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Other homeschooling considerations

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In this debate, there are other considerations besides the common arguments used by both sides. Perhaps the developmental advantage of growing up in a two-parent home with an intellegent stay-at-home mother has more to do with high scores on standardized tests than the actual homeschooling. Also, homeschooling is a largely Christian movement and homeschooling advocates rarely consider how our society is negatively impacted by removing high achieving Christian students from public schools to be homeschooled.

I’m interested in reading your responses.

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RE: Other homeschooling considerations by catherine :: NR3

I agree that there are possibly some other variables in terms of the testing but I think that as a whole, the statistics are still conclusive.

It’s funny you should bring this up because the only argument I have ever agreed with in behalf of public schooling is in regards to the negative impact of removing a high achieving Christian child from a scenario where they could positively impact others. My response then was the same. Nothing is a win-win situation and you simply choose your priorities. Do you want to sacrifice your child’s education for that reason? Couldn’t your child influence others elsewhere? Couldn’t your child possibly influence and touch more people with the means and education that comes about from homeschooling as opposed to the few people they might affect during their school years? My point is, the effect is a virtually impossible thing to quantify. I think that there are still numberless ways a homeschooled child can and probably will contribute to society without requiring them to attend a state school.

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