According to the report, children raised at home were less likely to receive individual adult attention, and were often subjected to ineffective and wildly inconsistent disciplinary measures. The study also found that many parents expressed concerns that, when at home, their children were being teased and bullied by those older than themselves.
In addition to providing better supervision and overall direction, school-homing has become popular among mothers and fathers who just want to be less involved in the day-to-day lives of their children.
Someone help me out on this, does the fact that this is satire mean it is false -- or true?
The Onion is often very good at what it does.
ReplyDeleteI just can't see subjecting my children to government schooling, even though I am forced to pay for it. Homeschooling is one good alternative. If someone homeschools their children, they don't have to engage in constant fights with schools boards/administation/politicians/other parents over a wide rangs of issues, including, but certainly not limited to...
Undermining parental authority
Subverting family morality
Punishing children for defending themselves from assault
Controlled substances being illegally distributed
Dress codes/uniforms
Speech codes
Nutrition
Whether or not a child needs to be drugged
Whether or not the child gets to dance, how that child will dance, and with whom
The presence of sex-based clubs on campus
Punishing boys for not being like girls
Whether or not a boy who dresses like a girl is really a girl or not
Sexually predatory staff
Cutbacks in the arts
Reading material
How holidays will be celebrated
Whether or not to have daycare on campus for the offspring of the students
Fundraisers, in addition to the $12,000 of tax money per student per year already being spent
... and the list goes on and on...