Week 9

In response to this.

Once again, a slap at religion?

Parents won't let their children question their teaching because they're religious?

Who's to say that public schools won't indoctrinate children any more than a religious parent might?

Answer me this: how many rights are located in the Bill of Rights?

Raise your hand if it's ten.

Wrong!

Visit:
here

The original Bill of Rights contained 12 "articles". Contrary to popular belief, the Constitution does not contain the entire Bill of Rights. It contains a condensed, ratified version of the Bill of Rights. Some people are surprised to discover that "Article the Second" became ratified as Amendment XXVII in 1992 (the 11th article from the Bill of Rights to be ratified into our Constitution)!

Yet many of us have been indoctrinated to equate the Bill of Rights with the first ten amendments to the US Constitution. If you were to go to Washington D.C. and visit the archive that has the Bill of Rights on display, you might receive a bit of a shock at what you find (see the link above).

This is one example of the way we've all been indoctrinated by public schools -religious or secular.

I can think of many other examples. As I recall, they had the wrong head on Brontosaurus for a long time.

Textbooks once taught "Piltdown man", a hoax about a human skull.

Christopher Columbus is recognized as "discovering America" (what about Leif Ericson, Columbus' Predecessor by Nearly 500 Years?)

The track record of public schools is no shining example of perfection.

I really don't see why home schooling would lead children to not question the facts that they receive any more than not questioning any other guardian/authority/teacher figure.

I don't think home-schooling is any worse than public schooling in this respect. If anything, I would think that home-schooling would be better.

Eventually, no matter how you are schooled, you are going to be subjected to the "real world".