Homeschooling Isn't the Solution to 390 Million Guns (actually...)

Jezebel via MSN ^ | May 25, 2022 | Susan Rinkaus

[DoodleBob]

...The Federalist published the following putrid pool of trash water: “Tragedies Like The Texas Shooting Make A Somber Case For Homeschooling.”

One of the problems with proposing homeschooling as a solution to school shootings is that, by some estimates, there are more guns than people in the United States.... The proposal to homeschool kids also ignores that people die from gun violence in their homes. The Uvalde gunman allegedly shot his grandmother, critically wounding her in their home, before going to the school—just the latest example of the troubling connection between mass shooters and domestic violence....

...Take the frenzy over “critical race theory,” and laws regulating how teachers can discuss sexuality like Florida’s “Don’t Say Gay” law. Republicans are creating conditions so toxic that parents don’t want their kids in public school—and teachers don’t want to work there either.

The author of the Federalist piece makes explicit this larger goal of attacking schools:

"It is clear now from the long list of school shootings in recent years that families can’t trust government schools, in particular, to bring their children or teachers home safely at the end of the day. The same institutions that punish students for “misgendering” people and hide curriculum from parents are simply not equipped to safeguard your children from harm."

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It’s no coincidence that homeschooling also requires one parent to stay home and, since women typically earn less than men, that labor would often fall to women. That, combined with the impending fall of Roe v. Wade and two dozen states banning abortion, will mean more women forced to have kids and pressured to stay home with them while remaining financially dependent on their partners. Republicans want to take us back to the 19th century—but with way more guns.

[DoodleBob]

The stupid is so strong with this one, that it's hard to pick a place to critique her.

With telecommuting so prevalent, a woman (or man for that matter) needn't leave the workforce and become "financially dependent" to Homeschool. In addition, I never read about a maniac charging a homeschooling co-op and opening fire.

As for making schools toxic, I think the leftists started the toxicity with politicized curriculum and asking the DOJ to effectively treat protesting parents as domestic terrorists. Parenthetically, on "hardening" schools, do you really want to give guns to teachers, knowing the unions will control that process and put them in the hands of THESE pillars of society?

[lurk]

The solution is loving nuclear families with attentive fathers. See the last two verses of Malachi in the old testament.

I realize the left is trying to destroy the family.

[who_would_fardels_bear]

Surprised she didn’t say that The Federalist article implied that all wives should remain barefoot as well.

[joshua c]

i agree. homeschooling is not the answer

take back the schools with school choice

[cdcdawg]

“One of the problems with proposing homeschooling as a solution to school shootings is that, by some estimates, there are more guns than people in the United States”

None of that makes sense.

[antidemoncrat]

“Homeschooling Isn’t the Solution to 390 Million Guns (actually...)”

But it is the answer to perverted school systems that want to teach kids about the value of the gay life style and the benefit of gender transition.

[metmom]

It’s no coincidence that homeschooling also requires one parent to stay home and, since women typically earn less than men, that labor would often fall to women. That, combined with the impending fall of Roe v. Wade and two dozen states banning abortion, will mean more women forced to have kids and pressured to stay home with them while remaining financially dependent on their partners. Republicans want to take us back to the 19th century—but with way more guns.

What an unmitigated steaming pile of BS.

These folks completely ignore the fact that birth control exists.

Any woman who wants to fool around and not become pregnant has plenty of options.

The hand that rocks the cradle, rules the world.

Leftists have so demeaned and degraded motherhood over the years that they make it sound like being a mother and wife is unworthy of women,’s time and effort and nothing could be further from the truth.

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[metmom]

i agree. homeschooling is not the answer take back the schools with school choice

Yes, homeschooling is the answer.

School choice is never going to happen and it is simply not worth sacrificing your children in the meantime to achieve some unrealistic, pie in the sky, end.

[Deplorable American1776]

What a piece of 💩 that article is.

