Disadvantages of Homeschooling

Question:
Disadvantages of Homeschooling 1.. Ignorant or deviant parents may control what children learn. They may transfer antisocial values and beliefs to their children

2.. Ignorant homeschooling parents who cannot teach may seek advice from other ignoarnt homeschooling parents when they encounter problems they're not equipped to handle. Sharing of ignorance is not an education.

Answer:
-.. so instead we hand the education of our children over to people we don't know so they can transfer their values & belief structure into the child's cute little brain. People educated in a system that (in Oz) leans very much to extremes I don't agree with.

"There is no such thing as 'un-biased', we all have preconceived ideas and leanings that we use as filters on every event in our lives"

Or, as in the majority of cases, dedicated homeschool parents obtain the information and advise they need from a variety of sources. Some of them even spend time in a website to share and learn.

And before you yell at me: - I don't have a problem with people who don't homeschool - In fact, I've never suggested that ANYONE should homeschool - Every teacher I know personally has their students best interest at heart - I think there are problems with the "education system" here in Oz

-Can we get a distinction here between what is taught "by the system" and what is taught "by individual teachers", because I think that's important.

Snapper, are you saying that the Australian *curriculum* includes things which you consider morally or ethically wrong, or that the national *system* permits teachers whose personal values are what you consider morally or ethically wrong to inculcate those values into children, with no constraints from either the curriculum or professional oversight of teacher behaviour?

F'r instance, I know quite a few teachers with strong religious convictions [1], and I'm aware that those convictions *must* colour their interactions with other human beings, including the children they teach. But the state system does not permit them to *actively indoctrinate* children in their personal beliefs. [2] That is a safeguard, for parents, in that they can hand over their kids to "people they don't know", and be pretty sure that there are sanctions in place to ensure that those people act in a "neutral" way, as far as personal beliefs are concerned.