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EDITOR John Grooms john.grooms@cln.com

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[RightWingAtheist]

[Caipirabob]

Yes, I know that homeschooled kids have won high-profile academic contests, but for every homeschooler who aces a spelling bee, there's some poor child being "instructed" by a parent who's barely literate herself. Teachers in the public school system are required to have certification and college degrees, yet any yahoo can force their kids to stay home as long as they pass an annual test. What's really scary about homeschooling is what it can do to the sanity of a mother deluded into thinking it's her Christian duty. No woman was ever meant to be trapped in a house all day with children old enough to spell "homicide."

Good grief! They killed a tree for this article? Should we alert ELF?!?

[cyborg]

terrorist mommies ping (have barf bag ready)

[Sender]

Not much difference from Creative Loafing in Atlanta. We have John Sugg, who writes about as far to the left as you can go.

[Steve_Seattle]

If ever there was one piece which summed up the feminist attitude towards the traditional Christian woman, this is it. One of the most telling things was her utter amazement at the idea of a parent teaching a child how to drive a car, as if this is something almost beyond belief! The author of this piece is as weird and out-of-touch as she thinks home-schoolers are.

[JenB]

Really horrid article alert.

OOOOHHH, I'd like this woman to meet my mother. It was her CHOICE to have 7 children, to stay home and homeschool us. How dare this woman criticize choice? Isn't it sacred to liberals?

[Bikers4Bush]

The kids that live behind me have all been home schooled.

They are superior to the publicly schooled kids in my neighborhood in every way. Intelligence, behavior, manners, drive, etc.

I'd rather live in a neighborhood of homeschooled kids than one with publicly educated kids.

[Alouette]

Some idiot actually got paid to write this merde?

[EggsAckley]

What a bitter, unoriginal, petty person this "Quinn Cotton" is. Not sure if it's a man-human or a woman-human......but I suspect it's a woman. There is a bitterness and jealousy about the writing that reeks of "unfulfilled woman." And she will spend her life unfulfilled due to her elitist attitude.

[Jokelahoma]

Isn't this just so typical? "You don't agree with me, so you're Cro-Magnon and Neanderthal. How will your children ever learn how evil America is if you don't send them to the proper indoctrination centers? This is an outrage! We must stop parents from having any control over the lives of their own children! They might not make the 'correct' decisions!"

A frightening, yet accurate portrayal of the leftist mind. The whole "I support choice, so long as you choose what I want you to... I support freedom of speech, so long as you agree with me" attitude is far, far too common. Sigh...

[Tax-chick]

This is a parody, right? People just can't be as ignorant, brainwashed, and self-serving as this writer is pretending to be. "It's her act," as I tell my kids when they ask why a public figure or performer doesn't seem quite real.

[Straight Vermonter]

Anyone who thinks that a public school is a good place to send their children is seriously misguided. Few would knowingly send their child to a place that is rife with violence, drugs, inappropriate sexual behaviors and Lord knows what else and yet millions of moms shove their kids out the door each day to go to just such a place.

[Steve_Seattle]

"Beyond a certain age, children and mothers are just not meant to be isolated together. It's unnatural."

Just shoes how ignorant the enlightened can be. If anything is "unnatural" and a-typical of human society, it is the modern public school. Throughout most of history, children were primarily taught by their parents and spent most of their lives in the company of their extended family. This constant intermingling with strangers, rounding children up into collectivities, is a modern, urban phenomenon.

[Steve_Seattle]

This piece shows that the Left is fundamentally all about indoctrination and control over other people's children. What frightens this woman is that there are people who are out of her control. Leftists are ultimately control freaks.

[Pete]

Sounds like Ms. Cotton is feeling a little convicted. Homeschooling Moms are great mothers and they make people like Quinn Cotton look and feel bad and we can't have that, now can we!

I can hear her now...

"Look at that Mother, she is waaaay too committed to the nurturing and education of her children!!! Oh and look how that teenager actually respects her parents and, I kid you not, enjoys spending time with them. That's just not right!! Somebody needs to put a stop to this! Why, it's....it's....it's....terrorism, that's what it is!"

[usadave]

This is one of the oddest articles that I've ever read. Very little of what the author said made any sense to me.

[DeFault User]

Charlotte Mecklenburg schools have been in a chaotic condition for more than 30 years. As the first district to reap the 'rewards' of forced busing to one which changes its plans every year, parents are faced with a gambler's chance against the house on whether their children get an education. Some kids ride the buses for three hours a day. Others are in overcrowded schools where the quality of instruction varies greatly.

Home schooling, parochial schools and private schools are very popular here. Some parents leave the county to find more stability in surrounding districts. And this author berates homeschoolers? Sheesh.

[Izzy Dunne]

a lot of the homeschooling faithful are as fueled by a fanatical, religion-based belief in their mission as Islamist terrorists, and seem to be just about as brainwashed.

And the evidence for this sweeping statement is....

[Izzy Dunne]

Some of the homeschooling moms (HMs) are kind of witch-y, with the uncut hair and the long skirts

oooh!
NO!
NO!
NO!
Not the LONG SKIRTS!

aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee..............................

[Izzy Dunne]

children and mothers are just not meant to be isolated together. It's unnatural.

Yeah, better to put 'em on that "natural" school bus, and close 'em up for 6 "natural" hours. I'm buying it.... (not)