The Secular State’s Homeschooling Crackdown

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The Secular State’s Homeschooling Crackdown

I agree wholeheartedly with most of what this says barring the use of statistics to show how homeschoolers are, on average, better at university than other students. Half of the students who go to uni don’t care for grades anyway. You’re really comparing the results of people who care about their children’s education and the general population, many of whom do not. If you compared, for example, the grades of a student whose parents sent their child to school and were conscientious concerning said child’s education and a homeschooled child, I think you would find the grades to be considerably closer. The point is not the grades, but the worldview presented.

This use of statistics is similar to that employed by some Seventh Day Adventists I know who claim that a vegetarian diet is better than a diet that includes meat and will help you live longer because the statistics say that vegetarians live longer than the average population with lower disease rates. Can you see it? The average population has a high number of binge drinkers, smokers, sex addicts and MacDonalds addicts among other habitual indulgences devastating to ones health. This hardly proves the case for vegetarianism, though neither does it disprove the case, it merely proves that people who care about living healthy will generally be healthier and live longer. It also, I suppose, disproves the myth that you can’t be a vegetarian and be healthy, but that’s hardly a case against eating meat.

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