Why I Refuse to Send My Kids to School

Five Perfectly Sane Reasons

Across the globe, people view education as the key to freedom. Why, then, do I refuse to send my children to school? For the very good reasons stated here.

1. I want to keep my children’s creativity alive.

School robs children of their creativity. Ask a child to draw a picture on the first day of kindergarten, and that child will happily sit down and consider all the possibilities there are to be drawn. Ask a child to draw a picture on the last day of kindergarten, and that child will ask you, “Of what?” Being told what to do and when to do it is a creativity killer. Creativity is not just one of life’s enjoyments; it’s one of life’s necessities. Our world needs creative inventors, scientists, doctors, artists, writers, and crafters. Most of the world’s famous minds were not schooled in a setting like those of today’s public schools. Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Edison, Albert Einstein. Do these names ring any bells? They received their education at home and through apprenticeships. Where would we be today if these great minds were stunted in a school setting?

2. I want to encourage individuality.

School fosters an unhealthy conformity that I experienced firsthand, and that I never want to see in my children. Children must adhere to a dress code. They must stand a certain way in line. They must sit a certain way. They must learn the same things that every other child in their specified age group must learn. They must use the same materials to create the same projects. They must eat at the same time as the other children. They must process the same information and be able to regurgitate it in the same way as their classmates. How can a child maintain his or her individuality under these circumstances?

3. I want my children to spend the best hours of the day free from a classroom.