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Sibling Grammy Winners Billie Eilish and Finneas O'Connell Praise Homeschooling
Reason ^ | 1.28.2020 | NICK GILLESPIE

Posted on 01/29/2020 3:36:31 PM PST by nickcarraway

Edited on 01/29/2020 5:02:02 PM PST by Jim Robinson. [history]

"I've never been to school. I grew up homeschooled, stayed homeschooled, never was not homeschooled."

"I've never been to school. I grew up homeschooled, stayed homeschooled, never was not homeschooled," says Billie Eilish, the 18-year-old musician who took home five statues

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TOPICS: Education; Music/Entertainment
KEYWORDS: education; homeschooled; music
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1 posted on 01/29/2020 3:36:31 PM PST by nickcarraway
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To: nickcarraway
They were religious Oklahoma home-schooled,

Not any more. Some lyrics of this Eilish, for "All The Good Girls Go To Hell":

All the good girls go to hell

'Cause even God herself has enemies

And once the water starts to rise

And Heaven's out of sight

She'll want the Devil on her team

My Lucifer is lonely

2 posted on 01/29/2020 3:43:24 PM PST by bkopto
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To: nickcarraway

My kids attended public school. Besides the incredible amounts of money spent, and the indoctrination - it was above all, an extreme waste of time. They spent 7 hours a day there, but if you condensed it down into actual learning time, it could probably be counted in mere minutes.


3 posted on 01/29/2020 3:43:36 PM PST by PGR88
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To: bkopto

You’ve confused different people. Hansen was Oklahoma home-schooled, not Eilish.


4 posted on 01/29/2020 3:47:26 PM PST by mlo
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To: nickcarraway

As parents of a now 36 yo homeschooled college grad (a good college - at least it was in 2000-2004 when she went) I am in complete agreement.

When she arrived at the small private college on scholarship her counselor told her he loved homeschooled students.

I LOVE bragging about her to the indoctrinated leftist teachers. It REALLY pisses them off. I’ve been cussed out a couple of times.


5 posted on 01/29/2020 3:48:46 PM PST by ChildOfThe60s (If you can remember the 60s........you weren't really there)
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To: nickcarraway
This is a role model for homeschooling?


6 posted on 01/29/2020 3:49:44 PM PST by bkopto
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To: bkopto

Her fashion choice to the Grammy’s tells you what?


7 posted on 01/29/2020 3:51:14 PM PST by mlo
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To: bkopto

Yikes.


8 posted on 01/29/2020 3:52:48 PM PST by nickcarraway
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To: bkopto; mlo

Wow, she is really scared of the Coronavirus.


9 posted on 01/29/2020 3:53:49 PM PST by nickcarraway
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To: nickcarraway

She’s gonna need a better mask.


10 posted on 01/29/2020 3:54:37 PM PST by mlo
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To: nickcarraway

“I learned how to do math by cooking with my mom…I learned, like, how to build shit from my dad. What I’m saying is I learned shit in life…I feel like when you’re sat down and somebody’s like shoving things in your throat, you’re not gonna want to eat them.”

But, like, do you think, like, public school and shit would have been, like, better?


11 posted on 01/29/2020 3:54:41 PM PST by tuffydoodle (God's character and moral nature are absolute, eternal, and unchanging.)
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To: bkopto
It's the 90s band "Hanson", whose members were homeschooled. "They [Hanson] were religious Oklahoma home-schooled, but nonetheless." So dad (Patrick O'Connell) seems to be saying that home-schooling is good, but the religious part is not.
12 posted on 01/29/2020 3:58:25 PM PST by ConjunctionJunction
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To: nickcarraway

“Eilish told the music magazine Pitchfork...”

The what?


13 posted on 01/29/2020 3:59:27 PM PST by D_Idaho ("For we wrestle not against flesh and blood...")
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To: nickcarraway

“I learned how to do math by cooking with my mom…I learned, like, how to build shit from my dad. What I’m saying is I learned shit in life…

with friends like this........


14 posted on 01/29/2020 3:59:42 PM PST by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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To: tuffydoodle

Learning to cook from your mother is pretty retrograde in itself.


15 posted on 01/29/2020 4:02:55 PM PST by nickcarraway
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To: nickcarraway

She has some mental disorders and has been hospitalized at one time I believe.


16 posted on 01/29/2020 4:11:13 PM PST by setter
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To: nickcarraway; All

Fear not, brethren and sistern, for before you, you are witnessing......another Britney Spears in the making. Two kids, 30 pounds, and a Kevin Federline are just waiting in the wings.


17 posted on 01/29/2020 4:20:44 PM PST by Viking2002 (Epstein and Ukraine Airlines Flight PS752 didn't kill themselves. Yeah, I went there.)
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To: bkopto; mlo

Ignore the photo...her lyrics (written when she was 16/17) make her every dad’s dream role model.../sarc

Bad Guy Lyrics (partial)

Bruises, on both my knees for you
Don’t say thank you or please
I do what I want when I’m wanting to
My soul? So cynical

I’m that bad type
Make your mama sad type
Make your girlfriend mad tight
Might seduce your dad type
I’m the bad guy

I like it when you take control
Even if you know that you don’t
Own me, I’ll let you play the role
I’ll be your animal

My mommy likes to sing along with me
But she won’t sing this song
If she reads all the lyrics
She’ll pity the men I know

I’m only good at being bad, bad
I like when you get mad
I guess I’m pretty glad that you’re alone
You said she’s scared of me?
I mean, I don’t see what she sees
But maybe it’s ‘cause I’m wearing your cologne


18 posted on 01/29/2020 4:30:47 PM PST by Dexter Morgan ("MSNBC News? Appalling. Appalling and amateurish. So both at the same time; it's a bad combination.")
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To: Dexter Morgan
What do those lyrics tell you about her personally?

You realize that song lyrics, like any poetry or literature, can be metaphorical or portray a character or state of mind that is not necessarily an internal reflection of the author, right?

19 posted on 01/29/2020 4:34:50 PM PST by mlo
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To: Dexter Morgan

She’s batcrap crazy.... give me my Pink Floyd. Now THAT is music :)


20 posted on 01/29/2020 5:03:17 PM PST by southernindymom
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