This all-encompassing work examines such timely home education issues as freedom of speech, freedom of religion, privacy rights, teacher certification requirements, and compulsory attendance statutes. Readers will find practical guidelines for effective lobbying, plus the current legislative status of every home schooling program in every U.S. state.
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The definitive compendium of justifications for Home Schooling,
By Bruce Bain "Romans 9:33/Remember Jackie Robinson" (Englewood, CO United States) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)
This review is from: Home Education: Rights and Reasons (Paperback)
"Home Education: Rights and Reasons" by a topic constitutional attorney John W. Whitehead contains a complete survey of American Consitutional Law on the subject.
In addition, it can serve as an excellent classroom text on the U. S. Constitution. My own journey began with a vague interest in philosophy and social activism, which led me to read an amazing passage in a liberal activists book. The book was "Rules for Radicals" by Saul Alinsky. He wrote: . . ================================================================================== "In a world where eveything is so interrelated that one feels helpless to know where or how to grab hold and act, defeat sets in; for years there have been people who've found society too overwhelming and have withdrawn, concentrated on "doing their own thing." Generally we have put them into mental hopitals and diagnosed them as schizophrenics." ]-----Prologue, page xix, "RULES FOR RADICALS" by Saul Alinsky, 1971, Vintage books edition ================================================================================= . . Oddly enough, that began a journey which eventually led me to become a Christian, but even before that, it led me to consider Homeschooling. It was a fascinating journey, but it led me to study American Consitutional Law concerning Parental Rights as guaranteed in the First Amendment of the U. S. Consitution. That is when John W. Whitehead came into my awareness. I have never regretted the study of Whitehead's book. A whole new world of awareness opened before me. At the same time, I became aware of the alarming degree to which American Citizens are unknowledgeable regarding their own Constitution. Fortunately, I think that Homeschoolers and Private Educators have taken a lead in this subject, such that they produce, throught their educational curricula, a more informed and better educated student. . By the way, I have just finished reviewing John W. Whitehead's other book, a shorter book on the subject of Home Education and Consitutional Law, entitled "The Second American Revolution". Which brings me back to the subject of the Saul Alinsky quote, and its relevence to America, its current cultural issues, its religious population, and the necessity for spiritual discernment. Alinsky, though a person whose reasonings were at best, flawed by a kind of Godless TUNNEL VISION, in which the American Citizenry were expected in some way, to continually "fight" some social entity and so forth, at least had the insight to see the onset of some sort of Disassociative Disorder in American Life, by which people become disenchanted, alienated, and no longer seem to know where to GRAB HOLD, and ACT. This disassocative phenomenon, is never more in evidence than the present, in which so many of America's youth have rejected "religion" and "convention," only to become more lost, and drift through life, like a rudderless ship. For myself, the journey out of that sense of alienation, led me into a desire to prevent my children from suffering the same fate. The rest for me, is a success story basically. I think my children today, grown up with their own families, know where to GRAB HOLD. My own knowledge base expanded into Philosophy, on further still, into Theology. It was surprising to me therefore, many years later, to read about the landmark Supreme Court case, concerning which John W. Whitehead writes so knowledgeably, to wit; WISCONSIN v. YODER, 406 U.S. 205 (1972) and it's precedents, in the New Atheist book by Richard Dawkins, "THE GOD DELUSION". Imagine my surprise, to read with such clarity, the errors in Richard Dawkins' arguments, having been so perfectly informed by John W. Whitehead. . . The downside of learning these things, is that the American people are very poorly informed on the subject of the U. S. Consitution. In fact, in the many Internet Forum discussions I have been involved with over the years, indicates that the vast majority of the time in public media, Americans have somehow gotten the idea, that their personal opinions on subjects like Education, Law, and Social Issues constitute Knowledge, and that Knowledge, oddly, simply does not exists. By this token then, in public correspondence, so many people don't argue facts, they offer their personal opinions and attempt to pass off such narrow perspectives as facts. Whitehead's books are probably, the most infornative books I have ever read, with the exception of Christian Theology. . .
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