American evangelicals may feel less under siege. Oh, conservatism vs. liberalism on social issues still probably plays out, but perhaps in entirely different ways. Your ideas please.
Now, personally I'm glad I wasn't homeschooled. Basically because my Mom, for all her good qualities, can at times be what I've heard some Christians term a "helicopter mom."John Dewey and the Progressive Case for Homeschooling
John Dewey wasn't exactly a proponent of homeschooling, but he could have been.
http://www.intellectualtakeout.org/blog/john-dewey-and-progressive-case-homeschooling
The philosopher and public intellectual John Dewey (1859-1952) is widely known among progressive K-12 educators, education policy gurus, and university education faculty for such groundbreaking ideas as learning-by-doing, inquiry-driven curricula and the democratic classroom.
If you want to upset these Dewey fanboys and girls, tell them that John Dewey was an apologist for homeschooling. In all honesty, Dewey never defended homeschooling. He was not a Charlotte Mason or a John Holt. But he could have been.
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For homeschooling, I don't think the numbers would get big enough to make that much of an appreciable difference.Public school system is likely weakened significantly by now. . .
Prominent Christian fundamentalists worked with radical feminists to support anti-pornography policies in the 80s. Strange bedfellows and all that.Public school system is likely weakened significantly by now. A lot more stupid people, probably.
But past that, doubt there's much cultural change, or lessening of friction, either between "the government" and the religious base, or liberals and the religious base. If one's religious ideals are strong enough to motivate pulling a kid from public school, I doubt anyone on the left will be seen as much of an ally.
Thats the problem with idealogically-motivated groups. They tend to be somewhat irrational.
Prominent Christian fundamentalists worked with radical feminists to support anti-pornography policies in the 80s. Strange bedfellows and all that.
Meaning like if things were as bad in the '70s as they are today?POD for this is no New Deal or something similar, isn't it?
This is one of many things I don't like about these regimented institutions called "schools." I trust you don't like it either.http://www.johnholtgws.com/frequently-asked-questions-abo/
In theory, children are assigned to these tracks according to their school abilities. In practice, children are put in tracks almost as soon as they enter school, long before they have had time to show what abilities they may have. Once put in a track, few children ever escape from it. [emphasis added] A Chicago second grade teacher once told me that in her bottom-track class of poor non-white children were two or three who were exceptionally good at schoolwork. Since they learned, quickly and well, everything she was supposed to be teaching them, she gave them A's. Soon after she had submitted her first grades, the principal called her in, and asked why she had given A's to some of her students. She explained that these children were very bright and had done all the work. He ordered her to lower their grades, saying that if they had been capable of getting A's they wouldn't have been put in the lowest track. But, as she found upon checking, they had been put into this lowest track almost as soon as they had entered school.
But even with budget cutting, I don't accept the premise that things are terrible today, at least not in conventional terms.
Why would left-wing parents want to home-school? Aren't they in favor of brainwashing their kids along with everyone else's?
My quote has nothing to do with the question that was asked. If you want to act ignorant, then go ahead.LOL @ 'an evil leftists'.
Play the ball, not the man.The question itself was ignorant.
There really is a progressive strain in American evangelicalism.Redeemer: The Life of Jimmy Carter, Randall Balmer, 2014.
https://books.google.com/books?id=e...othing less than a benevolent empire"&f=false
page xv:
' . . . Finney and other antebellum evangelicals envisioned nothing less than a benevolent empire. Evangelicals, especially in the North, sought the abolition of slavery and equal rights for women, incluing the right to vote. Some evangelicals believed that women should be ordained. They advocated prison reform because, as the editors of the Virginia Evangelical & Literary Magazine argued, "It is impossible to bring a man to repentance by fear alone; its legitimate fruit is despair." Evangelicals supported public education, known at the time as "common schools," as a way for children of the less fortunate to improve their lot. . . '