This isn’t about ‘rights’ or ‘education’ this is about Liberal totalitarianism and indoctrination of our children. I wish we had homeschooled our daughters, they would have received a far better education than the one they received in a third rate state ‘Catholic’ school in Scotland. My youngest daughter even declared that she learned more at the dinner table about her subjects than she did in the dumbed down, intellectually anaemic classes she had to sit through. Just to put my views in context I’ve been a teacher and lecturer in history, classics and archaeology, at both secondary and university level for 25 years. I have also been involved in teaching primary school teachers (don’t even ask). I have seen the decline from inside, as constructivism and scientific denialism has replaced learning and knowledge with disjointed, state imposed ‘true facts’.
Scott Allan
4 years ago
The current push to ban home schooling is because the forced indoctrination of our children into the Neo-Marxist SJW Cult is performed by schools. There is a connection between home schooling and independent thinkers and leaders of Free Speech. Well we can’t have that in your Globalist nirvana can we?
I urge all parents to re-assert their dominance in the education of their children. This is a severe push to assert the right of the state to educate children and not this be the right of the God given parents.
My 8-year-old came home from school telling me that “indigenous people had no homes” and the “world was burning”. I had to remind her that she had actually been on both an Aboriginal Australian community town and First Nations reserve in Canada. All those people had homes. Not the greatest homes but homes none the less.
Also, I had to show her the Australian CSIRO data that proved that bush fires in Australia were not out of control but very much consistent with historical norms. I also showed her the Senate questions that revealed the biggest contributor to the more than average burn this year was that the GREEN policy of not clearing ground fuel, because that would disturb nature, was the key contributor to the fires being higher than average that year.
The truth is there are no scientists in these NGO’s they are mostly hysterical humanities studies students/graduates with useless degrees in navel gazing.
Do not surrender the formative education of your children to these fools.
D Alsop
4 years ago
Elizabeth Bartholet would have done well in the old Soviet Russia. Why did we waste our time fighting the Cold War for us to then let people like this into our system to promote their ideals anyway? When will people realize that people like this have infected all of our institutions, from Schools and Universities, local government, civil service, charities, quangos,media etc The communist may have lost the Cold War but they have definitely won the Peace!
Simon Newman
4 years ago
Should State schooling be banned? Clearly there is a risk of ideological indoctrination. Shouldn’t children be free to make up their own minds?
Dougie Undersub
4 years ago
This argument over home schooling is really just a proxy for disquiet with a society that increasingly seems to lack common values.
Miriam Uí
4 years ago
Home schooling in Ireland is completely legal, a constitutional right of parents as primary educators. It is also under supervision by the Alternative Education Assessment board, to ensure the children are being educated and not being abused. Most legal home schooling systems have such safeguards in place. No need to ban it at all!!
Fraser Bailey
4 years ago
A very telllng final paragraph.
Fraser Bailey
4 years ago
If we permit Islamic, Jewish and Catholic schools (which in my opinion we shouldn’t) I don’t see why we can’t permit home schooling.
Parents under the human rights charter have the sole authority and singular right to choose the education of their children. If that includes a set of religious values, that is their right.
Feel free to educate your children with your values but do not imagine to interfere with my child’s education.
This isn’t about ‘rights’ or ‘education’ this is about Liberal totalitarianism and indoctrination of our children. I wish we had homeschooled our daughters, they would have received a far better education than the one they received in a third rate state ‘Catholic’ school in Scotland. My youngest daughter even declared that she learned more at the dinner table about her subjects than she did in the dumbed down, intellectually anaemic classes she had to sit through. Just to put my views in context I’ve been a teacher and lecturer in history, classics and archaeology, at both secondary and university level for 25 years. I have also been involved in teaching primary school teachers (don’t even ask). I have seen the decline from inside, as constructivism and scientific denialism has replaced learning and knowledge with disjointed, state imposed ‘true facts’.
The current push to ban home schooling is because the forced indoctrination of our children into the Neo-Marxist SJW Cult is performed by schools. There is a connection between home schooling and independent thinkers and leaders of Free Speech. Well we can’t have that in your Globalist nirvana can we?
I urge all parents to re-assert their dominance in the education of their children. This is a severe push to assert the right of the state to educate children and not this be the right of the God given parents.
My 8-year-old came home from school telling me that “indigenous people had no homes” and the “world was burning”. I had to remind her that she had actually been on both an Aboriginal Australian community town and First Nations reserve in Canada. All those people had homes. Not the greatest homes but homes none the less.
Also, I had to show her the Australian CSIRO data that proved that bush fires in Australia were not out of control but very much consistent with historical norms. I also showed her the Senate questions that revealed the biggest contributor to the more than average burn this year was that the GREEN policy of not clearing ground fuel, because that would disturb nature, was the key contributor to the fires being higher than average that year.
The truth is there are no scientists in these NGO’s they are mostly hysterical humanities studies students/graduates with useless degrees in navel gazing.
Do not surrender the formative education of your children to these fools.
Elizabeth Bartholet would have done well in the old Soviet Russia. Why did we waste our time fighting the Cold War for us to then let people like this into our system to promote their ideals anyway? When will people realize that people like this have infected all of our institutions, from Schools and Universities, local government, civil service, charities, quangos,media etc The communist may have lost the Cold War but they have definitely won the Peace!
Should State schooling be banned? Clearly there is a risk of ideological indoctrination. Shouldn’t children be free to make up their own minds?
This argument over home schooling is really just a proxy for disquiet with a society that increasingly seems to lack common values.
Home schooling in Ireland is completely legal, a constitutional right of parents as primary educators. It is also under supervision by the Alternative Education Assessment board, to ensure the children are being educated and not being abused. Most legal home schooling systems have such safeguards in place. No need to ban it at all!!
A very telllng final paragraph.
If we permit Islamic, Jewish and Catholic schools (which in my opinion we shouldn’t) I don’t see why we can’t permit home schooling.
Parents under the human rights charter have the sole authority and singular right to choose the education of their children. If that includes a set of religious values, that is their right.
Feel free to educate your children with your values but do not imagine to interfere with my child’s education.
well for the same reason i dont see why we can’t permit religious schools.