Private and Home Schooling Isn't Necessarily Better than Public Schooling (rant)

[saras]

1. AFAIK in the PNW, progressive home/private schooling is almost always better than public...

Christian ed varies - it ranges from pretty good for conservatives, i.e. biased but college-entry competent, to blazingly stupid, not unlike the worst of other areas. A handful of years ago the dominionists tried to take over school districts in a few quasi-rural counties, apparently forgetting how many rednecks in the PNW are redneck hippies.

But NECESSARILY? Hell, no.

A lot of Christian "schooling" seems to me to be anti-schooling, where they are deliberately trying to stunt the child's desire to learn, and settle for some childish superstition instead. You can believe damn near anything about God you want - none, one, many, meaningless, all at once - without it having to have any effect at all on your understanding of geology or archaeology. The fundies are doing something else entirely. A fairly basic test of a good education in ANY subject is that when you encounter new information, you integrate it into your education, you don't reject it.