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To: mountn man
I don't really want to come down hard on all home schoolers. I am sure that most of those who post here work hard at assuring that their children are educated and respectful toward their elders.

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.

50 posted on 05/08/2005 8:36:45 AM PDT by sharkhawk (I really have to stop surfing at DU.)
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To: sharkhawk
Most of my experience (whoops, make that ALL my experience) with homeschooled kids, comes from families where the parents are committed christians. Where they view their kids not only as a blessing from God, but as a solemn responsibility.

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.

54 posted on 05/08/2005 8:51:17 AM PDT by mountn man
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