Comment Re:I do it (Score 1) 1324
Why do you believe there is a wider variety of ideas available to school kids than homeschooled kids
I don't. I think homeschooling can be a great thing. But I also know that exposure to different teachers with different ways of teaching and different beliefs, as well as other children with different beliefs can also be a good thing.
The vast majority of homeschooled kids have substantially more intellectual freedom.
While this should be true, I'd say for the majority it is not. Parents take their kids out of school because they don't like what is being taught. Generally this is not an education standard (parents who care about the quality of teaching would help teach their child at home in addition to that taught in school), but an ideals standard - usually sex, religion or science.
When a parent takes a child out of class because they don't want certain topics taught to them, that is less intellectual freedom, not more. In a public school the parent and child are free to augment that teaching with whatever they like. In a home school environment, there is no such opportunity, for better or for worse.