Posted on 02/10/2008 3:15:53 AM PST by Polk Salad Annie Buzz
Families are running for their lives....
In a Feb. 7 press release, a broad coalition of Christian grass-roots organizations boldly banded together urging parents to either homeschool their children or place them in Christian schools. Prominent pro-family crusaders like Phyllis Schlafly, once a proponent of public school reform, are saying it's time to exit public schools.
Indeed, the situation is so serious that in states around the country, sexual material is being taught to children as young as kindergarten age. Barb Anderson, research and policy analyst with the Minnesota Family Council, details lewd content being taught in public schools in a policy paper titled "The Birds & Bees Project: Gay Sex Ed for Kids." According to Anderson, a presenter at the annual Minnesota School Health Education Conference stated, "When speaking to teens you must tell them there is no right or wrong and no good or bad choices."
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May it be so!
We homeschool. It’s economical, safe, clean and energy-efficient.
Fascinating screen name.
It’s about time. Catholics and Jews (even liberals) pushed private schools for years
Good news
Also haven’t heard of that song for years.
Some of the private schools are duplicates of the public schools.
Good for you!
A friend of mine, a fairly young widow with 3 boys, is home schooling her kids. One won a full academic scholarship to MIT last year. Another won an academic scholarship to UT (pre-med). The third is only about 13, but he's so far ahead of other kids his age it's ridiculous. No one in there peer group that has gone to publik skools has remotely gotten the academic attention these three have.
Publik skools are a really sad joke.....thank you Jimmuh Carter.....
Once Obama takes office they’ll be even worse. It’ll be like sending your kids to be brainwashed for eight hours a day by the Berkeley City Council.
Funny how everyone I talk to with kids in the public schools exempt their own public school from criticism — it’s always someone else’s school that’s to blame. But even the top public schools in the nation are mediocre, considering where we rank among industrialized nations.
Most private schools are only marginally better than public schools. Both are feminizing our young boys, and brainwashing all our kids with secular humanism.
There’s plenty of public school violence to go around, its just that they cover it up and try to keep it out of the newspapers.
A local high school in my town had fights recently.
I put the story on my homepage.
The local newspapers haven’t touched the story yet.
Click over for details.
Your right: many, including my brother, exempt his school from criticism. The fact is that multiculturalism is anathema to true education. The premise of multiculturalism is that the most important things to teach about: good or bad, noble or base, virtuous or vicious depends on your “culture”; that everybody gets to choose for himself. Education on the other hand, since the time of Socrates and Plato, has been essentially about the search for those things that are good or bad always and everywhere.
I could go on, but the bottom line is that it is philosophically impossible to receive an education in a system that accepts multiculturalism as a premise as does public education everywhere.
We are 26 year veterans in homeschooling. My wife taught all seven of our children to read when they were four years old using Samuel Blumenfeld’s Alpha Phonics. Our children would rather read than eat! Because they read so well and actually love books, they virtually teach themselves(!) in every subject.
Go home schoolers!
My kids are all grown but I support home schooling 100%. I do fear for this movement’s future however. McCain and huckster not to mention all the RATS are not fans of home schooling.
1) Organize a massive tax revolt that would shut down every government K-12 school in the nation.
2) Conservatives ( Christian and non-Christian) need to organize private scholarship foundations so that every child in this nation could have access to a free education based on the principles of the Constitution, free markets, and the Judeo Christian heritage upon which all freedom rests.
The school district where I live recently had a School Board member pull her daughter out of the local public junior high school because she felt her daughter wasn’t safe around a bunch of gang-bangers and girls getting pregnant in the 7th grade.
And,,,When they arrive at their Liberal/Marxist university or college, they are completely unarmed with the arguments they need to defend their faith! Not only must they have a testimony, they need the verbal weapons to **defend** the faith.
To acquire verbal defense require a thorough and complete immersion in a Christian education. It needs to be integrated throughout the entire Christian curriculum.
We can reform the colleges and universities, but only righteous youth arriving on campus can do it. Sadly, we are not well equipping our youth for battle.
Yes, I often wish my children would stop demonstrating their education long enough to chew their food in a civilized manner. I, unfortunately, can read and eat at the same time.
Our children would rather read than eat!
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Is your family like ours was? “NO reading at the table!” ( during family meals) :)
As long as the public school system is still raking in the tax money, they don't really care whether your kid is in the class room or not, but take the money and you will get their full attention.
Use discrimination.
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