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Locations Register Account Login. A Brief History of Homeschooling. The History of Homeschooling and the Compulsory Education Law The first real hurdle for homeschoolers was the compulsory education law , the first of which was passed into law in Mississippi in From to , and Onward Thanks to homeschool pioneers Holt and Moore, along with the founding of the HSLDA, the homeschooling community gained massive support in the 20th Century.
Looking at Our Modern-Day Homeschooling Trends in the History of Homeschooling These days, both Christian and secular families homeschool, and for a wide variety of reasons.
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Almost as big a stir as if he actually had been John Galt. As Holt once said , "It's not that I feel that school is a good idea gone wrong, but a wrong idea from the word go. It's a nutty notion that we can have a place where nothing but learning happens, cut off from the rest of life. Well, Holt onto your horses. His big idea is that schools teach conformity and strip students of unique ideas, all while preparing them for the "rat race.
Illich even goes so far as to suggest that "for most men the right to learn is curtailed by the obligation to attend school. Either way, it's pretty radical. Yoder , the Supreme Court rules that Amish parents have the right to remove their children from school at age 12 in order to preserve their way of life.
It gets published continuously for 24 years, until They're good with catchy titles, in case you didn't notice. HGK asserts that early formal education is actually detrimental for children and that children should be taught at home until at least age eight or nine. Plus, it offered strategies for doing so. The homeschooling movement first emerged in earnest during the s.
Back then it was largely led by evangelical Christians. But as the movement has grown, it has also changed. In my own research, I have seen how diverse homeschoolers now are. This diversity challenges any simplistic understanding of what homeschooling is and what impact it will have on the public school system.
In fact, homeschooling was common up until the late 19th century. Most children received a substantial part of their education within the home. In the late 19th century, states started passing compulsory attendance laws. These laws compelled all children to attend public schools or a private alternative. In this way, education outside the home became the norm for children. It was in the s that American educator John Holt emerged as a proponent of homeschooling.
He challenged the notion that the formal school system provided the best place for children to learn. Slowly, small groups of parents began to remove their children from the public schools. State governments began to take more control of the school systems and the federal government began to get involved.
As school systems increased in size, including the inherent growth in state and federal bureaucracy, the ability of parents to have a significant influence over how their children are taught diminished. By the s, governments and other large bureaucratic organizations, including the teachers' union, had mostly taken control over schools and local participants actually had very little say over what occurred in those schools.
This "evolution" or devolution depending on your point of view continues today. The policies and practices of school systems today are largely determined by state and federal policies and programs.
Parents have little say in how schools are actually run.
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