Muslim Home Schooling

UmmFatima wrote: 75% of homeschooled kids in the US are from evangelical Christian families. Where I'm from it was only white hippie Hindus who did homeschooling. Everyone has an agenda, it seems, and ideological parents don't want public schools brainwashing their kids.I hope to homeschool my kids when they're big enough. I went to public school and I wouldn't wish that experience for anyone. Especially my kids.

Just because you had a bad experience doesn't mean your kids will. Besides you mention brainwashing in public schools. Aren't you essentially doing that when you homeschool your kids or are you saying you're more objective than public schools.

Look of you want your kids to go to college let them go to public schools and have them understand the social order of the time. If they go to college they will learn it anyway. You can't homeschool college kids so why not?

So you can discern social inequalities, problems, and others as an adult? No. At college you are bombarded with various situations and problems. A home schooling parent cannot possibly school their children to deal with them. Even as an adult there is no gurantee that you have the ability to deal with those problems

So you can discern social inequalities, problems, and others as an adult? No. At college you are bombarded with various situations and problems. A home schooling parent cannot possibly school their children to deal with them. Even as an adult there is no gurantee that you have the ability to deal with those problems


Of course there are no guarantees.. there are none anywhere. I recently taught a group of teens this summer and I am nut sure if spending all day with just your peers is very healthy either.

I think you need to cite a specific example. Most home school parents seek to find social alternatives through sports and clubs. Most kids are not locked behind closed doors. Those are a few extreme cases.

i recommend a book by John Taylor Gotto- he was NY State teacher of the year that talks about the failures of public education.. And in this, or another book, talks about the history of public education and the problems with the system.. so we won't think about.

In some states its quite high the drop-out rates of high school - over 25%. of students drop out in some states. The one model does not fit all for sure.

And there is not statistical evidence that home schooled kids are less likely to go onto college. 

no system of for everyone, that is why we need choices, we need regular schools, vocational schools, business schools etc for high school age kids.  

Actually Gibbs, for most teen girls, puberty and the schooling system is really, really hard. Self-esteem drops.. You ask most people if they want to go back to that environment they would say NO. For boys the schooling is different.  Many women spend their years trying to recover, for they are our formative years. Some like my sister, never recover.  I do not think Fatima experiences are unique, and you are right its IS about the social, more so then any part of formalized "education".  It isn't about your academics its about how you have to put up with all the social junk. Why do you think that many kids hate school.. its not just many people are boring, its the environment is often negative.