[The Louiswu]

Schools can be just like homeschooling only IF the parents are heavily involved in the child’s education. What’s happening is parents are trusting their child’s mind and future to people they do not know but have been told to trust, and that must end in order to correct the course of public education.

[Qiviut]

The thing about homeschooling, it does not require a parent to spend the amount of time per day that a child spends per day in public school. With individual attention, no interruptions, no classmates to distract, etc., most homeschooling can be accomplished in 2-3 hours, if that. If parents split up duties the ‘burden’ of teaching is even lighter (one couple of I’m aware of - she does English & History, he does Math & Science).

If a parent truly wants to make homeschooling work, there are many ways to work it out. I am sure there are some for which this absolutely does not work, but based on what I’m seeing with parents actually homeschooling, it is definitely not as daunting as many people think. All the “littles” currently in our family are being home schooled and are soaking up knowledge like sponges. They are engaged in their lessons and loving them. Their mom has overcome her fears that she is somehow inadequate to the task and is making every activity/adventure a learning experience. This form of “education” rather than indoctrination is a wonderful thing to behold, frankly.

I’ve seen both sides - my mom was a public school teacher for 25 years ... a GOOD one. She was known for keeping discipline in the class and she did not ‘give’ grades - the kids got what they earned. She still has kids (now grown) coming up to her in stores, etc. and talking to her about what a good teacher she was - tough, but fair. One of her students is a local personality on radio & he has stayed in touch as well. She finally got out - kids were as big as she was (middle school), parents were disrespectful & nasty, & the school administration backed the parents. Computers were just coming on scene and it was time for her to leave.

Public school has been ruined by the Left. Get your kids out if there is any way possible, IMO. College is an issue as well. I just happened to catch Glen Beck (car radio - I normally do not listen) & he was talking to Mike Rowe. Glen has told his kids he is not paying for a college education - technical school, learning a REAL skill is another matter. There is one Conservative, Christian college he would pay for (he didn’t mention the name), but other than that, nope. Kids coming out of college with warped minds and no skills is a travesty .... I have a young relative in this position. She was warped by her friends in public HS - leftists big time and her college experience was not a correction to this path. Her parents, as are most of the family, are Conservative Christians .... we’re keeping the ‘door’ open and praying she’ll come back to her roots, the way she was raised. She’s very smart, got great grades in school. She has a good work ethic (thanks to her mom/dad) which is a good start as she’s learning the ‘hard knocks’ of life and scrambling to keep a roof over her head .... by the time she’s 30, I think she’s going to be ‘purple pilled’ if not red pilled.

More I could say, but this is enough to get my point(s) across.

[CodeToad]

Until the bloated and out of control federal, State, and local governments are out of education, the children will suffer in public schools. The DOE and the NEA need abolished and kicked out of schools.

I am all for public schools and libraries, but only locally controlled by parents.

[rktman]

390 million? Uh, think there may be more than that. That being said, ‘IF’ we had a “gun problem”, pretty sure we’d know it by now. Sort of like the whole vax thing. Want it? Get it. Don’t want it? Don’t get it! Want a firearm? Get a firearm. Don’t want a firearm? DON’T get it! Other than that, it fall is the NUNYA category.

[Scarlett156]

Haha, I went to the Jezebel site to comment under the article; I commented; when I clicked “publish” it sent me to the MAKE AN ACCOUNT ON KINJA page, where you have to give them your entire life history to make an account.

Paranoid liberals.

[Scarlett156]

It’s no coincidence that homeschooling also requires one parent to stay home and, since women typically earn less than men, that labor would often fall to women. That, combined with the impending fall of Roe v. Wade and two dozen states banning abortion, will mean more women forced to have kids and pressured to stay home with them while remaining financially dependent on their partners. Republicans want to take us back to the 19th century—but with way more guns.

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What an unmitigated steaming pile of BS.

These folks completely ignore the fact that birth control exists.

Any woman who wants to fool around and not become pregnant has plenty of options.

The hand that rocks the cradle, rules the world.

