On Mon, 25 Nov 2002 14:16:48 EST, Wirt Atmar <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

>Steve writes:
>
>> I think it interesting that most people act like home school is the first
>> attempt of teaching ones beliefs to the student.

Wirt Armar writes:

>It's not just a matter of belief, it's very much a matter of getting the
most
>basic of facts somewhat close to straight.

And I take it that public schools do an excellent job at this.  What are
the facts that public schools teach that religious based teaching doesn't.
Is it that evolution is a fact of how the world began?  Or is it that
nothing to do with the theory of creation was ever mentioned in my science
class as one of the theories of how the world came to be?

>Just to tie the two threads, homeschooling and science fiction, together,
>carefully read the following two randomly selected web pages. They're
>representative of a hundred more such pages, each of which provides
>"resources" for the nascent home schooling community:
>
>     http://www.home-school.com/catalog/pages/homeschooling.php3
>     http://www.christianreality.com/category/vschho-p1.htm
>
>If the students who go through the curicula above wind up majoring in
>kinesiology in college, then nothing's been lost. They'd have no chance at
a
>modern, productive job under any circumstance. But there's got to be at
least
>a few bright kids in the group who will be so ill-prepared for life, filled
>with so much misinformation and superstition, that they will be forever
>denied an opportunity to make a contribution to either their society or
>humanity at large.

Then I guess that I will never be able to make a contribution to society or
humanity at large because I went through a religious based schooling for
the majority of my schooling.

Steven Dickson

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