College for the Home-Schooled Is Shaping Leaders for the Right

NYTIMES ^ | 03/08/04 | DAVID D. KIRKPATRICK

[Betaille]

"Shaping Leaders for the Right"

How about "Shaping leaders for the Nation". Do they accuse Harvard of "Shaping leaders for the Left"??
The evangelical education movement is going to grow explosively in the near future, watch and see. The same thing is already happening among religious jews.

[davidtalker]

The guy (kirkpatrick) who wrote this story is the Times' new beat writer dealing with all things "Conservative. This is designed to show us the Times is on the beat for Conservative news.

As usual, the stories drip with condescension. Don't you just know the editors were sitting there hysterically dealing with this story. It's as if this reporter has gone to Mars with the Rover and keeps saying,"we can't figure out what we're discovering here. We can't understand what we are seeing."

[Richard Kimball]

Yeah, but the fact that the Times wrote this without trying to make all home school parents look like Carrie's mother is amazing. If a jackass flies, even if it's only for ten feet, you've gotta be impressed.

[aynrandfreak]

Patrick Henry College is the name of the college in "Atlas Shrugged" where all of the protagonists went to school. How cool!

[KarlInOhio]

Only about half a million families around the country home-school their children

Only about half a million families? That's like the New York Times saying the flood water is only up to your knees, but not mentioning that it is still raining and the flood has come nowhere close to cresting yet.

[I still care]

It's a lot more than half a million, I am sure - and each one of those families usually has several children. We have at least 2 families in our homeschooling group with over 10 kids.

And the left shouldn't be so amazed they are all conservative. Homeschoolers know well that if the left had their way, they would be forcing their children into public schooling. All that hostility from the left has definately shaped homeschooler's politics.

[Cincinatus' Wife]

How about "Shaping leaders for the Nation". Do they accuse Harvard of "Shaping leaders for the Left"??

A web site with support for homeshooling

[Cincinatus' Wife]

CORRECTED LINK: Homeschooling web site

[Drango]

As usual, the stories drip with condescension.

Word. The tone of the article is written from a perspective of an outsider looking with bemusement into a society that he doesn't understand.

[CobaltBlue]

Evolution and politics ping.

[CobaltBlue]

If only the kids at Patrick Henry College were actually taught consistently with the principles of Ayn Rand. But they are not.

They are taught consistently with the principles of Christian evangelism. Which is not at all the same thing.

It's a Bible school. Ms. Rand would not approve.

[aynrandfreak]

Maybe she wouldn't. I'm no fan of Christianty per se, but they're my allies in the WOT, and I'd send my kid to a religious school nowadays before subjecting them to the real hardcore indoctrination they'd get at a public school.

[whattajoke]

There was a Simpson's episode where Maggie went to the Ayn Rand School for Tots," and there was a poster up on the wall that said, "A is for A."

It was one of those super quick tiny audience jokes that makes the Simpson's so good.

[neverdem]

"Mike Farris is trying to train young people to get on a very right-wing political agenda," said Nancy Keenan, the education policy director at People for the American Way, a liberal advocacy group,

Notice the conservative Christians have a "very right-wing political agenda", but the People for the American Way are a liberal advocacy group. The word "very" doesn't modify liberal, but these are very hard core lefties with such a benign sounding name.

The Slimes must be saddened, deeply saddened at the development of Patrick Henry College.

[aynrandfreak]

Yeah, that was a classic scene. Simpsons started to go downhill after Phil Hartman was killed. Did you ever see the South Park with Atlas Shrugged? It wasn't too flattering, but still funny.

[CobaltBlue]

If you sent your kid to Patrick Henry, he wouldn't learn much in the way of mathematics or hard science. This school appears to be grooming future lawyers and bureaucrats. Rand's heros were entrepreneurs, engineers and architects, not politicians.

A is A, no matter what the Bible says, no matter what the government says, no matter what the lawyers say.

If you teach your kids to think for themselves, you don't have to worry about whether their school teachers and college professors are liberals, conservatives, Moonies, Baptists, Muslims or Wiccans.

If you teach them "believe what I say because I am the one who said it," then yes, you'll have to worry about what they are exposed to, for the rest of their lives.

[PatrickHenry]

A school named Patrick Henry can't be bad.

[aynrandfreak]

If you teach them "believe what I say because I am the one who said it," then yes, you'll have to worry about what they are exposed to, for the rest of their lives.

Exactly. What I'm saying is that they're more likely to be given the intrincisist argument from a PC teacher than a religious school these days. I'd prefer neither religious or PC teaching for my kids, but it is moral equivalence to not identify that the bigger threat to freedom & individualism these days is on the left.