[ExI] "Dumbing Us Down" by John Taylor Gatto

[Dave Sill]

On Mon, Jul 9, 2018 at 3:18 PM Adrian Tymes <atymes at gmail.com> wrote:

>
> I doubt there are, if the central tenet is the promotion of homeschooling
> instead of public education.  That requires all parents to be above average
> educators, which most are not by definition.
>

Not necessarily. The additional personal attention that homeschooling
provides may compensate for a lot of inexperience/inability. And parents
have the flexibility to choose better materials than public schools.

-Dave
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