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Thanks for the backhanded insult about my not having kids. Do you insult everyone who disagrees with you or should I feel honored that you've singled me out?

I certainly salute you and others who stand up for what they believe in and are willing to fight for the changes they feel are necessary. We have this in common, but you and I have a different opinion about what is just and fair. I have and will continue to support the home school movement. It is wrong to force people to send their children to a school they don't feel is in their children's best interest or is harmful.

Perhaps one day parents will be able to choose one school's band program and another school's sports program, yet another school's calculus class and still another school's cafeteria. A payment voucher will follow the student from place to place and pay as they go. I would support that level of freedom of choice, but in my humblest of opinions, it isn't going to happen.

Ok...insult away. You can have the last word.

Thanks for the backhanded insult about my not having kids. Do you insult everyone who disagrees with you or should I feel honored that you've singled me out?

Sorry, but in your rude post (#263) to me, you made insulting you too irrestible (see exerpt below). Perhaps I shouldn't have sent you into such a rage from the outset by calling your comments "spouting off" in my post #248,. You don't get to pick and choose. Got a problem with that? It must suck to be you, b/c that's the way the world works.

My last word on the subject is this: I really wasn't trying to insult you in post #248, but evidently used a poor choice of words. I have a long extensive history regarding educational issues and feel very passionately about the deterrioration of public education. As an educational advocate who is utterly disgusted with public education, I am horrified that big brother is trying to encroach on the rights of home schoolers.

Regarding home schoolers, fighting back is in my blood. Playing offense and putting school districts on defense is a game plan I happen to like. School taxes have sky-rocketed across this country while the quality of education has gotten lousier and down right negligent. If you ask me, about the only thing public schools are good for anymore IS their electives! Therefore, I support the rights of home schoolers to get SOMETHING for the outrageous tax bills they are forced to pay.

And as long as you get hold of that hair trigger of yours, I hope you do one day have children. Maybe then, you'll understand the passion I have.