{"id":1446,"date":"2004-06-09T23:06:18","date_gmt":"2004-06-09T22:06:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/ijwp\/mt.php\/2004\/06\/09\/the_secular_case_for_home_schooling"},"modified":"2025-10-12T22:10:59","modified_gmt":"2025-10-12T21:10:59","slug":"the_secular_case_for_home_schooling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/mt.php\/2004\/06\/09\/the_secular_case_for_home_schooling","title":{"rendered":"The Secular Case for Home Schooling"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A topic close to my heart even though I&#8217;m not (yet, insha Allah) a parent: <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20040604160143\/http:\/\/www.opinionjournal.com\/taste\/?id=110005109\">The Secular Case for Home Schooling<\/a> by Diana West (never heard of this journo before, my apologies if she has a bad reputation among Muslims).  [Hat tip: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ladiesagainstfeminism.com\/artman\/publish\">Ladies Against Feminism<\/a> &#8211; this is a Christian site by the way.]  The commentator finds that she could not teach her children less than they learned at a public school in Maryland.<\/p>\n<p>(I&#8217;ve got strong feelings about schools, because I didn&#8217;t have too good an experience in the system &#8211; I think they are overrated, that they are often bully traps and they expose children to too many bad influences.  It particularly annoys me when I hear teachers complaining about parents taking their children out of school for a while for a trip &#8216;back home&#8217; to India or Bangladesh, because they miss out on &#8220;education&#8221; even though they gain valuable life experience.  I make it clear to any inquiring marriage partner that I prefer home schooling if no Islamic school is available.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A topic close to my heart even though I&#8217;m not (yet, insha Allah) a parent: The Secular Case for Home Schooling by Diana West (never heard of this journo before, my apologies if she&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1446","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-community"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p17bgV-nk","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1446","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1446"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1446\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42975,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1446\/revisions\/42975"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1446"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1446"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1446"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}