My friend Paula points out this article on opposition to homeschooling in South Africa. There is a telling quote from Ina Kronje, KwaZulu-Natal Education MEC. KwaZulu-Natal is a South African province. MEC is Member of the Executive Council, a provincial cabinet level position, analogous to a state education commissioner. Ms. Kronje has some clout.
If schools are microcosms of society, depriving the child of that learning experience will have a very serious impact on overall development.
So, what’s wrong with that quote? Schools are not microcosms of society, they are aberrations. Never again after we leave high school are we sequestered with only those our own age.
In my previous post on the Socialization Red Herring I suggested that it’s an issue that draws attention away from inferior academics. Leendert van Oostrum of Pestalozzi Trust, a legal defense trust, insists that parents are choosing to homeschool because of the quality of the National Curriculum of South Africa.
The new curriculum shows all the hallmarks of revolutionary education practice based on Marxist theory. Children’s religious and cultural identities are shifted by interfaith and multiculturism to common identities. In fact, I believe the Department of Education’s curriculum is so prescriptive, it borders on the unlawful.
It’s more of the same. Parents are choosing to teach their kids at home because of the inferior quality of public education.
Interesting that some of the discussions for and against homeschooling keep coming up in so many different places. Governments, for the most part, just don’t seem to get it that parents are, and should be, responsible for the raising on their children. Parents should have the right, God gave it after all, to make sure their children get the best possible education so that they can have a better life that the previous generation.
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