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Bad Education?
Home » Home School » Blog » Bad Education?Posted by Your Guide on March 17, 2006 3:36 PM
CBS News has come under attack from some Republican members of Congress who were offended by an "Eye on America" series on homeschooling recently.
Thirty-three members of Congress signed a letter addressed to CBS president Andrew Heyward that expressed disdain for an episode that apparently covered a few tragic cases in the homeschool movement in which children were abused, neglected, or taught racist biases under the auspices of homeschooling.
Most of the signing congressmen are members of the Republican Study Committee, a group organized for the purposes of supporting conservative social and economic schema. They also claim that homeschooling should not be strictly monitored or regulated.
More than 1.6 million children are homeschooled in America, with the number of families choosing the alternative to public school at an estimated rate of 7-15% annually.
Sadly, this incident does nothing to discourage the stereotypes of the media as liberal naysayers or of homeschoolers as blubbering hillbillies.
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