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? asked in Politics & GovernmentPolitics · 1 decade ago

When did "home schooled" become a put down?

Home schooled children have consistently done better on tests and performed at a higher level than their public school counterparts.

I wasn't home schooled so this isn't me being personally offended, I'm just wondering when a public school government education was suddenly considered superior.

I understand it comes from the "grrrr all Christians bad grrrrr" mentality because it is generally associated with Christians, but historically people have agreed that what home schooled children lose in social education they make up for in quality and quantity of book learnin'.

Or is this just a commonly used cheap shot that isn't really supposed to make sense?

I ask this in the Politics section because this is where I consistently see it used as a put down.

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  • 1 decade ago
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    Some on the left look down on anyone who did not go through a government indoctrination camp.

  • 1 decade ago

    The idea that it is the governments job to provide an education goes back to Thomas Jefferson in the US. As state provided education became available soon it became illegal to not send you child to school. Laws in many states have relaxed over the years but there is still a stigma to it. The teachers unions also vilify those that would dare to teach their own children.

  • ?
    Lv 6
    1 decade ago

    Though I was not home schooled myself three of my friends were. After observing their academic skills, I feel that homeschooling is far superior in comparison to public education, even so on the social level. Instead of the home schooled being brought to a place to socialize, they have to work harder to socialize which my three friends did and were very successful at. Also, it is hardly an excuse to use the "socializing card" to justify the spending and inefficiency of public indoctrination.

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    Wear it as a badge of honor. The government school bureaucracy will stop at nothing to smear home schoolers while it fails children.

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  • ?
    Lv 4
    5 years ago

    Nope no one puts the lid down here, they put the seat down, if i put the lid down then that would suck in the middle of the night when i get up to go, cause i dont turn on the lights i just sit, lol.

  • Josh C
    Lv 6
    1 decade ago

    Personally, all the home schooled people I know are actually horrible at grammar and other intellectual categories.

    I'm not saying that's the norm, but it's my observations.

    I think it's more of a put-down, not because they're considered less intelligent, but because they tend to have fewer social skills since they've been secluded from their peers.

  • Robert
    Lv 6
    1 decade ago

    When liberals decided to make it a put down. They always invent something of this nature, but millions of them, being brainwashed sheep, follow their leaders at Huffington Post and other "important publications" like that. Just forget it. Who cares what those morons say.

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    Look at Josh (above) He thinks that grammar is an "intellectual category..."

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    Home schooling is Parental indoctrination.

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    As long as that test doesn't ask if Cave men rode Dinosaurs, homeschoolers should be OK.

    Source(s): "Religious child abuse caught on camera!" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3_NKgAaMthA "The War on Science" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z14iuazhuTQ
  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    some people think it is a put down but they are wrong about that too

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