NEA Leader Says Home School Parents ‘Well-Meaning Amateurs’

November 30, 2006 – Dave Arnold, a member of the Illinois Education Association, says home schooling parents are “well-meaning amateurs” who should leave the education of their children to the professionals.In “Home Schools Run By Well-Meaning Amateurs,” Arnold says: “… why would some parents assume they know enough about every academic subject to home-school their children? You would think that they might leave this – the shaping of their children’s minds, careers, and futures – to trained professionals. That is, to those who have worked steadily at their profession for 10, 20, 30 years! Teachers!”

Arnold concludes his attack on home school parents by stating: “Don’t most parents have a tough enough job teaching their children social, disciplinary and behavioral skills? They would be wise to help their children and themselves by leaving the responsibility of teaching math, science, art, writing, history, geography and other subjects to those who are knowledgeable, trained and motivated to do the best job possible.”

“Dave Arnold’s elitist view of parents as untrained buffoons who should leave the education of their children to his liberal minions, is clear evidence that home school parents are wise to protect their children from leftist and pro-homosexual propaganda in schools,” said TVC’s Executive Director Andrea Lafferty. “The NEA has been the enemy of parents and a supporter of abortion, obscene sex education and homosexual indoctrination of innocent public school children. Why should parents trust their children to teachers who are anti-Christian, pro-baby killing and pro-homosexuality?

The Home School Legal Defense Association released a report in 2004 that shows the academic excellence achieved by home-schooled children. A study released in 1997, for example, showed that home-schooled children outperformed their public school counterparts by 30-37 percentile points in all subjects.

“It would appear that the ‘well-meaning amateur’ parents criticized by Dave Arnold, are doing a better job of educating their own children than the so-called ‘professionals’ in the NEA,” said Lafferty. “Perhaps if NEA teachers spent more time on academics and less time on training children to experiment with homosexual sodomy, children might actually get an education in public schools.”

Access TVC’s GLSEN web site to see what kids are being taught in public schools:

Parents: Learn the Truth About The Gay, Lesbian, and Straight Education Network (GLSEN)!

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