Gifted Programs in Schools Training Future Liberals

Conservative Hideout 2.0 ^ | 04-27-10 | Matt

[BenKenobi]

Oh I’m aware they are gunning for mine. Hence why I’d homeschool.

[luckystarmom]

We switched private school this year. Last year, my daughters had a very liberal enviromental whacko teacher at their Christian school.

She didn’t eat meat because it uses too much water. She had them composting the whole year. She didn’t use paper towels in her classroom.

I could go on and on about her.

Now, they are at a conservative Christian school, and their history teacher was making jokes about tree huggers.

[luckystarmom]

Money. There are now too many families that need 2 incomes. Private schools are outrageously expensive.

[reaganaut1]

I absolutely hate how the “teen angst” myth is used by even well-meaning adults to enlarge the myth and the problem. I can’t tell you how many times I have heard, “Well, I know you’re a teenager and that means . . .” with the adult proceeding to “define” a teenager as someone with some kind of a behavior problem and poor judgment.

In many Indian families (I'm Indian), the teenage years are not thought of as a time to rebel but to get serious in academic pursuits and prepare for a future career.

[RFEngineer]

Sounds like someone got stuck with the “dumb” kids and is going “scorched earth”

[fightinJAG]

It’s intersting how different cultures “construct” adolescence. We could learn a lot.

[JenB]

Not new.

My mother experienced this in Northern Virginia in the 70s/80s.

One of the many reasons my siblings and I were homeschooled.