“Why were your homeschooling friends without support?”
The friends that had no support were the pioneers in our state. In the EARLY days of homeschooling, virtually nobody supported those folks. All they had was each other. The families were charged either with child abuse or educational neglect and were threatened with the removal of their children from their homes. The trial one of the families went through, with the support of HSLDA, was responsible for the homeschool laws that were drafted to regulate homeschooling in NY.
Here’s a link to the case:
http://www.mainstream.com/nhpolitics/blackwelder1.html
I know you were being sarcastic. I was just recognizing the irony of a system that condemns one set of people who do something and ignores another set who do the same thing.
My comments about child abuse were simply that people sending their kids to public schools would never get charged with child abuse for the educational option they chose, unlike homeschoolers who still live under the cloud of that threat some twenty years later. I didn’t mean that sending you child to PS is child abuse, just that the system would NEVER recognize or acknowledge it as such.
Roman citizens who offered incense as an offering to emperors as gods were neither suspected nor arrested nor punished for it. Those who refused were sent to the Colisseum or other executions. We honor the second group and not the first.
Not long before he was murdered by agents of the First Triumvrate in about 44 BC, Cicero, a pious pagan, prophesied that the world was so mired in sin and iniquity that, though he knew not whom or where or precisely when, the world must surely await the imminent arrival of its savior. Virgil, the great pagan poet, predicted in about 15 BC that a virgin would soon enough bear a son who would be the savior of the world. Your friends had Someone other than themselves and probably knew that.
God bless you and yours.