What part of NOT IN MY COMMUNITY do you fail to comprehend? Your observations in YOUR commuunity may be true for your community, they are patently FALSE in regard to mine. I do not livein your community and thus can not judge the veracity of your comments, by the same token you do not live in my community and thus can not extrapolate your observations to here.
The homeschoolers I know in this community find your attitude to be a cause for concern about backlash against homeschoolers.....something NOT found in this community according to them.
Your tunnel vision and refusal to respond to direct issues raised by other posters gives them pause to even believe you ever were a homeschooler.
Just because YOU have never experienced something does not mean it does not exist. There ARE fat children who have been homeschooled from the beginning, I have met some.
BTW, my daughter and most of her friends do not ride school buses, they are taken to and picked up every day by a parent or relative.
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The movie “Pleasantville” comes to mind. But,,,your community is not going to determine whether or not government schools collapse or not.
It will be the independent observations of parents throughout the nation who will decide. As parents choose private school, homeschool, or government institutionalization for their child, many factors will help them decide. Fatness is merely one among many.
You flatter me far too much, if you think my scribblings here on FR could turn back this tsunami.Government schools are shooting themselves in the foot well enough with their sex education, Days of Silence, homosexuals, teacher sex molestation, abysmal academics, illiterate graduates,,etc. What possible influence could little ole’ me have?
Maybe, others will notice, maybe more influential writers will pick this up, and maybe the general public will begin to see what I see. Homeschoolers are fit and slim. Those riding the government school buses are more likely to have weight problems.
By the way, I support you decision not to use the prison bus ( oops! “school” bus). If your child is taken to school by you, or a trust friend, ( in a seat belt) she won’t have her clothes caught in the school bus door and be dragged to death by her bus driver. If she should drop something in front of the bus, her bus driver will not crush her death with the bus. She won’t be sent to the hospital with facial injuries and missing teeth if her bus driver stops suddenly. And,,,she won’t be raped in the back of the bus without the bus driver even seeing it.
But, yes, in spite of all the government school horrors listed above, some parents just might choose the natural environment of the home, because their child is more likely to have a healthy weight.