Is Homeschooling Really a Cult?
Faith, values, and family feel like ideals of the past when it comes to education for children of any age.
On an episode of The Sam Sorbo Show, Growing Pains actor Kirk Cameron lays it all on the table and shares why he once thought homeschooling was a “weird fringe cult group,” the motivation behind his and his wife’s decision to pull all six of their kids out of the school system, and the heartbeat of his movie, The Homeschool Awakening.
Homeschooling has more than doubled since the initial lockdown following the pandemic, causing many families to dive into unfamiliar routines and settle into indefinite close proximity to the ones they love most.
Cameron shares that once he realized the school system was out to “sabotage [his kids’] chances of success,” he and his wife made the bold decision to bring all six of his children’s schooling to the home front.
Sorbo — actress, model, author, homeschool advocate, and education activist — and Cameron discuss how homeschooling is about even more than taking back their kids’ education.
It’s about learning how to be a family that puts faith and freedom back into learning while allowing their children to flourish and form their own identities outside of a system that wants them to fit a constricting mold.
Because God gives parents the job and privilege to shape their children’s hearts and minds, Cameron offers one question to parents to help kick start their journey of homeschooling: “what is my goal with having kids?”
While the answers to this simple question unveil the weight education holds, “the world gets simpler and the focus gets sharper,” Cameron said.
While homeschooling may not be for everyone, Sorbo and Cameron debunk the myths and stereotypes associated with it and invite viewers into a whole community that cares deeply about education.
The ability to pass on values and faith and the opportunity to teach kids how to socialize in a new and better way are just a couple of homeschooling’s benefits.
No longer does Cameron think of home education as a far-off cult, but as “a community of out-of-the-box thinkers,” worth every effort to “unplug from a system that doesn’t have your family’s best interest in mind,” he said.
Whether you’re for or against the idea of homeschooling, take a peek at this conversation and be encouraged to take back control and be the main influencer of what and how your children are learning.
