CBS Needs Education on Homeschooling, Say Advocates

CNSNews.com ^ | 10/16/03 | Marc Morano

[Wonder Warthog]

"A CBS News investigation found dozens of cases of parents convicted or accused of murder or child abuse who were teaching their children at home, out of the public eye."

Ah me! Typical liberal media hypocrisy. How about the hundreds (thousands??) of victims of child abuse who WERE "in the public eye" (e.g. government run schools) who were abused, and which abuse happened because "the authorities" missed or ignored the danger signals????

[Izzy Dunne]

who were teaching their children at home, out of the public eye.

Note the implication of furtiveness, hiding, secretiveness.... It's everyone's RESPONSIBILITY to offer up their kids for public approval, and Dagnab it, these people ARE NOT DOING THAT!

[Judith Anne]

"Largely unregulated."

For heaven's sake! Will the Socialists--the Nazis--never rest until every last single solitary aspect of life is regulated and taxed?

Before they start --in fact, before they even THINK about -- regulating home schoolers, I'd like to see a thorough audit of the Education department. And I'd like to see the pedophiles out of the nations' schools, as well as the entire homosexual agenda.

[Diogenesis]

CBS ONLY respects Communist Authority
OR "Have you EVER seen Dan look so happy?"

[don-o]

These reports were "so over the top" that I suspect it may have backfired on the BS network.

Anyone with at least two brain cells firing simply had to see the obvious agenda at work.

I hope.

[Izzy Dunne]

A downside to not having a TV is that I have no power over these people. I can't "boycott" CBS - I already haven't watched a single minute of CBS for over five years. I'm trying to forget the stuff that I DID watch before then.

So they are not interested in my views - I'm not a customer.

I didn't see the program, so I can't speak first-hand (not that I doubt NCHE or CNSNews).

Not much that I can do.

[Aquinasfan]

I hope.

When my English aunt and uncle were here visiting, a stranger said to them, "the Queen sure is good to you people."

What I'm trying to say is, don't get your hopes up...

[tbpiper]

out of the public eye

I think it's time to stick a righteous finger in the 'public eye'.

[gaspar]

Izzy: CBS doesn't care about you, or about anyone who might be considered Conservative. Long ago they tailored their programming to the the very stupid, and the knee jerk liberal. In sum, in its persistently slanted news coverage CBS knowingly serves the two poles of the Democrat party.

[tbpiper]

Not much that I can do.

Find out who the sponsors were in that time period and let them know what you think. Doesn't matter if you use their product or not. If they think their advertising might cost them business, they will rethink their allocations. You are not CBS's customer, the people buying advertising time are.

[Chancellor Palpatine]

And had the homeschool advocacy groups acted quickly to disavow themselves of warts and marginal cases, the movement might have a little better image.

It ain't all what its cracked up to be, and I'm somebody who can say that from experience.

[Tax-chick]

The headline suggests that someone believes the problem at CBS is ignorance of the truth, rather than deliberate promotion of the lie. How naive. Homeschooling is a threat to liberals' social-control agenda; therefore they will engage in any dishonest attack.

[556x45]

LOL! Well, dont keep us in suspense. Id love to hear about your 'experience'. BTW just exactly how would HS groups distance themselves from the 'warts' anyway? You sound like a troll to me.

[Preech1]

Check out this link about the REAL Dark side of homeschooling.

http://www.design-a-website.com/dark.htm

[Chancellor Palpatine]

Bought into the whole homeschooling agenda and homeschooled our oldest child through the end of 3rd grade, via the Abeka system, and participating diligently in cottage school twice a week. Started younger two into homeschooling as well.

Learned that the vast majority of our homeschooling peers in that group were tinfoilers and conspiracy theorists, nor were they well read or well traveled - plus, they had ugly work and business practices. Got concerned when it became apparent through Sunday School at our own church that our oldest was falling behind in academic skills compared to her peers. Moved to an outlying area with award winning schools, bit the bullet, and sent her there. Busted our butts for months just to bring that child up to the level of her classmates in basic reading, writing and mathematic skills outside the rote memorization of the multiplication tables, spelling and state capitols (you know, the big homeschool sales pitch).

[whereasandsoforth]

This "report" was on CBS. That means no one watched the program (except for a few mountain dwellers that get only one or two channels). If we were not talking about it here, it not be on anyone's radar screen.

The puppet show at the Albany zoo has a larger audience than CBS.

[Izzy Dunne]

our oldest was falling behind in academic skills compared to her peers.

Can you explain to me how that's anyone's responsibility except her parents' ?

[Izzy Dunne]

had the homeschool advocacy groups acted quickly to disavow themselves of warts and marginal cases

And how would they do that?
I see no value in some group standing up and saying "Homeschooling doesn't advocate practices such as this".

[Chancellor Palpatine]

Because we bought into the whole homeschooling routine. according to the continual sales pitch, we were doing great - of course, at that time, our social circle consisted mainly of other homeschooling parents, so we had no other frame of reference.

We were lucky that we went to a church where none of the other kids were being homeschooled, because we'd have never noticed the problem.

Did I mention what I began to notice about those kids who were "graduates"? The girls all aspired to become day care workers, but didn't like to wake up, the boys all aspired to be "internet entrepeneurs" and didn't like the notion of waking up and spending time learning any trade.