[Oberon]

Debbie can bite me... signed, A Homeschooler.

[Da Coyote]

“Educators go through education for a reason. They are the people who know best about how to serve children...”

Debby is an ignorant sl...er...”educator”.

Of course, “ignorant educator” is an oxymoron.

There is no more worthless degree than one in “education”.

[luckystarmom]

Yep. That’s why our local public school didn’t want to do anything to help my daughter with special needs learn to read. They just wanted to give her accommodations and dumb down her expectations.

They didn’t even test her for dyslexia or auditory processing disorder.

I knew to get her tested. When she was found to have problems, I found the correct reading program for her at a private school. Now at 15, she had a 4.0 her first semester of high school in regular classes and she loves to read. In fact, if her grades drop, a lot of the time it’s because she spends too much time reading for pleasure.

[taxcontrol]

Their arrogance is unbelievable. My child was diagnosed with Aspergers Syndrome and simply was not able to absorb the form of math teaching that they were offering called Everyday Math.

It eventually came down to a meeting where they wanted to continue to promote her grade wise (with a 30% F in math), and I refused. I actually had one of their math teachers tell me that they knew what was best for their child and that I should not challenge them because he had been to college to teach elementary math. Thank God my wife was there to restrain me.

I put my child into a private christian school the next week. My daughter graduates HS next years and is making a solid 90 to 95 percent in her pre-calculus class and is maintaining a 3.5 overall. It took us holding her back one year and retraining her for two years to forget the crap they taught her and retrain her with Saxon math.

[wbill]

This kind of institutional arrogance is what Mrs WBill and I saw when we were considering homeschooling.

[IYAS9YAS]

"Educators go through education for a reason. They are the people who know best about how to serve children. That is not necessarily true about an individual resident. Not saying that they don't want the best for their children, but they may not know what actually is best from an education standpoint."

The same type of mentality you get with this - "I am the only one in this room professional enough to carry the Glock 40" - at some point, said educator will wind up with a metaphorically similar result.

[NavyCanDo]

Where not able to full-time homeschool because of our careers, but we have decided to pull out 4th grader out of the public school and send him to a highly credited Christian School in our area. It will cost $500 a month and I will have to make some sacrifices, but we are through with public schools. His education is worth it. His grades keep getting lower and lower, and are now in the “below standards” range on key subjects, yet they just keep passing him along. No more. We’re meeting with his teacher tonight and will slam the hammer down.

[originalbuckeye]

Pretty soon there will be no need at all for parents. Then we can be like Cuba, where our children are sent away to work for the State as soon as the State decides it's time. I want my old USA back. Where parents were the most important influence on their children and the State was only there to guarantee our freedoms. We have fallen such a long way as we watch the State take away so many of our freedoms.

[BobL]

“Educators go through education for a reason. They are the people who know best about how to serve children. That is not necessarily true about an individual resident. Not saying that they don’t want the best for their children, but they may not know what actually is best from an education standpoint.”

Considering how many parents STILL think that public schools will educate their kids, she may just have a point.

[Sopater]

And I suppose she’s prepared to offer the public school system’s resounding success as proof of her position.

[metmom]

ANOTHER REASON TO HOMESCHOOL

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[Wisconsinlady]

I wanted to see this and it appears they took the video down. Does anyone have it saved anywhere?

[Ezbieta12]

Children in the public school system spend five days a week being taught messages other than the truth. Bradlee Dean talks about his public school experience as well as growing up in a broken family. His message is one every American teenager needs to hear. Watch the trailer for Bradlee Dean's "My War" documentary.