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Flames, you said, "The reason you get homeschooled is because the people with the degrees aren't up to your standards." I'm not quite sure what you mean here. There are usually two reasons parents homeschool their children. The first is to accelerate your kid's learning, which is fine. The second, and scary one, is to isolate your kid from facts you disagree with. That is irresponsible, and I think requiring some sort of degree would indeed help prevent this.
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I think there's a reason here -- school just
doesn't work for everyone. Being in a crowded classroom working to the mean level (Which means that, hey, there's a 99% chance that the work is too easy/hard for you) through writing doesn't work for some people at all. My brother is wicked intelligent at maths -- but he'd be in the bottom set in school. And it's not 'cause he's failing -- it's because he takes longer to take information. He'd fail at school, but he spends more time at home doing a curriculum tailored to his needs and if not doing it at a high level.
Those who school won't work for get taught at home in their parents' unearthly amount of spare time. Here we have to pass LEA inspection to show how you teach -- but you don't need a degree.
It seems kind of stupid that you need one, in fact, since you're never going to be teaching your child degree-standard work. If your child has
special needs -- you may barely pass infant standard -- but that'll be useful to the extreme to the person in later life: Just being able to write, count and work things like money will be invaluable for them.
This doesn't necessarily mean I agree with it, though.
For the shielding from opinions thingummy -- aye, this is a problem. But stupidity begets stupidity -- the way to face an idea isn't to hide it away -- it's to et it up on stage, watch it fail and then throw stones at it. If it, however, doesn't fail -- then maybe you should consider your child's free will and stop indoctrinating them.
Then again -- there are such things as private schools, where you can be indoctrinated publicy. So, even in school, this will exist.