Dear Editor,
I was quite concerned that Darren Seiber’s only knowledge about home schooling is what he gleaned from the movie “Jesus Camp.”
My wife and I home school, not because of any religious convictions, but because we believe that two educated adults teaching a handful of kids can do a more effective job than an over inflated bureaucracy in an over populated classroom.
Also, if you read the Constitution, no power is given to the federal government to regulate education; therefore, the power is left to the individual states. All states require that the basic curriculum is taught in a home school and most states have a system in place that guarantees that this happens.
However, as we all know, the Constitution is not foolproof. There are movements wishing to see the abolition of home schooling.
But in a truly democratic and pluralistic society, freedom of education is essential.
In Germany, the courts decided that all children have a right to a very particular type of education, the type administered by the government and this isn’t a right that one can refuse. It is like saying that since we have the right to bear arms, everyone has to own a gun. So, in Germany, home schooling is banned in the name of freedom. Does this make sense?
Well, the same thing could happen here. In the name of freedom, we already see many of our rights vanishing. Don’t buy into these new “democratic” ideals. The old ones that our founding fathers gave us will do the job just nicely.
-John Cline

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