Beware: Homeschoolers are a Threat!

The homeschool movement is growing. A large percentage of homeschoolers aren't teaching evolutionary science. Homeschool graduates are going to college. And not everyone is happy about that. In fact, this article makes it sound like some are alarmed and appalled. What is this world coming to when you can't guarantee 100 percent compliance to the accepted view of mainstream "truth"?

This article made me laugh. I pulled out a few quotes; the way they were arranged in the article really brought home the point that it's all about indoctrination, not education.


For these parents, religious instruction and science are often intertwined. This bothers Brian Alters of McGill University in Montreal, Canada, who studies the changing face of science education in the US. He is appalled by some home-schooling textbooks, especially those on biology that claim they have scientific reasons for rejecting evolution. "They have gross scientific inaccuracies in them," he says. "They would not be allowed in any public school in the US, and yet these are the books primarily featured in home-schooling bookstores."

[I agree that some Christian science texts have inaccuracies. But so do public school texts. The texts that homeschoolers use would never be allowed in public schools - but not because they're more inaccurate than public school texts. It's because they don't teach the right dogma.]


"Poll after poll shows that approximately one out of two people in America reject evolution. They think the scientists, teachers and textbooks are wrong," he says. An even higher proportion of home-schooling parents may reject evolution, Alters thinks. "And they're going to be teaching science?"

[Scary, isn't it?]


However, not all home-school parents have a religious agenda. "There are probably some wonderful home-school parents, some of whom may be evolutionary biologists themselves. But I have a feeling after talking to a lot of home-schoolers that this is the minority," says Alters. Indeed, evangelical Christians do dominate the home-school movement. "It's disconcerting, to say the least," he says.

[I guess only non-religious evolutionary biologists should be granted the right to teach children.]

By 2004, Patrick Henry College (which caters to graduated homeschoolers) students held seven out of 100 internships in the White House, a number even more striking when one considers that only 240 students were enrolled in the entire college. Last year, two PHC graduates worked in the White House, six worked for members of Congress and eight for federal agencies, including two for the FBI. "Patrick Henry is something to worry about because these kids end up in the administration."

I found this article here by accident while I was cruising new blogs.