That's because I look like this:
Posted on 05/08/2005 7:04:09 AM PDT by Nachum
I remember going to the school yard for the snow BECAUSE the school was closed.
Either this jury is ILLITERATES or there is more to the story.
I am talking about the knee jerk reactions from many here on this forum who think that homeschooling is the be all and end all of all societies problems. The people who scream that any time a teacher tries to instill some discipline that teacher is a public school Nazi and my darling little child would never do such a thing, and how dare they yell at my kid.
Nonsense. Prison is for felons (those who have crimes punishable by more than a year of incarceration). Jail is for misdemeanants (and are usually county-oriented).
But this reporter is milking the sympathy factor for all he can get, and Freepers are falling for it. Of course they face 30 days -- and they will NEVER get that. Crimes have punishments, and the punishments have ranges. He's quoting the possible -- but absolutely unlikely -- to garner sympathy. This guy is playin' y'all like a violin.
That's because I look like this:
So you've ingnored the main point here, and are for enabling petty tyrants. Noted.
Now that I agree wholeheartedly with.
Sorry to come down on you a little too hard.
So let's get rid of all policemen. At 17 and 18 years old they should know better than to tick off the cops. I doubt that the cop would really arrest the kids unless they really were mouthing off.
She looks like a two-bit hooker...or a pop star. Same thing.
However, not all home schoolers are conservative. My cousin is a nut bag liberal, and her boys at 13 and 11 look like 9 year old girls. She allows them to study what they want, and doesn't seem to work too hard at teaching them about life (most likely because her parents were very forgiving about her actions). My best friends sister in law also home schools her kids. She weighs about 400 pounds, and I think she only home schools so she doesn't have to get up early in the morning to get the kids ready for school. The kids are dumb as posts and little tyrants who won't behave for anyone.
My point is most people are either not capable, or willing to put in the hard work necessary to ensure that home schooling works.
Also, from dealing with people at work, and listening to stories from my sister who teaches swimming lessons, if everyone home schooled this nation would be in big trouble. One woman was always complaining about the teachers who would get her monster child in trouble. How they would send him to the office for clowning around in class, and how he would get detentions for this or that. I heard her yelling at the principal about these punishments. She never disciplined him at home and now guess what, he dropped out of school and got his 15 year old girlfriend pregnant. He can't hold a job, despite his mom setting him up with friends and neighbors who own restaurants, shops lawn services etc. I doubt he would have done better with home schooling.
So god bless the people who can home school effectively, but I don't think that everyone can or should do it.
I wonder what public property is anymore.
This "Peter Principle" icon looks to be "Principal Peter."
I smell ozone...
Anybody can send there kids off to school, and let someone else teach them. But it takes real effort and determination to CORRECTLY homeschool children.
The jaw drops. Have we REALLY become this mindless that it is ok to arrest kids for making a snow fort or suspend kids for talking to their mothers serving in the armed forces in Iraq!!??
Is this REALLY what we have become??
Where are those on this forum that claim moral superiority to Europe? This suggests that we are anything BUT morally superior!!
Needless to say, I am just a tad bit disgusted at the behavior of those in charge.
It appears that you graduated from the Sean Hannity school of grammar.
A friend of mine is a PI. He's told me on several occasions that a lot of cops are just stupid thugs. Personally, I have not seen this to be true. But what do I know about law enforcement.
Ah, a grammar and spelling enforcer. Looks like we got another "Barney Fife".
Another example of people (the cops) that don't understand the concept of the state existing to serve the public and not the other way around.
We had a revolution over stuff like this.
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