George Bush's secret army (Why Democrats Hate, and Fear, Home Schooled Kids)

Economist ^ | March 17th 2004 | Economist

[gobucks]

Well, its good to hear not all homeschooled kids are liberal. Democrats, do, hate and fear the home schooling movement - my underlined voting statistic in the story portends doom for them.

Please elaborate about the toy guns ... were the kids like in a play room or something while the parents were meeting?

[blanknoone]

My fiance and I plan on homeschooling our future children...and we are both atheists. We intend for our children to be educated...not subjected to 12 years of socialist indoctrination.

[gobucks]

LOL! I used to live in Texas, and I can't believe how much I miss it.

[stevio]

Bump.

[Carry_Okie]

Part of homeschooling is staying below the radar. This article does not help the cause.

At 4% of the student population, home educators are almost to the point where they are too big to hide: the system will come after us no matter what we do.

At 10% it will be open warfare.

Look for modified SATs and No Child Left Behind attitude testing to be the key tools used against home education. I will be preparing our kids to learn the answers the Statists want. They are very clear that when they go to the university the system will make it neccessary for them to operate as if they were spies in an enemy camp.

[VaFederalist]

It is exactly these attributes that make the homeschooling crowd averse to political involvement. Therefore, any campaign strategy counting on "activating" this crowd is doomed.

[gobucks]

Well, it's nice to see it isn't just a Christian like myself that recognizes public schools are a 'special' kind of religious school.

Indoctrination, so true ... what a sublte way of saying k-12 ReEducation Camp Songs ......

[EdReform]

Homeschool bump

[ArrogantBustard]

but whether they are doing unfairly well.

That phrase betrays a really sick mind.

[gobucks]

See??? My EduKation wasn't subtle in my speling!!.

[mamalujo]

Our homeschool basketball team left practice early to campaign in the streets for a local politician, I do not know about other homeschool groups but ours is very involved in politics

[gobucks]

Nope. Just the typical mind of someone who utterly hates the idea of anything 'unfair'.

It us who are the 'sick' ones for actually DARING to believe we can actually live without state school education gobbledy gook.

[sphinx]

It is no longer about whether home-schooled children are losing out, but whether they are doing unfairly well.

This is the heart and soul of the contemporary left. Liberalism has shifted from wanting to "do good things" for people, alleviate misery, and uplift the downtrodden to a morbid fear that someone, somewhere, will get ahead of the pack. Resentment has become the driving energy of the left.

[2Jedismom]

Homeschool Ping!

[call meVeronica]

I do too, I live here & homeschool.

[MattinNJ]

My 2 and a half year old boy will not be diving into the cesspool of public education. I may send him to private school if he excels in athletics.

Before I transferred to a private high school in NJ my Junior year, I went to a public high school in Riverhead Long Island. Every day there were racial fights. Some led to near riots. I can remember a number of times being saved by my black teammates that I played football and baseball with. If it weren't for their gallantry, I am sure I would have gotten some tremendous beatings.

I wasn't aware of any political indoctrination at the time (Probably because it was so blatantly obvious how superior Reagan was to Carter).

[mamalujo]

all of my aunts are educators and they have supported me from the get go

[netmilsmom]

It's not as hard as one would think. I live in jeans and shirts from Salvation Army. So do the girls. They sleep in t-shirts (stops the 10.00 a pop for pjs), we eat in and when we do go out the little one's split a 99 cent chicken nuggett order and each get their own fries. I bring milk from home. Since I pulled by daughter from school, our gasoline bills are cut in half and I pack my hubby's lunch.
My girls will probably not go to Disney World but we do go to Six Flags once a year.
In the meantime, my girls are best friends. I get to choose who they associate with. I don't hear words we don't use, if you get what I mean. My six year old, who was pegged with ADD, finishes the work in three hours that they did in a week in 1st grade. She is doing second grade work. My little one, who would not be able to go to school for 2 years because of her birthday, is reading and doing simple sums. For all the talk of how hard it would be, it is the easiest thing I have ever done.

And I pray everyday in thanks for the FReepers who helped convince my hubby that this is right!!!

[twigs]

It's happening in the UK too, although not in such numbers. We had friends from England who completed their education here. They were impressed with what they saw of home-schooling here and carried it back with them. HeHe!