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| Behind the exodus from US state schools |
| 2018-08-19 |
| [BBC] The number of children taught at home in the US is steadily growing. What's behind parents' concerns with the education system? As fierce national debate over controversial social justice issues spills into America's public schools, many parents are responding by pulling their children out. This is playing out in Texas especially, because even though independent-minded Texans typically don't have much time for government meddling, many nevertheless adhere to that higher form of government - religion. Hence many Texas parents are increasingly frustrated at what they perceive as religion being phased out of Texas public schools. "Religion is a taboo subject in public schools across the board," says Shannon Helmi in Austin, the Texas capital, where she has chosen to educate her four daughters privately with Regina Caeli, a homeschooling hybrid that teaches a curriculum based on the Catholic tradition. "I don't think our state educators set out to be anti-religion, rather the education provided by the state must not be biased towards any religion. The problem [is that] an unbiased approach in education is unattainable - education is based on some original source, so if our education is based on no source it's ultimately anti-source." Parents and teachers in Texas also complain about the state's public schools being made to march to the tune of an aggressive liberal agenda. The result sees Texas parents voting with their feet and embracing a plethora of alternative private schooling systems that teach the likes of Christian theologians and Greek philosophers. |
| Posted by:Besoeker |
| #1 And we haven't even mentioned 4R |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2018-08-19 14:36 |