Posted on 07/07/2024 5:40:56 PM PDT by grundle
Please homeschool your kids if you can.
I'm sharing my experience working in NYC public schools and the experiences have been scary and heartbreaking.
Your beliefs and values and faith matter, do whats best for your kids.
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This is a communist (evil) goal to destroy the fabric of society. Lazy parents and people without backbones allow this to happen widespread.
Well, we can afford to home school, that’s not a problem. But when we think of all of the goodies we’d miss out from, stuff WE DESERVE:
1. A bigger house.
2. New cars.
3. Fancy vacations.
4. Etc.
Oh well, if my kids get destroyed, tough on them - I DESERVE LUXURY!!!!
(ok, so some here don’t say the above...doesn’t mean they don’t think it)
Ping-A-Ling!
Wish I had been able to home school, but I was a Step-Mom, so my opinion didn’t count. Well, not for much. ;)
However, my three boys were raised in the early 90’s and even back then they had a lot of Socialism forced down their throats - even here in The Heartland!
Most dinners were spent ‘de-programing’ them about how their Teachers thought Sleazebag Clinton was The Greatest _Resident ever, EVER! And then homework was a nightmare with continuing de-programing, especially SCIENCE homework, even back then. Ugh!
No quite what the kids have to deal with these days, but more than bad enough!
Socialist Democrats (and Teachers’ Unions; but I repeat myself) Ruin Everything. EVERYTHING!
I was homeschooled but it had nothing to do with the rest rooms. The folks simply wanted to give me a proper education. Math, literature, music, science, history...
Along the way I acquired the common sense to stay out of public rest rooms.
bttt
Aha! Another fascist unmasked!
I always laugh whenever someone suggest homeschooling kids. Very, very few people can actually afford to do so. It’s just not practical. The real challenge is to try to fix the schools. But that’s harder than nobody wants to take the time to try.
sadly too many parents want state babysitters aka public schools- more convenient that way
It costs almost nothing. I'm serious. We all picked up used books, sometimes free, and borrowed from the library. Many homeschool families even had two working parents. Where there's a will, there's a way. :-)
You are forgetting the parent staying home! That means cutting family income by half or more.
You’ve also got to decide what educational goal you set for your kids—just enough so they can read, write, and do math, so that you meet legal requirements, or if your kids are smart and college bound. What’s your expectation of your kids, survive or thrive?
As I wrote above, many of the families had two working parents. A few families were headed by single parents. All kinds of families homeschooled. Only a small percentage of families truly cannot do it.
Most parents don’t homeschool because they don’t understand it. They think their kids won’t have friends. They picture homeschooling like it’s school at home. They worry their kids will not be educated well. They worry about money. All those concerns are understandable. We all had those worries. All good parents want their children to thrive. Of the hundreds of families we knew, the majority of kids went to college and found gainful employment. I didn’t keep up with all the kids, but I know some are married and raising children of their own now.
My parents spent every dime they had on putting us through private parochial school. They decided that was the investment they had to make in their future, and ours. Because they did, we were able to give them a comfortable life in their latter years. My mom is still living, and she often says she would do it again if she had to.
You’ve also got to decide what educational goal you set for your kids—just enough so they can read, write, and do math, so that you meet legal requirements, or if your kids are smart and college bound. What’s your expectation of your kids, survive or thrive?
For most people, college is overrated. It offers knowledge, but it doesn't teach wisdom. There is a difference. I finally finished my degree at age 48. It took so long because I was too busy making money. My degree was totally useless and didn't apply to the business I was in. I only finished my degree plan just to say I finished it. It wasn't necessary. The same thing happened to my brother. He became the CEO of a multinational bio-med company without ever finishing college. He finished his degree after he retired.
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Anyone who even remotely loves their children will remove them today from the indoctrination centers they call schools.
Find a way or make a way.
They are without excuse.
Your argument completely falls apart when you really look at it. It’s an excuse, not an argument.
We homeschooled four kids on a single income. We lived in a very modest house, I did my own repairs for the most part, we drove older cheap paid for cars, we had no debt besides the mortgage, we didn’t do Disney vacations, actual curriculum costs were $1-2,000 a year.
Live a modest lifestyle and you can afford just about anything.
It comes down to working toward what’s important. If your children aren’t important to you, you won’t work toward it.
Gee, I’ll have to ask the book editor if we shafted her by homeschooling.
Or, maybe I should ask my son the Astronautical Engineer
“Very, very few people can actually afford to do so.”
I never will understand why people have children when they can’t afford it. My parents should not have procreated.
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