Posted on 06/15/2006 8:45:21 AM PDT by aculeus
:-D
When you can't advance by persausion and free exchange of ideas, that says something about the worth of your ideas. Leftists turn time and again to indoctrination by the state, because their ideas would otherwise be rejected.
A sign of things to come.
UN-believable!
props for paul
Doubt that is the government concern. Indoctrination to "state thought" is a more likely goal along with the ever present sodomite agenda.
Your experience was unusual. Don't project that onto the modern version of homeschooling.
There are millions of kids in homeschool now, and consequently there are LOTS of opportunities for them to interact with other kids whether at play or in co-op type classes. There are homeschool teaching co-ops, homeschool sports leagues, and an increasing number of local schools allow homeschoolers to take certain classes and to participate in sports. There's so much stuff available that you can't find time to be involved in all of it.
The whole "socialization" issue with homeschoolers is not really applicable anymore.
Snugs,
Actually, IMO, the real problem is just the opposite. Many homeschoolers are too involved in activities. We homeschool as do most of our friends. We have to make it a point to say no to great opportunities that arise for homeschool kids.
Last month, I joined a couple hundred homeschool kids and families for a day at the State Capital. All the kids were engaged and very well behaved. The socialization argument actually falls flat when you take a hard look at it. The discitnary definition reads "To make fit for compainonship with others." Definition "People aside from oneself." This implies that socialism is the ability to interact with those who are not just like you, ie' people ouotside your peer group. That is what most homeschool kids excel at.
To add to your story, I grew up in a neighborhood full of kids and went to a local school. I do not keep in touch with anyone form those days either. It has nothing to do with the volume of people. It has to do with my lack of desire to hang out with them.
ping
>>>He needs to move to a country which will allow him the freedom to educate his child.
Won't work after dark. Consider this foreshadowing.
Ever since we signed the EU/WTO agreement, we are bound to come to the same food trade agreements.
I know, 'What on earth does that have to do with school????'
It was snuck in under the Food Safety initiative of Healthy People 2010.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1561077/posts
Animal Tagging and SCHOOL LUNCHES???
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1563271/posts
Healthy People 2010
Since the kids' food programs fall under USDA grants, we have to abide by the conditions of these grants to bring up all the trade rules by 2010.
EU/WTO Trade agreements are posted here:
http://nationalpropertyowners.org/nais.html
Would you like some margarine with that, little Johnnie?
More references to those links you freep mailed me.
Ping. Please read this when you have time. This is where the U.S. left is aiming. Hillary and others have been supporting this U.N. Rights of the Child movement for a long time (it started back in the 70s, I believe), and all we need for this thought policing of religious or traditional parents to happen here is for another Democrat administration or Congress to take power.
From one of those links you sent:
http://www.osec.doc.gov/ogc/occic/bibwork.htm
THE NORTH AMERICAN FREE TRADE AGREEMENT
Had This listed as a Source:
Sovereignty Revisited: Sovereignty and Food Safety in a NAFTA
This was an excellent reason for rebuttal based on that Food Safety section:
http://leda.law.harvard.edu/leda/data/453/Moore.pdf
Food Sovereignty Revisited: Should the United States Reevaluate its Commitment to Free Trade in Food Products in the 21st Century?
Yes, I know, this is a homeschool thread and not an agri thread.
BUT, it is very much related.
The Food Safety section of Healthy People 2010 is one of the worm holes into the schools as per the USDA grants for the school food programs.
When I was first reading the 'get the sugar and fats out of schools' news articles...the leverage came from the terms and conditions of the USDA grants.
NAIS is also under the Food Safety section of Healthy People 2010.
Oh what a taggled web.
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