[steadfastconservative]

Apparently, homeschoolers don’t care if other people’s children are killed in terror attacks as long as their own children are safe. How callous.

[metmom]

Trolling?

If you can’t take your own medicine, why don’t you go play somewhere else?

Your comment to Clintongfatigued was unnecessary and completely irrelevant to the topic of the thread. This one is, too. How you got that out of what was said is totally beyond me but you’re clearly not in this discussion to add anything to it, you’re just provoking.

[BlackElk]

"SFC": If you insist on putting your kids at risk in gummint skewels (morally and educationally as well as physically) then there is not much that homeschoolers and others can do to protect your kids when you won't. If you shove your kids down stairs or into the path of speeding trains, there isn't much others can do either. What you want is the convenience of the gummint babysitting system, the cost paid for by everyone including those who despise that system with very good reason, respect for your decision to put your kids in such jeopardy (you have a right to do it but no right to be respected for it), a sump pump inserted into the assets of your fellow citizens to see to it that the mere fact that you choose gummint babysitting will be less dangerous as an open invitation to this nation's enemies to shock us by killing your kids and other kids similarly situated. You also want the right to whine when, as is inevitable, some servant of the infernal camel jockeys slaughters a bunch of gummint skewel inmates somewhere in America because we did not spend infinity protecting against the irrational risks you assume as to your own kids.

I may CARE about the fate of those in Darfur or about the criminal excuse for gummint edumakashun in most or all of America or about health care for the poor or about re-educating the former inmates of gummint skewels after they have attained their majority or whatever but, to the extent that I CARE, I will CARE with my own money and not tax you or anyone else to fund the effort. We call this "fiscal conservatism." When we apply it to refusing to fund gummint skewels, we also may call it defense of Western Civilization and of Judaeo-Christian values and with many very good reasons.

One of my kids attends the parent run Catholic school where her mother teaches her and others (unlike gummint skewels it is a place where actual education and lots of it occurs). My kid and my wife are at risk in this enterprise as the school could certainly be attacked. We aren't asking you or anyone else to pay through the nose in taxes to provide special protection to that school. That is our own recognized responsibility and we won't blame you if it doesn't work.

That you have chosen socialized misedumakashun does not make you specially entitled to my tax money to protect your decisions. Home schooled kids are as safe as can be: educationally, morally and physically. All private alternatives to PS 666 are less convenient but our kids are worth it. So are yours but it is your decision.

[Mr. Silverback]

Apparently, homeschoolers don’t care if other people’s children are killed in terror attacks as long as their own children are safe. How callous.

Congratulations. Despite a large number of candidates competing against you, you have far and away written the most moronic post in the history of FR.

No one has writtent anything here that indicates that we don't care about public school kids possibly dying in an attack. What has been said is that your kids are safer if you home school. As I pointed out, the home may be a harder target and certainly has fewer available victims. Those are facts.

How exactly is that callous? If I don't let my kids ride in the car without buckling up, that means I don't care if anyone else's kids die in auto accidents? If I immunize my kids I don't care if a child dies from a childhood disease? If I take them to a lifeguarded pool to swim I don't care that another kid drowns in a lake?

Give me a break. I don't know what hellish crud is in your heart that you're projecting on the rest of us right now, but you are way out of line.