Home-schooled and illiterate (article)

[mirele]

Home-schooled and illiterate

The religious right calls it the "responsible" choice, but for some kids it means isolation with little education

By Kristin Rawls, Alternet

In recent weeks, home schooling has received nationwide attention because of Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum’s home-schooling family. Though Santorum paints a rosy picture of home schooling in the United States, and calls attention to the “responsibility†all parents have to take their children’s education into their own hands, he fails to acknowledge the very real potential for educational neglect among some home-schooling families – neglect that has been taking place for decades, and continues to this day.

more at the link

http://life.salon.com/2012/03/15/homesc ... lliterate/

[Witsec7]

this the subject of another thread.

[mirele]

CRUD. I'm going to blame it on the root canal I had this morning.

Mods, kill this thread.

[Guest Anonymous]

If you just click on the little red ! in the RH corner of your post, you can 'report yourself' to the mods and ask them to merge the two threads. I have done that a couple of times when I have cross-posted by accident. :)