Sorry I forgot freedom in Lancaster county only applies to the mennonites and amish. Our local church promotes public education.

From The Book of Discipline of The United Methodist Church
We believe that every person has the right to education. We also believe that the responsibility for education of the young rests with the family, faith communities, and the government. In society, this function can best be fulfilled through public policies that ensure access for all persons to free public elementary and secondary schools and to post-secondary schools of their choice.

Even broader than that, I think the Methodist statement means that, at minimum, it supports a system in which all citizens have access to, at the very least, goverment-sponsored education. This is in contrast to societies, like many in the third world, in which even the most basic education must be funded by an individual--in other words, no tuition money, no education.

IMO, this is more a policy statement about public education as a social justice issue than a mandate that "good" Methodist parents are supposed to use public schools for their children.

Probably lots of people on LOL...He didn't have a good track record with the pharisees

It's only the conservative, right wing, pseudo-Christians who home school. They do it because they think they are better than others. The truth is, most parents are not qualified to homeschool but do it anyway and end up putting their children further behind. Those parents are the dangerous ones. ..AND the most vocal which goes even further to discredit homeschooling. Would you want some psycho, self-righteous, pompus idiot educating your children? If not, then don't use homeschooling

you forgot the notations to denote the sarcasm intended there. You might want to edit that post lest someone think you are serious.

Hoemeschooling was around long before those terms were ever used. Do some research on John Holt, a motivator on getting the movement growing in the 1960’s and 1970’s.



Actually it is the public schooled kids who are further behind. Homeschooled children generally score at the 65th to 80th percentile on achievement tests, 15 to 30 percentile points higher than those in public schools.



Actually the parents that are dangerous are those who are uninvolved in their children’s lives. Homeschool parents usually don’t fit that category.



No and that is one of the reasons why many parents homeschool instead of public school. Although most public school teachers are wonderful hard working people who really care about the kids, there are a few that spoil it for everyone.

http://www.americanchronicle.com/articles/...articleID=12879

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homeschooling