Homeschooling, in my opinion

As I was reading this afternoon, only 5% of the experienced educators which make up our nation's public school administration are not willing to say that something else--anything else--is a better education than homeschool.

Then tonight I had to investigate. I attended a Tuesdays-only function of an homeschool group in an adjacent city.

I am no mean judge of intelligence or social integration, being myself the intelligence and social life of most of my own school. I can say with some assurance now that homeschool children are brilliant and witty. In all ways they function better.

What does it prove?

I do not say that these prodigies are any smarter than any others, nor that there is any greater level of mastery obtainable merely because of the place of education. In fact, I must say that all students are learning approximately just as well. Public-schooled students do an excellent job at digesting and responding to their sex education classes, their class films, their peer groups and coed interchange dynamics, and other glorious subjects.

Public schools: they teach students well, in games of life and dances of deception. They do well at teaching tolerance, and communicating that "everything goes" also means nobody knows. Nothing is perfectly true, and kids learn it.

Home schools: they teach students well, in the game of life and dance of satisfaction. They do well at teaching things which can be learned, and communicating that "yes and no" also means there is somehow a right and somehow a wrong. Good is good, bad is bad, and kids learn it.

Are we shocked that they seem intelligent? We silly people we. We haven't learned our public school lesson. Intelligence is intolerant.