And none of the founding fathers had indoor plumbing, electricity, or computers. We should dump those as well
I am a GED instructor. In addition to folks who dropped out of school, all homeschooled youth must pass the GED exam to get their diploma.
Not quite all, but MOST, homeschooled youth score much higher on the exam than others.
Well, I’m a public school teacher and I support homeschoolers 100%. The bullying alone, and the mean kids your child will be warehoused with are reason enough. Nothing pains me more than seeing nice, smart kids trapped in a room with wild, hyper, uncouth children who have no fear of consequences and no intention whatsoever of letting anyone learn anything.
get the Federal Government out of school and kids will learn again - without all the $$$ we spend. they are nothing more than indoctrination camps
My number reason children should be homeschooled when possible:
1. If you have an education, congratulations, you will be able to teach your child things and the ability to learn that they will never know in public school. The public school teachers are typically very ignorant liberals with “degrees in Education”. Your child will be measured by your standards of personal excellence versus the unionized dumb-down lowest-common-denominator practices of the federal DOE and the NEA. Your child can interact with children you select with your standards and your rules. Their discipline can be assured. Your child can take real field trips to interesting and historical places. You can coordinate with like-minded parents to cross-pollinate your group’s children with various professional studies of the individual parents and share in expenses and responsibilities. Your child will learn and grow and become that young adult capable of fending for themselves every parent should desire for their child. Along with all that, you also get to temper your discipline with the thoughts and input of the other parents. Children often find firm but fair a result. There is just something respectful about watching a child grow and learn to think and contribute their experiences.
Public school taught me to hate inner city kids and certainly destroyed any thought of being a liberal.
I think this qualifies for the Homeschooling list....
In an age, where we now have cheap internet and Khan Academy, learning from home has never been easier.
One need not believe that homeschooling is superior to school-schooling to be ideologically opposed to GOVERNMENT schooling of any kind. We could have a plethora of educational facilities, with the latest technology, the best teachers, and an option to suit every parent, at a fraction of the cost of the government’s child-warehouses/employment centers ... if the system were 100% private-pay or private-charity.
These days, I usually respond to various statist idiots questioning homeschooling by saying that my offspring are:
1. Taught an anglo-saxon obscenity each week and must use it as a verb, noun and adjective in the next weeks essay.
2. Given instruction on abnormal psychology as normal.
3. Practiced in condom fitting on bananas at lunch.
4. Learning about Diversity day = perversion + division + adversity.
5. Given open minded suggestions: Healthy sexuality class always includes a deviant practice.
6. Taught to bow and pray to Karl Marx, Sigmund Freud and Charles Darwin each day.
7. Mugged for some lunch money each day.
8. Beaten up or humiliated once a week.
In short, we believe we are providing a fully rounded educational curriculum that is on par with the best the publik skoolz have to offer.
Public scho . . . . er, indoctrination, is a big reason that Obama won in ‘08 and again this year. Everyone wants to blame McCain and Romney (who share the blame), but the lion’s share of the blame starts at the public indoctrination centers.
For 12 years, the liberals who staff these schools have unfettered access to childrens’ minds, to shape and mold them however they please. What’s the liberal agenda item of the week? Ask your public indoctrination attendee. Global Warming, environmentalism, homosexuality, et., ad nauseum, the kids have heard it for years.
But reading, arithmetic, science, history, civics!?? With all the garbage they have to fill the kids with, there is no room for these subjects.
So, if you want to know why Obama was elected and then re-elected, blame it on public indoctrination.
If conserevatives want to win elections and regain control of the government, they must first end the education unions’ control of the indoctrination centers. Next, schools must refocus on educating children and not being a jobs program for liberal “teachers”.
For example, in Texas, the Texas legislature has limited school classrooms to a maximum of 22 students. When I was in school (around the time of the invention of the wheel), there were an average of 35 kids to 1 teacher, no teachers’ aid, or assistants or helpers - just 1 teacher. We learned far more than kids today and are smarter and better educated than kids “graduating” from public indoctrination centers.
So, instead of “Republicans” engaging in a circular firing squad because our “iffy” candidate lost, let’s start looking at the real reason we lost - kids and young adults have been indoctrinated in liberal philosophy for at least 12 years - how would you expect them to vote??
“Most of Founding Fathers were Homeschooled”
What does that even mean? That despite being homeschooled they were able to achieve great things?
Pinging out both lists to a great article.
Pinging out both lists to a great article.
Pinging out both lists to a great article.
Most are professional disruptors and paid for their efforts. That's my conclusion.
The Founders who were educated beyond elementary school overwhelmingly ended up in the private, religious colleges, which were all that existed, and about half studied divinity at one point. Their ideas about education did not focus so much who provided the education but in what was taught. ALL believed elementary schools should teach math, grammar, religion, and (as they said) a "patriotic history."
Dr. Benjamin Rush was among the leading proponents of the public education model, as was Madison.
Two things:
Someone once said that to “socialize: your home-schooled kids just take ‘em in the bathroom, beat ‘em up, and steal their lunch money.” Just like public scrool!
This pathetic excuse for a human being, jorno-list, and American sums up (for me) how totally vapid “liberals” are on the subject of education:
http://www.salon.com/2006/04/17/narrowsburg/
P.S. I went to a public scrool attached to a university schrool of education back in the early 1960s. I’m still bitter about the experience to this day...
My daughter drew the picture of the children running from the burning school building. I posted it here near the time she drew it.
Good post.