by Bill Fancher
(AgapePress) – One home-schooling expert says that education option is easier for parents today than it was two decades ago because of the wealth of resources available. He also says home schooling is almost mainstream today.
Home schoolers once again made a great showing at the National Spelling Bee, making up 10% of the competitors when they only comprise 2% of the total school population. This year's winner of the Scripps Howard event, for the second year in a row, was a home-schooled child.
Mike Smith of the Home School Legal Defense Association says more parents are home schooling now because it is becoming easier to do.
“There is so much help [available to home school]. The Internet has really exploded the information. If you want to do that, you can do that — there's all sorts of curriculum from very, very structured workbooks all the way … to unstructured programs,” Smith says. “There's so many options available that it definitely is easier than it was 20 years ago.”
Smith believes home schooling is growing by leaps and bounds, pointing out that former Education Secretary William Bennett's Internet education program “K12” is now online. Smith says he likes the program, calling it the latest innovation in home schooling.
Smith says home schooling is almost “mainstream” today. “It seems as though there's not nearly as much negativity [today] when you think about home schooling,” he says.
Problems Alleged with New Education Bill
A pro-family group says the current education bill that recently passed the U.S. House does nothing to eliminate federally sponsored, anti-Christian bigotry, but rather promotes a host of left-wing agenda items.
Traditional Values Coalition says programs funded by federal departments “embrace and teach an anti-Christian message to society's most vulnerable — our children.” According to TVC, “hate prevention” training teaches children than all “lifestyles” are equally acceptable and that believing otherwise is “the root of hate.” TVC alludes to another chapter in the federally supported curriculum that implies that those who speak out against the promotion of the organized homosexual agenda are Nazis.
TVC executive director Andrea Lafferty tells NewsMax.com that the Senate version of the bill is even worse than the House provision, allowing the “hate crimes” section to continue.
(This update courtesy of Agape Press.)
