Religion in Education
Religion is very personal, and as such, creates a lot of controversy. Who is right, who is wrong? The ability to teach what you want in regards to your religious beliefs is perhaps one of the greatest homeschooling advantages.
The parent decides what religious ideologies, if any, to present to their child and how to roll that into the homeschool curricula. With some curricula, religion is woven throughout every lesson. With others, it is a separate subject.
Do you believe God created earth and man? Or Darwin’s theory of evolution and the big-bang theory? Whatever your belief, with home schooling, that is what you can teach your child.
Religion probably gets the most attention with the homeschooling vs public school debate, with socialization running in a close second. Although some argue that parents are not allowing their child to interact with children of other faiths, and thus develop tolerances to other types of people, homeschooling with religious-based curriculum is really no different from parochial schools, with those regards.
Another argument is that the education will be more narrowly focused, and not allow for free thought and exploring other avenues of possibilities other than religious. And perhaps this can be a problem for a very small percentage of families. But that is true of just about everything. There are always going to be extremists – in education, religion, politics – and really nothing you can say or do will change their intense feelings. Just because a very small percentage of a group, for example, animal rights activists, go to the extreme in some of their protests, does not mean the group as a whole is not worthwhile and fighting for a worthy cause. So is the same for homeschooling.
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