My sympathies to Mary Anne, but there will always be such people out there to deal with.

...That is to say: Home-schoolers are such (to a 95% confidence level) because their parents are religious Fundies, to whom 'magic' is anathema - thus the snide remark about ritual cleanliness afer hearing the word 'enchanted'. ;-D



These are the same folks, mind you, who insist that the Earth is only 6000 years old, and that God put the dinosaur bones in to fool his people. Sounds to me like they're worshippng Loki.



Actually, as a quick search would have told you, less than half of home schoolers consider themselves "born again," and less than 15 percent were evangelical. But then, that isn't nearly as comforting to some people's worldview as the thought that all homeschoolers are fundamentalist idiots who can't see the glorious benefits of our government-run schools. I suppose it falls into the same category as ecto's post implying that the people in my church must be drooling idiots, or they wouldn't be there.

Sure, some kids are getting their heads filled with dreck in home schools. But then a lot of kids are getting their heads filled with dreck in public schools too. It is arguable whether teaching creationism is any more harmful or useless than teaching kids that their own nation, heritage, values, and political system deserve contempt.

I'm in a pretty good mood today, so I won't pound you with statistics comparing the actual academic educational results of home schools versus public schools.

BTW, I bet if Coyote were political, he would have been a raving libertarian.