THAT much. Yes, we had "sex education" starting in 5th grade, but it was strictly about our OWN anatomy. We broke up into gender-specific groups and learned about body odor and where hair was going to grow. They continued to get more in-depth each grade on, but every time the parents had to opt IN. Meaning if they didn't sign their permission, the child would not be involved in sex education, at no penalty to the child. I wasn't offered drugs until I was 14, and even if I had been, I would've said no. And the bathroom thing is just a bunch of hokum. It was one school in some podunk town in the Northeast. But to someone who is convinced that public schools are bad, those isolated stories represent every single public school in the U.S.
I'm not sure why they believe these rumors rather than people who have actually been there.