Home-schooling series elicits intense response

Beacon Journal ^ | By Dennis J. Willard and Doug Oplinger

[ppaul]

How about posting the original article?
Please.

[ppaul]

Found it.
Here's the link:

http://www.ohio.com/mld/ohio/news/special_packages/home_schooling/

[BenLurkin]

Yup. Hatchet job.

One entire segment on how children are in danger by being at home and another entire segment on how home schooling exists to help child abductors. Yikes!

As for "socialization" -- who can blame parents for wanting to protect their children from the hopped up/dumbed down 'culture' that dominates the public (and even some private) schools today?

[EdReform]

BTTT

[B Knotts]

The whole concept of modern public schooling is flawed, in my opinion. It is overly centralized, which may be good for the production of goods, but is not good for creating a beneficial environment for education.

Even many, if not most, private schools eventually find a certain level of a "Lord of the Flies"-type environment.

There's just something unnatural about it.

[BibChr]

I am an instance of someone who's done a pretty complete 180 on the subject.

I had formerly very much approved of public education, with private as a good option — and very much disapproved of homeschooling. I felt it would produce hot-house roses unable to stand on their own, and was more often itself a product of unhealthy escapism.

Now I see public schools as government brainwashing centers, the means by which the sterile State seeks to acquire and control children for itself. In concept and execution, it is hostile to my Christian faith, and not in my children's best interests.

Homeschooling is one of the very best decisions we ever made.

Dan
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[Molly Pitcher]

The series was unbelievably twisted and unfair. The tremendous response doesn't surprise me one bit.

[Sertorius]

bump!

[Balding_Eagle]

They didn't say, but I'm guessing that the strong response surprised, and maybe even scared them a bit.

It SHOULD scare them if they're strong public school supporters.

[Born Conservative]

[hsmomx3]

Excuse me? I went to the link that originated at EducationNews.Org and copied the article that was there at the time. I do not know what you are talking about as I posted this in its entirety. If there was more, I did not see it.

[Pelayo]

One writer who identified herself as a home-schooling mother wrote six e-mails to the Beacon Journal... When a leader of the conservative Christian organization Home School Legal Defense Association was quoted on the second day of the series, she responded with a critical e-mail simply titled, ``aacckk!''

That wasn't you was it?

[Constitutionalist Conservative]

I think ppaul was referring to the original series that provoked the responses related in the article you posted.

[Constitutionalist Conservative]

The story had quoted some who believe the child and the community also have a stake in each child's academic and social growth. The contributor responded: ``To paraphrase Dickens, the community is a ass. I want assurance that public-schooled children do not become burdens on society; alas, I am sadly frustrated on that account daily.''

Outstanding rejoinder!

[hsmomx3]

Okay. My apologies if I came across the wrong way. The original articles were, I believe, from a week or so ago. I know there was at least one I could not access. This latest one I posted was for today.

[pinz-n-needlez]

Nobody saw me, you can't prove it.

Of course it wasn't me!

I prefer to ignore them and hope they go away.

Pinz

[pinz-n-needlez]

Now that I've gone back and actually read the article, I still deny it. But I can see why you thought of me. hee, hee.

Pinz

[nw_arizona_granny]

Ping

[Thinkin' Gal]

``I get the definite impression that if (the) government wanted to implant a GPS tracking chip in every person in the country, these two clowns would be the first in line for the injection,'' one contributor wrote midway through the series.

Hahaha, what Freeper wrote this?