Another Homeschooling Funny

By Bruce Tinsley
Source for the strip

Kuala Lumpur is the city of my birth and the capital of Malaysia.

The strip refers to the 2002 National Geography Bee.

My thanks to Sarah! who posted this on that
same list where I've been getting all this cool, funny info on
homeschool/ public school bashing recently.

Positive Data on Homeschooling

The Fraser Institute report isn't exactly new (dated Oct 2007). It was shared today on the same list where I first encountered that The Case Against Homeschooling article. See this post.

I had a good laugh (today was a good day for laughs for me) when I saw this paragraph:

"This paper has established that home schooling is a
thriving educational movement both in Canada and
the United States. It has also empirically demonstrated
that the academic and socialization outcomes for the
average home schooled child are superior (italics mine)
to those experienced by the average public school student."

Personally, I no longer feel like I need to have our decision to homeschool validated. But it's nice to know some data all the same isn't it?

Here's the link for the full report. Home Schooling: From the Extreme to the Mainstream. Scroll to page 19 of the pdf file if like me you have little patience.

Here's an older FunSchooling post on Homeschooling Statistics, if you're interested.

Please Tell Me He's Kidding?

This article I've linked to below was mentioned on one of the lists I frequent.

Wait! Before you click the link below, make sure you have your Fruit Loops, meatloaf and popcorn ready too :) And don't forget to eat them all at the same time while also playing Wii. We unfortunately don't have any of the above goodies and game players at home so had to make do with strawberry ice cream and a Murderous Maths book instead.

Ready? Click away! The Case Against Homeschooling

There, do you feel selfish now? And arrogant? LOL. Sigh...do we need to even defend ourselves?

Latest update:

Interested in reading a direct rebuttal? See The Case Against Public Schooling (thanks for the link Subadra!).

It's a vicious cycle, these discussions. You know, thanks to DS' experience, I could write a whole volume on The Case Against Private Schooling for that matter. But where will it take us?

Homeschooling Bashers: please don't try to belittle something you have no idea about.

Public Schooling Bashers: c'mon you guys, don't tar all schools and teachers with the same brush!

Private Schooling Bashers: ummm...wanna meet for coffee some place and well, ummm, talk?