“Again please in mind that my issue is only with the ‘Kook Fringe’ element...”
But many of your posts belie this statement. Many of your posts focus on homeschooling failures, which are few and far between, and deny the overall tremendous success of homeschooling.
Thus, you become a target for the fringe against you rail, while at the same time inducing the hostility of folks like me, who aren’t quite on the fringe.
If all your posts showed the balance of the last couple, you would look less like the mirror image of the fringe you dislike.
You also need to understand - this is very important - that folks who have actually homeschooled have had to endure years and years of jackasses, morons and other assorted defectives who have told us: we’re committing child abuse; we’re just too lazy to send our kids to school; we have no rights to resources generally available through the public schools even though we pay the same taxes; our kids will be unsocialized, uncouth and ill-equipped to handle the wider world; we’re selfish for keeping our admittedly-superior children out of the public schools; we’re just trying to get away with something (not ever sure quite what it is with which we’ve been trying to get away); it’s not possible for “ordinary” people to teach their children; we should be required to be licensed to teach our own children; there should be more and stricter regulation of us because, again, everyone knows we’re trying to get away with something.
And on.
So, when you react in anger to one of the folks you consider the fringe, and you respond in an unbalanced way, in kind, you’re rubbing salt in the often still-open wounds of those of us who have had to suffer the stench of filthy verminous people as described above.
As I’ve alluded, my son started college this year. He homeschooled for eight years, spent four years at the top of his class at a pretty good, local Catholic high school, graduated valedictorian, one of the most popular kids in the school, National AP Scholar, National Merit Scholar [declined - he didn’t go to the school that offered it], and got accepted to some pretty decent colleges, including Harvard, Hopkins, UVa, Notre Dame, and with a full scholarship, room, board, books, educational stipend, and walking-around money (a couple of thousand dollars per year), the Honors College at the University of Maryland, College Park.
In the spring, he received another piece of mail from Harvard encouraging him to accept their offer of admittance. It accidentally wound up in the mailbox of one of Satan’s bitches in the neighborhood, the same bitch who told my wife when we first moved in a dozen years ago that homeschooling was child abuse. She brought the mail to our door and asked about our son. My wife said, yes, indeed, he’d been accepted at Harvard, and was seriously considering it. And the bitch said, “Are you sure that’s a good idea? Being so sheltered, do you think he can handle it?”
That’s what we put up with.
Your rants, when you are ranting, only remind me of the bitch down the street.
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Laugh. Out. Loud.
Oh, and don't forget, we are destroying democracy. I got that one once. From a stranger. In a library after a home schooling workshop.
(Yes, I do know those are not complete sentences, in case there are any grammar police on the thread. I'm using that style as a literary device.)