U.S. liberal/leftie parents do homeschooling first in 1970s, >50% later support religious parents?

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.
 

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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.
 
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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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."
 
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.
 
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.
This is one of many things I don't like about these regimented institutions called "schools." I trust you don't like it either.

So, best case scenario, the fact that, maybe, 3% of parents start homeschooling brings real change to schools? Why the heck not! :)
 
But even with budget cutting, I don't accept the premise that things are terrible today, at least not in conventional terms.

I certainly do. The old line, "A hundred dollars doesn't get you what it used to." is secondary in my mind to, "A hundred IQ points doesn't get you what it used to."
Kids used to graduate with an education that focused on problem solving, the degree of difficulty of the problems to be solved might vary, but Americans used to look for solutions to problems, and frequently found them. These days, we don't fix it if it's broke, and we don't keep it if it isn't, either...
 
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. . . '
There really is a progressive strain in American evangelicalism.

Maybe a few other PODs as well, such as transgender rights making major societal strides a full decade before lesbian and gay rights?
 
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Well it doesn't have to mean that a majority of liberals homeschooling their children is because of religious values, it mostly due to disability, bad neighborhood (high crime that it not safe for a kid to even take a bus or drive them to school, or let alone if the school is also a hotspot for gang activity), bullying, and other reasons.

I probably would assume that if this was the case I would think the liberals would find homeschooling children for religious reasons would be something they don't support. Usually since a majority of people who do homeschool their kids for religious reasons tend usually not learn a lot relating to science, math, grammar, literature and history. Many who are homeschooled for religious values usually tend fall behind in society due to the fact they are raised with views that can be disagreed with by many or views that could be considered extremist as well.

Unlike liberal homeschooling many of the kids would plan on attending college in the future if they want, while conservative homeschooling for religious values many kids would feel no reason or think college is meaningless and would rather get regular jobs.
 
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