Posted on 03/28/2013 8:11:32 AM PDT by christianhomeschoolmommaof3
I’m going public today with a secret I’ve kept for a year—my husband and I are homeschooling our children. I never dreamed we would become homeschoolers. I wanted my kids integrated and socialized. I wanted their eyes opened to the realities of the world. I wanted the values we taught at home put to the test in the real world. But necessity drove me to consider homeschooling for my 2nd and 4th graders, and so I timidly attended a home school parent meeting last spring. Surprisingly it was full of doctors, lawyers, former public school teachers, and other professionals. These were not the stay-at-home-moms in long skirts that I expected. The face of homeschooling is changing. We are not all religious extremists or farmers, and our kids are not all overachieving academic nerds without social skills. ... For a year I was afraid to tell any of my work colleagues that we were homeschooling. People would stereotype me as a right-wing kook.
(Excerpt) Read more at childrensmd.org ...
Thought you might like to ping this out.
To send a child to pub*ic school is akin to forcing them to star into an unflushed toilet each school day.
Remember, liberals are slime.
Pure slime.
Unadulterated slime.
That’s a bit of a stretch isn’t it?
That's rather insulting rhetoric right there, and I haven't gotten past the excerpt yet.
I just love the way christian charity oozes from every pore of your body /sarc
I'm an engineer. So's my husband. We've always been shocked to meet other engineers whose grown children are studying such high powered subjects as sports management and Ethiopian tone-poems. These are smart kids, but the public schools taught them to be lazy, unmotivated, stupid.
Well, what would you call an administrator who refuses to administrate? I think “professional” is about the only non-insulting term you could find.
Well I try to treat each individual with every bit of respect that they deserve ;)
This author’s disrespectful insults aside, if I had children(and I don’t, and likely never will) I would definitely give homeschooling some serious consideration.
Listening to Glenn Beck and his discussion of the Common Core curriculum, there will be no hiding from government control of education even by those who home school. It’s a very scary thing.
#19 - they’re wives don’t have to work
Nonetheless, the list she gives is valid. I home schooled my stepson and urge everyone to get your children, grandchildren, nieces and nephews out of the public indoctrination centers.
Yup, she’s a snob and obviously bought into stereotypes that were outdated when I was homeschooled. But that’s the power of homeschooling - even people who desperately want to convince themselves it’s just for kooks see that it’s the best option out there for educating your kid.
I think you’re going to see a lot more women like the blogger here, and myself, who are engaged professional women finding ways to homeschool their kids at the same time. (No disrespect to the full time homeschool moms out there! I just think it’s going to be the next field of expansion.)
Yes. If you’re not running around in yoga pants over a thong, look out.
My husband is an accountant. According to him, most families with both parents working actually PAY to work. They LOSE money.
Take away the day care costs, the extra clothes, lunches, cars, etc., and the family would have twice as much extra cash. Add in the fact that their tax bracket would change, and their tax burden would go way down.
The belief that two people have to work to get by is a fallacy. All it does is bring in more money for the politicians to buy votes, and the liberal teachers union gets control over the minds of their children.
Check your budget, remove all working expenses from one spouse, change the tax bracket, and you'll see how millions of moms have been deceived. They're getting royally screwed. They're now working two jobs - employee and mother - and getting nothing in return. In fact, they're getting robbed of their money and their children!
That's rather insulting rhetoric right there, and I haven't gotten past the excerpt yet.
Why do you say that??
I guess the ones I know are different.
Most of the time, the middle or lower income workers are the ones getting screwed. He explained this to one of his secretaries, went over her budget for her, and she quit her job. Now that she stays home, she has almost twice as much expendable cash and gets to raise her own children.
To this day, whenever she comes across my husband picking up milk at the store, she tanks him over and over again.
Higher income workers may not save as much because they're taxed into oblivion anyway.
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