Comments on: Diversity of Homeschoolers http://viewfromearth.wordpress.com/2006/11/25/diversity-of-homeschoolers/ Grand Thoughts On A Small Scale Mon, 24 Aug 2009 12:56:42 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: Lottie http://viewfromearth.wordpress.com/2006/11/25/diversity-of-homeschoolers/#comment-10034 Lottie Tue, 13 Jan 2009 05:01:35 +0000 http://viewfromearth.wordpress.com/2006/11/25/diversity-of-homeschoolers/#comment-10034 <blockquote>If one counted up all the non-evangelical homeschoolers the total would greatly outnumber the fundamentalists.</blockquote>I'd be interested in seeing those statistics. Can you point me toward your source on that?

If one counted up all the non-evangelical homeschoolers the total would greatly outnumber the fundamentalists.

I’d be interested in seeing those statistics. Can you point me toward your source on that?

]]> By: Schuyler http://viewfromearth.wordpress.com/2006/11/25/diversity-of-homeschoolers/#comment-4911 Schuyler Wed, 30 May 2007 18:53:26 +0000 http://viewfromearth.wordpress.com/2006/11/25/diversity-of-homeschoolers/#comment-4911 Just as a supportive comment, and a completely anecdotal statement, we are an unschooling family with two athiest parents. David (dh) and I used to joke that we'd have to homeschool just to teach the kids evolution, as they certainly wouldn't figure it out at public school in the US And then we went and unschooled and now Linnaea talks about how the maggots that became flies evolved--gotta love Pokemon (really I love Pokemon, but it isn't change over time) and they learn all over the place about natural processes. The anecdotal experience, the balance of religious and secular home-educators in the UK seems to be very different division than there is in the US And while I avoid groups with a religious remit, there are no where near as many here as I had to weave and dodge in the U.S. More people seem to be choosing to home-educate as a lifestyle choice or a response to bullying or the special needs of their child than as a religious choice, but the UK is far from the religious nation that the US is. Just as a supportive comment, and a completely anecdotal statement, we are an unschooling family with two athiest parents. David (dh) and I used to joke that we’d have to homeschool just to teach the kids evolution, as they certainly wouldn’t figure it out at public school in the US And then we went and unschooled and now Linnaea talks about how the maggots that became flies evolved–gotta love Pokemon (really I love Pokemon, but it isn’t change over time) and they learn all over the place about natural processes.

The anecdotal experience, the balance of religious and secular home-educators in the UK seems to be very different division than there is in the US And while I avoid groups with a religious remit, there are no where near as many here as I had to weave and dodge in the U.S. More people seem to be choosing to home-educate as a lifestyle choice or a response to bullying or the special needs of their child than as a religious choice, but the UK is far from the religious nation that the US is.

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