Leftists have so demeaned and degraded motherhood over the years that they make it sound like being a mother and wife is unworthy of women,’s time and effort and nothing could be further from the truth.

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Amazing! I scrolled all through the comments and no one is flaming metmom for mentioning birth control pills!!!

What’s your secret? If I say “there are so many birth control options! birth control pills are cheap and almost 100% effective!” I get people sending me angry replies and DMs about what a horrible person I am and how I’m going to hell.

Anyway, I love how these supposedly “free” and “liberated” females like to drum up paranoia about how “the Christians” are going to “force you to have babies.” That’s apparently their strongest selling point: Fear. Ignorance.

[DoodleBob]

At times, I think about the generalizations/stereotypes we make about leftists, and visa versa, and soberly assess the accuracy.

For example, nowadays our side paints public school educators as anti-parent wokesters looking to groom and assault children while indoctrinating them.

Is this accurate? Well, in this post about SEXUAL MISCONDUCT IN THE CLASSROOM: EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO KNOW and this one on "Why do school employees sexually abuse and exploit students?Because they CAN., and this Ted Talk about Stopping Sexual Abuse by School Employees, the data are clear: 5.7 million students have faced sexual abuse from school employees across all 50 states in America and this article on how predatory teachers stay on the job show how a combo of union defense of teachers, the fact that non-touch "grooming" isn't clinically illegal, and how parents etc don't believe the claims, make a bad situation worse.

The recent groomer sensation has (finally) riled up people, and the trans and same-sex dimension has been the magnet. Fair enough, and while same-sex educator-student abuse at about 30% of instances is higher vs this group's composition in society, opposite sex educator-student abuse at 70%+ of all misconduct remains in the majority.

Thus, while our stereotype of educators may be sensational in some regards, there is a LOT of data backing up the generalization. Personally. I think most teachers aren't terrible people. The administration-types are loathsome vile creatures. But as long as in loco parentis remains a legal doctrine, this insanity will remain. Your choice is to fight while your child's mind is under their custody from 8am-3pm M-F, or Homeschool.

As for their laughable stereotype that conservatives want women barefoot and pregnant in the kitchen, and have ginned up hatred of schools and a repeal of Roe to facilitate that agenda...well...I'm waiting for the data. In the meantime, let's look at the seasoned, august author and her credentials:

Susan Rinkunas is a journalist based in New York specializing in reproductive health, rights, and justice. She is currently a senior reporter at Jezebel and has held writing and editing roles at VICE, The Cut, Health, and Women's Health. Her work has appeared in ELLE, Marie Claire, NBC News, The Guardian and more.

Uh huh.

[who_would_fardels_bear]

Her last name suggests she might be Lithuanian. They used to be a very Catholic people.

[DoodleBob]

There are widely divergent views on birth control, and widely divergent views on civility. Sending a private hate-tweet is cowardice in the first degree IMHO. In reality, they fear you. Wear it as a badge of honor.

I took the point of the birth control post to be that if men really wanted to keep women in the 1800s they'd start with birth control. Like it or not, it's here and not going away. Indeed, how many TV shows push the "solution" of married or sexually-active women taking the pill secretly with partners WANTING a baby.

[hoagy62]

While I appreciate the intelligence of your post, I suppose I will play ‘devil’s advocate’ here.

What about those parents who are dumb as a box of rocks and wouldn’t know HOW to homeschool if their life depended on it?

And...how would those kids turn out?

It would seem that we might end up with a bunch of people who are utter morons. (Then again, it seems like we’re there already...)

[Macoozie]

Many of us were “home schooled” in the use of all kinds of “Arms” by parents and siblings who were Veterans, Instructors and or avid Outdoorsmen/women/people/yet to decides.

Worked pretty good-

Took our plinkers on the Public Bus to shoot cans and such.
HS had Riflery teams.
Town 4th of July Celebrations had marksmanship comps for youngeters.

Wanna make Lefty Heads explode?
Dig up the old Varsity Letter from the Riflery team.