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My daughter has one year to go, in the public school system, before graduating.

I admire those that do homeschool...I just never felt that it would work in our situation.

Now, we pay dearly (taxes) to live in the best school district around...and literally moved 7 years ago, exclusively to get out of a terrible school district. There is still propaganga, of course - but not all the teachers buy into it, and will occassionally question it in class.

Here is some of my thought process in why I chose not to home school: I’m a licensed engineer...so I know a little about mathmatics. Yet, I can’t understand my daughter’s 7th grade math books. The reason is that the terminology of mathmatics seems to have been re-invented in the last 25 years. Half the time, I don’t understand the question that is being asked, and I have to read the entire chapter to figure it out - its very different. Now I have dreams of my daughter going to college. I’m sure this new language of mathmatics (and probably other subjects too) has made its way to the colleges. I would feel completely lost going to college, with the new language of math...and anyone trained by me would be similarly lost. In short, I’ve surrendered.

The reason is that the terminology of mathmatics seems to have been re-invented in the last 25 years.

Math isn't about math anymore. It's about Bill and Fred, who are on a train, traveling west at 50 mph to meet their two kids, who are traveling east in another train...

Math is still math for most of us homeschoolers.

Take a look at a homeschool curriculum, some time.

the terminology of mathmatics seems to have been re-invented in the last 25 years

New world order - the foundation system piece - is turning people into idiots. I always found this stuff to be piles of cr@p they put on top of real math. It's meaningless blabbering desinged to make happen exactly what happened with you.

This is how you can get a nation of 300 million people to "believe" in evolution. It's not the evolution belief that's the goal, it's the abandonment of the Bible that's the goal, which paves the way for acceptance of statism. Big capital monopoly (new world order) loves statism, since they have figured out how to control the state. They then don't have to control 300 million people, the government does that for them. And anyone who is thoroughly indoctrinated falls for a very simple trick used to brand anyone pointing out new world order as a "conspiracy nut".

I have said this for years. About every 5 years a new crop of PhD’s graduate and have to make their mark so they re-brand terminology and come up with some new fangled way to do the same thing we have dome for years. It is very apparent in the software industry. I am not talking about innovation but am alluding to the constant renaming of processes and standards. I spend more time trying to understand what the young mush minds out of college that somehow became managers are talking about than I do actually making product.

I often like to point out we sent men to the moon with a slide rule and big chief tablet and haven’t done anything that paramount since, except make thing more complicated. KISS.