Saturday, May 30, 2009

Home Education in the News

A recent USA Today article on home schooling claims parents who choose to home educate their children are "increasingly white, wealthy, and well-educated."

Voddie Baucham responds, claiming the USA article "misses the mark."

Glenn Beck will being tackling this topic on Monday (June 1) on his Fox News program.




6 comments:

denise in MN said...

Oh! I'm a big fan of Voddie Baucham and Glenn Beck!

Suzie L. said...
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Suzie L. said...

I also had a problem with the statment that more girls are being homeschooled, now. How does the writer know that parents/families are homeschooling because they have 'girl' children or because they want to protect their girls from 'mean girls' in public or private schools?? I think families make the decision to homeschool regardless of the gender of their children.

Mark Erickson said...

Great linking, Michelle!

I've never heard of Voddie Baucham, but it's obvious he's pretty big. Has anyone seen him preach?

I wouldn't say I'm a fan though, based on this post. Maybe it is his public school education, but he's made a number of misinterpretations.

I'd post a rebuttal at his site, but it doesn't take comments. I'll send them to Michelle and she can post them here if she'd like.

regan said...

gosh, i am not any of those things and i've been homeschooling almost 10 years! (i wonder if the white, rich and wealthy do a better job? :)

Mark Erickson said...

I'm over a big production to correct Voddie Baucham. But three things are easy, the report would have used real dollars (taking inflation into account), "higher-income" is relative not absolute (median income is irrelevant), and the income numbers are quite striking, (page 134). White increased a little, but grad degrees went down. Education was the misleading part of the 3 W's noted in the story.