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Originally posted by Por_sha911
You are conflicting your own logic. On one hand you say that "exposure to things outside makes you well rounded" but then you say that "it's the parents job to instill values". So does the exposure to outside things over-ride the parent's influence or not?
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Sometimes yes sometimes no. I'm sure as a kid you parents told you things. When you got older, you realized they added their bias to something.
Children will be exposed to all sorts of things, I think being gay or atheiest were the examples. They will bring those experiences home where it's still always the parents job to say "in this family, we do things this way..." When you get older you get to question your beliefs. If you spend all your life never being exposed to things, on your own with your peers, you won't have the proper faculties to survive this world.
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I believe that the parents would have instilled their values even if the kids were exposed to the well-rounding outside things. Hence, there is no inherent evil to home-schooling. Besides, as I said before: "I seriously doubt that these girls grew up in a vacuum. They watch TV, listen to music, talk with friends. They may be deceived but they are not naive."
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There is no inherant "evil" in homeschooling. However, what are the checks and balances to ensure that it is done properly or consistently? Apparently, those controls failed in this situation.
We must also, in this case, question these friends you refer to. Were they also brainwashed in the home? Would you let your children be friends with these kids? I don't know jack sqaut about where they grew up (sounds like a ranch or something in Bakersfield). A ranch to me (from the DC burbs) is about as vacuum as you could get.
