Yeah, she's scared of homeschoolers the way demons are scared of Jesus Christ.
Given what I’ve read and heard about MI public schools, why is anyone surprised that home schooling is on the rise there?
Ellen Heinitz probably thinks Planned Parenthood are rational, regular folks in comparison.
My anecdotal evidence--I have 9 grandchildren, 5 of whom are school age. Three are in public schools and are doing okay to very well. Two are being home schooled and are off the charts on the upside. Small sample, but larger than the one ProPublica used.
Anecdotes are like A$$holes, everybody has one, I would bet however that the idiot would be unable to provide any evidence to back up his story. My niece was home schooled, graduated high school at 16, went to Berkeley on a scholarship and graduated with a double major at 20. Yup a homeschooling horror story for sure.
Ping Megan dear.
Is the Homeschooling Lobby bigger than the NRA?
I thought they had all the Lobby Dollars?
HSLDA YOU GO BABY!
I love and miss Michigan.
HSLDA is just a legal defense org that will come to the aid of homeschoolers so they wont get railroaded. They would not cover up wrongdoing, abuse, as any officer of the court is expected, but defend a parent who is too busy teaching and parenting to be up on everything the school system might deem their right to intrude or force or inquire. Liberty Counsel in another venue.
People so irrational as to not only identify as democrat but work for other democrats are the last people to talk about being rational. They should be fitted for cages.
I am of the opinion that if a multi-millionaire conservative (I am working towards that) wanted to significantly impact the long term direction of the US, they should create a home school system that included:
- instruction for parents (teach how to teach)
- education for the kids (with strong morals and Pro-America message)
- a system for testing and grading the students
- tips for dealing with school districts
- state by state review of laws
And make it all free over the internet.
Basically take over the home school market and then work to get the curriculum into school districts. That would have the potential for a huge impact.
That can't be right -- liberals are staunch defenders of choice!
“I was told it was because he was homeschooled.”
So someone told you something different and you interpreted it this way. I know so many people who came from public school who are druggies, alcoholics, homeless, sluts, etc.
Democrats are scary.
[ It tells of a 19-year-old man in New Jersey who weighed just 45 pounds and was found rummaging through a neighbor’s garbage. The explanation for how such a thing could happen is delivered by a state politician who says, “I was told it was because he was homeschooled.” ]
Oh!!! Well tell me again how all the inner city Yutes are all Homeskrooled???? because they are not...
from everything I have seen these “home-school horror stories” are the very very rare exception of failure ibn homeschooling. Unlike the many many documented failures that affected many millions of children in the public skrool system.
[ “I’ve never seen a lobby more powerful and scary,” Heinitz was quoted as saying. “They make the anti-vaxxers seem rational.” This is a reference to people who believe vaccines are dangerous. ]
This is pure slander against those who have LEGITIMATE concerns about vaccines and their effects concerning what is put in the vaccines, when they are administrated and other concerns like vaccine mishandling prior to injections.
My kid (31 now) was homeschooled and she’s more intelligent, better educated and more real world capable than any public school graduate from MI. She could run rings around this liberal putz Ellen Heinitz.
I can’t be polite anymore. I hate fascist bigots like this person, they are disgusting.
BS. Nineteen is past the age of compulsory attendance to begin with.
He was neglected, plain and simple and it wouldn't surprise me if drugs were involved.
When we lived in a welfare town in NYS, there was a little 5 year old girl of someone who was on public assistance and a public school family, who was doing the same thing. Rummaging through garbage, eating the bread crusts she found. The girl was also being molested by her mother's boyfriend.
I stopped reading here. A man who weighs 45 pounds is either in a wheelchair, a bed or dead. He is certainly not able to stand, walk or rummage in garbage.
What utter BS.
The explanation for how such a thing could happen is delivered by a state politician who says, “I was told it was because he was homeschooled.”
I was told? Is there a report somewhere? Is there actual evidence he was home schooled, our was he rather neglected by parents who were too lazy to even send him to public school?
“I’ve never seen a lobby more powerful and scary,” Heinitz was quoted as saying. “They make the anti-vaxxers seem rational.”
This is a reference to people who believe vaccines are dangerous.
The homosexual lobby is scarier, Heinitz.
Homeschooling: EEEEEVIL!
Throwing a woman in jail over her religious objections: GOOOOOD!
PING!