alt.education

as an outsider to american society homeschooling seems an absurd
practice to me. The purpose of public school should be to help
children to learn how to socialize with their classmates, despite
their differences. If the educational system has flaws, the solution
is not to isolate kids from "traditional" educational environment but
to "build" a new educational system based not on "good citizenship,
patriotism and loyalty to the state" but on "freedom, collaboration
and connectivity". Since there are so many homeschooling kids why
don't you (the parents) try to find a common ground and create a
"grassroot type" of educational system?