Home school is a big and complicated issue. In order to condense some the arguments for and against and to try to bring some clarity to all this, it seems good to try to bring them all together. HERE will be a page arguing FOR homeschool. This page will also include objections to these arguments, and further responses for homeschooling. HERE will be a page FOR public school, with the same objection/response format. Christian school is another option and will also have a page HERE. These posts will hopefully be ever-growing posts with added new arguments and considerations as time goes by.
The various pages could be considered to be in the midst of a bitter war with each other. Deep theological and philosophical divides run between them, and many water balloons, clever insults, and shaking fists shall surely pass back and forth. Amidst all this fun though, truth will hopefully emerge, as tends to happen in reasonable yet light-hearted (though serious) disputes–at least, assuming the disputants have taken to heart Chesterton’s observation that “People quarrel because they don’t know how to argue.”
One thing to keep in mind is that these arguments will be “in-principle” arguments. This means they cannot take every single particular situation into account. If a third-grade child’s aunt happens to be the third grade teacher and the child’s father passes away and the mother is in the hospital, then of course other factors enter in to a parent’s decision besides the normal ones. So just because it is not at all pretended that this issue black and white, it does not at all lead to the conclusion that it is all gray. Not everything can be said at once, so usually we have to be content with general principles to guide action with the accompanying (though unstated) assumption that people need to excercise their wisdom in considerning many principles that are all in tension and need to be taken into account together along with the unique particularities of one’s own situation. This is what Proverbs is all about. So, again, recognize no pretense is made to universality and no possiblity of exception or extenuating cirumstances for any ideas unless explicitly stated.
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