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To: metmom

I wonder why anyone would complain what parents decide to teach their kids in a home schooling environment? (...and I’m not a creationist)


72 posted on 03/06/2010 7:02:03 PM PST by RFEngineer
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To: RFEngineer

The gist of the article as I understand it, is that the mother took the word of a friend about the curriculum and didn’t check it out beforehand and then was shocked because it didn’t teach what she liked.

The article also implies criticism of Christian textbook publishers because there’s not a lot of options out there for someone who doesn’t want to teach creation, as if that’s the fault of the Christian textbook publishers. None of which makes sense.

Christian textbook publishers are not responsible for the market or what others publish or make available.

The people in the article whining about the choices they have have very little to complain about. Those who they are leveling criticism about are the very ones on the front lines decades ago who took all the flack and fought all the battles so that these people could homeschool with such freedom and ease. It was the Christians who blazed the trail for homeschooling and getting it legalized.

Their complaints about ostracized and isolated because of not having the kind of textbook options they prefer are not going to garner much sympathy from those who failed having their kids taken from them for educational neglect and facing jail terms for trying to homeschool.


78 posted on 03/06/2010 9:11:34 PM PST by metmom (Welfare was never meant to be a career choice.)
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