Sonny Scott – Why do we hate Home Schoolers?
My wife ran across an article by Sonny Scott that was published in the North Eastern Mississippi Daily Journal. In it he asks the question; “Why do we hate (or at least distrust) these people [home schoolers] so much?”
This is a great article, not written by a home school advocate, which contemplates why so many people feel threatened by home schooling. After referring to the $4-9 billion that homeschooling saves the government each year, he looks at why so many don’t see this as a positive. Scott writes:
Young families must make the decision: Will junior go to day care and day school, or will mom stay home and raise him? The rationalizations begin. “A family just can’t make it on one income.” (Our parents did.) “It just costs so much to raise a child nowadays.” (Yeah, if you buy brand-name clothing, pre-prepared food, join every club and activity, and spend half the cost of a house on the daughter’s wedding, it does.) And so, the decision is made. We give up the bulk of our waking hours with our children, as well as the formation of their minds, philosophies, and attitudes, to strangers. We compensate by getting a boat to take them to the river, a van to carry them to Little League, a 2,800-square-foot house, an ATV, a zero-turn Cub Cadet, and a fund to finance a brand-name college education. And most significantly, we claim “our right” to pursue a career for our own “self-fulfillment.”
Deep down, however, we know that our generation has eaten its seed corn. We lack the discipline and the vision to deny ourselves in the hope of something enduring and worthy for our posterity. . .
That is just a small taste. The entire article is well worth taking the time to read, check it out.