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A case for homeschooling.
1 posted on 10/11/2023 4:44:02 PM PDT by Fiji Hill
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To: Fiji Hill

Seems to be advocating for “everyone gets a trophy” in the schools. Some kids are better in school than others, regardless of workload, time, etc.


2 posted on 10/11/2023 4:52:08 PM PDT by Road Warrior ‘04 (BOYCOTT Anheuser Busch, the NFL, MLB, NBA, NASCAR & Faux Snooze! Molon Labe! Oathkeeper! )
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Don’t forget the brand new book

“Heather has two genders”


3 posted on 10/11/2023 4:52:38 PM PDT by fishtank (The denial of original sin is the root of liberalism.)
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Missing out on drag queen reading sessions
Missing out of placing a condom on a banana in kindergarten
Missing out learning that all white males are evil
Missing out on NEA indoctrination
Missing out on......Well... you get the point


4 posted on 10/11/2023 4:53:03 PM PDT by llevrok (Aunt Bee was the town bicycle)
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We’re in our 28th year. No lost limbs, no felony records, everyone over 20 is employed and independent. (Well, Tom comes over to do his laundry, but that’s just to pull my chain.)


5 posted on 10/11/2023 4:53:12 PM PDT by Tax-chick (Sounds like a great idea, with the best of intentions. What could possibly go wrong?)
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Agreed. The idiots of the world hate homeschooling.


6 posted on 10/11/2023 4:53:49 PM PDT by joma89 (Buy weapons and ammo, folks, and have the will to use them.)
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“One thing they’re going to miss out on is being overtested to a point where they hate learning,” she said.

When our kid was in K-12, we used to call that "memorization and regurgitation". Very little education on applying knowledge.

7 posted on 10/11/2023 4:58:59 PM PDT by CatOwner
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The owners of the country just want people smart enough to run the machines. They don’t want the people to have “BS Meters”, and question what they do.


8 posted on 10/11/2023 5:01:28 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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I was NOT home schooled.

HOWEVER-—MY BEDTIME-—lights off—no reading—was 9:30 PM thru Junior year in high school.

Got pushed to 10 PM when a senior in HS-—same for all my younger brothers.

Obviously—we didn’t have computers & cell phones and electronic games.

BUT we also got up NO LATER than 6 AM to feed & milk cows—BEFORE we got breakfast & the school bus came to take us. ...high school. Grade school was 1/2 mile on same road.

ALL I hear these days is “START SCHOOL LATER-—THE KIDS ARE SOOO TIRED”

NO parent eems to set a decent bedtime & make it stick.

When I was a senior, I got to stay up later on FRIDAY nights because I played in the band at football games.

I was on the honor roll in high school & when I took night classes in Accounting, I got solid 4.0 in every class.


10 posted on 10/11/2023 5:05:40 PM PDT by ridesthemiles
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“They are constantly stressed, constantly anxious and it can leave a negative impact on their self-esteem.”

Piffle.

I used to have 24 tests in every subject. I generally did seven subjects so 168 tests a year. That was when I was home schooled.

I rarely worried about a test because I had done what they call, "study to the test" which means I actually had learned the material.

If your students were stressed and anxious about tests you probably were a horrible teacher.

11 posted on 10/11/2023 5:06:12 PM PDT by Harmless Teddy Bear (Keep America Beautiful by keeping Canadian Trash Out. Deport Jennifer Granholm!)
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That’s right!


13 posted on 10/11/2023 5:07:27 PM PDT by No name given (Anonymous is who you’ll know me as)
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They said our kids would miss out on socialization. We said no problem: for the boy, we hired a bigger kid to beat him up and take his lunch money. For the girl, we hired a group of snotty girls to exclude her and make fun of her clothes.


17 posted on 10/11/2023 5:10:08 PM PDT by bk1000 (Banned from Breitbart)
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Pffft. I heard EVERY excuse from “educators” in my town and church when I yanked my kid out to homeschool. I was a pariah.

Folks, make sure you join HSLDA. You have a lawyer on the phone if the “school board” comes knockin’.


18 posted on 10/11/2023 5:10:42 PM PDT by RushIsMyTeddyBear ("Equity" = "All animals are equal. Some animals are more equal than others.")
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And you don’t get messed up with that society either. Public school that is.


19 posted on 10/11/2023 5:12:17 PM PDT by SkyDancer (~Definition Of A Business Jet: A Mailing Tube For Executives ~)
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To: Fiji Hill; 6amgelsmama; 100American; AAABEST; aberaussie; AbolishCSEU; AccountantMom; Aggie Mama; ..

ANOTHER REASON TO HOMESCHOOL

This ping list is for the other articles of interest to homeschoolers about education and public school. This can occasionally be a fairly high volume list. Articles pinged to the Another Reason to Homeschool List will be given the keyword of ARTH. (If I remember. If I forget, please feel free to add it yourself)

The main Homeschool Ping List handles the homeschool-specific articles. I hold both the Homeschool Ping List and the Another Reason to Homeschool Ping list. Please freepmail me to let me know if you would like to be added to or removed from either list, or both.

22 posted on 10/11/2023 5:24:14 PM PDT by metmom (He who testifies to these things says, “Surely I am coming soon.” Amen. Come, Lord Jesus.)
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She missed the most important things of all. Your kids won’t miss:
* Woke
* Trannies
* Drag queens
* Homos
* Anti-American curriculum
* Marxism
* Rainbow flags
* Teachers in purple-haired, tats, and facial jewelry
* Teachers talking about their weekend romps with their “partners.”
* Police cuffing your kid for misbehaving

I’m sure I missed a bunch.


23 posted on 10/11/2023 5:30:42 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom (“Occupy your mind with good thoughts or your enemy will fill them with bad ones.” ~ Thomas More)
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The teacher’s unions hate private schools and charter schools so the only other option is homeschooling and naturally they have a negative opinion of that too!


24 posted on 10/11/2023 5:32:05 PM PDT by 100%FEDUP
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Indeed. I think that this former teacher knew exactly what she was doing.


25 posted on 10/11/2023 5:33:26 PM PDT by cport (How can political capital be spent on a bunch of ingrates)
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I see a lot of stories on FR that suggest a large percentage of parents in the country are not capable of homeschooling their kids.


26 posted on 10/11/2023 5:41:51 PM PDT by JSM_Liberty
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I thought this was going to be about special services such as speech pathology or extracurricular activities such as school trips. I don’t know about all states but in some even if a child is home taught they have a right to services offered by the public school system and to partake in extracurricular activities. The logic is that parents do pay taxes to support the school so barring children from these would be discrimination.


27 posted on 10/11/2023 5:54:06 PM PDT by lastchance (Cognovit Dominus qui sunt eius.)
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Marxism?


33 posted on 10/11/2023 6:25:33 PM PDT by cowboyusa (YESHUA IS KING OF AMceERICA! DEATH TO MARXISM AND GLOBALISM! Trump 2024, NO more Mr Nice)
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