The laws of most states make provision for homeschooling. Where parents are reasonably educated themselves, and are conscientious in pursuing homeschooling, children can learn successfully. Few parents, however, are learned enough to competently teach all the secondary level subjects without some assistance from specialists. The Tenure Issue For generations, teachers were hired and fired at the pleasure of whomever held the purse strings and for any reason. Professors at the more prominent universities organized the American Association of University Professors in 1915, with a present membership of about 70,000 and promoting the idea of academic freedom and tenure.
Academic freedom means the freedom to pursue, write, and teach the truth as one sees it.
Today most school systems have a tenure system. Politicians are seeking to end tenure. Periodic evaluations of teachers are asked so that the superior teachers can be rewarded and mediocrity identified. For many chidlren, going to school is the most dangerous thing they ever do. A Chicago study found that three out of four inner-city school children had personally witnessed a killing, stabbing, shooting, or robbery at or going to or from school.