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Homeschooling: “You’re Just Parroting What You’ve Been Taught”

Jasmine Baucham had a great post about the error of a typical homeschool argument we hear often. I found it excellent food for thought…

“I’m going to be completely honest here:

Some of us have a huge bias when it comes to arguments about education.

You know the kids I’m talking about.

They’ve been educated in an echo chamber, a place where the curriculum is a unified effort to teach them one way to think.

They learn to view the world through a single lens: the worldview that they’re being taught.

They don’t live in the real world.

They’ve been told what to think and how to act from a young age; their responses to certain stimuli are deeply ingrained in them. And because of all of this, they’re biased. When they speak, they’re often just parroting what they’ve been taught….”

Read the rest at Joyfully Home

homeschooling, public school | Word Warrior | January 12, 2010 10:17 pm

5 Comments

By Lori, January 13, 2010 @ 10:37 am

I enjoy reading her so much. I don’t know why I don’t visit her blog more often. Thanks for posting!
By Kelly L, January 13, 2010 @ 11:27 am

I hope my daughter does more than just parrot what she has been taught. (as I know you do too, Kelly) I pray the love and hope of Christ is so ingrained in her that it exudes out of her wherever she goes. That the presence of God is able to abide in her because she is fiercely in love with Jesus and radically obedient to God alone. I pray that signs and wonders accompany her to bring Glory to God and to call His creation back to Him. I don’t just want her to think one way, although that is clearly the beginning. I want her to live and act out the way she has been taught: To be a servant, a leader, a healer, an amazing woman after God’s own heart. This is an intense learning she can only get spending greatest portion of the day at home with her parents. It is funny how the criticism is spot on (in that it addresses why we do it)…makes you wonder why they hate it so. Well, maybe not wonder, but know: it is in direct contrast to what the world wants to teach.
By Sarah, January 13, 2010 @ 11:44 am

Hahaha, I read the little bit you posted and thought “public school!”
By Jacinda, January 13, 2010 @ 1:38 pm

I first heard of your blog while listening to Kevin Swanson’s radio show and have been a regular ever since. My husband and are have been married for almost a year and a half now and were recently blessed with our first child. We love your site and dream of having and large family and our own family business someday. (My hubby already works in a family business with his Mom, Dad and two brothers).

Anyway….I was homeschooled from the beginning right through high-school and we’d often encounter people that, without knowing we were homeschooled, would say negative things simply because they didn’t know any better. My mom taught us to look at it as ignorance on their part instead of a personal attack which made us a whole lot more compassionate towards them.

Our actions speak louder than our words-the responsibility of setting a good example and responding in a Christ-like manner scares me sometimes. I hope my kid(s DV) can parrot me one day.
By Jennifer, January 14, 2010 @ 10:50 am

Well Sarah, I’ve have several homeschooling kids exactly like this; it often depends on what sort of doctrine their parents believe in. Glad you’re not that sort of parent, Kelly.