I agree that there are reasons to oppose home schooling—one that I haven’t seen discussed is that it means children with abusive parents could be trapped full-time with them.
What shocks me is not that I’ve seen left-wingers opposed to home-schooling not because it can go bad, through either parental abusiveness or incompetence, but that they are opposed to it by stereotype (assuming that all home schooling is done by religious loonies, and refusing to hear that there are a number of reasons for and styles of home schooling) or in ill-thought out principle (believing that conventional, coerced schooling is the only way to make children actual members of the society).
I agree that there are reasons to oppose home schooling—one that I haven’t seen discussed is that it means children with abusive parents could be trapped full-time with them.
What shocks me is not that I’ve seen left-wingers opposed to home-schooling not because it can go bad, through either parental abusiveness or incompetence, but that they are opposed to it by stereotype (assuming that all home schooling is done by religious loonies, and refusing to hear that there are a number of reasons for and styles of home schooling) or in ill-thought out principle (believing that conventional, coerced schooling is the only way to make children actual members of the society).