Posted on 01/08/2005 5:28:17 PM PST by wagglebee
I was sitting at our neighborhood pool New Year’s morning, enjoying the great South Florida weather while trying to grind out a couple of chapters for my new book, when three high school girls took the chaise lounges next to me and started talking about their New Year’s Eve party with their high school mates.
Seemingly still semi-drunk from the party, the 16- and 17-year-old girls began to recount how much coke, weed, vodka, guys and girls they did the night before. Listening to the F-bomb riddled report of the previous night’s peccadilloes left me thinking, how sad … and … what a waste … and … thank God my wife and I yanked our kids out of the public school system and away from these visionless, dissolute and spoiled morons.
It’s been eleven months since we pulled our teenage daughters out of the public school system and started to home school them, and I could kick myself for waiting so long. The educational, emotional, spiritual and physical progress they have made has been amazing. Not that they were anti-intellectual psychologically teetering bloated decadent nut jobs before they started home schooling, it’s just that I’ve been ecstatically stunned at how they have aggressively embraced this new lease on their educational life.
Now … they actually get to study the basics, pursue their educational and athletic interests, without waiting for the 186% overcrowded class to decide to cease fighting and copulating long enough that the teacher can teach the students how to write their name so that they can endorse their unemployment check later on in life.
Also, it seems that our alpha females really do not miss . . .
· Having everything they hold dear from a Christian standpoint trashed like a hotel room with Sum41 in it, by secular and atheistic teachers and students,
· Enduring the daily physical assaults and threats made by the multitudinous scum bag thugs and punk gang bangers on campus,
· Watching the constant drug trafficking, and
· Trying to ignore the lesbian, queer and over-the-top heterosexual make-out sessions during their lunch break.
Instead of being the goofy-looking home-schooled inbred stooges portrayed by TV and movies, my ladies are sharp, solid and full of holy chutzpah. Yeah … they’re clipping along at a nice pace, taking classes like macro-economics, logic, Latin, intelligence and national security, and afterward, pursuing the martial art of jiu-jitsu from the world-famous Gracie family, surfing and occasionally going with me big game hunting and fishing. Getting away from the prison-like public school system has caused their spirit and vision to soar even higher as they have resolutely separated from the pack and decided to run their own lives, rather than schlep with the lemmings.
My ClashPoint is this: parent . . . home schooling isn’t as tough as you think it is. With the advent of online virtual schools, plus the tens of thousands of people who have bailed out of the system, there are afforded to you, the home schooling parent and student, amazing resources, local networks of like-minded families and world-class curricula, to help you help yours be the leaders God intends for them to be.
Initially, I was a bit concerned about how home schooling was going to work within the insanity which is the Giles household, but it has been relatively painless. The adjustments my wife and I have had to make to our routine to accommodate our daughters for greatness are far less painful than the worry and concern we had sending them off to the monkey jungle which is the Public School system.
Mr, Giles also has a radio program here:
http://clashradio.com/
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http://www.truthusa.com/RADIO.html
Will there be pictures?!
Oh yeah! My sister homeschools her three, two boys and a girl, ages 12, 9 and 5. In the city where she lives they have a homeschool co-op where the kids can go to get some of their classes, and the cirriculum is totally controlled by the parents. It's the only way to go.
Part of the argument against homeschooling used to be that your kids wouldn't be socialized. I would say, in the light of the spirit of this article, like that's such a bad thing?
Well, obviously these girls are being deprived. </sarcasm>
I encourage homeschooling but this is a parent problem. The schools aren't responsible for kids partying all night not having public manners and morals. I know many kids that are public schooled that have parents that would not tolerate this.
Indicative of all the public high schools in Florida??
All public schools are bad? Is that sort of like stating all black men have lon... or perhaps all Irishmen are drun... or maybe any of the other hundreds of erroneous stereotypical popular topics.
And you obviously went to a public school that didn't teach you how to spell curriculum.
JUST KIDDING!
Well, yours truly is homeschooled.
So this article suggests that the schools should police the teens at new years parties off of school grounds?
Both my brother and I are public school products and I think we both turned out pretty well....
His wife Lauralee, who was also a scientist, homeschooled their children until her death in November 1988, when the children were 12, 10, 8, 6, 6, and 16 months. During the past ten years, Dr. Robinson and the children have continued their homeschooling by developing a program entirely based upon self-teaching.
Oh goodness, Bless them both.
Homeschool ping.
A point easily missed in this story. The first thing I thought of when I read this was that the parents of these kids that allow them to stay out all night and party are responsible, not the school.
That said, I will also say that I have very little regard for public schools. My daughter is a high school teacher and I have learned a lot from her. She is a dedicated teacher but her views and skills are stiffled by government laws and regulations.
I have read much the same from other members here who are also public school teachers.
WHOOPS! That'll teach me to start spellchecking, huh?
I did go to publik skools, but this was back when dirt was still new, and schools were very, very different!
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