"Why It Is Right to Homeschool"

Originally posted on October 24, 2008
 
I meant to work this into my original post, and it didn't quite make it there. I've had this snippet saved on my computer for a couple of years now - an excerpt from Sally Clarkson's book Educating the Whole-Hearted Child that particularly spoke to me, on why it is "right" to homeschool...

"You homeschool because it is right to guard your children against the aggressive secular, humanistic worldview of the public school.  You homeschool because it is right to shield your children from the immorality that permeates the public school... because it is right to protect your children from violence and wickedness that inflicts schools... because it is right to want your children to receive a better education under your loving guidance than the average school setting... because it is right for parents to control what their children  are studying and are being exposed to without being labeled intolerant and narrow minded.  You homeschool because it is right to follow God's design for family not just in living, but in learning as well.  You homeschool because it is right to guide your children's Christian character development at home rather allow them to be 'socialized' by secular, untrained, unsupervised schoolmates...You homeschool because it is right to love your children and want to be with them every day of their lives until they are grown - that is what God intended."