Some of the homeschoolers to whom I have forwarded some of these threads have not bothered to reply by email, but rather have picked up the phone and asked with indcredulity “You’ve got to be kidding, this person is nuts. S/h/it is no way representative of true homeschoolers.”
Take that as you will - I am just reporting my experience.”
That would be so sad.
Someone working that hard to discredit such a wonderful and successful option.
Homeschoolers have had to work so hard over the last years in order to bring REAL and RECOGNIZED credit (that they well deserve) to their efforts. That one person would possibly seek to undo all that they have done would truly be unfortunate.
Why on EARTH would someone want to discredit such a group?
Sad.
Because they want that type of group gone. Gabz has posited before that some posters here are actually NEA plants who go on the most ridiculous rants just to make homeschoolers look bad. I don't know if that is true or not, and at first I 'pooh-poohed' the idea, but now I'm starting to come around to her side. Some things are just way, WAY too bizarre to be the product of a rational mind and a deep believer in homeschooling. When someone compares sending a child to a public school to the equivalent of feeding them poison, woah, that's out there. But who knows who is on the other side of the screen? I figure I have to account for me and what goes on in my class, other people are in charge of themselves.
I have nothing bad to say about parents who homeschool or choose another way of education. Competition is good - all it does is make our society and future generations stronger as we all adapt to the complicated populace we serve.