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Originally Posted by djchameleon
Dang Paul home schooling isn't that sinister. They for have guidelines and they have to teach world history. If you lived in silly ass states like Texas where the education standards where they oppose the teaching of Higher Order Thinking Skills (HOTS) (values clarification), critical thinking skills and similar programs that are simply a relabeling of Outcome-Based Education (OBE) (mastery learning) which focus on behavior modification and have the purpose of challenging the student’s fixed beliefs and undermining parental authority.
You would home school your kids instead of sending them off to public school.
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DJ is right. Homeschooling is not the same as Unschooling. Parents or guardians who decide to "homeschool" have a curriculum, guidelines and assessment pieces that they need to complete and are constantly checked up on re: their children's progress and learnings. "Unschooling" (it has various different names these days, this is one that I can think of) is completely different and is basically where the parents/guardians don't send their children to school but also don't follow a curriculum or set guidelines. They don't really have any pedagogy behind what their kids are learning. Completely different from homeschooling, so don't lump all homeschooling parents into that stereotype!